Returning to Your Failure “Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”—Luke 5:5 No one knows how to help you in your times of failure as Jesus does! He will not overlook your shortcoming or simply encourageRead More …

Not Lost in the Crowd When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, because today I must stay at your house.”—Luke 19:5 In our large world it’s easy to feel that we are nothing more than an insignificant speck inRead More …

Long Enough on the Mountain “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.’”—Deuteronomy 1:6 If God allowed us to live on the “mountaintop,” we would not experience trials, but neither would we achieve any victories. The Israelites had gathered at theRead More …

Nothing Can Separate You Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?—Romans 8:35 Nothing you could ever experience, no matter how terrible or frightening, could ever separate you from the love of God. No tribulationRead More …

Freely Give You have received free of charge; give free of charge.—Matthew 10:8b There is no room for misers in God’s kingdom. When we begin to struggle in giving what we have to others, we have forgotten where we received our possessions. Every good thing we have ever received hasRead More …

The Key to Prosperity He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the law and in the commandment, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.—2 Chronicles 31:21 There is a way to ensure that you prosper in what you do:Read More …

Far Be It from Me! “As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way.”—1 Samuel 12:23 It can be tempting at times to give up on God’s people! They are soRead More …

Working Alone When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”—Exodus 18:14 In our zeal to please God and advanceRead More …

If You Seek Him The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.—2 Chronicles 15:2 Our response to God greatly determines His presence in our lives. If we seek GodRead More …

Motives Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”—Mark 10:51 It is hard to believe that the Lord would ask us what He could do for us. However, sometimes that is the question we must answer. Bartimaeus was blind, and he knew exactly what he wantedRead More …