Tag: hope

The Adoption of the Broken ( #yourlifestillcounts )

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit… Read More

The Power of Light

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength… Read More

Beside Bethesda: A Review and Giveaway!

Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him… Read More

Are You a Warrior Because of Your Illness?

“No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength” (Psalm 33:16). Warrior. I’ve seen that word used to describe people like us. People like me. It always makes me want… Read More

Recommendation Saturday: Arrange the Cards

 You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly… Read More

Make Yourself at Home

For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. – John 1:16 He curls up on the window seat and soaks up the Son-light He makes a meal of our fears and sometimes squeezes in… Read More

30 Ways I Have Been Blessed Through My Illness

Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him and He will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. – Psalm 37:5-6… Read More

What Do You Need to Get Into Heaven?

  For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. – Romans 5:10 There are steps… Read More

Will God Leave?

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. – 2 Corinthians 5:16 It’s all just too much, isn’t it?… Read More

Happy Anniversary to Joni & Friends! #JAF35Years

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. – 2 Corinthians I vividly remember the moment I realized that I was not going… Read More