The Word: I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:9-10). Prayerful Contemplation: It’s normal to feel terrible for messing up. Godly sorrow produces repentance (2 Cor 7:10), which then leads to confession and cleansing from unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). However, there is a tendency for...
read moreThe Word: For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish (Luke...
read moreThe Word: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8) Prayerful Contemplation: This was another sentence I saw a whole lot as a child. If it was not Made in China,...
read moreThe Word: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27). Prayerful Contemplation: As a young child, I noticed that almost everything I came across had the words MADE IN CHINA written on them. In fact, back then, all a person had to do to ensure huge sales of...
read moreThe Word: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11). Prayerful Contemplation: It would be wonderful enough if God, the Infinite Creator of the entire universe, had just one thought concerning me. But here, He pluralizes the action...
read moreThe Word: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11). Prayerful Contemplation: It would be wonderful enough if God, the Infinite Creator of the entire universe, had just one thought concerning me. But here, He pluralizes the action...
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