| SCRIPTURE | TOPIC | DATE | THEME | JOURNAL |
| Gen 18:12 | Ability | 03.20.06 | Anytime you add your own ability to the prayer equation, you increase the likelihood it won't fly. | |
| Gen 18:12 | Age, Old | 03.22.06 | Everyday I age, I'm closer to being with Jesus than I was yesterday. | |
| Mt 7:26 | Agreement | 09.25.06 | You can always find someone to agree with you, the problem is finding someone who agrees with God. | |
| Gen 21:27 | Agreement | 10.26.06 | Agreements are seldom made that one person doesn't see himself getting ripped off. | |
| Gen 16:2b | Agreement | 02.19.06 | Prayer accomplishes more than any amount of arguing. | |
| Mt 7:2b | Listen | 07.17.06 | If you don't know God, then how can you be certain it's to Him you're speaking? | |
| Gen 8:20 | Altar | 01.20.06 | Altars are built to remind us of a spiritual victory and lead us to thank God all over again. | |
| Gen 23:17 | Altar | 12.21.06 | Most things we make into an altar are for the next generation a shrine. | |
| Gen 19:27 | Altars | 06.12.06 | When you find your faith growing cold, all it takes to ignite your spiritual life is to go back to where you last experienced God and wait. | |
| Gen 24:7b | Angels | 12.29.06 | God made angels because divine instruction sometimes requires taking hold of the steering wheel. | |
| Gen 8:10 | Answer | 01.18.06 | Prayer should not be a one-time action, but repetitive until we know God's will. | |
| Gen 13:14b | Answers | 02.07.06 | Sometime the answer to our prayer may not be exactly what we expect or quite where we expect to find it. | |
| Mt 8:7 | Answers | 10.19.06 | Prayer is really about coming and going. We keep going to the Lord in prayer and He keeps coming. | |
| Mt 9:2b | Answers | 12.12.06 | Sometimes we ask the wrong question to get the right answer. | |
| Gen 18:23 | Arguing | 04.09.06 | It's Ok to question God, but arguing with Him borders on stupidity. | |
| Mt 9:5 | Asking | 12.20.06 | Why do we see the need to apologize for asking God to do big things? | |
| Gen 21:29 | Attention | 10.30.06 | Before someone will read a message in a bottle, they need a crack over the head with the bottle to get their attention. | |
| Mt 8:24 | Attention | 11.14.06 | When Jesus slept, the Holy Spirit was keeping watch. | |
| Mt 7:8b | Attention | 08.02.06 | To God, searching is not uncovering what's not obvious, but paying close attention to what he's placed in plain sight. | |
| Gen 6:18 | Attentive | 01.10.06 | We should be less concerned with what God is doing in someone else's life and more concerned why He's not doing something in our own. | |
| Matthew 5:1 | Attentive | 01.29.06 | Don't be so busy working for the Lord you forget to listen to the needs of those He called you to serve. | |
| Mt 7:24 | Attentiveness | 09.21.06 | To know what God says requires spending time with God (in prayer) andread His word, listening carefully to the Spirit as He directs you. | |
| Gen 19: 14b | Attitude | 05.19.06 | There's nothing wrong with a light-hearted attitude as long as we don't treat sin that way. | |
| Mt 8:1 | Ministry | 10.01.06 | You can tell who is spending time with God because He directs people in need to them. | |
| Mt 9:6a | Authority | 12.22.06 | Exercised authority is the ultimate test of authenticity. | |
| Mt 7:28-29 | Authority | 09.29.06 |
Authority gives our presentation more persuasion. |
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| Gen 15:6 | Belief | 02.15.06 | No degree of persistent praying matters if you don't believe God's Word. | |
| Mt 8:26b | Belief | 11.20.06 | How many times should Jesus have to prove who He is before we believe it? | |
| Gen 18:33 | Belief | 04.27.06 | Sometime we need to act like we believe God will do what He promises to do. | |
| Gen 20:13a | Blame | 08.09.06 | I wonder how many times I've blamed my mistakes on God and try to act like I was an innocent bystander | |
| Mt 6:16b | Blessing | 05.18.06 | Its good to remember that material blessings in this life only serve to detract us from investing in blessings in the next. | |
| Mt 5:45 | Blessing | 03.29.06 | The sun will rise - either on you, in you, or both. | |
| Gen 9:8 | Blessing | 01.24.06 | The blessing I will realize today is the result of God blessing me through his Son. | |
| Mt 6:11 | Blessings | 05.04.06 | The Bible, like manna, gives enough nourishment for each day. | |
| Gen 21:19 | Blindness, Spiritual | 10.10.06 | I wonder how many answers to prayer went unclaimed because, with eyes open I was blind to what God was doing right in front of me. | |
| Mt 5:34 | Boldness | 03.15.06 | We can pray boldly on the basis of what God has promised in his word. | |
| Mt 5:39 | Bondage | 03.19.06 | We should pray against the sin that has someone in bondage. | |
| Gen 22:1a | Calling | 11.09.06 | When God calls, you don't want to hang up on him. | |
| Gen 22:2b | Calling | 11.15.06 | Seldom will we know the destination, but He will always show the direction. | |
| Mt 6:27 | Change | 06.17.06 | If you really want to see change in your life, then give God control and resist any attempt to help him do it. | |
| Gen 21:23 | Character | 10.16.06 | What a person does when they believe no one is watching defines their character. | |
| Gen 21:9 | Children | 09.16.06 | There should be no his, mine and ours in a blended family. | |
| Gen 18:19a | Children | 04.05.06 | God wants us to have a positive affect on our children, which begins by praying for them. | |
| Mt 7:11 | Children, Praying for | 08.10.06 | Are we praying what we want or what God wants into the lives of our children? | |
| Gen 19:30 | Choices, Wrong | 06.20.06 | Wrong choices lead to wrong associations that usually lead to more wrong choices. | |
| Gen 24:3 | Church | 12.25.06 | Spiritual shortcuts have become acceptable practice in most churches. | |
| Mt 7:13 | Companionship | 08.18.06 | The gate leading to the garden of prayer is not so narrow that two can't enter side by side. There's enough room for both you and the Lord. | |
| Gen 21:6b | Compromise | 09.10.06 | As a believer, you can't believe both God and Satan. | |
| Gen 18:4b | Confession | 03.08.06 | We shouldn't approach God without first confessing our sin and getting clean. | |
| Mt 7:17 | Confession | 09.03.06 | When we fail to confess sin, we risk making what we believe to be hidden visible to everyone but ourself. | |
| Mt 7:3 | Confession | 07.19.06 | When praying, it's fundamental to deal with your own problem areas before praying for someone else who has problems. | |
| Gen 18:14 | Confidence | 03.24.06 | Is it weak faith that keeps us from praying big, or believing God can't or won't do what we ask? | |
| Gen 19:13b | Consequences | 05.15.06 | We should never presume to ignore sin and think we will escape the consequences of our actions. | |
| Gen 19: 26 | Control | 06.10.06 | The eye is like a laser pointer of the Spirit indicating when something has control over us. | |
| Mt 5:30 | Conviction | 03.13.06 | It's a matter of life and death to view sin the way God views it. | |
| Mt 6:20 | Conviction | 05.24.06 | Have you noticed that God hardly ever tells us to stop doing something that he doesn't tell us what to do instead? | |
| Gen 21:12 | Counsel | 09.22.06 | Don't tell my wife about this verse please. | |
| Gen 20:13b | Deceit | 08.11.06 | If we're truly trusting God, we'll never lie to anyone about anything. | |
| Gen 20:12 | Deceit | 08.07.06 | Putting a postitive spin on sin may soothe your conscience, but it doesn't impress anyone, especially God. | |
| Gen 13:9 | Deference | 02.05.06 | Seeing God's will is often as easy as looking at what the world can't see. | |
| Gen 20:8 | Delay | 07.26.06 | It's hard to say the best time during the day to meet God, but right now may be our last opportunity, so why wait? | |
| Mt 8:20 | Delay | 11.08.06 | Discipleship must be serious business, if Jesus considers any delay procrastination. | |
| Gen 21:17 | Dependence | 10.04.06 | The simplest prayer is unspoken, the expression of honest emotion and dependence on God. | |
| Mt 6:25b | Desire | 06.11.06 | At the end of the day and looking back, will you see yourself having only served physical desires? | |
| Gen 15:2 | Direction | 02.13.06 | We pray because we don't always know what we need or when we need it. | |
| Mt 8:16 | Discernment | 11.04.06 | We want to be careful that when we see the need for Jesus in the lives of other people, that we not neglect to see our own. | |
| Mt 7:5b | Discernment | 07.21.06 | Discernment comes by learning to objectively look at ourselves. | |
| Gen 19:32 | Discernment | 06.26.06 | Even the best of man's plans and aspirations fall short of what God desires. Prayer is the means whereby we can learn the difference. | |
| Mt 7:15b | Discernment | 08.28.06 | You can distinguish between a sheep and a wolf by watching what and how they eat. | |
| Mt 6:20b | Discernment | 05.30.06 | By saturating ourself with God's Word, we are able to see things from His point of view, but by applying what we hear are we able to see encroaching darkness. | |
| Gen 20:9 | Discernment | 07.30.06 | The only way to solve a problem is to humbly confront the one at the root of the problem and/or solution. | |
| Mt 8:19 | Discipleship | 11.06.06 | If we truly want to follow Jesus, "wherever" includes where I am right now. | |
| Mt 8:21 | Discipleship | 11.10.06 | Discipleship is serious business if Jesus considers any delay in doing it procrastination. | |
| Gen 20:9b | Disobedience | 08.01.06 | If we truly knew how people suffer because of our disobedience, we'd pray and ask forgiveness from God and them. | |
| Mt 6:23b | Doubt | 06.03.06 | It's ok to admit doubt, but it's sin to dwell on it and allow it to keep us from confession. | |
| Mt 6:23 | Doubt | 06.01.06 | It only takes a little doubt to contaminate a seemingly healthy prayer life. | |
| Gen 18:5 | Encounter, Divine | 03.12.06 | Divine appointments await us today where we least expect them. | |
| Gen 18:27c | Enlightened | 04.21.06 | If you are not spending time in God's word and prayer, you'll remain in the dark until you do. | |
| Mt 5:18 | Eternal Life | 02.28.06 | Was saying "Yes" to God your life insurance policy in case what He claimed was true? | |
| Gen 20:5 | Excuses | 07.18.06 | Explanations are not needed for the child of God. God dosen't require it and our Enemy doesn't deserve it. | |
| Mt 6:9b | Prayer | 04.26.06 | Many people claim to pray, but unless they pray to Jehovah God, it's little more than vocal exercise. | |
| Gen 8:6 | Expectancy | 01.16.06 | When praying, sometime we need to keep our eyes open to see what God is doing. | |
| Gen 22:13b | Expectation | 11.27.06 | God will never send us on a wild "ram" chase. | |
| Mt 8:3b | Expectation | 10.09.06 | When an answer to our prayer seems delayed, we shouldn't think God is holding back, but instead examine where we're looking and what we're expecting. | |
| Mt 7:7b | Expectation | 07.27.06 | If we aren't actively looking for God in our life, something else entirely will likely will find us. | |
| Gen 22:15 | Experience | 12.05.06 | The only thing better than first contact is second contact. | |
| Gen 21:7 | Sight | 09.12.06 | If we want to see God do great things through our praying, we must learn to see things the way He sees them. | |
| Gen 18:15 | Failure | 03.28.06 | Why should we afraid to admit our failures even God already knows? | |
| Mt 8:10b | Faith | 10.27.06 | Faith grows where God is given credit for being God. | |
| Gen 19:22b | Faith | 06.02.06 | The less time we spend in prayer, the less we know of God and the smaller our corresponding faith becomes. | |
| Mt 8:2b | Faith, Weak | 10.05.06 | I wonder how many times my prayer falls short of what God can do and wants to do? | |
| Gen 17:9 | Faithfulness | 02.27.06 | How can parents expect their children to be more faithful to God's word than they are? | |
| Mt 6:16 | Fasting | 05.16.06 | Fasting is good if you fill the void with God's word and prayer. | |
| Gen 15:8 | Fear | 02.17.06 | Probably the most overlooked request in prayer is the one where we ask God for assurance to calm our fear. | |
| Gen 15:1 | Fear | 02.11.06 | What's to be feared more than fear itself is the refusal to make peace with God. | |
| Mt 2:22 | Fellowship | 01.07.06 | If it weren't for dreaming, most of us would never hear from God. | |
| Mt 8:33 | Focus | 12.04.06 | We shouldn't worry about warts when cancer's invaded our body. | |
| Mt 5:40 | Focus | 03.21.06 | As a good steward, we should focus on eternity rather than the object of our giving. | |
| Mt 9:9 | Follow | 12.28.06 | Folowing someone requires staying close or you risk losing him. | |
| Gen 5:24 | Following | 01.06.06 | We must follow God's lead and listen to His instructions or risk walking alone and talking to ourselves. | |
| Mt 5:18 | Following | 01.21.06 | Following someone demands staying close enough to see where they're going. | |
| Gen 21:17b | Forgetfulness | 10.06.06 | Even though we may tend to forget about God, He never forgets about us. | |
| Mt 6:12 | Forgiveness | 05.06.06 | God forgives us in the same way we forgive those who have offended us. | |
| Mt 6:14 | Forgiveness | 05.12.06 | We should never pray asking for forgiveness if we won't forgive those who've wronged us. | |
| Mt 7:1 | Forgiveness | 07.13.06 | God looks at us in the light of the way we treat others. | |
| Mt 6:15 | Forgiveness | 05.14.06 | When someone's been forgiven of a great offense, they are more inclined to show forgiveness to others | |
| Gen 21:15 | Futility | 09.28.06 |
It's only after we give up that God can use us. |
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| Mt 9:1 | Futility | 12.08.06 | It's not over till God says it's over. | |
| Mt 5:5 | Gentleness | 02.04.06 | Praying for others is the natural thing to do for a person who loves Jesus. | |
| Mt 6:4 | Giving | 04.12.06 | Scripture tells us giving and prayer should be a private matter, which includes the church office and IRS. | |
| Mt 5:42 | Giving | 03.23.06 | Prayer is a precursor telling us how much to give and to whom. | |
| Gen 14:20b | Giving | 02.09.06 | Giving is a fundamental part of the character of the Christian, and prayer is the way to learn where and how to do it. | |
| Gen 20:7b | Glory, Giving God | 07.22.06 | It's not important who's praying, rather who God can use and get the glory. | |
| Gen 12:1b | Go | 02.01.06 | There's nothing wrong with staying in one place unless God has told you otherwise. | |
| Gen 20:8 | Fear | 07.28.06 | Fear of God begins when we lose our pretension and get honest with him and others. | |
| Gen 20:11 | Fear | 08.05.06 | When a person genuinely fears God, he's not likely to fear anyone else. | |
| Mt 7:8c | Seeking | 08.04.06 | A single person seeking God is more important to him than a church full of those who won't. | |
| Gen 21:5 | Waiting | 09.08.06 | Sometimes God waits until we've exhausted our options before He acts. | |
| Gen 20:10 | Excuse | 08.03.06 | Both God and those who are lost expect Christians to act in a godly fashion, so what possible excuse can we offer when we don't? | |
| Mt 7:19 | Fear | 09.09.06 | Fearing God begins with godly respect but it finds fruition in unqualified obedience. | |
| Gen 18:24b | Gospel | 04.11.06 | The premise of everything we do should be to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus. | |
| Mt 7:9 | Grace | 08.06.06 | We can trust God to meet all our needs, but aren't you glad that he doesn't stop there, but gives us far more than what we ask or even imagine? | |
| Gen 19:16b | Grace | 05.23.06 | I don't know what thought brings more comfort, knowing that by his grace God loves me or that by his mercy he saves me. | |
| Gen 19:11 | Grace | 05.11.06 | Because a person is a sinner saved by grace doesn't mean he's exempt from danger when he sins. | |
| Gen 18:15b | Guilt | 03.30.06 | The human tendency is to live with guilt rather than admit a problem and ask for help. | |
| Mt 8:13b | Healing | 10.31.06 | Healing comes in many forms, but it's always in Gods' timing. | |
| Gen 19:30b | Heaven | 06.22.06 | As long as you're at peace WITH God with the peace OF God is in your heart, you're looking forward to going where you heart is. | |
| Mt 7:27 | Help | 09.27.06 |
Withour God's help, our plans are doomed to fail. |
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| Mt 8:2 | Help | 10.03.06 | If you're experiencing problems and feel inadequate to deal with them, you're in the right position to find help in your time of need. | |
| Mt 5:3 | Helplessness | 01.31.06 | It's through weakness that we find spiritual strength. | |
| Gen 21:10 | Blessing | 09.18.06 | The blessing of a godly parent goes a long way to put children in God's care before and after the parent is dead. | |
| Mt 6:22 | Holiness | 05.28.06 | When we refuse to gaze on things we shouldn't, we keep them from controlling our thoughts and leading us to look at more things we shouldn't. | |
| Mt 6:9c | Holy | 04.28.06 | There's no better prayer than promising to keep God's Name holy | |
| Gen 23:3-4 | Home | 12.13.06 | The good thing about being on mission, is that any place you serve can be your home. | |
| Gen 21:14 | Home | 09.26.06 | Home is where you make it, as long as you're with your family. | |
| Gen 16:13 | Honor | 02.23.06 | What is God's name by which you want to honor Him? | |
| Gen 23:5-6 | Honor | 12.15.06 | When we honor God, people will honor us. | |
| Mt 5:19 | Humility | 03.01.06 | Great people don't like being called, "Great." | |
| Mt 8:8 | Humility | 10.21.06 | Humility is one-part belief that I deserve nothing, one-part grateful spirit that accepts what comes and one-part willingness to use it for God's glory. | |
| Mt 5:6 | Hunger | 02.06.06 | A person who prays is never happier than when he fills his mind with Scripture and allows the Holy Spirit to fill his heart. | |
| Gen 24:1 | Ignorance | 12.23.06 | Why is it so many consider ignorance an acceptable lifestyle? | |
| Mt 7:7c | Ignorance | 07.29.06 | Judging the mess many have made of their life, one might wonder who is behind the door on which they're knocking. | |
| Mt 7:12b | Ignorant | 08.16.06 | Just because we should obey God's word without question, that doesn't mean we should be ignorant of what it means. | |
| Mt 3:11 | Imposter | 01.11.06 | How long should God allow someone to be a false witness? | |
| Mt 5:13 | Influence | 02.20.06 | If you are not spiritually "salty, you have no evidence of being saved. | |
| Gen 18:18 | Influence | 04.03.06 | God places us where we can touch the lives of other people around us. | |
| Gen 18:10c | Inspiration | 03.18.06 | I wonder how many times has God spoken through a conversation he was having with someone else? | |
| Mt 5:11 | Insults | 02.16.06 | Until we learn to pray for those who despise us, we'll never amount to much as intercessors. | |
| Mt 9:3 | Intent | 12.14.06 | Most people doing the wrong thing, earnestly believe God agrees with them. | |
| Gen 20:18b | Intercession | 08.27.06 | What God does for one person is often grace extended on someone who is praying for them. | |
| Mt 5:46a | Intercession | 04.02.06 | Seeing God work in the life of someone else will make us want to keep praying. | |
| Gen 20:17 | Intercession | 08.23.06 | Never underestimate the power of a godly man's prayer on behalf of other people. | |
| Mt 8:8 | Intercession | 10.15.06 | When our relationship with Jesus is obvious and our testimony consistent, it's amazing how often we will be asked to pray for someone. | |
| Mt 8:6 | Intercession | 10.17.06 | The first step in intercession is having sympathy for someone in need and having a strong desire to help them. | |
| Gen 21:26 | Intercession | 10.24.06 | Intercessors should not expect other people to see what they see, hear what they hear, have the same desires or share their convictions. | |
| Gen 4:24 | Intercession | 01.04.06 | Parents started praying when they began having kids. | |
| Gen 20:16a | Intercession | 08.19.06 | When we promise to continually pray for someone else, we can be confident God will bring them to mind when it's time to prove our commitment. | |
| Mt 4:24 | Intercession | 01.27.06 | When we commit to pray for other people, God will bring those with needs to us. | |
| Mt 8:27 | Jesus | 11.22.06 | When we focus on the humanity of Jesus, it usually blocks our vision of God. | |
| Mt 8:8b | Name | 10.23.06 | Prayer in the name of anyone but Jesus is a waste of time and breath. | |
| Gen 16:5 | Judgment | 02.21.06 | Were all our disputes without malice, vengence. | |
| Gen 19:25 | Judgment | 06.08.06 | Collateral destruction is not accidental when God's judgment falls. | |
| Gen 18:26 | Just | 04.15.06 | Its good to realize God knows what's best and acts in a way that is just. | |
| Mt 6:10 | Kingdom | 04.30.06 | His kingdom is already at work here on earth through those of us he has redeemed. | |
| Gen 22:14b | Legacy | 12.03.06 | May our victories in Jesus be celebrated long after we're gone. | |
| Gen 19:14 | Listening | 05.17.06 | It's been my experience that prayer is nine parts listening and only one part talking | |
| Gen 3:8 | Listening | 01.02.06 | You haven't learned to pray until you learn to listen to God. | Beginning of one-line, One-Minute Devotions |
| Mt 8:29 | Lord | 11.26.06 | They shouted, “Why are you bothering us now, Son of God? Did you come here to torture us before it is time?” Mt 8:29 | |
| Mt 6:26 | Lordship | 06.13.06 | Our spiritual worth is measured in whose we are, not in who we are. | |
| Gen 21:16b | Lordship | 10.02.06 | It's only when we come to the end of our own failed plans that we are in the position to let God take over. | |
| Gen 19:36 | Lordship | 07.04.06 | It would be funny if not sad how what most regard as suffering for Christ is actually the result of their failure to submit to his Lordship. | |
| Mt 4:22 | Lordship | 01.23.06 | Following Jesus requires leaving your comfort zone and doing what He would do, without excuse or delay. | |
| Mt 7:14b | Lost | 08.24.06 | Have you considered the reason so many people are lost is the fact they don't see anything wrong with their life? | |
| Mt 5:44 | Love | 03.25.06 | Love is not an emotion but a decision. | |
| Mt 3:17 | Love | 01.15.06 | God loves his Son by loving us with the same love he has for Him. | |
| Mt 6:25 | Meekness | 06.09.06 | We have peace when we transfer ownership of everything we possess to the Lord Jesus and then let go of it. | |
| Mt 5:7 | Mercy | 02.08.06 | Showing mercy is a common denominator among all those who pray for others. | |
| Mt 8:14-15a | Ministry | 11.02.06 | When we invite Jesus to go with us, the opportunity to minister in His Name will be there when we arrive. | |
| Ge 21:34 | Missions | 11.07.06 | What does it say about us when it seems easier serving God someplace else other than at home? | |
| Gen 21:13 | Mistakes | 09.24.06 | We ought to thank God for the fact he even uses our mistakes to bring glory to his Name. | |
| Mt 6:24b | Money | 06.07.06 | Ministry & Money: If God doesn't provide it, will we raise the funds another way? | |
| Mt 6:1 | Motives | 04.08.06 | Motives can be concealed from everyone except God. | |
| Mt 5:4 | Mourning | 02.02.06 | If you haven't mourned recently, I doubt you've prayed recently. | |
| Gen 11:4b | Name, Jesus | 01.30.06 | Babel should give us a clue as to how God responds when we do things in our name to gain fame | |
| Gen 18:27b | Name, Jesus' | 04.19.06 | We should approach the Father on the basis of Jesus' authority. | |
| Mt 7:22 | Name, Jesus' | 09.17.06 | The power of Jesus' Name is not dependent on the righteousness of the person who uses it. | |
| Mt 7:16b | Nature, Sin | 09.01.06 | Over time natural inclinations adapt if we don't give the Holy Spirit control of our life. | |
| Mt 6:8 | Needs | 04.22.06 | God knows what we need before we do and has promised to take care of us. How great is that! | |
| Mt 6:26b | Neglect | 06.15.06 | I may be worth more than a bird, but considering how I fail to pray and continue to look for blessing in the wrong place, a bird may have a bigger brain. | |
| Gen 20:7b | Neglect | 07.24.06 | I wonder if our prayer life would change if we could see the effect our neglect of God's word had on our family? | |
| Gen 21:4 | Obedience | 09.06.06 | When it comes to obedience, the right time means everything. Only seldom will the right time not be right now. | |
| Gen 22:18 | Obedience | 12.11.06 | It's strange that some people view obedience as obligation and not privilege. | |
| Gen 6:5 | Obedience | 01.12.06 | Unless we obey God immediately with the right attitude, we're not obedient. | |
| Mt 8:22 | Obedience | 11.12.06 | Here's a novel idea: when Jesus says "Go," then Go! | |
| Gen 20:1 | Obedience | 07.06.06 | Following God requires our willingness to move, something that is often a precursor to a far greater blessing. | |
| Gen 19:16a | Obedience | 05.21.06 | When it comes to obeying God, hesistation not only places our life in danger but moreso those who watch and emulate what we do | |
| Mt 7:2 | Obedience | 07.15.06 | Obedience is the door by which prayer is offered and answered. | |
| Mt 1:24 | Obedient | 01.03.06 | What good is knowing and praying His will if we don't intend on doing it? | Alternate between Mt and Gen. |
| Gen 22:1b | Obeidence | 11.11.06 | God knows where you are, all He needs is "Yes!" | |
| Gen 19:32b | Giving | 06.30.06 | The most unholy sacrifice we bring God has to be what we offer that contradicts His way. | |
| Mt 9:4a | Omniscence | 12.16.06 | Does the fact God knows what your thinking give you cause to be concerned? | |
| Mt 6:18b | Omniscence | 05.20.06 | You will find the fact God knows everything either worrisome or liberating depending on the quality of your prayer life. | |
| Gen 6:8 | Omniscience | 01.08.06 | The next time we think God isn't concerned with what we think, we better think again! | |
| Gen 9:1 | Parents | 01.22.06 | When God blesses parents, he blesses their children and visa versa. | |
| Mt 5:25 | Peace | 03.09.06 | Confession is another word for prayer. | |
| Mt 5:9 | Peace | 02.12.06 | Just because God is the Divine Supplier all our needs, it doesn't mean we know what we need or when we need it. | |
| Mt 9:8 | Perception | 12.26.06 | Why is it that the world is sometimes more amazed at God's work that we are? | |
| Mt 5:48 | Perfect | 04.06.06 | The first step in becoming perfect is to pray, ask to be made like Jesus and then emulate him. | |
| Mt 5:10 | Persecution | 02.14.06 | Most people who believe they are being persecuted for God, are actually experiencing the consequences of failing to obey God's word. | |
| Gen 19:2b | Persistence | 05.05.06 | Persistence in prayer is good, but at what point should we accept no response on his part as a "No" to our request | |
| Gen 6:10 | Persistence | 01.14.06 | God answers prayer in such a way we have ample time to prepare for what's coming. | |
| Gen 21:18 | Perspective | 10.08.06 | When we see other people as God sees them, we will see ourselves. | |
| Mt 6:34c | Planning | 07.11.06 | Planning for what may happen tomorrow is not as wise as addressing what needs to be done today. | |
| Mt 9:2a | Position | 12.10.06 | Results from God's point of view, are dependent upon position and expectation. | |
| Gen 18:17 | Position | 04.01.06 | Are you in the proper position for God to tell you what He's going to do? | |
| Gen 22:17b | Possession | 12.09.06 | Possession may be nine-tenths of the law, but the other one-tenth depends on our relationship with God. | |
| Mt 6:28 | Possessions | 06.19.06 | A person's who is truly sold out to the Lord will not care about the price or label on his stuff or how much he has or doesn't have. | |
| Mt 6:19 | Possessions | 05.22.06 | Don't acquire stuff that requires too much time, keeps you from freely serving God or spending time in prayer. | |
| Gen 18:3 | Practice | 03.06.06 | Prayer is not a habit that is regulated or practiced. | |
| Mt 5:16 | Praise | 02.24.06 | How much praise is your life producing? | |
| Gen 18:27 | Pray, Neglect to | 04.17.06 | Those who don't pray either don't understand the nature of prayer or don't have a relationship with Christ. | |
| Mt 7:11b | Pray, Neglect to | 08.12.06 | If a person never prays, then it's likely they'll never know or receive what God wants to give them. | |
| Gen 19:35b | Prayer | 07.02.06 | It's alright to pray with your eyes closed as long as you're not doing something that requires you to keep them open such as driving a car or watching God work. | |
| Mt 5:47 | Prayer | 04.04.06 | If praying was easy, everyone would be doing it. | |
| Gen 19:30b | Prayer | 06.23.06 | It's only by spending time in prayer and God's word that we're able to see things as He sees them and know how to pray. | |
| Gen 21:16a | Prayer | 09.30.06 | Distance from God is measured by prayer, not in a holy metric system. | |
| Gen 24:12a | Prayer | 12.31.06 | When we ask for prayer, God gives us more than we ask. | |
| Mt 8:13 | Prayer, Answered | 10.29.06 | I wonder how many times I've continued asking God for something He's already given me? | |
| Mt 6:4b | Prayer, Answered | 04.14.06 | Be careful what you ask in prayer because the answer may not be what you expect. | |
| Mt 7:7 | Prayer, Answers to | 07.25.06 | If I ask God for something, either I've got what I prayed for, or there's a reason God didn't honor my request. | |
| Gen 18:14b | Prayer, Delayed | 03.26.06 | A delay in answered prayer affords us ample time to demonstrate our faith in God's promises and thank him in advance. | |
| Mt 5:17 | Prayer, Effective | 02.26.06 | Misconception leads to false assumption which makes it impossible to pray effectively. | |
| Mt 6:9 | Prayer, Lord's | 04.24.06 | Jesus never intended his model prayer to become a mantra repeated by those never prayed otherwise. | |
| Mt 6:31 | Pray, Neglect to | 07.01.06 | It's alarming how few pray except in church where they listen to someone else do it. | |
| Mt 7:8 | Pray, Neglect to | 07.31.06 | If we never ask, then how will God know our desire and how will we acknowledge it was him who gave it to us? | |
| Gen 19:23 | Prayer, Persistent | 06.04.06 | Each day, we can see how God is answering our previous petition and adjust our prayer accordingly. | |
| Gen 19:13 | Prayer, Power in | 05.13.06 | Don't tell me that a multiude of people praying the same thing doesn't move God | |
| Gen 21:2b | Prayer, Proper | 09.02.06 | When we pray according to what we think possible, we err because we don't know God or understand Scripture. | |
| Mt 6:6 | Prayer, Public | 04.18.06 | Be honest with God in private, but please don't air the details of your sin in public. | |
| Mt 6:7 | Prayer, Simple | 04.20.06 | The simplest and most powerful prayer may be one word, "Help!" | |
| Gen 18:30a | Prayer, Sincere | 04.25.06 | We should not be a "one and done" pray-er | |
| Mt 5:45 | Prayer, Time in | 03.27.06 | What better way to show you're a child of God than to spend time with Him? | |
| Mt 8:3 | Prayerfulness | 10.07.06 | If we really believed God answers prayer, we'd spend more time doing it. | |
| Mt 6:28b | Prayerlessness | 06.21.06 | How can you not pray when you see what God is doing around you? | |
| Mt 5:20 | Prayerlessness | 03.03.06 | The amount of time a person spends in prayer may be the best indicator of their spiritual condition. | |
| Gen 20:3 | Prayerlessness | 07.12.06 | It's an embarassment to us as Christians that God has to speak to strangers because we, his children, won't speak to him. | |
| Mt 5:45c | Praying | 03.31.06 | It's natural for Christians to run to the Lord when problems come. | |
| Gen 19:1a | Presence, God's | 04.29.06 | There is never a place or time (good or bad) where God won't meet us. | |
| Gen 17:22 | Presence, God's | 03.02.06 | If God promised never to leave or forsake us, why do we constantly ask Him to come? If someone moved, it wasn't Him. | |
| Mt 7:23 | Pretenders | 09.19.06 | God thinks it important for all fakers to know He's aware of those within their ranks who claim to be saved but are lost pretenders. | |
| Mt 6:6a | Pride | 04.16.06 | Sadly, some people are too self-righteous to be honest with God and too proud to ask for help. | |
| Mt 6:33 | Priorities | 07.03.06 | Daily prioritizing of things to do is good as long as "Spend time with God" is on top of the list. | |
| Gen 20:18 | Problem, Spiritual | 08.25.06 | It doesn't make sense to consult a doctor for a physical problem that was brought about by a spiritual problem that in turn led to the physical problem. | |
| Gen 21:2 | Promises | 08.31.06 | Regardless if we have trouble being on time for our appointments, God has never been late in keeping his. | |
| Gen 21:31 |
Promises |
11.03.06 | There is one thing more serious than promising something to God, and that's failing to keep what we promised. | |
| Gen 21:1 | Promises | 08.29.06 | I don't know which is more incredible, the fact God comes to our aid or He delivers on His promises. | |
| Gen 19:10 | Promises | 05.09.06 | God keeps His word even when we may not keep our's. | |
| Gen 21:24 | Promises, Failed | 10.20.06 | Will praying with good intention merit God's grace when our past is littered with promises that we've failed to honor? | |
| Gen 19:22 | Prompting | 05.31.06 | I wonder how many people are suffering with things in disarray simply because I failed to pray when God prompted me? | |
| Gen 22:14a | Proof | 12.01.06 | We should never forget the times God proves His love for us. | |
| Gen 21:30 | Proof | 11.01.06 | Proving oneself means you have reason to doubt yourself. | |
| Gen 19:17c | Protection | 05.27.06 | When God says there's trouble coming, he does so in order for us to take action. | |
| Gen 19:18 | Providence | 05.29.06 | When God ordains our death, who in their right mind would want to stay here anyway? | |
| Gen 19:29b | Providence | 06.18.06 | God preserves those he loves because he has a plan for them that death cannot alter. | |
| Gen 22:13a | Provision | 11.25.06 | Before we ask God for something, we need to look around first. | |
| Gen 22:8 | Provision | 11.19.06 | We shouldn't guess what God will do if we won't acknowledge what He's already done. | |
| Mt 6:34b | Provision | 07.09.06 | Daily dread is the other side of living by daily bread. | |
| Mt 6:33b | Provision | 07.05.06 | Provisional Provision is what God gives to those who are obedient and withholds from those who are not. | |
| Mt 5:8 | Purity | 02.10.06 | Purity begins with what we refuse to gaze upon | |
| Mt 8:25 | Reaction | 11.16.06 | Most knee-jerk prayers are like interupting God to tell Him we got His message. | |
| Gen 18:25 | Reason | 04.13.06 | When praying, it's a good idea to avoid reasoning with God or we might get more than we bargain. | |
| Mt 7:12 | Reciprocity | 08.14.06 | When one person prays for someone else who is in turn praying for them, it's called reciprocity and is the heartbeat of Christian fellowship. | |
| Mt 5:24 | Reconciliation | 03.07.06 | Memory of a unresolved conflict is a prompting of the Holy Spirit that you're not ready to pray. | |
| Gen 22:13c | Redemption | 11.29.06 | When God saves something or someone, He always has a bigger plan for it. | |
| Gen 22:16 | Redemption | 12.07.06 | It's not in the bag until someone's paid for it. | |
| Gen 19:29 | Redemption Judgment |
06.16.06 | If it weren't for judgment, there would be no need for redemption and if it were not for redemption there'd be no need for judgment. | |
| Mt 5:12 | Rejoice | 02.18.06 | Rejoice, our salvation is as real as Jesus. | |
| Gen 20:4 | Repentance | 07.16.06 | Profession means nothing if repentance is missing. | |
| Mt 3:2 | Repentance | 01.09.06 | Has Jesus changed the way you think and act or are you still unrepentant? | |
| Gen 19:28 | Repentance | 06.14.06 | Repentance is little more than a temporary change of mind until we tear down the bridge to our sin. | |
| Mt 5:37 | Request | 03.17.06 | The basis on which I base a request is as important to God as the request itself. | |
| Mt 6:13b | Rescue | 05.10.06 | Our Heavenly Father knows where we are, never gives up on us and comes to our aid when we ask him. | |
| Gen 21:23b | Respect | 10.18.06 | A believer treats the earth with the same respect he shows the Creator. | |
| Gen 18:9 | Responsibility | 03.14.06 | God knows our responsibilities and expects us to deal with them. | |
| Mt 5:22 | Responsibilty | 03.05.06 | We are responsible for what we say, to whom and for what purpose. | |
| Mt 2:15 | Revelation | 01.05.06 | The only way a skeptic can keep his faith is to avoid long-term exposure to God's word. | |
| Gen 19:1b | Reverence | 05.01.06 | You can show reverence and not be obedient, but its highly unlikely you'll be obedient and not show reverence. | |
| Gen 19:7 | Righteousness | 05.07.06 | No amount of acting good makes someone acceptable in God's sight. | |
| Gen 22:2a | Sacrifice | 11.13.06 | When God paints a picture, it usually involves using the color red. | |
| Mt 7:22 | Salvation | 09.15.06 | It's amazing that no one thinks they belong in that "Lord, Lord" group. | |
| Gen 21:20 | Salvation | 10.12.06 | God is with us as we grow so we will make the decision to be with him when we're grown. | |
| Mt 8:30-31 | Schemes | 11.28.06 | The best laid plan of demons and pigs can't out-maneuver God. | |
| Mt 4:4 | Scripture | 01.19.06 | Our mind should be so saturated in Scripture that we use it in nearly every conversation. | |
| Mt 8:4 | Secrets | 10.11.06 | Sometime God tells his intercessors things that other people are just not able to understand or relate. In the same way, do you have secrets that only God knows? | |
| Gen 24:4 | Servant | 12.27.06 | You'd think all servants would serve the exact wishes of their Master, wouldn't you? | |
| Mt 6:3 | Service | 04.10.06 | Prayer is defined by availability more than ability. | |
| Mt 6:24 | Service | 06.05.06 | Devotion to God is not a time-share with anyone or anything else. | |
| Mt 4:10 | Service | 01.25.06 | Like Jesus, may we learn to give our prayer feet. | |
| Mt 9:6b | Service | 12.24.06 | Have you noticed how many Christians act as if they're paralyzed when asked to serve? | |
| Gen 9:13 | Signs | 01.26.06 | We don't have to look for a sign because our Father is in the sign business. | |
| Mt 9:4b | Sin | 12.18.06 | Every time we do something wrong, we give an unbeliever another reason to mistrust God. | |
| Gen 20:6b | Sin | 07.20.06 | As a Christian we should ask God to keep us from sinning against him. | |
| Mt 5:28 | Sin | 03.11.06 | Sin is not nearly as complicated as we make it. | |
| Gen 18:20b | Sin | 04.07.06 | To God, the smallest sin is as serious as the most aggregious. | |
| Gen 19:2b | Sin, Denial of | 05.03.06 | The harder we try to deny or hide our sin, the more imminent public exposure becomes. | |
| Gen 19:17b | Sin, Tendency to | 05.25.06 | It's by thanking and trusting God for what he is doing and will do that we overcome our sinful tendencies, rather than depending on what He has done. | |
| Gen 19:24 | Sin, Unconfessed | 06.06.06 | It's amazing that we can act unphased by unconfessed sin. | |
| Mt 6:13 | Sin, Unconfessed | 05.08.06 | Temptation finds a home where sin resides unconfessed within a person's heart. | |
| Gen 18:27c | Sin, Unconfessed | 04.23.06 | When we pray with unconfessed sin in our life, we demonstrate our lack of understanding God's character. | |
| Mt 7:10 | Specificity | 08.08.06 | Praying with specificity is no substitute for knowing God will meet the deepest unspoken desire of our heart. | |
| Gen 18:10b | Specificity | 03.16.06 | Pray specifically so you can prove who it when its answered. | |
| Mt 7:20 | Spirit, Fruit of the | 09.11.06 | If you were accused of being a Christian and brought to trial, would there be enough evidence to convict you? | |
| Gen 22:12 | Steward | 11.21.06 | If something belongs to God, you might not want to mess with it. | |
| Mt 7:25 | Strength | 09.23.06 | Without Christ, we are no stronger than the weakest element in our life. | |
| Mt 8:32b | Stronghold | 12.02.06 | When evil comes in and you don't usher him out, look out! | |
| Gen 18:5 | Sustenance | 03.10.06 | God's word is energy for the soul, so get into it today and get your minimum daily requirement. | |
| Gen 21:28 | Temptation | 10.28.06 | If you don't want to spend it, don't put it in your wallet. | |
| Mt 8:4b | Testimony | 10.13.06 | With every answer to prayer there should be testimony to others of what God has done. | |
| Mt 7:18 | Testimony | 09.05.06 | Good fruit reflects the nature of it's source. | |
| Mt 7:16 | Testimony | 08.30.06 | You really can't be certain an orange is what it appears to be until you cut it, look at its inside, squeeze juice out of it, smell it and then drink it. | |
| Gen 22:12b | Testing | 11.23.06 | If we test God, it's only right He should test us, right? | |
| Gen 18:1b | Testing | 03.04.06 | We'll meet God at the greatest point of our need. | |
| Gen 21:8 | Thankfulness | 09.14.06 | Celebrations give us an opportunity to thank God for what someone means to us. | |
| Gen 20:15 | Transparency | 08.17.06 | Have we invited God to freely enter any room in our heart or do we have secret places we believe he'll pass by? | |
| Mt 6:21 | Treasure | 05.26.06 | Find out where a person spends most their time and you'll find the thing they value most. | |
| Mt 8:28 | Trouble | 11.24.06 | When trouble finds us and it will, will we be with Jesus? | |
| Mt 4:1 | Trouble | 01.17.06 | Too often we give credit to Satan for something God allowed. | |
| Mt 7:14 | Trouble | 08.22.06 | I wonder why we complain of difficulty when our Lord told us anything of value will be accompanied by trouble? | |
| Mt 8:26 | Trust | 11.18.06 | What else could Jesus have said or done to lead us to trust Him? | |
| Gen 12:13 | Trust | 02.03.06 | When we pray and trust God to work out the details, things are better plus everyone around us is spared a lot of grief. | |
| Gen 20:2b | Trust | 07.10.06 | Be careful when you try to disguise your fear, because what comes next might just expose your root problem and that is a basic distrust in God's word. | |
| Mt 8:34 | Truth | 12.06.06 | People can't handle the truth and maintain their lies. | |
| Mt 8:10 | Value | 10.25.06 | I wonder if God ever questions his investments? | |
| Mt 7:6 | Value | 07.23.06 | Failure to use what God has given renders it worthless. | |
| Mt 7:18b | Virtue | 09.07.06 | Good is in the eye of the beholder unless that person is a believer and then "good" is only what God considers good. | |
| Gen 21:11 | Warning | 09.20.06 | If there was ever an indication of what lies ahead, it was Ishmael. | |
| Mt 3:15 | Way, God's | 01.13.06 | Doing the right thing the wrong way makes the right thing the wrong thing. | |
| Mt 6:10b | Way, God's | 05.02.06 | Knowing God's will is as easy as knowing his way. | |
| Mt 7:21 | Will, God's | 09.13.06 | It's easy to pray for God's will to be done, but its another matter entirely to change our plans to conform to it. | |
| Gen 17:1 | Willingness | 02.25.06 | God uses the willing, not necessarily those the younger, stronger and seemingly more capable. | |
| Gen 23:10b | Witness | 12.19.06 | Having a witness is a way to not only state intention, but also be held accountable. | |
| Mt 5:14 | Witness | 02.22.06 | Faith in God should be visibly evident. | |
| Gen 10:9 | Witness | 01.28.06 | More people will see God's love in action today through the example of one believer at his job than from a hundred preachers or evangelists. | |
| Mt 8:32a | Witness | 11.30.06 | I'm certain it wasn't the pigs who told people what Jesus did. | |
| Gen 21:22 | Witness | 10.14.06 | If we claim to be a Christian, lost people will watch the way we live and then make a decision if God is real or not. | |
| Mt 9:10 | Witness | 12.30.06 | When we're without an agenda, people won't be afraid to ask questions. | |
| Gen 20:16b | Witness | 08.21.06 | A good reputation is frontline in a person's witness for the Lord. | |
| Mt 7:15 | Word, God's | 08.26.06 | A person who prays is best informed on what God's word says and whether what another person is saying runs parallel to it or is skewed. | |
| Mt 6:34 | Worry | 06.29.06 | Today will be history tomorrow. | |
| Gen 21:25 | Worry | 10.22.06 | If we don't own anything, it's doubtful we'll worry about anything. | |
| Gen 23:9b | Worship | 12.17.06 | Paying for something with money you're earned is a form of worship. | |
| Gen 21:33 | Worship | 11.05.06 | Anything we can do to help us remember to worship God is a good thing. | |
| Gen 22:5 | Worship | 11.17.06 | Too bad we don't have a hitching post outside the sanctuary to secure our obstinance while we pretend to worship. | |
| Gen 20:14 | Worship | 08.13.06 | Worship means very little if it's not accompanied by personal sacrifice. |