Week 12, Thursday Dianne Dougharty For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 (nlt) As a little girl, I spent part of my growing-up years in a three-story house on Massachusetts Avenue in Lawrence, Kansas. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz,…
I hope that by this fourth week of examining and discussing the emotion of loneliness that we have established that it is NOT a state of being, but rather loneliness is a state of mind. I can be alone and not feel lonely or I could be in a room full of people and yet…
Week 12, Wednesday Dianne Dougharty I will proclaim the name of the Lord; how glorious is our God! He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is! Deuteronomy 32:3-4 (nlt) Recently our grandson (whose…
Week 12, Tuesday Dianne Dougharty But Samuel replied, “What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.” 1 Samuel 15:22 (nlt) Our youngest daughter, Kelly, and her two sons…
Week 12, Monday Dianne Dougharty “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 (nlt) When our girls were young, we had a children’s album by Anne Murray. I guess if the fact…
Week 11, Weekend Debbie Brunson And the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE. Ezekiel 48:35 (nkjv) The book of Ezekiel chronicles the dark, desperate days during the Babylonian captivity. The prophet Ezekiel had been snatched away from all that was familiar. He was preparing to be a priest…
Week 11, Friday Debbie Brunson So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it The-Lord-Is-Peace. Judges 6:24 (nkjv) The book of Judges describes another dark period in Israel’s history. God’s people were living in rebellion and disobedience and had turned in idolatry to the gods of the lands around them. You see…
No, I will not abandon you as orphans-I will come to you. John 14:18 I was sitting in a crowded sanctuary surrounded by people and had this thought, “I could never come here again…I could disappear…die…or just never come and no one would even know I was missing.” You might have had a thought something…
Week 11, Thursday Debbie Brunson And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You.” Mark 14:36 (nkjv) On a trip to Israel several years ago, my husband and I visited the market area on the busy Ben Yehuda Street after the Sabbath ended on Saturday evening. The scene was one of chaos and…
Week 11, Wednesday Debbie Brunson The Lord is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His anointed. Psalm 28:8 (nkjv) David wrote this psalm in the midst of civil war among the people of Israel. This mighty man of God found himself in a time of extreme crisis—domestically, nationally, financially, personally, and relationally….
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