27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27 ESV) I believe, due to the presence of our sin nature, it to be very difficult to live life without being stained by the...
Ask, but Check
2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. (James 4:2 ESV) Our scripture today is truly a focus on why we go about life without what we desire because we...
Kick a Dog
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. (Romans 8:34 ESV) We know that our enemy creates many situations to distract us to sin. But do we also realize that...
Strengthen your Hands
9 For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God,[a]strengthen my hands. (Nehemiah 6:9 ESV) You may find that the deeper you go into God’s will for your life the more opposition you encounter. Even...
Building Back
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.” 18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and...