Month: January 2018

Cities of Acts #2 Tarsus

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Maybe you are like me and is right where you are at. BJ has this nailed in such a clear way I wanted to share it. Thanks BJ! May God help us with that thing called patience as we learn better how to trust Him through this time…

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Then the church had peace. Honestly, I felt like this verse should have been located way up around verse nineteen. Paul goes on a mission to kill off the followers of Jesus in Damascus. Along the way, God himself intervenes and Paul turns from being a persecutor to a follower. In the city of Damascus, a Christian named Ananias prays for him and the scales fall from his eyes. This is where I would think that we should find the verse: then the church had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord. And with the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it also grew in numbers.

It had peace, it became strong, it grew in numbers because Paul had joined their side. Right? Wrong. It had peace, it became strong, and it grew in numbers because Paul got…

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Invisible God – Day Two

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Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Peter 1:8

Wouldn’t it have been great to see Jesus walking on the waves as Peter did? Don’t you just wish some days you could at least catch  glimpse of God like Moses or ask Jesus  questions like Thomas? Mary got to wash His feet with perfume a

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nd Martha had a front row seat as Jesus called Lazarus from the tomb. Yes most of us would love to know more details; but by God’s design we are given only His word.  But what a word it is that God has given us! His word is not just the sound of a voice contacting us through sound waves. His word is living and powerful! The word of God is a light that shines in our dark place and it is our shelter from the storm. God’s word is a treasure hidden in a field and it is our pearl of greatest price. The more we struggle to understand Him, the more precious the riches of His word become. I don’t understand all of this plan which God has chosen; but by faith I am walking with my invisible God on His invisible road to His invisible destination! 

Invisible God -Day One

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Walking With the Invisible God

Has your walk of faith this year begun more like a trudge of faith? We all have days like that! God has chosen those times for us to have opportunity to know Him more. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find a mysterious letter written from the future as happened in the film “The Lake House”? If you haven’t seen the film it has an odd twist of two people from different times who have never met yet through their letters they come to know each other and fall in love. That is in some ways like our own mysterious love letter “The Bible”!

So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight 2 Corinthians 5:6-7

We walk with an invisible God on

1515290647427_image.jpgan invisible road to an invisible destination! What a totally insane thing it is to live by faith – and yet – God delights in exactly that!