While driving home from work this week, I was flipping through radio stations and landed on one with a new song about to start. I had the thought, “Whatever the message of this song is, that’s God’s message to me.” Curious, I listened closely. The song was “My God Can." It's a song about how… Continue reading Even Though I Can’t, My God Can
A few months ago, when my prayer closet time had gotten a little dry and formulaic, I believe the Lord gave me a new project. It was a combination of learning, meditating, and praying. It brought life back into my prayers and real fire to my praise. Pretty soon, I realized that He wanted me… Continue reading How to Pray the Names of God
“Thank goodness the air conditioning went out!” As a Texan in the middle of July, I had no idea that these words would ever come out of my mouth. Unfortunately, that sentence of gratitude came after a lot of other sentences that, on hindsight, look suspiciously like murmuring and complaining. See, as is often the… Continue reading Stop Murmuring and Complaining with the GUARD Method
1 Peter 2:9 talks about how the Lord calls His people out of darkness and into His marvelous light. But how many Christians today are stuck right there on the threshold? They’re not completely in the dark. They believe that Jesus died for their sins and rose again. But they aren’t completely in the light… Continue reading The Edge of the Light is Still Darkness
“I have been praying and praying, and nothing is happening.” How many times have we said or thought that to ourselves? We can start to feel like the heavens are brass, God has taken a vacation, or even that He has completely stopped taking our calls. But what if the problem isn't God at all?… Continue reading The Key to Answered Prayer
In the 1990’s “WWJD?” (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets were all the rage. The idea was that people would wear them to remember to approach life with the same mindset, goals, and attitude as the Savior Himself. If we think about what He would do -- when people are rude, when things don’t go as… Continue reading Childlike Faith While #Adulting
As a Christian, I don’t generally make a practice of sinning. On the other hand, I haven't exactly “arrived” at perfection either, so it still happens sometimes. Lately, I have started to feel a bit of shock at myself when it does. I mean, twelve years into the born-again life, shouldn’t I be matured to… Continue reading The Lord Grants Forgiveness to Those Who Ask
There is a popular fable that goes something like this. Both vultures and hummingbirds live in the deserts of North America. The vulture searches for death and decay to find sustenance. The hummingbird searches for life in the nectar of flowers. In the very same environment with all other elements the same, each bird finds… Continue reading Luck Versus Blessings: Where Do Good Things Come From?
“If you don’t stop crying, I’ll give you something to cry about!” If you were a kid in the 1960s or 1970’s, you have probably heard this saying before. It’s what parents said to kids who were crying when they had all their basic needs met. They weren’t sick or hurt. They just weren’t getting… Continue reading When the Lord Gives You Something to Cry About
In Isaiah 6:8, the Lord asked the prophet two questions. “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” He was looking for someone who was willing to surrender his own will and desire to do the work that God had for him to do. Isaiah’s answer? “Here I am. Send me.” That response… Continue reading 3 Signs That You Are Being Sent by God
