You’ve got to continue to grow, or you’re just like last night’s corn bread–stale and dry.
From Proverbs 9:6: “Lay aside immaturity and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
Loretta Lynn (1932-2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. She was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky.
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
From Matthew 22:36-37: “‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'”
John Ortberg (born 1957) is an American pastor as well as a Christian author and speaker.
If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can’t be filled with impure thoughts.
From Proverbs 30:5: “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
From Psalm 106:1: “Praise the Lord! O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever.”
Never enough time
Life’s constant demands
Making moments for God
Pausing to hold His hand
Devoted praise speaks
For what God has done
Stopping life’s busy train
Praying beside His Son
Love for God endures
Goodness offers grace
Rejoicing in His peace
Feeling blessed embrace
God’s mighty doings
Quiet moments fill
Singing with heartfelt thanks
Feeling time standing still
From Psalm 106:48: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, ‘Amen.’ Praise the Lord!”
God warms His hands at man’s heart when he prays.
From 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
John Masefield (1878-1967) was an English poet and writer. Some of his most read poems include “The Everlasting Mercy” and “Sea-Fever.”
Prevailing
With courage
Jesus, thy helper
Shall never leave thee
Faithfulness
Triumphing
Over challenges
Christ, always near
Thee, no longer afraid
Confidence
Defeating
Calvary’s darkness
Savior, everlasting light
Resurrection forever restores thee
Love
God’s providence is not blind, but full of eyes.
From Isaiah 46:8-10: “Remember this and consider; recall it to mind, you transgressors; remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My purpose shall stand,’ and I will fulfill My intention.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet. His Quaker background entrusted him to advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States.
From the words of Dr. Martin Luther King: “Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.”
Worry arrives with concerns never to come
Building upon past fears, stoking future ones
Life’s landscape fills with looming mountains
Instead of gentle molehills, fear gathers and stuns
Concerns about future challenges come forth
Transforming into worries, fueling more fear
Darkest clouds come together and gather
Who will grab the wheel and start to steer?
Waiting for our Lord, He renews our strength
Living by faith, His Word restores our soul
Rejoicing in hope, patient in suffering
Renewed by the Spirit, we feel more whole
God always walks with us, seek Him in prayer
Darkest valleys ahead, His love casts out fears
With compassion for our sufferings, hear His Word
Comforted by His rod and staff, God never veers
Asking of our Father, seeking His counsel
Bringing clearer witness, through His precise scope
His guidance renews our hearts, calming fears
His wisdom touches minds, filled with Gospel hope
From Mark 5:35-36: “While He was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, ‘Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?’ But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, ‘Do not fear, only believe.'”
Originally published June, 2020.
Just as my mother reminded me to live up to the reputation of my family name, we all need to be reminded to live up to the reputation of of the name of Jesus.
From Philippians 2:9-10: “Therefore God exalted Him even more highly and gave Him the name that is above every other name, so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.”
Elmer L. Towns (born 1932) is an American pastor and Christian writer. Along with Jerry Falwell, he co-founded Liberty University in 1971.
Courageously
Standing tall
Trusting the Almighty
Strengthening through His benevolence
Hopeful
Son
Faithfully
Accepting Savior
Teaching with truth
Standing on firmest Rock
Righteousness
Glory’s
Renewing faith
Uniting presence’s breath
Fulfilling with hope’s peace
Witness
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