Accepting It All

9 Satan answered the Lord, “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Haven’t you placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.” (Job 1:9-11 … Read more

Always With Me

98 Your command makes me wiser than my enemies,for it is always with me. (Psalm 119:98 CSB) I keep my bible with me most of the time and refer to it often. I also have it on my electronic devices, but having a print bible with me is just more personal. And the messages in the … Read more

Expect the Unexpected

24 Therefore I tell you, everything you pray and ask for—believe that you have received[a] it and it will be yours. (Mark 11:24 CSB) We want to read this passage and set our expectations on prayer on our very limited view of what we want to have happen. With God, however, we need to expect the unexpected. God … Read more

Have You Considered

8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.” (Job 1:8 CSB) Job was a man of strength, faith and integrity. Thus, the Lord was proud of the man Job had become and his … Read more

Stiff-Necked

51 “You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit. As your ancestors did, you do also. (Acts 7:51 CSB) Stiff-neck, red-neck, I can be called both, and probably many other things. As it pertains to God I have often been stiff-necked. I have been unwilling or unable to … Read more