“I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint.” – Habakkuk 2:1 If you have been a Christian for a relatively short time you have probably never heard about the prophet Habakkuk. He is definitely not…
“If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” – Jeremiah 29:13-14. If I asked…
“And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.” – Colossians 3:17. Sometimes it feels like God has great expectations for me. God wants so much from me. What do I need to give up? What should I do more? Do I need…
“Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers…
The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him…” – 2 Chronicles 16:9. The story of one of the many people who questioned why or how God could use them is also one of the greatest. When the angel Gabriel told Mary that she’d be…