Practice Thanksgiving Daily

Practice thanksgiving daily. I often hear people say that we should not start celebrating Christmas until after Thanksgiving. I say we should celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving year-round. At Thanksgiving we are thanking God for all He has done for us and at Christmas, we are thanking God for His Son, Jesus, and all He continually does for us. Each season of our lives should be filled with moments of thankfulness to our Father. Practice thanksgiving daily. Here is an encouraging word from Minister Eve Washington. Thanksgiving is the only day set aside in the United States in which people pause Read More

Do You Really Trust God? It’s A Heart Thing

During this season of transitioning, (graduations, relocations, broken/distancing of relationships, off to college, new jobs, etc), God is doing a work in our hearts, because it’s a heart thing with God (.  Do we really trust God?  We can say a lot with our lips but our hearts are far from it (Matthew 15:8, Proverbs 23:26). God will free us up from the weight that we carry but we have to continue to trust Him, to walk in love, and to speak the truth in love every time we speak.  We must continually ask the Holy Spirit, to show us where Read More

Obedience: Better than Sacrifice

Obedience is crucial.  In the Biblical sense, obey means “to hear God’s Word and act accordingly”. 1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NLT) states, “But Samuel replied, ‘What is more pleasing to the Lord: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the Lord, He has rejected you as king’.” In this verse Saul was rejected as king because he failed to utterly destroy the Read More

No Condemnation: Stop Condemning Yourself!

Here’s a great message from guest blogger, Eve Perry: No Condemnation, Stop Condemning Yourself! I was leaving a seminar on Saturday with one of the ladies from my small group and she decided to do a selfie and take some other pictures. She took a couple of pictures of me just laughing and having fun. One of the pictures was of me laughing really hard and a normal fun picture. I sent this picture to a friend with the thought in my heart, “this will make him laugh after a tough week and a rough day at work”. He was helping Read More