Currently Browsing: Intentional Praise
Apr
26
One Word Brought Me to Awestruck
Do you ever just get struck by one word? Even in a familiar passage, sometimes God uses one word to speak new depths to me. Psalms 139 {one of my favorite passages} has one of these words: KNIT. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb ~ Psalms 139:13 NIV. What’s involved with knitting? Decision and purpose. What will be knit? A scarf, a blanket,...
Mar
29
Waiting On God’s Timing
“You may think of waiting as a passive, inactive time. Waiting on the Lord is anything but inactivity. While you wait on Him, pray with a passion to know Him, His purposes, and His ways.” Henry Blackaby, Experiencing God Jesus knew what it was to wait on God. He waited 30 years to begin his public ministry. It began after John the Baptist called men to the baptism of repentence. He prepared...
Mar
22
Jesus Changes Everything
He {John the Baptist} went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins~ Luke 3:3 Have you ever tried to imagine living in that place, where the baptism of repentence was first proclaimed? A shift from the ongoing, bloody animal sacrifices to a call for repentance outwardly proclaimed through baptism in water. Talk about a paradigm shift. Perhaps...
Dec
24
Come to Me, the Faithful One
I watched the Brady Bunch daily as a child. I used to be able to tell you which episode was starting within the first 10 seconds. Seriously. In the earliest Christmas episode, Carol Brady sings O Come All Ye Faithful. This is a miraculous event because she’s had laryngitis all week, and her voice returns just in time to sing her solo at church. Perhaps this is why it’s been one of my favorite...
Nov
6
Choose A Side – This is the Day
This is the day. The presidential election will take place. An outcome will occur. So much of today’s fodder will be about choosing and rooting for a particular side. But today, like every day, is a day that the Lord has made. And I am reminded on this important day that God chooses to work out His plans for us in ways that are foreign to us. God chose to make a nation (Israel) out of a...
