15 I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. (Psalm 119:15 NIV) Do you ever slow down enough to think, much less meditate upon God’s word? The clamor of the world is an ever present onslaught of input. In our current age with electronic media continually at our fingertips,...

22 After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ (Acts 13:22 NIV) ”A man after my own heart.” Would that my life could be...

7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7 NIV) We were not put here to be sheep. We have been given power in God’s name and what we do with that power everyone is watching. Power...

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. (1 John 5:14-15 NIV) We are told that...

5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole...