May 13 | Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) Funerals are awkward for me. I don’t know how to comfort the mourners even as a pastor. When they asked, “Why did God take Him now?” I don’t know how to respond. I…
May 12 | Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for God’s kingdom is theirs.” (Matthew 5:3) Bankruptcy seems to be becoming a regular practice in our country. While it’s meant to reset the person’s finances and give them an opportunity to start over, some people are unafraid to…
May 11 | Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, Oh God, and know my heart. Test me and know my troubled thoughts, and see if an offensive way is in me, and leave me in the way everlasting.”(Psalm 139:23–24) No one in this world can’t do what God does. They are not…
December 31 | Matthew 6:25 “”Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t your life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”” (Matthew 6:25) If you’re like me you think about all the…
December 29 | Proverbs 16:9 “The heart of a person plans his way but the Lord directs his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9) How do you plan for this next year? We always use the phrase, “Pencil you in.” If we ask the Lord what He wants us to do and plan…
December 28 | James 4:13-15 “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow, we will go to this city or that city and we will do this for a year and we will go and we will profit.” No one knows what your life will be like tomorrow; for it…
December 27 | Jeremiah 29:11 “For I Myself am revealing the plans I am weaving for you, declares the Lord, plans for peace and not evil, to give to you a future and hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11) We form plans at the beginning of the year and throughout it. When I…
December 26 | Jeremiah 29:13; Matthew 6:33 “Then you will seek Me and you will find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13) “But seek first His kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) There are a few days…
December 24 | Matthew 2:1-2 “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, Magi from the East came to Jerusalem saying, “Where is the King born to the Jews, for we saw His star in the East and have cometo worship…
December 23 | Luke 2:30-32 “For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You prepared in the presence of all the people, a Light for revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of the people, Israel.”” (Luke 2:30–32) So many generations of Jews from the time of Isaiah’s prophecy about…