by Joanne | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is amazing how quickly these weeks pass. The mornings are dark when I now get up and the sun is setting earlier, sure signs fall is surely here. Week five in the study “God. Move. Plan.” brought us into thinking about how we plan. ~*~*~ In 1 Corinthians...
by Joanne | Sep 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hope. It’s the feeling things will turn out for the best, or what one is desiring will be obtained or achieved. “We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual...
by Joanne | Sep 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger. No more shouting or insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort.” (Ephesians 4:31, GNT) “Oh, the gradual grasp of hatred. Its damage begins like the crack in my windshield. Let me be very clear....
by Joanne | Sep 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Challenge. Challenge. The word causes me to think of a dare, a call to compete or a contest. My Bible dictionary defines it this way: “to put to a test or...
by Joanne | Sep 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
This fourth week in the study God. Plan. Move. began with reading both Matthew 22:34-40 and Ecclesiastes 12:31. The subject? Loving God. The Teacher asks the question in Matthew 22:36, “which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” The...
by Joanne | Sep 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.†(2 Corinthians 10:4, NIV) God has given us great and wonderful promises by which to live. I cannot help but wonder why there have been...