Tag: Trust

  • Lent: A time for Returning

    Lent: A time for Returning

    That is why the Lord says,    “Turn to me now, while there is time.Give me your hearts.    Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,    but tear your hearts instead.”Return to the Lord your God,    for he is merciful and compassionate,slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.    He is eager to relent and not punish. Joel 2:12-13 NLT Read more

  • Day 47: Lonely Places

    Day 47: Lonely Places

    Leviticus 1-3; Mark 1:29-45, 2:1-12; Psalms 35:17-28; Proverbs 9:13-18 I love that on day 47 we have moved into new books of the Bible: Leviticus and Mark. I’ll be honest, these books of the Old Testament are a bit of a struggle for me to get through, but we push on because they are important Read more

  • Day 44: Surely He was the Son of God

    Day 44: Surely He was the Son of God

    Exodus 35:10-35, 36; Matthew 27:32-66; Psalms 34:1-10; Proverbs 9:7-8 “When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, ‘Surely he was the Son of God!’” (Matthew 27:54 NIV) When you compare the world of today to the world of Jesus Read more

  • Day 40: Prayer of Surrender

    Day 40: Prayer of Surrender

    Exodus 29, 30:1-10; Matthew 26: 14-46; Psalms 31:19-24; Proverbs 8:14-26 “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39 NIV) I have to say, I think this is one of the most beautiful prayers in the Bible. Simple, heartfelt, but Read more

  • Day 30: Angst in the Psalms

    Day 30: Angst in the Psalms

    Exodus 12:14-51, 13:1-16; Matthew 20:29-34, 21:1-22; Psalms 25:16-22; Proverbs 6:12-15 “Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am lonely and afflicted.Relieve the troubles of my heartand free me from my anguish.Look on my affliction and my distressand take away all my sins.”Psalms 25:16-18 I absolutely love the Psalms because they are so angsty! Read more

  • Day 29: The Lord’s Promise

    Day 29: The Lord’s Promise

    Exodus 8-9; Matthew 19:13-30; Psalms 24:1-10; Proverbs 6:1-5 “So Pharoah’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.” (Exodus 9:33 NIV) Exodus 8-9 focuses on the continued plagues brought on by God against the Egyptians as punishment for Pharoah not allowing the Israelities to Read more

  • Day 27: Just like Little Children

    Day 27: Just like Little Children

    Exodus 4, 5:1-21; Matthew 18:1-20; Psalms 22:19-31; Proverbs 5:15-21 “And he said” ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.’” (Matthew 18:3-4 NIV) My son just Read more

  • Day 20: Joseph the Faithful

    Day 20: Joseph the Faithful

    Genesis 41:17-57, 42:1-17; Matthew 13:24-46; Psalms 18:1-15; Proverbs 4:1-6 Today we pick back up with Joseph standing in front of Pharoah, about to interpret his two dreams. Joseph tells him that the dreams are one and the same from God, given twice because “the matter has been firmly decided by God” (41:32)–seven years of plenty, Read more

  • Day 19: Joseph the Blessed

    Day 19: Joseph the Blessed

    Genesis 39-41:1-16; Matthew 12:46-50, 13:1-23; Psalms 17:1-15; Proverbs 3:33-35 Day two of the story of Joseph. When Jospeh is brought to Egypt as a slave, losing his family, heritage, and culture, he is sold into the house of Potiphar, one of Pharoah’s officials. Genesis 39:2 (NIV) says “The Lord was with Joseph so that he Read more