Waiting on God in Difficult Situations
We really can’t do anything to change the situation or make it any different from how it is, other than surrender to God and trust, waiting. God is working.
Why InspiritEncourage?
We may all walk ordinary lives, but we do so with an extraordinary God. He has chosen to give us His life and wants us to walk it in Him. With the Holy Spirit. With courage.
Freedom begins in community 2 Cor 3:17
Freedom begins in community, as a personal joy, but we are called to share it. Freedom cannot be boxed up and contained within us.
Leave them for the poor and foreigner Lev 19:9-10
It can be that easy to give a hand to others. God even decreed that the poor shall be cared for from our fields, our income. He has blessed us and asks us to in turn bless others.
Uncountable Blessings Numbers 6:24-26
Blessings have this remarkable uncountability about them. Simply by receiving a blessing, we could say that is one. But what happens when that blessing extends to someone else?
Three feasts with Jesus
I have really enjoyed thinking about the times that Jesus spends at table. It is so much more than learning from Jesus, it is a reminder of how Jesus was also human and needed to share in fellowship and food. I have also heard it said that Jesus often found trouble when he was at table, never escaping from teaching others through the ‘trouble’ they faced.
Lead us, Lord
On this July 4th Lord, we seek you as the leader of the United States. May you be the guide and…
Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
Be still. Weaken. Abandon. Let go. To be feeble. Forsake. Sink. Become helpless.
This is the Hebrew meaning of ‘Be still’ in verse 10 of Psalm 46.
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With 24 hours in a day, roughly divided into 100 segments, giving our tithe of 10% means that we (should?) give Him 14.4 minutes per day.
Loving as He first loved us. Reflections on 1 Corinthians 13
But Jesus left the 99 for the 1. He did not consider his own personal safety or the pain to himself – He just does.
Certain gradual transformation. 1 Corinthians 13: 8-13
This is not about lovable or unlovable. This is not about what I feel like. This is about putting on the cloak of Christ and choosing to set aside self and live as He lived, love as He loved.