Psalm I47:8 (NKJV), Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains?” The clothes on our backs, equally with the cover of wild flowers that line the streams of the canyon display His provision. Do you ever wonder who holds the details of Your life together? What if we can’t juggle it all? He is holding us together by His sovereign grace; we just need to look up long enough from our frantic agendas and recognize all

Hebrews 3:13 (NIV), "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today' so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." Encourage one another with consistent, purposeful, unrelenting, life-on-life encouragement. We are warned of the effects of sin in our lives which hardens our hearts and that we need persistent encouragement. Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy. Left unchecked, it can spread throughout our entire inner being and contaminate ever

Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” The more seriously we take our sin and brokenness, the more amazing grace becomes. The Savior draws the picture of kingdom blessing through a series of eight declarations known as the Beatitudes. They begin with our spiritual bankruptcy and end with our rejoicing in persecution. Read them this week and meditate on them and marinate in them!

Romans 5:3-4, 'We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces love." Rejoicing is the “seed release party” we offer back to the Lord as a faith-filled response to our sufferings. Rejoicing is to the fighter as seedlings are to an ashen mountainside. It is a choice to thrive. Its a purposeful prerequisite. We may, or may not, know true suffering. We have hope in spite of pain. Hope is the result

I Corinthians 15:58 (NIV) "Therefore my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lords because you know that your labor in the ford in not in van. We stand firm because our identity is secure; we keep standing because the fruit is Christ's alone to produce. But for all the purposing, planning, strategizing, and laboring, sometimes we simply don't see fruit the way we expected to. So be steadfast, immovable, a

I Peter 5:6-7, “Humble yourselves, therefore under the Mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you. We become anxious when we treasure another’s approval more than God’s approval or when we believe we know how to handle a situation better than He does. This is pride, so let’s throw ourselves on the mercy of an infinitely bigger God. We can’t find Him faithful to care for our worries and concerns if

Colossians 3:2 NIV "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Praising God is a battle for our minds before it is an act of our hearts. We will worship what we set our mind on.. what we behold. Firmly planted, fully committed deeply rooted, confidently grounded...all these describe what it means to set our minds on something. If that something is of Him of the kingdom-our minds and hearts will be aligned with what is eternal. "Set your minds on things above

Hebrews 4:16, Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Guilt keeps us distant while forgiveness draws us near. Jesus invites His own to draw near, and we believe there is joy in the presence of the Lord, our Abba Father. The self-righteous won’t come to Christ until they’ve formed a perfect path for themselves, but the righteous in Christ gratefully run the road paved for them by His S

2nd Peter 1:3 (NIV), “ His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.” We have infinite resources in Christ because transformation through His Word never ceases. Do you struggle to believe you have what it takes to be who God has called you to be? God gives us everything we need because God gives us Himself. The truth is, we have everything we need today to live unto Him who call

Isaiah 43:1, “ Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” I’m not just a generic face among the masses, but a chosen one whom God knows by name. My relationship with God is vulnerable, honest, intimate, personal, and bound by a promise. He knows your name because He has called you His own. He is ours because He made us His. He redeems and keeps us; there is no need to fear.

Hebrews 12:11, “ For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” It is merciful and good of our loving Father to prune what chokes us! The gardener knows that what looks like destruction is really the beginning of beauty to come. Holding tenaciously to my tangle of mess and lack of discipline, my loving God will not leave me to myself. Thank you, Lord!

Ephesians 2:10, “ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” God is not half-hearted in His workmanship or undecided in His purpose. Workmanship in Greek means art. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. It is the expression of what is most valuable to the one creating. You are God’s art. Appreciate that!

Galatians 5:1, “ For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Freedom refreshes and breathes life into weary bones, and we know it’s what we are made to swim in our lives. Freedom surely evokes something beautiful and unrestricted. Freedom is sweet and prized. We tend to measure how free we feel by way of our circumstances. We manage our spiritual freedom through our performance and good works before God. How

Zephaniah 3:17 “ The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His Love; He will exult over you with loud singing.” Jesus comes among us and blankets us with His intentional love. He is calling us to the truth about His love for us. We forget how much God loves us. He carries out each and every one of His promises to us. God is so deliberate to prove His faithfulness.

Ephesians 5:1, “ Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.” “When we are called “beloved children,” that is an unchanging description once we’ve been adopted as sons and daughters through the blood of Christ. Ephesians 1:5 says we are His beloved children, and that truth makes all the difference today if we let it sink in. We are cared for, ransomed, welcomed, protected, defended, disciplined, and comforted by a Father who goes before us.

-Today we Celebrate Mother's Day- Colossians 1:10 “ ...walking in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.” “Ask Me to till the soil of your heart and to uproot that which has hindered you. Then do not return to old habits. Allow Me to fertilize the soil of your heart with My Word and with My presence. The time is at hand to root yourselves in Me with resolve and consistency, and to turn