Started a new book today with Nehemiah Chapter 1. He was the cupbearer for King Artaxerxes and the book opens with him expressing his heart over the walls of Jerusalem being in ruin and how he wept, mourned and sought God for the people of Israel. See, the city’s wall was its protection. Because the…

In Ezra 8, he is praying and fasting for a safe journey from Persia to Jerusalem. This was going to be a long, hard journey through dangerous territory. See, he had boasted about God’s goodness and was ashamed to ask King Artaxerxes for protection because he had already assured him that the hand of God…

I think so often we hold onto our flesh because we don’t have anything else to grab onto in life. We are comfortable just dangling, like my little monkey…we just hang out in what we are used to, because true faith in Jesus is frightening to our finite minds. We are saved, but we refuse…

I don’t know about you, but I love a Sunday afternoon nap. I love a Sunday afternoon nap even more after Daylight Savings Time! So, it was already arranged that after church I was coming home and crawling in bed for a little siesta. However, when I got home I started flipping through Netflix. I…

As I was preparing this morning to share a small devotion this evening at a paint class, I knew exactly what God wanted me to say. I was drinking my coffee, chatting with the hubby and underling a few things in a book I wanted to read from this evening and I felt like God…

Last night at church during our talk on being spiritually filled, we were given several verses. Usually I will write them down and go back to them at a later date. My daily reading has been in Ezra, but my spirit was so overwhelmed after last night that I wanted to share something that has…