JESUS OUR INTIMATE FRIEND AND BRIDEGROOM You may have read this email I posted on my Facebook page last week, however, many of you didn’t. Therefore, I felt the need to post it again. Dear Tresca, I got your email address from a friend of mine who encouraged me to write to you to ask for advice. I know you are going away to a women’s retreat this weekend and many of my sisters in Christ will be…
JESUS OUR PURPOSE Who am I? Why am I here? Why was I created? For what purpose was I created? These are the questions of a searching heart. They are the questions that have been asked by mankind since the beginning of time. Man remains desperate to make sense of his world and the world around him. We look to the stars for our purpose. We look to nature for ‘the why’ of our existence. We look to each…
JESUS THE SUPPLIER OF ALL OF OUR NEEDS As I reflected on our last blog concerning Jesus Our Author and Finisher of Faith, I remembered a beautiful devotional I read years ago called “The Supplied Life” by Bill Freeman. Brother Freeman had a daily reading called ‘A Full Scholarship.’ It fits perfectly with what we have been learning about our AMAZING LORD JESUS and the wonderful gift we have living inside of us. I want to share it with…
JESUS OUR AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF FAITH I remember as a child we played a game called ‘follow the leader.’ In the game, a leader or ‘head of the line was chosen’ first, then the children all lined up behind the leader. The leader then moved around and all the children had to mimic the leader’s actions. Any players who failed to follow, do what the leader did, or disobeyed the leader were out of the game. It was such a fun game, yet, it was teaching us one…
JESUS THE COLLECTOR OF OUR GARBAGE I remember reading a story from a book called “Be Transformed” by Scope Ministries in Oklahoma, a sister ministry and member of Network 220 of which I am a member. The story went like this: A couple moved into a brand new community under development. They were the first to move in on their block. There were no garbage services when they moved in so they stored their garbage in the basement….
JESUS OUR RESCUER FROM OUR FEARS Over 30 years I ran and hid from lizards, snakes most of my life. Today, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt I am not afraid of lizards (my test has not come for the snakes, smile). I know you have something or someone that make you afraid. My fear of lizards began in 1985 when we lived in Pensacola, Florida. One day while visiting my husband, I was finishing up…
JESUS OUR HEALER Healer of Our Minds Long ago, stood two trees in the middle of a lush green garden. The trees were green, teeming with fruit and life. One day, a little girl came to sit under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to rest. It was a hot and humid day and she just wanted to be quiet and sit for a while. As she sat under the tree, the tree began to tell…
JESUS OUR GREAT PHYSICIAN PART 2 The Healer of Our Body In our last blog, we focused on Jesus Our Great Physician. We understand He alone heals not only our physical hurts but our emotional hurts as well. Sometimes when He does not heal us, it may not be because of our lack of faith, it may be because He has a greater purpose in using the sickness to teach us more of ‘Who He is’ less importantly of, ‘What…
JESUS OUR GREAT PHYSICIAN One day while driving down the highway a man was experiencing chest pains. He pulled over to the first doctor he could find. When he went in to see the doctor, he said, “Doctor, I hear these loud gurgling noises and I have sharp pains in my chest.” The man asked the doctor, “Doctor, will you take a look at my chest?” The doctor looked at his chest and said, “You are right, I hear…
THIS TREASURE IN AN EARTHEN VESSEL 2 Corinthians 4:7 In our last blog, we reflected on our Sacred Journey. Our Sacred Journey continues as we relish in the abundant life of Jesus Christ who came to live in our house. We are the merchant in the story who invited Grace and Truth to come and live within our hearts. Together, we will sit in wonder to behold the majesty of this treasure who this moment, lives, and abides within…