Importance of God's Biblical Proof, Power, and Promises for Peace and Joy

Desperation, Help, and Green Pastures God never wishes to bring us to any place of pain and horribleness. He gives us thousands of opportunities to see His goodness, mercy, and truth but when we don’t get it, He is not above allowing us to enter into a place of desperation. And that’s a good thing! I thank God for the time in my life where He brought me to this awful place—filled with unbelievable heartache, pain, fear, and total hopelessness. For the first time, I saw the futility of my own strength, power, and wisdom. I had none. For the …

Thinking on It… Sometimes I come across words or concepts in the Bible that I just can’t get my head around. I find myself pondering on them and trying to understand them further. One day reading the Bible, I came across the word redeemed. I thought I knew what it meant, but I wasn’t sure. My dad always kept a dictionary by his chair and reached for it frequently, looking up words in the middle of conversations or in the middle of reading articles to make sure he had the right meaning. Thinking of him reaching for his dictionary, I …

Hard Parts of Reading the Bible When the going gets hard in reading your Bible—keep going. Within the Bible’s pages there is—history, instruction, cause and effect, sternness and mercy, revelation and prophecy, and all sorts of mysteries. You may have thoughts like these:  “I don’t get it.” “It’s too hard to understand.” “This stuff is hard to believe.” “Why do other people love it so much?” At some point, you will encounter hard passages. There will be difficult things to understand about God, especially in the beginning. You will wonder why certain things were included in the Bible. God isn’t …

Do You Want God’s Help? There have been many times in my life where I have wanted and needed God’s help, but I kept doing the same things, over and over again, trying to affect change. Then I wondered where God was and why He wasn’t doing anything. I wondered why He wasn’t blessing my efforts. Slowly, (and maybe miraculously) I am learning how to turn my problems over to God. I’m learning how to do my part, and then get out of God’s way so that He can do His work. Do you have problems in your life and …