Developing Godly Character {Image via} Definition of Character – Merriam-Webster : the way someone thinks, feels, and behaves : someone’s personality. Godly Character is taking on the character of God, how he thinks, feels and behaves. We learn God’s characteristics by reading the Word of God and studying how he/Jesus handlesRead More →
Preparing Our Hearts – Lovely You Devotional Series “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sendingRead More →
Week 33: His Name {Previous Weeks} Isaiah 9:6King James Version (KJV) …and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. …the Beautiful names of the baby Jesus, the baby that was born to take away the sins of the world. During this season, weRead More →
Week 31: The Importance of Vision {Previous Weeks} Without a vision, the people perish… Perish – to become ruined, spoiled, or destroyed; die. {Office Edition Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary Revised Edition.} Proverbs 29:18 (AMP) Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but heRead More →
Week 30: The God Who Sees Me {Previous Weeks} Genesis 16:13 (NKJV) “Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees;” {Image via} God Who Sees Me. The story in Genesis 16 begins with Abram and Sarai reminiscing about the promise of God to give them aRead More →
Week 28: Contend for the Faith {Previous Weeks} Jude 1:3 “…contend for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith which is that sum of Christian belief which was delivered verbally to the holy people of God].” According to Merriam-Webster, the word “contend” means toRead More →
Week 27: Praying for Others {Previous Weeks} Job 42:10 (NIV) After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. So often we find ourselves, praying for our current situations and circumstances and focusing on what is goingRead More →
Week 26: My Portion {Previous Weeks} Lamentations 3:24 (NKJV) “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” Naturally speaking and by definition (Merriam-Webster), a portion means an individual’s part or share of something…in other words, a part of a whole, one’s allotted share. But inRead More →
Week 25: Exceedingly Glad {Previous Weeks} Psalm 118:24 (NKJV) “This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.” Each and every day we must make a decision, a conscious effort to be happy…to embrace the joy of the Lord! When we wake upRead More →
Week 24: Encourage Yourself {Previous Weeks} I Samuel 30:6…but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. We all have days when nothing seems to go right, when trouble seems to come on every side, when it seems like you can’t see the sun because of all the clouds! During those timesRead More →