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“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’” Isaiah 41:10 I was in a third story apartment building looking out over the balcony. As I stood admiring the waves of…

Proverbs 6 tells us: “Go to the ant you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise.” I received a lesson on this just the other day. Somehow, I don’t know how, we got sugar ants in our pantry. Oh boy! They were everywhere. So, Mom and I began to clean out everything they were climbing…

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). “Lord, it would be cool to find a sand dollar,” I said as I walked the beach with my sister. We slowly made our way along the shore line, the…

Matthew 7:3 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” About three years ago someone gifted me a flourishing lemon tree. I was delighted! My instructions: Don’t kill it. But then there appeared these little white bugs on it like nothing…

Proverbs 3:27-28 says, “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Do not say to your neighbor, ‘Go, and come back, and tomorrow I will give it,’ when you have it with you.” I was sitting in a classroom, and…

“He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.” Psalm 40:2 (NKJV) There was a small child the other day throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of the parking lot. The poor mother tried to calm and…

“To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1 I would like to share a story with you, a true story, about a young woman and a need. In January of 2019, Moriah saw a need, a need to encourage the body of Christ, especially those who appeared unreached:…

“Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:10-11) The other day, I was contemplating how…

“Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1) We have a porch swing in our front yard, and I was outside enjoying it one morning. A few minutes later, our gray-striped cat approaches. Not wanting to get cat hair all over my clothes, I…

Psalm 101:3 “I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.” In life, the enemy tries to throw things on us or at us that damage our integrity, but we have a choice of allowing it to cling to us or…