Abide
Count Your Blessing: Jesus’s Righteousness In You
You thought I meant blessings, right? No. Blessing. Singular. Only one. November shifts our attention to gratitude. Thankfulness for all we have and for those closest to us. And that’s good. But let’s not stop there. In fact, I want to back up to the One from Whom all blessings flow. Jesus. And not just Jesus, but His…
Read More The Gift(?) of COVID-19
COVID-19 has brought a host of challenges. Can God—has God—hidden treasure in the chaos? Isolation. Disruption. A shift to online everything. Financial and employment changes. Lots of family time for some or, in the case of our locked-down senior adults, no time at all. Treasure? Ecclesiastes 5:19 says, “when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the…
Read More Know Before You Go
“Be still, and know that I am God; . . .” Psalm 46:10a (NIV) Just the facts. That’s what I want. For God to spell it out, step by step, where to go, what to do, with whom, the end result, and all the whys behind it tied neatly with a bow. God, instead, puts…
Read More Chosen
You are chosen. Not like kids picking sides for kickball at recess. Chosen by His good pleasure. Like it or not, God is selective. Ephesians 1:4-5 (NIV) tells us about our choosing, “For he [God] chose us in him [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his [God’s] sight.…
Read More Abide: Spiritual Staying Power
Abide. What does that word mean to you? Merriam-Webster defines abide as: To accept or bear To stay or live somewhere To remain or continue Stay with me, because it was the synonyms and antonyms that caught my attention. Synonyms: stay, dwell, hang around, remain, stick around, tarry Antonyms: bail, bail out, bug out, buzz…
Read More Join Gayle
Subscribe to get my latest content by email.
We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe at any time.