When It Feels Too Hard to Forgive

Several months ago I watched an interview with Mary J. Blige. I was not familiar with her life or her music, but I was immediately drawn in as I listened to her. She grew up in New York City and had been abandoned by her father.  A...

An Off Switch Four Our Fears

When I search the word fear on Bible Gateway I get 336 passages pertaining to fear. That’s almost a fear per day for an entire year. Boy is the enemy busy making sure we don’t receive what God has for us. He works tirelessly filling our heads with lies that we...

What Can Man Do To Me?

The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? Psalm 118:6 NIV Reading this verse, what phrase jumps at you? For me it’s, “What can man do to me?”  In the past my response to this question was, “PLENTY!” Never feeling like I had control, I felt...

For I Know The Plans I Have For You

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD , “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV How do I believe the words “plans to prosper you and not to harm you” when at age eight I was...