Confidence

“He restores my soul.”  Proverbs 23:3 Wow!  I need restoring often.  Restoring is bringing back to original or top condition.  When I sin, when I get apathetic, when I am tired or grumpy or…I need restored.  Physically, restoration comes with a nap, a glass of cool water, or food.  If…

“I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth.” 1 John 2:21   This statement seems so obvious because truth and lies are opposites.  But what we know and what we do…

“Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4c A shepherd’s rod and staff had four purposes: protection, guidance, discipline, and giving love.  With the rod the shepherd could beat off a predator and with the staff he could pull a lamb back away from a steep precipice.  He used…

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“Consider it all joy, my brethren when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.                        James 1:2 We don’t usually think of joy and trials as a pair.  Joy is about happiness and goodness and trials is the hard stuff of life.  But in God’s…

“For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 God – the greatest lover So loved – the greatest degree The world – the greatest company That He gave – the…