Jesus is the reason and the season for contentment. We cannot say this strongly enough. We looked at the role of God, the Father, last week. We will look at the role of the Holy Spirit next week. Why are we centering on Jesus, the second person of the Trinity? There...
Posting at 6:24; awake since 3:34 with thoughts of all the things that are on my two plates for the week, in addition to the ordinary work that we have to do: *doctors’ appointments, *last minute details for publishing our next book, GOD Is Our Goal ~ GOD'S Plan for...
As I sit in contemplation, praying how to start this post, the reminder comes that everything we as children of the Kingdom do, starts with GOD. This is a reminder that my thoughts, my words, my actions all play off of this truth that only our heavenly Father can...
Give me not a god, a god that I control. Don’t give me a god that I can mold. Give me GOD, THE LIVING GOD, who’s free to come and go. I need GOD, the REAL GOD, who knows more than I know. GOD, Himself, who created Life, and all living things--- GOD, who lives,...
Let’s remember the main points from this series on Contentment. Divine Contentment is supernatural, possible only for God’s people. It is the result of a relationship between God our heavenly Father and His children. He will teach us and show us what He is doing in...
Yesterday, Jerry was sitting on the screened back porch, listening to Rush Limbaugh’s comments about the Presidential Inauguration. I sat with him a few minutes. Mr. Limbaugh stated that there is a bureaucracy that operates in Washington. Seemingly there are those who...
The essence of contentment is distilled from the presence of the Father in His own children. It is a seventh sense that comes from the new birth. The birth of God’s Spirit within us springs up to eternal life with a new heart and a new spirit directing our course of...
Let me show you my beautiful garden Although it no longer belongs to me. With all my toiling, sun up to sun down My garden was not meant to be. Little did I know of the seeds, Seeds of deception and lies— Until one day a stranger asked “Why the despair in your eyes?”...
Why is contentment so rare in human creatures? It seems that the status quo, even for God’s children, is brokenness. This condition is becoming more and more acceptable as a means of relating to others. We can all agree that we live in a world of oppression. The world...