Author: Dara Halydier

Dara Halydier is a pastor’s wife, a Bible teacher, a conference and retreat speaker, a mentor, a friend, and the mother of 5 grown boys! She homeschooled for 21 wonderful years is now encouraging other homeschooling families by speaking across the nation at homeschool conferences.

The High Road

“Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God;Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.”Psalm 143:10 Is this the cry of your heart?  Have you put all things under the cross and surrendered all circumstances to God?  Are you desiring to know His way in the…

Obedience = Success

“Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord?Behold to obey is better than sacrifice,And to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.Because you have rejected…

Job

 Just a thought on Job today.  First of all, God did not do Job in, Satan did.  Yes, God gave permission but only because He knew that Job’s faith could handle it.  When tough stuff comes into your life, know that we live in Satan’s realm, but that God will…

Search Me

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.” Psalm 141:23-24  Once you have searched your heart before the Lord, confessed any uncleanness, then you are free…

Sanctification

  “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17  Heard a great sermon on this on Sunday.  He quoted Greudem’s Systematic Theology:  Sanctification is being moved out of the realm of the profane and being put into the realm of the divine.  This passage includes to verb…

Sacrifice of Praise

“Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.“ Hebrews 13:15  “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials…” James 1:2  Seems contradictory until you realize that the battle is…

Trials

“The Lord trieth the righteous.”Psalm 11:5 (KJV) “The Lord tests the righteous…”Psalm 11:5 (NAS) “The trials that come from God are sent to prove and strengthen our graces, and so at once to illustrate the power of divine grace, to test the genuineness of our virtues, and to add to…

The Battle

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.  Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the…

Intercession

“Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25 Jesus is standing at the right hand of the Father making intercession for you!  That is the Creator God, the Savior, Jesus is…

Temptation and Grace

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace…