God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
Christ taught us extensively on the importance and benefits of prayer. It is the activity that we can do that most pleases God. We can cultivate our conversations with God and therefore strengthen our bond with Him. The more we pray, the more tuned we are to hearing His voice. The more we can see... Continue Reading →
Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers to you. 3rd John 1:5 The brothers had all grown up and left their parent´s home. Life had taken them all in different directions. States, countries, and seas separated them now. Some had stopped going to... Continue Reading →
When the Bible talks about true friends, they are always the kind that just being with them brings you before God, needing Jesus, and standing firmly in faith. It is like God is pouring out from their pores and infecting us to turn to the Lord ourselves. Could our prayer today be that we find... Continue Reading →
Would we like our children and loved ones to pray? Shall we start by giving them a good example of someone devoted to the Lord?
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2nd Corinthians 4:18 NIV His attention should have been on the sermon. But the speaker rambled on. His mind began to wander from the preacher´s words to... Continue Reading →
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 1st Corinthians 1:27 NIV A small group of friends stood beside the hospital bed of an unconscious brother. It had been three days since fall had left the young man... Continue Reading →
He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. Psalms 18:16 He stood by his 4x4 at the end of the dirt track and looked out ominously at the Pacific Ocean. The ground dropped off sharply in front of the two young men as they took... Continue Reading →
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV As Christians, we are to be joyful, patient and faithful. We may think we understand these qualities or have them. But should we be so hasty to congratulate ourselves? Joyful is not just a sentiment we have to describe the hope in... Continue Reading →
as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day." Romans 11:8 NIV If we can be moved to honesty, we can detect deep a struggle within to let God into every corner of our... Continue Reading →
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Romans 8:9 NIV How we make it through our day? Do we struggle through the responsibilities we face... Continue Reading →
Searching For Christ 