Passage - “‘Now therefore, our God, great, mighty, fearsome God, who keeps both covenant and grace: let not all this suffering seem little to you that has come on us, our kings, our leaders, our cohanim, our prophets, our ancestors, and on all your people, from the times of the kings of Ashur until this very day. Nehemiah 9:32 Restate... Continue Reading →
God’s Behavior
Passage - they refused to listen and paid no attentionto the wonders you had done among them.No, they stiffened their necks, and in their rebellionappointed a leader to return them to their slavery.But because you are a God of forgiveness,merciful, full of compassion,slow to grow angry and full of grace,you did not abandon them. Nehemiah... Continue Reading →
Show His Grace
Passage - Through Sila, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written you briefly, encouraging you and giving my witness that this is God’s true grace. Stand firm in it! 1 Peter 5:12 Restated in my own words - Paul shared through Silas what he was witnessing God due to encourage them and... Continue Reading →
Revive, Rebuild, Repair
Passage - For we are slaves. Yet our God has not abandoned us in our slavery, but has caused the kings of Persia to extend grace to us, reviving us, so that we can rebuild the house of our God, repair its ruins, and have a wall of defense in Y’hudah and Yerushalayim. Ezra 9:9... Continue Reading →
The Foundation
Passage - They sang antiphonally, praising and giving “thanks to Adonai, for he is good, for his grace continues forever” toward Isra’el. All the people raised a great shout of praise to Adonai, because the foundation of the house of Adonai had been laid. Ezra 3:11 Restated in my own words - Finishing the foundation for the temple had... Continue Reading →
Stalled
The word leaped from the reading that I was listening to this morning, Christine Caine's new book Unexpected "Stalled." I don't remember if the word following was faith or hope, listening while I get ready for work often means I listen to some books over and over to get the full impact; but the... Continue Reading →
No Coincidence
Passage - Na‘omi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Adonai, who has never stopped showing grace, neither to the living nor to the dead.” Na‘omi also told her, “The man is closely related to us; he’s one of our redeeming kinsmen.” Ruth 2:20 Restates in my own words - Naomi told Ruth that... Continue Reading →
Grace is Revealed
Passage - and I will pour out on the house of Davidand on those living in Yerushalayima spirit of grace and prayer;and they will look to me, whom they pierced.” They will mourn for himas one mourns for an only son;they will be in bitterness on his behalflike the bitterness for a firstborn son. Zechariah... Continue Reading →
The Plank
I am getting used to God speaking to me about my behavior when I think that I have been wronged personally. Maybe I am the only one who gets a righteous indignation about certain behaviors from others. That is where I have found myself today. Moving is taxing on any relationship, I'm told. My husband... Continue Reading →
Generations
Passage - showing grace to the thousandth generation, forgiving offenses, crimes and sins; yet not exonerating the guilty, but causing the negative effects of the parents’ offenses to be experienced by their children and grandchildren, and even by the third and fourth generations.” Exodus 34:7 Restated in my own words - God's grace is shown... Continue Reading →
Restoring Voice 