| SCRIPTURE | TOPIC | DATE | THEME | JOURNAL |
| Rev 21:6 | Race | 12.31.05 | Paul's finished his race, but if we're still breathing, its time for a second-wind. | Last Day of Pray through the Word in 365 Days |
| Acts 22:21 | Heaven | 12.30.05 | We should consider Christ-like living as on the job training to get ready for eternity. | |
| Mt 24:35 | Scripture | 12.29.05 | If you ignore Scripture, you might want to enroll in dancing class so you can learn to make quick moves when the ground beneath you shifts. | |
| Mk 7:8 | Judgment | 12.28.05 | The longer we blend with the world, we risk getting the same judgment reserved for them. | |
| Ps 127:2 | Rest | 12.27.05 | What's God doing if he never slumbers when I do? | |
| Lu 1:37 | Revelation | 12.26.05 | When Jesus revealed his glory to men, Mary was vindicated, but I doubt she cared at that point. | |
| Mt 2:6 | Savior | 12.25.05 | How many people are looking for a Savior in the wrong place? | |
| Acts 8:15 | Joy | 12.24.05 | For the believer, everyday is Christmas. | |
| Josh 17:18 | Steward | 12.23.05 | If you're using God's property for ungodly purposes, it's time to repent or pack your bags. | |
| Lu 20:47 | Confirmation | 12.22.05 | Seeking confirmation rather than revelation might be proof of our ignorance. | |
| 1Pe 5:10 | Trouble | 12.21.05 | Difficulties are nothing more than a pop quiz to see is we've been spending time with God in prayer. | |
| Josh 20:7 | Faith | 12.20.05 | Have we come to our Kadesh Barnea and now consider either living in fear or by faith in God? | |
| Mt 21:43 | Holy Spirit | 12.19.05 | If we belong to God, we will be producing fruit of the Spirit. | |
| Ps 68:20 | Salvation | 12.18.05 | The best way to picture salvation is to see ourselves in His garden, either blooming or whithering in the heat. | |
| Acts 12:23 | Attention | 12.17.05 | For some of us to really pay attention to what God has to say, we may need another 9/11 disaster. | |
| Ps 40:1 | Answer | 12.16.05 | How many times have we stopped praying right before receiving an answer? | |
| Gen 23:20 | Legacy | 12.15.05 | Will people remember us without thinking of God? | |
| Heb 12:15 | Trouble | 12.14.05 | The only way to grow a healthy garden is to find and remove the weeds. | |
| Act 8:35 | Prayer | 12.13.05 | It's not only possible to pray all the time, in many ways with all kinds of prayer, but it's expected of us. | |
| Zech 12:10 | Holy Spirit | 12.12.05 | The Holy Spirit dwells in every born-again person, but only has the control we give Him. | |
| Josh 11:20 | Mercy | 12.11.05 | Mercy's limit begins at the threshold of his amazing grace. | |
| Mk 3:8 | Witness | 12.09.05 | Witnessing invloves having a testimony, being filled with the Holy Spirit, available 24/7 for God to use you and then trusting the Lord to bring people to you - in his timing. | |
| Acts 11:1 | Love | 12.08.05 | Do we demonstrate Chrtist's love that has no strings attached? | |
| Mt 23:37 | Love | 12.07.05 | God's love is amazing in that He loves us enough to die for us but hates the sin that many times defines us. | |
| 1Sa 18:2 | Enemy | 12.05.05 | Keep your friends close and pray for your enemies. | |
| Mk 11:28 | Name | 12.04.05 | Does anyone, including you, know you have the authority of Jesus' Name? | |
| 1Cor 6:17 | Relationship | 12.03.05 | Other relationswhips will be straightened out when we have the right one with God. | |
| Gen 12:2 | Name | 12.02.05 | There was a vast difference in the usage of Jesus' Name before and after his ressurrection. | |
| 1Ti 2:8 | Difference | 12.01.05 | Where different opinions exist, they all can't be right. | |
| Mk 6:31 | Intercession | 11.30.05 | Intercession is the one service you can do to stay busy but never tire. | |
| Rev 21:25 | Heaven | 11.29.05 | I feel confident when we get to heaven, we won't have to press a number on our phone to indicate the language we speak. | |
| Acts 8:31 | Answers | 11.28.05 | "Jesus" is more than likely the answer to your question. | |
| Lu 13:13 | Praise | 11.27.05 | Only a believer will praise and thank God in advance. | |
| Acts 13:35 | Preaching | 11.26.05 | Listening to preaching is good, but it's designed to reach the lost, not the saved. | |
| Titus 3:5 | Purpose | 11.25.05 | God's purpose will not only stand, but it's undeniable, unchangeable and unaffected by man's perception. | |
| Ps 107:8 | Devotion | 11.24.05 | Thanks, thirst and trust: three T's that should be inextricably linked in the life of a believer. | |
| 1Sa 7:3 | Repentance | 11.23.05 | Only God can give a man desire to repent that is stronger than desire to sin. | |
| Rev 11:15 | Judgment | 11.22.05 | Your seat for the glorious coming of Christ is determined before you die. | |
| 1Co 10:24 | Race | 11.20.05 | Churches today promote the Chirstian race as a spectator sport. | |
| Acts 7:59 | Preparation | 11.19.05 | Seems to me that today is the best time to get prepared and do what you should have done yesterday. | |
| Gen 33:4 | Fear | 11.17.05 | Things are seldom as bad as fear makes it look. | |
| Acts 9:31 | Discipleship | 11.15.05 | Church grows only when one person is discipled by another to become over time a devout follower of our Lord. | |
| 1Ti 1:11 | Prayer | 11.14.05 | Have you only ask God what He thinks when your other options have run out? | |
| Mt 22:29 | Significance | 11.12.05 | It's just like man to use his peabrain to define the Creator. | |
| 1Co 16:18 | Giving | 11.10.05 | Giving should never be about the size of the gift or the reputation of the giver. | |
| John 20:21 | Peace | 11.08.05 | Only if you know Jesus can you have peace with God and the peace of God? | |
| Ro 10:13 | Church | 11.07.05 | We vote in church but all it takes is One vote. | |
| Acts 6:7 | Religion | 11.06.05 | Do you realize without the zealous religionists, Jesus would have never been crucified? | |
| Lu 6:12 | Prayer | 11.05.05 | Personally I think we ought to stop talking about prayer and spend that time praying. | |
| 1Cor 6:11 | Sin | 11.04.05 | Deep and wide, deep and wide; sin can take you down deep and wide. | |
| Rev 9:15 | Character | 11.03.05 | We should be encouraged by the fact that even though Abram was a model of faith and obedience, he also had his faults. | |
| Lu 3:21 | Prayer | 11.02.05 | Can it be mere coincidence that God often dramatically moves while we are praying? | |
| 1Co 15:33 | Character | 11.01.05 | Peer pressure may lure someone into a group, but only a lack of spiritual conviction and desire to be accepted will lead them to emulate bad character. | |
| 2Pet 2:19 | Sin | 10.31.05 | Blood Covenant: sin is in us but it doesn't have to rule us. | |
| Acts 24:14 | Church | 10.30.05 | As followers of the Way, first Century believers not only professed faith in Christ, but acted the way he did. | |
| Lu 6:19 | Holy Spirit | 10.29.05 | Do you think the Holy Spirit would ever inhabit someone and then fail to give them power? | |
| Acts 3:19 | Salvation | 10.28.05 | Why waste a perfectly good life by rejecting salvation's plan? | |
| Rom 15:30 | Evangelism | 10.27.05 | The calling of the evangelical church should be discipleship with prayer as the dominant activity. | |
| Mt 21:22 | Faith | 10.26.05 | If you say you believe but never act in faith on God's word, who do you think you're fooling? | |
| Josh 21:8 | Sacrifice | 10.25.05 | Animal sacrifice ended when the Lamb of God said, "It is finished!" | |
| Acts 12:5 | Answers | 10.24.05 | The best place to look for answers is where God is working. | |
| Acts 1:24 | Will | 10.21.05 | Knowing God's will is as simple as ruling out what's not. | |
| Est 2:17 | Calling | 10.20.05 | We have a irrevocable calling, whether we admit it or not. | |
| 1Co 12:26 | Church | 10.19.05 | What part of the body are you if another part hurts and you feel no pain? | |
| Zech 13:9 | Testing | 10.18.05 | The only way to tell what someone's made of is to turn up the heat. | |
| Acts 7:25 | Devotion | 10.17.05 | Intention is good, but it's only sacrificial devotion that keeps friends together. | |
| Lu 6:40 | Discipleship | 10.16.05 | Sadly, some exercise a lazy evangelical method that doesn't include discipleship as part of the plan of salvation? | |
| Rev 22:7 | Revelation | 10.14.05 | Revelation, the rest of the story. | |
| Lu 17:14 | Gratitude | 10.13.05 | I wonder what the shelf life of healing is for an ungrateful person? | |
| Rom 13:14 | Meditate | 10.12.05 | If we think about God, we won't have time to think about sin. | |
| John 1:50 | Witness | 10.11.05 | Jesus not only saw us before we saw him, but he also saw those to whom he expects us to witness. | |
| Acts 23:11 | Obedience | 10.10.05 | Obeience requires we get out of our comfort zone. | |
| Mk 1:24 | Hell | 10.07.05 | If you're intent on ignoring Jesus, you need to learn the question the demons ask Him, "Is it time?" | Website problems |
| Heb 13:18 | Intercession | 10.05.05 | Effective intercession for others requires intercession on us. | |
| Mt 25:23 | Serving | 10.04.05 | The thought of serving Jesus should motivate us. | |
| John 19:11 | Sin, Degrees of | 10.03.05 | God does not wink at sin - ever! | |
| Gen 7:1 | Righteousness | 10.02.05 | Noah found favor with God because he was obedient, willing to do everything God told him to do, when he was told to do it and the way he was told to do it. | |
| Gen 16:2b | Waiting | 10.01.05 | We must trust God to do what He wants to do - when He wants to do it and how He wants to do it. | |
| 1Cor 12:13 | Salvation | 09.30.05 | Denominations have led millions of people astray by creating either a salvation "plus" or salvation "minus" doctrine. | |
| Titus 2:15a | Education | 09.28.05 | Far too many educators ignore the truth for the sake of floating unproven theories. | |
| Acts 25:7b | Allegations | 09.27.05 | Our's is not the first generation to assign guilt to a person without evidence. | |
| 1 Ki 4:25 | Blessing | 09.26.05 | If you fail to thank God for what He's given you, what right do you have to expect more? | |
| 2 Peter 3:15 | Wisdom | 09.25.05 | Intercessors are given wisdom in order to know how to pray and rightly use God's word. | |
| Acts 28:24 | Rejection | 09.24.05 | Rejection of the truth doesn't require rhyme or reason; it only needs a person willing to give ignorance a place to call home. | |
| Mt 9:38 | Preparation | 09.23.05 | Are you praying and getting ready to go when and where God sends you? If not, you're not prepared. | |
| 1Tim 5:5 | Prayer, Timely | 09.22.05 | When you put off praying, you fail to receive what God wants to give you right now. | |
| Rev 22:3 | Curse | 09.19.05 | The curse of sin is alive and well living in all of us, including the redeemed. | |
| Acts 26:29 | Witnessing | 09.18.05 | Gospel tracts promoting Christianity can be like a "drive-by" witness. Anything worth while takes an investment of time and attention. | |
| Ro 10:14 | Excuse | 09.16.05 | Be careful what you hear and ignore. It may make you accountable before God. | |
| Acts 23:12 | Desperation | 09.15.05 | Desperation may be the best glue between preparation and accomplishment. | |
| Col 1:9a | Intercession | 09.13.05 | The simplest way to learn intercessory prayer is to take the prayers of the Bible and direct them toward someone you know with a similar need. | |
| Mt 8:23 | Following | 09.12.05 | Following the Master of the storm into disaster is the way to avoid it. | |
| Mt 15:32 | Compassion | 09.11.05 | If you pray, you likely have compassion and you'll likely do whatever is required to help someone else who needs compassion. | |
| John 20:15 | Attention | 09.10.05 | If you want to pray rightly, pay attention to God's Word. That's the only way to avoid looking in the wrong place for the wrong thing at the wrong time. | |
| Dt 30:14 | Grace | 09.09.05 | May we learn to avoid cursing the storm when Grace is riding on the waves? | |
| Ez 48:35b | Name | 09.08.05 | Because the Lord's Name is Jehovah- shammah, meaning "The Lord is There," doesn't mean He isn't here. | |
| Rom 9:9 | Waiting | 09.05.05 | Waiting on God is going with Him and not in front of Him. | |
| Dan 3:17 | Agape | 09.03.05 | If we never pray, we'll never know how much our God truly loves us. | |
| Is 24:3 | Judgment | 09.02.05 | When it comes to disaster, our generation has yet to see it the way God can do it. | |
| Gal 1:12 | Revelation | 09.01.05 | It is through the revelation of Jesus that a person understands the Gospel and by the Spirit's power that he is enabled to preach with conviction. | |
| Job 2:10b | Sin, Spoken | 08.31.05 | We should keep sin out of our head so it won't come out of our mouth. | |
| Ecc 6:2a | Blessings | 08.30.05 | When it comes to blessings, we should appreciate the past, be grateful for the present and thank God for the future, whatever that may yield. | |
| Mk 15:12 | Answers | 08.29.05 | You might think there's only blessing to lose by not praying, but what if you fail to get needed information God wants to give you? | |
| 1Sa 5:7b | Choice | 08.28.05 | Failure to face the truth doesn't negate it or make it go away. | |
| Lu 9:36 | Motivation | 08.27.05 | What will it take to make us take action on the things we say we hold as conviction? | |
| Lu 7:29b | Patterns | 08.26.05 | We were made in God's image, but will we learn to stay within the lines of the pattern He created? | |
| John 18:38 | Truth | 08.25.05 | Most of those who say they want the truth won't accept it when they hear it. | |
| Is 32:18 | Security | 08.24.05 | True security comes only by the grace of God and obedience to his word. | |
| Mt 19:23 | Money | 08.23.05 | Money is the underlying factor behind most of our self-imposed problems. | |
| Ps 69:30 | Praise | 08.22.05 | Gratefulness is shown by offering thanksgiving and praise. | |
| Gen 22:14 | Trust | 08.21.05 | Trust requires action on my part to prove its real. | |
| Ps 130:3 | Forgiveness | 08.20.05 | If forgiveness is your goal, forgetfulness is the gauge by which you can tell if you were truthful when you forgave them or just telling them what they wanted to hear. | |
| Zec 14:9 | Lordship | 08.19.05 | If you think you stand the heat of God's judgment without Christ, you won't be asked to get out of the kitchen; you'll be placed in the oven. | |
| 2Chr 2:6b | Sacrifice | 08.18.05 | Sacrifice is giving up something in order to please God, prayer is spending time with Him to learn what to sacrifice and our action proves we're paying attention. | |
| Nu 14:28b | Fear | 08.17.05 | Forget the statement, "There's nothing to fear except fear itself," there's nothing to fear except God. | |
| Nu 11:23 | Complaining | 08.16.05 | Never, ever underestimate God's ability to prove a point by using you as an example on the consequence of making assumptions. | |
| Jos 3:5b | Belief | 08.15.05 | You don't have to see where you're going in order to know God is leading, but don't think just because someone's moving, they're following God. | |
| Mt 15:14b | Ignorant | 08.14.05 | I was young and now I'm old. I've learned people don't need a reason to believe somthing stupid. | |
| Num 30:2 | Obedience | 08.13.05 | Changes in our culture and legal system doesn't change God's word one bit. The only question to consider is whether we care to obey it or dare to ignore it. | |
| Mt 20:32 | Asking | 08.12.05 | How can God show He answers prayer unless we pray specifically? | |
| Ps 8:2 | Praise | 08.11.05 | Praise is born of a grateful heart. | |
| John 2:5 | Expectancy | 08.10.05 | Jesus is touched with our need and knows our necessity, but have we asked him to intervene. | |
| Ps 146:8b | Witness | 08.09.05 | Will our testimony be one where we take what others do as our own, or create our own symphony of prayer and praise born out of a close fellowship with God? | |
| Isa 7:12 | Asking | 08.08.05 | If we will not pray, doesn't it reveal a lack of need for God? | |
| Jos 8:35 | Scripture | 08.07.05 | Have you considered that the portions of God's word you've yet to read might be God's answer to your need? | |
| Jos 7:11 | Devotion | 08.06.05 | The failure to honor what's devoted to God not only endangers your life but also the lives of your family. | |
| Job 41:10b | Misery | 08.05.05 | Job found God at the end of himself, the place where self-pity ended and God-trust/reliance began | |
| Isa 22:22-23a | Influence | 08.04.05 | God's people left home to live in a godless country because of their sin and forgetfulness. Such it is when we fail to remember and honor God's word. | |
| Rev 6:17 | Security, False | 08.03.05 | It's amazing that most everyone sees a heaven in their future, regardless of how they regard Jesus, the only way to get there. | |
| Jdg 13:1b | Parenting | 08.02.05 | As parents, we are to honor God's calling on our children before and after they're born. We should pray and seek God's word regarding how to do it correctly and live it as our heavenly calling. | |
| 2Chr 19:6b | Pretense | 08.01.05 | Pretense seems like no big deal, but it is to God and when you die, it will quickly become a big deal to you. | |
| Rom 16:19 | Apologetics | 07.31.05 | Don't argue with an obstinate and opinionated person, even God has trouble with that. | |
| Zep 1:12a | Complacency | 07.30.05 | I wonder what percentage of people ride a wave of indecision waiting for someone else to do something that drags them along in the wake? | |
| Gen 4:9b | Accountability | 07.29.05 | Cain couldn't hide behind ignorance and neither can we. | |
| John 12:46 | Sin | 07.28.05 | It's sad that some who live in darkness have seen a great Light, but love sin too much to walk out of the shadows into it. | |
| 1Sa 4:22 | Glory | 07.27.05 | I doubt there's a church house in the world where someone won't claim the glory of God is in the place even though there's no evidence to prove it. | |
| Jer 7:8 | Rebuke | 07.26.05 | Some preachers may answer to God for their ignorance of Scripture, but those of us who listen will answer for negligence if we failed to rebuke them. | |
| 2Ki 1:3 | Idols | 07.25.05 | If you've offended God and refuse to humble yourself and ask forgiveness, you don't have to ask if trouble is coming. The only question you have to ask is "when" and "where." | |
| Jer 23:23-24 | Repentance | 07.24.05 | Repentance means a change, both in direction and attitude. | |
| Heb 8:5b | Pattern | 07.23.05 | From Genesis to Revelation, we're given a pattern to follow and he's called Jesus. | |
| 2Chr 26:5b | Exposure | 07.22.05 | Maybe like Uzziah, our sin needs public exposure to help us admit what everyone probably already knows. | |
| 1Ki 14:22 | Compromise | 07.21.05 | Like Rehoboam, do we settle for trinkets when God wants to bless us with treasure? | |
| Lev 15:31 | Holy | 07.20.05 | What part of separate do we not understand? | |
| 2Sa 21:17a | Surrender | 07.19.05 | More times than not, giving in to God requires as the first step giving up we think we need. | |
| 2Ki 6:17 | Vision, Spiritual | 07.18.05 | If God played a game it would have to be "Ridama, Ridima, Ree." You know, "I see something you don't see and its me!" | |
| Mt 14:31 | Faith | 07.17.05 | Sometimes the only way to prove your faith is to act on what you believe regardless of how you feel. | |
| Jud 7:2 | Strength, God's | 07.16.05 | From Gideon we learn if you want to keep all your soldiers, don't ask God how many you need. | |
| Ecc 4:10b | Conviction | 07.15.05 | A person who stands alone is willing to sacrifice himself for what he believes. | |
| Ps 52:3 | Scripture | 07.14.05 | Reading Scripture is like chewing food. Eating it too fast can cause you to miss the flavor and get heartburn. | |
| Dt 6:18a | Time, Spending | 07.13.05 | When we spend time in God's word, we want to spend more time in his presence which can only be satisfied by spending more time in prayer. | |
| Rev 8:4 | Judgment | 07.12.05 | Judgment is the application of justice where repentance has no effect. | |
| Ps 142:3a | Providence | 07.11.05 | The most beautiful music has come out of a cave experience. | |
| John 5:30 | Rebellion | 07.10.05 | Hardening of the heart is worse than hardening of the arteries in that it won't let you die, even when you want to. | |
| Dt 21:21b | Sin, Innocent | 07.09.05 | Haven't we taught our rebellious by example that obedience to God's word is optional and personal sin exempt from judgment because of God's grace? | |
| Job 37:24 | Problems | 07.08.05 | Anyone choosing to do something outside the venue of the expected or normal, can also expect disappointment and resistance. | |
| John 6:11 | Thanksgiving | 07.07.05 | The prayer of thanksgiving should be second nature to the child of God. | |
| Eze 39:24 | Fellowship | 07.06.05 | We tend to sin as if there's no price to pay, believing God will wink at our transgression and give us a pass on judgment. | |
| Isa 6:7b | Guilt | 07.05.05 | Forgiveness is everything unless you keep the guilt. It's then you show your need for forgetfulness. | |
| 2 Cor 3:17 | Freedom | 07.04.05 | The last thing to happen before a great nation gets buried under dust is to place its integrity and sovereignty on the auction block, for sale to the highest bidder. | |
| Job 1:10a | Protection | 07.03.05 | God has given us protection, provision and power, but what are we doing with them? | |
| John 4:50b | Trust | 07.02.05 | We demonstrate our lack of faith when we fail to act on what we've already heard. | |
| 1 Chr 11:9 | Strength | 07.01.05 | Reputation is often how we judge someone's ability, when we should be looking at how they reflect God's ability through their weakness. | |
| Ezra 4:4 | Resistance | 06.30.05 | We should pray for our enemies but rebuke our friends who act like our enemy. | |
| 1 Th 3:5b | Answers | 06.29.05 | We should seek information about the things for which we've prayed, revising our prayers accordingly. | |
| 2 Kings 4:2 | Possessions | 06.28.05 | God is bigger than our problems, but we'll nevr know it unless we pray and ask for help. | |
| Heb 3:1 | Sight, Spiritual | 06.27.05 | Even though we can see physical things, few can see what God sees. | |
| Isa 30:21 | Will, God's | 06.26.05 | When you come to a fork in the road, stop and ask God what to do. | |
| Ps 80:3 | Restoration | 06.25.05 | Where sin twists and turns our life outside down, God's forgiveness sets us upright making us clean again. | |
| John 3:34 | Holy Spirit | 06.24.05 | If we allow sin to dominate us, the Holy Spirit will not go to war against both us and our sin. | |
| Lu 18:1 | Persistence | 06.23.05 | Prayer without persistence is like a water pistol without water. It looks good, but won't have much effect. | |
| 1Sam 30:6b | Strength | 06.22.05 | Like David, we need to pray before we go to battle to make certain what God wants. Only then can we go in his power and not our own. | |
| 1Chr 16:11 | Worship | 06.21.05 | Worship is giving thanks, singing, praising God and corporate prayer. With the vast number of anemic churches around today, is it any wonder most leave out the last part? | |
| 1Ki 17:24 | Waiting | 06.20.05 | Waiting on God implies dynamic faith, not static reasoning. | |
| Jos 10:14a | Prayer, Answered | 06.19.05 | Are our prayers based on what we want or what God wants? | |
| Ps 89:40 | Ownership | 06.18.05 | Walls tell people there's something on the inside of value that we're afraid to lose. | |
| Jer 1:12 | Promises | 06.17.05 | We have calling, opportunity, power and promise. Why are we still standing around waiting on more? | |
| Heb 5:7 | Tears | 06.16.05 | Tears not only reveal a need, but can be in themselves an unspoken prayer. | |
| 1Cor 8:13 | Deference | 06.15.05 | Giving up something for the sake of someone else is Christianity 101. | |
| Ecc 7:13 | Sin | 06.13.05 | Sin is sin regardless of the innocent names we give it. It's time to give up and look up. | |
| Gen 22:14a | Provision | 06.12.05 | Abraham had confidence God would keep his word regardless of what he did. | |
| Mt 7:7 | Ask | 06.11.05 | Miracles begin with a grateful heart. | |
| Isa 57:15 | Humility | 06.10.05 | True humilty is an quiet attitude of sacrifice directed toward someone who doesn't deserve it. | |
| Ps 145:13b | Lordship | 06.09.05 | Good works are not necessary in order for a person to be saved. Then again, it's impossible to be saved and not do good works. | |
| 1 Cor 15:10 | Grace | 06.08.05 | Grace comes through suffering. | |
| Mk 2:17b | Holy | 06.07.05 | Too many consider church to be a place where you dress up and act holy instead of where you get down and be holy. | |
| Dt 28:2 | Obedience | 06.06.05 | This generation more than any other, should be concerned about falling into the hands of an angry God. | |
| 1Sam 27:12b | Judgment | 06.05.05 | If you think God doesn't care how you live, you've obviously forgotten about Sodom. | |
| Jdg 6:17 | Evil | 06.04.05 | I don't know about you, but it would be helpful for me if Satan and his bunch would wear an ID badge. | |
| Acts 21:14 | Will, God's | 06.03.05 | More important than knowing God's will is the fact He goes with me. | |
| Is 1:18a | Choice | 06.02.05 | Who'll make decisions for you when you lose ability to make decisions for yourself? | |
| Lu 14:28 | Prayertower | 06.01.05 | We're successful when we base our ministry on the foundation of of God's word and prayer. | |
| Acts 16:5 | Church | 05.31.05 | God expects the church to be obedient and let Him handle the growth. | |
| 1Cor 2:16 | Holy Spirit | 05.30.05 | For those who are saved, the tendencies of the Holy Spirit should be replacing our tendencies. | |
| 2 Ki 19:27 | Sin, Concealing | 05.29.05 | God not only watches me but He's watching those who watch me. | |
| 2 Ki 18:3a | Worship, True | 05.28.05 | Articles of worship are less important than the way they're used and who uses them. | |
| 2 Ki 17:41 | God | 05.27.05 | The Great "I Am" is Singular and Undeniable. | |
| 1Ki 10:16-17 | Blessing | 05.26.05 | We can lose our blessing if we focus on it and take our eyes off the Blesser. | |
| Jud 10:13 | Revenge | 05.24.05 | If you don't know what God desires, how can you possibly think you can do it? | |
| Nu 16:30a | New | 05.23.05 | New things are not necessarily good things. | |
| Nu 16:30a | Ignorance | 05.22.05 | We should stop acting like we can ignore God and get away with it. | |
| Ex 20:20 | Love | 05.21.05 | To be loved by God means we're kept by Jesus. | |
| Jude 1b | Prayer, Faith in | 05.20.05 | The choice of how and when we pray shows our love for God. | |
| 2 Ki 3:18 | Repentance | 05.19.05 | Repentance shows God we're honest in our confession and not just telling Him what we think He wants to hear. | |
| Lu 10:19 | Power | 05.17.05 | We accept being weak because we've grown accustomed to living without God's anointing on our life? | |
| Job 42:12 | Blessing | 05.16.05 | It's a blessing to learn to enjoy our blessings. | |
| 2Chr 10:8 | Desire | 05.15.05 | I wonder how many times I pray and am looking for confirmation for what I plan to do regardless of what God says? | |
| Jer 33:3 | Secret | 05.14.05 | What if the unknown things God wants to show me through prayer are things I'll need later but don't see the need right now? | |
| Pro 7:1 | Meditation | 05.13.05 | Unless we store up God's word in our heart, how can we expect to recall it when we need it? | |
| 2Chr 25:8b | Victory | 05.12.05 | Every army thinks God is on their side, but ultimate victory goes to the one who is right. | |
| Dt 9:14 | Intercession | 05.11.05 | Intercession is not action, but a position. | |
| Ps 144:12 | Accountability | 05.10.05 | What is prayer without corresponding action consistent with what we're praying? | |
| Esther 4:14 | Preparation | 05.09.05 | I hope today doesn't become one of those yesterdays that haunts us tomorrow | |
| Pr 12:4 | Women, Godly | 05.08.05 | Godly women pray. | |
| Jo 14:1 | Worry | 05.07.05 | Refusing to worry is the way those of us who call ourselves a Christian prove our trust in God. | |
| Jo 8:11b | Repentance | 05.06.05 | The first step in obedience is destruction. | |
| Ps 105:5 | Memory | 05.05.05 | It's not memory that matters, it's what we do with the memory that really matters. | |
| Ps 37:4 | Desire | 05.04.05 | Desire changes when we desire it. | |
| Sa 20:42a | Friends | 05.03.05 | Friends are willing to defend and even die for each other. Every other relationship is casual and will come and go. | |
| Ps 42:2 | Fellowship | 05.02.05 | If we have fellowship with God, there won't be long periods of prayerlessness in our lives. | |
| Mt 8:10b | Belief | 05.01.05 | Prayer requires more than simply asking, it also requires believing. | |
| Isa 62:6-7b | Persistence | 04.30.05 | Perseverance and persistence are the most neglected practices of those who pray. | |
| Oba 21b | Lordship | 04.29.05 | Every earthly judge will be judged for those judgments that violate the judgments of Judge Jesus. | |
| Ps 86:11a | Education | 04.28.05 | We don't get old until we stop learning. | |
| 2Sa 16:23a | Counsel | 04.27.05 | Just because we sound godly doesn't mean we are godly. | |
| Pro 3:5 | Trust | 04.26.05 | Trusting God requires not trusting ourselves. | |
| Is 41:10b | Service | 04.25.05 | Everyone prays to get up when we've fallen. But if we never do anything for God while we're on our feet, why not just stay where we are and not embarass ourselves? | |
| 2Ti 4:5 | Minister | 04.24.05 | Regardless of the gift we possess, we all share responsibility to be evangelists and witness to the saving grace of the Lord Jesus. | |
| Jo 13:17 | Blessing | 04.23.05 | It amazes me to hear someone claim that what they say with their mouth satisfies God more than what they do. | |
| 2Chr 15:2 | Fellowship | 04.22.05 | How can we expect God to be with us when we're never with Him in prayer? | |
| Is 48:10 | Complaint | 04.21.05 | I trust you're not complaining while God is doing what you agreed He could do. | |
| Ps 116:4 | Name, Jesus' | 04.20.05 | Praying in Jesus' name is positional in nature, not adding it to the end of our prayer like a secret password to be used with decoder ring to get stuff from God. | |
| Dt 11:13 | Relationship | 04.19.05 | The best way to evaluate our love for God is to evaluate the amount of time we spend in prayer. | |
| 2Jo 8 | Salvation | 04.18.05 | It's amazing that most people recall something that happened in the past to prove their present condition when their present condition indicates something never happened. | |
| Ex 8:19b | Listening | 04.16.05 | Sin and stupidity have more in common than just the first letter of each word. | |
| Ecc 5:4 | Confession | 04.15.05 | Confession is necessary if we will pray, even when forgetfulness seemingly covers the tracks of our sin. | |
| 2Chr 14:7b | Prayer & Blessing | 04.14.05 | If God was choosing up sides for a prayer meeting, would he choose you? | |
| 1Ki 20:1b | Death | 04.13.05 | Until you're prepared to die, you're not prepared to live | |
| Lu 22:31b | Repentance | 04.10.05 | Repentance and confession come together to offer forgiveness. | |
| Jo 10:27 | Discipline | 03.31.05 | A shepherd carries a rod to use, not to make a false threat. | |
| Isa 46:4 | Maturity | 03.30.05 | Being young is a temporary condition that life will fix in time. | |
| Amos 3:3 | Relationships | 03.29.05 | When we walk with God, don't you think we should be excited about reaching our destination? | |
| Is 55:11 | Profession | 03.28.05 | Most "know-it-alls" don't include the one true God in their claim. | |
| Mk 16:8b | Witnessing | 03.27.05 | Doubt is the first step in apathy. | |
| Ps 119:169b | Understanding | 03.26.05 | We don't need more knowledge, we need to know God's heart. | |
| Ps 119:168b | Ignorance | 03.25.05 | Negligence is not much of an excuse for ignorance. | |
| Ps 119:160 | Truth | 03.24.05 | With the Holy Spirit as our fuel source, our energy is not only renewable, it's eternal! | |
| Ps 119:148 | Listening | 03.23.05 | Are we so busy talking to God, we seldom if never stop to listen to what He thinks? | |
| Ps 119:139 | Witnessing | 03.22.05 | It's a good thing God doesn't give us truth on the basis of whether we'll obey or not. | |
| Ps 119:133 | Desire | 03.21.05 | How can you please God if you don't know what He wants? | |
| Ps 119:123 | Prayer, Time in | 03.20.05 | If you're not praying, you either don't believe God or don't miss spending time with Him. So what makes you different from the world? | |
| Ps 119:116 | Word, Ignorance of | 03.19.05 | The only excuse for ignorance is ignorance. | |
| Ps 119:108 | Word, Applying the | 03.18.05 | God, I pray you'll give enough light for each step I will take today, but not so much I can get ahead of You. | |
| Ps 119:99 | Confidence | 03.17.05 | The freshman in God's school is more intelligent than any graduate of the world's university. | |
| Ps 119:91 | Dualism | 03.16.05 | God is not contained within man's ability to explain Him. | |
| Ps 119:81-88 | Expectancy | 03.15.05 | Believe it or not, some people actually pray but never look for an answer to their prayer. | |
| Ps 119:78b | Mediatation | 03.14.05 | Prayer is the mobilization of mediatation. | |
| Ps 119:67 | Affliction | 03.13.05 | No one enjoys problems, but without them we will never a way to prove, or test God's word. | |
| Ps 119:59 | Repentance | 03.12.05 | Repentance is proof that we're not only listening to God, but obedient as well. | |
| Ps 119:52 | Scripture | 03.11.05 | The Old Testament is required reading for anyone who wants to view redemption from inception to completion. | |
| Ps 119:46a | Witness | 03.10.05 | How will the power of the gospel be made known if we never open our mouth? | |
| Ps 119:33 | Conviction | 03.09.05 | Do we serve God with conviction or convenience? God, give us grace to do what we must, but make it my conviction to spend more time with You. | |
| Ps 119:29 | Problems | 03.08.05 | When we leave God out of the equation, our solutions are often far worse than our problems. | |
| Ps 119:18 | Confession | 03.07.05 | Confession is the only way to pierce the darkness our sin has caused and let the Son shine in. | |
| Ps 119:11 | Scripture, Memorize | 03.06.05 | We may not have the convenience of holding God's word in our hands when temptation came, so we'd better memorize what we need. | |
| Ps 119:7 | Scripture, Application of | 03.05.05 | Read God's word; the more you learn, the more you want to learn. | |
| Ps 128:1 | Scripture, Ignorance of | 03.04.05 | For God to bless some prayers, He'd have to void His word. What are the chances of that? | |
| John 14:17b | Holy Spirit | 03.03.05 | We have the Holy Spirit so we will get to know God better. | |
| 1Cor 4:20 | Prayer, Faithful to | 03.02.05 | If you are not convicted of your lack of prayer, like the Corinthians you need to erect a monument to the God you don't know and can't name. | |
| 2Saml 12:23 | Fasting | 03.01.05 | Are you fasting about something for which God has already given you an answer? | |
| Isa 42:16a | Blindness | 02.28.05 | Without darkness how would we have ever know that God is Light? | |
| Acts 19:10 | Deliverance | 02.27.05 | Deliverance comes on your knees when you ask God for help. | |
| Jos 14:12a | Praying, Bold | 02.26.05 | Prayer is like a beautifully wrapped gift. We spend so much time admiring the wrapper, we don't think to open it and see what's inside. | |
| Mat 9:36a | Compassion | 02.25.05 | Compassion is in the heart of the giver more than than any stated need of the recipient. | |
| Acts 2:21 | Salvation | 02.24.05 | True profession is the result of salvation and not the sign of it. | |
| Isa 44:21b | Scripture, Memorizing | 02.23.05 | A word to young believers. Hide God's word in your heart before you lose both the ability and the desire. | |
| Zec 10:1 | Pray | 02.22.05 | If there's a time when we think we don't need to pray, that's when we need it most. | |
| Ps 138:7a | Trouble | 02.21.05 | Don't take a radical turn the next time it storms; the answer to your prayer may be straight ahead. | |
| 1Sa 15:22b | Sin, Concealing | 02.20.05 | Lying has a long shelf life. Before long, not only will it be revealed to us and everyone around us. | |
| Ex 23:30 | Prayer, Maintenance | 02.19.05 | When it comes to prayer, I'm afraid we consider what the Bible has to say and then come to the wrong conclusion. | |
| 1Jo 2:13b | Prayer, Privilege of | 02.18.05 | Prayer is a privilege granted the child of God, but is probably the most overlooked privilege we have. | |
| Isa 45:9b | Salvation | 02.17.05 | Salvation begins when the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in me, but it's finished when I resemble Jesus so much, no one can remember what I looked like. | |
| Mal 1:10 | Prayer, Useless | 02.16.05 | Here's the church, here's the steeple. Open the doors and where's the people? | |
| Dt 20:4 | Prayer | 02.15.05 | Prayer is the only thing that can stop some enemies that keep on going and going like an evil energizer bunny. | |
| Lev 22:20 | Confession | 02.14.05 | You can't hide from God and you can't run a con on Him either. | |
| Mt 11:28 | Rest | 02.13.05 | Rest begins when we're close to God and that begins with prayer. | |
| 1 Chr 17:2 | Power | 02.12.05 | "God with you" implies power, i.e., your life is no longer your own, your plans are secondary to God's, your timing subject to His and His desire is so dominant in your life, you can't see your own. | |
| 2Ki 13:4 | Prayer | 02.11.05 | It's almost funny how we'll avoid talking to God even when we know God is there waiting for us to do it. | |
| 1Pet 1:15 | Holy | 02.10.05 | Holiness is not what we do or don't do, but where we stand and what we truly believe. | |
| Ps 55:22 | Sustainer | 02.09.05 | Some people never release their problems long enough for God to get ahold of them. | |
| Rom 6:11 | Belief | 02.08.05 | What I believe is irrelevant unless I act on it. | |
| Eph 1:1-14 | Holiness | 02.07.05 | It took a burning bush to make Moses be still, listen and obey. What does God have to burn to get your attention? | |
| Josh 23:8 | Devotion | 02.06.05 | Holding fast to the Lord may mean letting go of something else. | |
| Jer 20:9b | Word, God's | 02.05.05 | If God's word is not IN us, how can it come OUT of us? | |
| Isa 32:3 | Blindness | 02.04.05 | When we allow sin in our lives, we're as blind as those God says are blinded by the god of this world. | |
| 1 Pet 1:9 | Salvation | 02.03.05 | I'm glad God didn't base His promises on the probability I'll keep mine. | |
| Ezra 3:11b | Failure | 02.02.05 | Failure doesn't mean I have to do it again. | |
| Mt 28:20b | Separation | 02.01.05 | If God seems far off, its because we've grown comfortable with being that way. | |
| Isa 40:8 | Word, God's | 01.31.05 | God's word changed me, but it will never change! | |
| 2Chr 5:13-14 | Religion | 01.30.05 | I'm afraid we've become so blinded by worldly new age thinking and our worldly associations, we can't see the futility of our religious rituals. | |
| 2 Cor 13:5 | Testing | 01.29.05 | If the world never sees God's grace in our life, how will they ever see it in their's. |
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| 1 Sam17:37 | Appropriation | 01.28.05 | Courage is based on matching God's ability and His promises. | |
| Isa 43:25 | Forgiveness | 01.27.05 | I want nothing on the table that you remember and I can't or what I remember and you've forgotten. | |
| 2 Chr 1:7 | Ask | 01.26.05 | We believe Scripture until it comes to asking for something we don't think He wants to give us. | |
| Jer 32:17 | Belief | 01.25.05 | Miracles are waiting at the point of our disbelief to see if God's word can change our mind. | |
| 1Sa 2:30 | Honor | 01.24.05 | God doesn't honor someone who fails to honor Him. | |
| Mt 4:1 | Testing | 01.23.05 | It was the Spirit who led Jesus to the desert to be tempted, not the devil. | |
| Isa 2:17b | Confession | 01.22.05 | If Pharaoh teaches us anything, it's that God sometimes has to take something from us before he can get our full attention. | |
| 1 Sa 1:28a | Dedication | 01.21.05 | If David was praying for his kids, either God wasn't listening or David failed to pray for the right thing. | |
| Ex 2:25 | Spirit | 01.20.05 | Sometimes praying is letting the Spirit groan through you. | |
| Es 4:14b | Influence | 01.19.05 | Like Esther, each of us has a sphere of influence that affects other people regardless of whether we accept it or not. | |
| Ps 19 | Evolution | 01.17.05 | I fear association with man has given monkeys a bad name. | |
| Jon 1:14a | Sin, Secondhand | 01.16.05 | May we not forget that our sin will affect other people and not just ourselves. | |
| Pro 26:11 | Confession | 01.15.05 | Confession is not just good for the soul, it's Basic Christianity 101. | |
| Ps 28:1 | Listening | 01.14.05 | If you feel God isn't listening to you, you're probably right. Then again, I wonder if you're listening to Him? | |
| 1Sa 10:6 | Power | 01.13.05 | On the outside, not everything that looks good is good, nor everything looking bad on the outside, necessarily bad. | |
| Isa 55:1 | Desire | 01.12.05 | The longer a Christian goes without being in God's presence, the more he loses desire to be there or around other Christians. | |
| Ro 1:18a | Persecution | 01.11.05 | Noah's faith didn't have a true impact on the unrighteous until the flood buried them. | |
| 1Sa 16b | Persistence | 01.10.05 | I wonder if God waits for me to pray for something two or more times to see if I really mean business? | |
| Gen 18:23 | Intercession | 01.09.05 | When you pray for someone else, use the power of Christ's position in your life to translate into power to help others. | |
| Neh 4:23b | Boldness | 01.08.05 | The man of God is not shaken by threat, but becomes bolder by God's grace in the face of it. | |
| Heb 13:8 | Change | 01.07.05 | Our failure to pray produces fruit that dies on the vine and sickens whoever eats it. | |
| Eph 6:19 | Doubt | 01.06.05 | I wonder if Moses' speech impediment began when he said, "I can't..." | |
| Eph 6:11 | Conflicts | 01.05.05 | Too often we demonstrate the tendency to swing our hands instead of folding them. | |
| Ps 143:10 | Will, God's | 01.04.05 | Pray God's will and it will come to pass everytime. | |
| James 4:2b | Asking | 01.03.05 | Standing up as a responsible Christian begins on our knees. | |
| Ecc 3:22 | Ministry | 01.02.05 | If you have a job, treat it like your pulpit and the people with whom you work as your congregation. | |
| Psalm 1:2 | Word, Delight in God's | 01.01.05 | If one thing sets a pray-er apart, it's got to be his love for God's word. |