Weekly Blog Post

Week 30, Friday Liz Traylor So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:29 (nkjv) “I give up, God. I’ve prayed. I’ve struggled to overcome these overwhelming feelings of anger. She hurt me badly, but doesn’t even know it. Why can’t I get over it? I just…

Week 30, Thursday Liz Traylor When you fasted . . . did you really fast for Me—for Me? Zechariah 7:5 (nkjv) Sunday school that morning in Texas began with prayer request time. One member asked us to join her in fasting and praying for her daughter to make the cheerleading squad. As ignorant as I was…

Week 30, Wednesday Liz Traylor So the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only. . . . And they fasted that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” 1 Samuel 7:4,6 (nkjv) Giving up food for a period of time was easy. Well, it was…

Week 30, Tuesday Liz Traylor But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place. Matthew 6:17-18 (nkjv) Look at me. Look closely. Do I look a little gaunt? Can you guess why?…

Week 30, Monday Liz Traylor When you give . . . when you pray . . . when you fast. Matthew 6:2,5,16 Give—yes. Pray—sure. Fast? You’ve got to be kidding! Go without food? No way. I have a thousand things to do today and I need my energy. Besides, I can’t stand being hungry. I get…

Week 29, Weekend Dayna Street For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 1 Corinthians 6:20 (nasb) Nineteenth-century English evangelist and orphanage founder George Müller once wrote, “Our walk counts far more than our talk, always!”[i] Müller built five facilities that provided homes for over ten thousand orphans in his…

Week 29, Friday Dayna Street He has also set eternity in their heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (nasb) Life in the world is a finite existence. It will one day come to an end. Eternity is infinite. It will never end. As believers, we were created with a longing for the infinite and eternal. Regardless of how good…

Week 29, Thursday Dayna Street If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 (nasb) One August morning I went out to get into my car to go to work. When I opened the car door, a large cockroach scampered from…

Week 28, Weekend Rachel Uth So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31 With the recent death of my father, I have realized again how precious and amazing is our gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only when we have trusted Christ with…

Week 28, Friday Rachel Uth He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. Isaiah 40:11 At midnight I plopped down on the couch totally exhausted. It had been “one of those days” again! I was a young pastor’s wife with three active children…