Mark 4:39

We had a crazy windstorm last week with almost 24 hours of intense wind gusts and the resulting damages—trees falling, fences knocked down, various lawn chairs and trampolines blown away. I’ve never been through a hurricane on the coast, and I realized what people talk about with the sheer noise win…

Consider this question: What if your biggest problems are really just an easy fix for Him, but you have never trusted Him enough to work His will? Sometimes we underestimate His power and His love. Sometimes He has the solution, but we are too busy trying to find it without Him that we never get to His solution for us. James wrote in the Bible, “You don’t have because you don’t ask…”. Could that be your problem today?…

By Elizabeth Prata Barnes’ Notes explains the ’emptying’ The word does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, except in the passage before us. The essential idea is that of bri……

We had a crazy windstorm last week with almost 24 hours of intense wind gusts and the resulting damages—trees falling, fences knocked down, various lawn chairs and trampolines blown away. I’ve never been through a hurricane on the coast, and I realized what people talk about with the sheer noise win…

I thought I could, through ample complaints and tears, pull God to my way of thinking. It wasn’t working. Instead, in the relative silence around me I heard, in my spirit, a Voice that did not speak words of comfort and reassurance, though I found comfort and reassurance in them. It did not speak an…

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). The weather has changed for the better and a few days……

I thought I could, through ample complaints and tears, pull God to my way of thinking. It wasn’t working. Instead, in the relative silence around me I heard, in my spirit, a Voice that did not speak words of comfort and reassurance, though I found comfort and reassurance in them. It did not speak an…

By Elizabeth Prata Barnes’ Notes explains the ’emptying’ The word does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, except in the passage before us. The essential idea is that of bri……

What storm has blown into your life lately? Rather than being destroyed by this tempest, what if you allowed the disturbance to increase your capacity for rapid growth and fulfilling your destiny in God?…

By Elizabeth Prata Barnes’ Notes explains the ’emptying’ The word does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, except in the passage before us. The essential idea is that of bri……