Hey guys!  Thinking about shaking things up a bit.  I would like to reach out to you and ask what topics, issues, etc. you would like to discuss in upcoming devotions.  I believe that holding things up to the light of the Word is what we need in every situation, so I a...

Several Scriptures connected in the Presence of the Lord recently, and I would like to share with you what I gathered from the connection.  

I love how the Lord can piece together a puzzle with pieces from Deuteronomy, Psalms, Jeremiah and Matthew and spell out wha...

For four hundred years, there was silence.  

The family of Jacob had grown to become a nation, and the ruler of Egypt was threatened. 

The Lord spoke to a man and sent him to deliver His people.

For four hundred years there were no written words through the prophets.

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While I realize that this picture is not of a swallow, I have to say that seeing it sweetly nesting in the Western Wall that day easily took my heart to Psalm 84... 

"Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her you...

She looked around at the faces.  She looked around at the broken pieces. 

She looked down...because that is all she knew how to do. 

But then she looked up...because the Lifter of her head was in the room.

It is no secret that one of my favorite scenes in the Word...

"For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You." - King Jehoshaphat

Hands down one of the coolest happenings in the Word.  King Jehoshaphat and Judah were about to be under attack by thr...

As I sit and ask the Lord what He would have me write today, Jonah stands out to me.  I confess that this is one of those stories that I have to be drawn to by the Lord to read because my humanity gets in the way of me wanting to dive in myself.  I get angry at Jonah's...

One of my favorite things in the world is when the Lord takes two seemingly unrelated Scriptures and ties them together for me.  It's like a burst of light in my spirit, feeling for myself how alive and personal His Word really is.

Mordecai collided with the Psalms for...

Have you ever pondered at different points on your journey with the Lord that if you could just get past this hump, that you would feel like a better Christian...all spiritually mature and everything?  Here's what I know:  the closer you step toward the Lord - getting...

It can be a dramatic read at certain points when you dive into the stories of the kings of Israel and Judah.  There were some good, some bad, and some even worse.  One king, however, stands out to me today in his drastic commitment to do what was right in the sight of...