| SCRIPTURE | TOPIC | DATE | THEME | JOURNAL |
| Jer 42:3 | Access | 10.23.04 | There is no access to the One true God except through Jesus Christ who makes a way. | |
| Tit 1:6 | Accountability | 10.26.04 | Everyone in the church must be accountable to someone else or trouble is on the way. | |
| Jer 7:5 | Accountability | 10.06.04 | In the first century church, accountability was a mandate, not an option. | |
| 2Ki 18:4b | Action | 07.01.04 | God judges the value of something on its use or misuse, not its intended use. | |
| Lu 5:28 | Actions | 03.22.04 | If you're a disciple, then you'll be a friend to sinners and thereby demonstrate God's love. | |
| Lu 2:37 | Actions | 03.17.04 | A person honors God when he acts responsibly. | |
| 2Cor 6:16 | America | 09.03.04 | The reversal of conservative Christian values in America is nothing more than fruit of wrong choices. | |
| Nu 21:2 | Anger | 03.14.04 | When God says to speak with authority to a rock, don't try to beat a response out of it with a stick. | |
| Mk 10:51 | Answers | 03.02.04 | You get what you pray for everytime you fail to pray. | |
| 2Sa 24:24 | Answers | 06.05.04 | Answered prayer may start with holy desire, but it takes personal sacrifice to seal the deal. | |
| 1John 2:19 | Antichrist | 12.02.04 | To be an antichrist, all we have to do is be lost and work against Christ. | |
| Ps 127:1a | Apathy | 06.09.04 | Are you proving that God's work was not in vain or are you just waiting on the wrecking ball? | |
| Ps 119:130 | Apathy | 05.30.04 | There's not much going on in churches these days because there's not much praying going on. | |
| Jdg 6:27 | Appropriation | 04.26.04 | God is able. But if we never go, we'll never know. | |
| Zech 4:6 | Appropriation | 12.23.04 | God delights in using weak people with little ability who allow Him to be great through their availability. | |
| Pro 4:1 | Attention | 01.20.04 | If you're not paying attention, then how can you expect to gain understanding? | |
| Pro 4:20 | Attention | 01.24.04 | Are you listening to what God is saying through his Word and the Holy Spirit? | |
| Mt 20:28 | Attention | 01.30.04 | It's sad that it may take someone else losing their life for God to get your attention. | |
| Nu 9:12 | Attention | 03.07.04 | We should be alert to things around us because we might be leaving at a moment's notice. | |
| Heb 12:15 | Attitude | 11.15.04 | Time is like water to a seed of bitterness. | |
| Tit 3:1a | Authority | 10.28.04 | Whichever candidate prevails in an election may not be God's man but he is God-ordained. | |
| Lu 3:21b | Authority | 03.19.04 | Pray like Jesus: To the Father, through His Spirit power in the authority of His Name. | |
| Rev 6:17 | Authority | 12.15.04 | If I'm master of my fate and captain of my soul, then add idiot to my list of credentials. | |
| John 4:53 | Belief | 05.06.04 | A person of prayer believes what Jesus said, even if his emotion causes him to question it. | |
| Dan 2:23 | Bible | 11.25.04 | Praise and thanksgiving can be found in every page turn of Scripture. | |
| Ps 41:2 | Blessing | 02.25.04 | There is direct correlation between the way you bless other people and the way God blesses you. | |
| Gen 30:27 | Blessing | 01.14.04 | Many people think they're blessed when in fact God is showering it on people close to them. | |
| Josh 21:43 | Blessing | 04.20.04 | Don't be a sponge soaking up all God's blessing and fail to bless Him in return | |
| Dt 28:2 | Blessing | 04.05.04 | Gods' blessing is most often conditional meaning there's something we're expected to do first | |
| Ps 78:25 | Blessing | 04.06.04 | God wants us to reach out to Him because He wants to bless us and watch our reaction. | |
| Pro 3:33 | Blessing | 01.19.04 | If you claim to know Jesus but you're living like the devil, it's not blessing you need but God's mercy. | |
| Est 2:2 | Blessing | 08.18.04 | We need to peel the wrapper off our blessings and see who really gave it to us. | |
| 1Pet 2:10a | Blessings | 11.23.04 | U.S. citizens that are not believers should thank God for blessings they don't deserve. | |
| Ex 32:24 | Blind | 02.11.04 | Veiled sin makes a person say and do the most incredibly stupid things. | |
| 1Ki 8:52 | Bondage | 06.11.04 | Prayer is the key to deliverance from sin that has us bound and gagged. | |
| Ezra 3:11 | Building | 08.06.04 | Did you check the credentials of the builder who laid your foundation? | |
| Ps 68:19 | Burden | 09.25.04 | If we let God bear or burdens, we won't spend as much time on the ground and He won't have to spend as much time picking us up. | |
| Eze 3:14 | Calling | 11.01.04 | It's sad that a pastor would view any church that offers an increase in salary, God's calling. | |
| Acts 11:24 | Calling | 06.17.04 | Call God what you will, but I don't think you should call His calling optional. | |
| 1Ki 1:6 | Children | 06.06.04 | If we don't lead our kids to live righteously, someone else will lead them unrighteousnessly. | |
| 2Sa 19:1 | Children | 06.01.04 | David showed us that parents can either handle their children or be handled by them. | |
| Job 14:14 | Choice | 08.24.04 | If you die lost, you'll have to deal with that choice for the rest of your death. | |
| Acts 5:38a | Church | 06.07.04 | You may enjoy the approval of the church membership, but that doesn't mean you have God's approval. | |
| Hag 1:6b | Church | 12.18.04 | A fancy new church built in a growing affluent part of town is in many ways like a purse with a hole in it. | |
| Heb 4:7b | Confession | 11.02.04 | If confidence is the door through which we approach God, then honest confession must be the knob that opens it. | |
| Ps 17:3b | Confession | 07.21.04 | Failing to confess sin is the first step in loosening the grip the Holy Spirit has on our desire. | |
| Nu 11:14 | Confession | 03.08.04 | There is no sin more egregious than the sin of failing to confess sin. | |
| 1Sa 17:37 | Confidence | 05.15.04 | Confidence comes from spending time in the ministry of the word and prayer. | |
| 1Sa 21:12 | Conflicts | 05.17.04 | Sometimes we allow God to choose our battles, but too often we make war on our own. | |
| 1Sa 13:14b | Contentment | 05.12.04 | Have you become satisfied with the best you can do and stopped praying for what God can do? | |
| John 3:30 | Control | 05.04.04 | If we're going the same way as God, why are we wrestling for control of the steering wheel? | |
| Mt 8:19 | Conviction | 01.11.04 | Conviction is my decision to act on what I believe regardless of how I feel and what it might cost me. | |
| Acts 12:24 | Conviction | 06.19.04 | Religious persecution will reveal a person's conviction or lack of it. | |
| Eze 11:17a | Convictions | 11.04.04 | Convictions aren't changed by the outcome of a vote. | Geo W Bush elected to second term as U.S. President. |
| 2Chr 22:3 | Counsel | 07.28.04 | Know the word of God and speak it and you'll find yourself giving sound advice. | |
| 1Sa 1:28b | Death | 05.07.04 | Everyone will die, but having a rebellious attitude speeds up the process. | |
| Pro 10:19 | Deceit | 02.28.04 | How far outside the line can embellishment go before becoming misleading? | |
| 1Ti 1:7 | Deceit | 10.16.04 | Lies are peculiar in that the more you tell them, the more you're inclined to believe the manure you're spreading. | |
| 2Ti 3:12b | Deception | 10.24.04 | It's difficult, if not impossible, to convince a deceived person that he's been deceived. | |
| 2Cor 11:14 | Deception | 09.09.04 | In these days, Satan works under the guise of doing good things for a godly reason and worthy cause. | |
| 1Chro 10:13 | Deception | 07.10.04 | Lying to the Holy Spirit is not only hazardous to your health, it is a deadly "game" to play. | |
| Pro 20:21 | Decision | 08.04.04 | What comes in without due consideration usually goes out without explanation. | |
| Jos 2:1 | Defeat | 04.10.04 | Will you trust God in a face off with your enemy or die defeated never having tried? | |
| 1Cor 8:9 | Deference | 08.13.04 | The primary reason husbands and wives divorce and their children rebel is a failure to lovingly show deference. | |
| Acts 9:15b | Dependence | 06.13.04 | God looks beyond our frail tendencies to see if we have potential for God-dependency | |
| 2Cor 1:9 | Dependence | 08.26.04 | When we rely on ourselves, we limit God. | |
| 2Chr 12:14 | Desire | 07.24.04 | The root problem of those who have no desire for the Lord is they have no desire for the Lord. | |
| 2Sa 15:19b-20 | Desire | 05.29.04 | God won't change your desires on your way to heaven which raises the question whether you need to worry about it.. | |
| Nu 30:2 | Desire | 03.20.04 | Ask God to give you desire to do what you already know you ought to do. | |
| Dt 1:28 | Desparate | 03.23.04 | We seldom ask God to help us unless we've lost all other options. | |
| Ruth 1:18 | Determination | 05.05.04 | A Christian's determination is proportional to the amount of time he spends in God's word. | |
| 1Ti 5:22 | Devotion | 10.20.04 | If you hear a quiet knock at your heart's door, don't expect to hear it tomorrow. | |
| Mk 12:44 | Devotion | 03.06.04 | God is not impressed with the flourish of public worship, but rather the spirit by which we approach him when no one is around. | |
| Josh 14:12 | Devotion | 04.16.04 | Don't allow your spiritual muscles to be in atrophy from lack of use. | |
| Acts 27:11 | Devotion | 07.09.04 | How much prayer time is enough? Daniel thought it was just a little bit more. | |
| 1Th 2:4 | Devotion | 10.09.04 | Men-pleasers do not please God. | |
| Ps 25:4 | Devotion | 08.01.04 | Morning by morning, O Lord, you hear my voice. | |
| Hos 14:9b | Discernment | 12.08.04 | Discernment is the ability to notice something and instantly relate it to the truth of God's Word. | |
| 1Ki 3:9 | Discernment | 06.08.04 | Discernment is knowing right and wrong. Can we order some for our judicial system? | |
| Pro 8:32 | Disciple | 02.10.04 | Have you promised to follow Jesus but never showed up to see where he was going? | |
| Ge 50:3 | Disciple | 01.25.04 | Being a good follower of Jesus is not so much based on intention as much as it is devotion. | |
| Lu 3:3 | Discipleship | 03.18.04 | Discipleship begins when prayer and Bible study become dominant daily activities in your life and not before. | |
| Ex 40:37 | Discipleship | 02.15.04 | Those who follow Jesus don't need to ask where he's going, but just get up and follow expectantly. | |
| Jdg 1:28 | Discipline | 04.23.04 | Ignoring God exposes us to the painful side of his love called discipline. | |
| Ps 99:8 | Discipline | 04.28.04 | Disicpline builds character under fire; judgment builds a fire under an individual. | |
| Acts 28:31 | Education | 07.11.04 | How much education is needed before a person acts on what God expects them to do? | |
| Pro 27:17 | Enemy | 11.14.04 | We should not allow ourselves to be used as a weapon for the enemy. | |
| Ro 12:1b | Enemy | 07.29.04 | I call to the Lord who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies. | |
| 1Chr 21:1 | Enemy | 07.15.04 | If teams are chosen, Jesus and Satan are opposing team captains. | |
| 2Chr 20:21 | Enemy | 07.27.04 | When we praise the Name of Jesus, our enemy becomes powerless. | |
| Ezra 10:11 | Evangelism | 08.10.04 | Evangelical dating/marriage seldom works. | |
| Philemon 6 | Evangelism | 10.29.04 | Everything we do is a means through which we can preach Jesus | |
| Ex 12:32 | Evidence | 01.31.04 | God's blessing may not be a true indicator of your salvation. | |
| Mk 6:37 | Evidence | 02.23.04 | The Apsotles usually came to the wrong conclusion after considering the evidence. | |
| Lu 8:21 | Examination | 03.28.04 | If you think you're living for God, it's a good idea to take your pulse every now and again and see what God thinks. | |
| Ps 26:2 | Examination | 02.01.04 | It's not real smart to ask God to search your heart when you think he'll miss something. | |
| Dan 12:1b | Excuses | 12.04.04 | I wonder how many lost people will stand before God and say, "I intended to do it," or "I thought I did!" | |
| Acts 24:16 | Excuses | 07.06.04 | Don't defend yourself; your enemies don't deserve it and your friends don't require it. | |
| Ps 7:15 | Excuses | 01.07.04 | Why is it we always suspect someone else is responsible for digging the hole we're in? | |
| Mk 6:3 | Excuses | 02.22.04 | God will not tolerate excuses from someone who after walking with Jesus should know better. | |
| Lu 5:5 | Expectantcy | 03.21.04 | If you want to be a big pray-er, don't plan for failure and don't bring a small net. | |
| Dt 17:17 | Expectation | 03.31.04 | To know what God requires, go to the Word; to know Him, you've got to go to your knees | |
| Mt 12:35 | Failures | 01.18.04 | I wonder how many times I've failed to do something for God that he used someone else to take care of it? | |
| John 6:29 | Faith | 05.10.04 | Believing God's word is not a substitute for doing it. | |
| Mt 8:10 | Faith | 01.10.04 | Faith is prayer with feet. | |
| Heb 11:1 | Faith | 11.12.04 | Faith is not necessarily what we do, but instead in who we trust. | |
| 2Ki 6:17 | Faith | 06.24.04 | May our faith not become three-dimentional, but God-dimensional. | |
| Ps 143:10 | Fame | 06.25.04 | If you're rich and famous, you can call the shots. But if not, you may be the one that's shot. | |
| Isa 49:4b | Favor | 09.26.04 | I don't know about you, but it's high time we stop pandering to the devil. | |
| 2John 11 | Fellowship | 12.06.04 | Fellowship is the time we spend with people who share our active faith, not our passive label. | |
| Ro 1:10a | Fellowship | 07.12.04 | You spend time with someone you love, so why aren't you spending more time in prayer? | |
| Ps 143:6b | Fellowship | 12.24.04 | Fellowship is found in a private time with the Lord in the prayer closet, not a mass gathering of public worshipers who sing and listen to preaching. | |
| 2Sa 2:1 | Fellowship | 05.22.04 | When you love someone, you'll find a way to spend time with them and as much as you can! | |
| Lu 22:54b | Follow | 04.25.04 | Don't follow so far behind the Lord you lose track of him. | |
| Zech 9:9 | Followers | 12.26.04 | Fair-weather followers of Jesus have for over 2,000 years been making their own rules of engagement. | |
| 1Pet 1:2 | Foreknowledge | 11.22.04 | God only chooses those who choose Him. | |
| Est 4:14 | Forgiveness | 08.19.04 | Jehovah is the God of the second-chance | |
| Pro 12:16 | Forgiveness | 03.04.04 | Maybe the reason we have such a hard time dealing with God's forgiveness is the fact we've never forgiven any body. | |
| 1John 1:9 | Forgiveness | 11.30.04 | Foriveness is on the other side of "if we confess our sin." | |
| Mk 3:4 | Freedom | 02.17.04 | Jesus has liberated all those who through his blood find forgiveness of sin. | |
| 1Cor 12:27 | Gifts | 08.20.04 | Your failure to use your Spirit giftedness renders it worthless. | |
| Amos 3:7 | Gifts | 12.10.04 | Prophecy is a gift of the Holy Spirit to those who boldly proclaim the truth of God's word without compromise or reservation. | |
| 3John 5 | Giving | 12.07.04 | Something tells me the first century disciples would have avoided such a public display of giving as a 501c3 and tax credit. | Remember Pearl Harbor |
| 2Cor 9:6a | Giving | 09.07.04 | Our reward will come as grace for living but not always as grease in our palm. | |
| 2Cor 2:17 | Giving | 08.28.04 | Is it love for God or money that leads someone to give a large sum of money to a not-for-profit church in late December? | |
| Ps 11:1 | Glory | 01.13.04 | Too many times we give credit to the wrong person | |
| 2Cor 13:5 | Gospel | 09.13.04 | Is someone saved by what they say or do, or are they saved by what Jesus did? | |
| 2Cor 4:4 | Gospel | 08.30.04 | How many preach Jesus without His power energizing them? | |
| Jonah 1:3 | Grace | 12.14.04 | Jonah experience teaches us there is no sin so grievous that God's grace won't cover it. | |
| 1Cor 15:10a | Grace | 08.23.04 | Grace is like manna, we need it daily to survive. | |
| 2Pet 3:18 | Grace | 11.29.04 | If you want to see God's grace, take your eyes off your problems and focus on Jesus. | |
| Ps 27:11 | Grateful | 02.02.04 | A joyful person has an grateful spirit even when uncomfortable. | |
| Ro 9:24 | Heaven | 07.25.04 | If you're going to heaven, then you'll enjoy the things here that you'll be doing there | |
| Col 3:2 | Heaven | 10.07.04 | Prayer is the only way to look to heaven while walking on earth. | |
| Col 1:21 | Heaven | 10.05.04 | Some call it heaven, I call it the only intelligent choice! | Break-in and robbery at PT offices |
| Eze 48:35 | Heaven | 11.24.04 | We don't know where heaven is or when we'll get there, but we know wherever Jesus is, that's where we'll be. | |
| Mk 9:46 | Hell | 02.29.04 | No one chooses to go to hell, rather they fail to choose Jesus. | |
| John 8:51 | Hell | 05.16.04 | The only thing worse than dying once is doing it twice. | |
| Lev 20:8 | Holy | 02.26.04 | God expects us to holy, separate and distinct from the world. | |
| Ex 28:3 | Holy | 02.08.04 | Are you clean according to the world's standard or are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? | |
| Jdg 16:20 | Holy | 05.02.04 | Are you sanctified by the mark of the Holy Spirit or stigmatized with the mark of the world? | |
| Ps 119:50 | HolySpirit | 05.25.04 | Peace has another name and it's Holy Spirit. | |
| Ps 40 :1 | Hope | 08.25.04 | Hope has a Name and it's Jesus. | |
| Jdg 17:6 | Idols | 05.03.04 | Be careful not to attach more importance to your religious icons than you do to God. | |
| 1Sa 3:21 | Ignorance | 05.08.04 | You can ignore God if you wish, but that doesn't mean He'll ignore you. | |
| John 16:13 | Ignorance | 05.27.04 | Only a person running from God will try to put out the fire of conviction by fanning it. | |
| Pro 29:18 | Ignorance | 12.09.04 | Ignorance breeds discontent except in church. | |
| Jer 14:11 | Imitation | 10.10.04 | When someone says they speak for God, duck! | |
| John 11:54 | Impression | 05.21.04 | God is not nearly as impressed with our accomplishments as He is in our attitude. | |
| Eph 2:5b | Inspiration | 09.22.04 | God will reveal Himself in us any way we let Him. | |
| Ex 28:41 | Intercession | 02.09.04 | Before you pray for someone else, you need to be in the right position. | |
| Mk 2:5 | Intercession | 02.16.04 | Intercessory prayer is not even on your list of priorities if you don't spend substantive time doing it! | |
| Ps 106:23 | Intercession | 05.09.04 | You can be a pray-er and not an intercessor, but you can't be an intercessor and not a pray-er. | |
| Isa 59:16 | Intercession | 09.29.04 | Intercession in the act of something coming between two things in conflict. | |
| 1Ti 4:4b | Intercession | 10.19.04 | Should someone ask you to pray specifically about their condition, you must have the proper premise, promise and position. | |
| Ps 41:1 | Intercession | 08.27.04 | Are your problems plural or singular? | |
| Lu 6:38 | Investment | 03.24.04 | For every investment in His work, God does a similar work in the life of the one who did it. | |
| John 1:1 | Jesus | 04.30.04 | You'll never know God until you meet Jesus and when you meet Him, you've met God. | |
| Pro 9:10 | Jesus | 02.14.04 | We call Jesus, Savior, but if you don't know him that way before you die, then you'll only know him as your Judge. | |
| 2Chr 2:2 | Joyful | 07.20.04 | Our service to the Lord Jesus should be voluntary and joyful rather then conscripted. | |
| Zech 12:10b | Judge | 12.28.04 | Ignorance will remain a popular way for a person to reject Jesus as Savior until he stands in front of Jesus the Judge of the Living and the Dead. | |
| Ro 2:6 | Judgment | 07.14.04 | If judgment begins with the House of God, maybe it should end with us as well. | |
| Nu 16:23 | Judgment | 03.11.04 | We should be aware of where we're standing or we risk judgment by association. | Reduced for clarity |
| Ex 34:10 | Justice | 02.12.04 | I'm afraid Sodom and Gomorrah are deserving of an apology if America is not punished for her sin. | |
| Lev 24:3b | Knowledge | 03.01.04 | How sad it is when Christians are willing to sit in the dark when illumination is available for the asking. | New devotional format - Iti 4:2 and writing hand for Just Thinkin'... |
| 2Chr 18:4 | Knowledge | 07.26.04 | Knowing the right answer doesn't justify a wrong decision on my part. | |
| Mk 12:25 | Law | 03.05.04 | The law was disarmed at the foot of the Cross. | |
| 2Ki 23:25 | Leaders | 07.04.04 | We need leaders who'll do what God expects and not what it takes to stay in office. | |
| Gen 26:18 | Legacy | 01.12.04 | Don't allow God's work to be buried with you. | |
| 1Ki 13:33 | Legacy | 06.14.04 | The only legacy that matters is what God thinks of us after we're done here on earth. | |
| John 19:30 | Liberty | 05.31.04 | Thank You God for sending Your Son whose blood purchased my liberty. | |
| Ro 4:21b | Listen | 07.18.04 | If God is in the woods and no one is there to hear him, how long should he stay there? | |
| Eze 34:26b | Listen | 11.16.04 | We need to hear things through the filter of the Holy Spirit. | |
| 2Ki 1:12a | Listening | 06.21.04 | Listening to authority is a good thing unless in doing so you close your ears to God. | |
| Zech 8:2 | Lord | 12.25.04 | It's not nearly as important to respect Christmas as Jesus' birthday as it is to recognize Him as Lord. | |
| 1Th 5:2b | Loss | 10.12.04 | Nothing prepares a person for loss like losing something. | |
| Job 31:1 | Lust | 08.29.04 | We men should avoid looking below the chin at any woman but our wife and never behind them. | |
| Ps 1:3 | Meditation | 01.01.04 | Why do we make simple things so complicated? | |
| Ps 141:4a | Messenger | 06.23.04 | When you attack the messenger, you show contempt for the One who sent the message | |
| 1Cor 9:14 | Ministry | 08.14.04 | Some may get paid for doing it, but no Christian should minister part-time. | |
| Ps 86:17a | Miracle | 04.17.04 | A miracle is what man can't explain or replicate | |
| 1Chr 4:43 | Mission | 07.07.04 | If you don't have a mission statement, you can use mine: Listen - Learn and Live. | |
| Eph 3:12 | Mistake | 09.23.04 | There's never been anything man created that he didn't eventually mess up. | |
| Lu 16:13 | Money | 04.13.04 | God is deadly serious when he says you can't serve both God and money. | |
| Mk 11:17 | Morality | 03.03.04 | It says something about our generation when the world's morality is more righteous than the church's. | Move image of hand to btm of devotional |
| Lev 15:31 | Name | 02.24.04 | Through prayer, we have access in the Name of Jesus into God's presence. | |
| Mk 5:26 | Needs | 02.21.04 | God delights in confounding men by meeting their needs through Jesus. | |
| Isa 64:8 | Negative | 10.01.04 | No matter how much light you shine on someone's darkness, some will find shadows. | |
| 1Cor 14:29b | Neglect | 08.22.04 | Careless words are responsible for more offense, dejection, sorrow and disappointment among Christians than we can imagine. | |
| Gal 6:15b | New | 09.21.04 | It's impossible to remain the same after God takes over your life. | |
| Lu 7:35 | Obedience | 03.26.04 | I'm glad they don't stone kids anymore, or most of us would be dead right now. | |
| Dt 11:26 | Obedience | 03.29.04 | Determine to honor and obey God's word, not so much to be blessed, but just to please Him. | |
| Jer 11:1a | Obedience | 10.08.04 | Obedience is not optional, but an obligation. | |
| Ps 56:3 | Obedience | 03.13.04 | When God tells you what to do, do it right away, in the right way and then get out of the way. | |
| Gen 22:18 | Obedience | 01.09.04 | Seeking God is the determination to stand fast on God's Word. It turns to prayer when I ask to get in on what He's doing. | |
| Gal 2:12b | Obedience | 09.15.04 | We can save a lot of time and frustration by making the decision to obey God's word. | |
| 2Ki 22:1 | Obedience | 07.02.04 | When we disregard God's word, we're vulnerable to whatever else tries to get our attention. | |
| Mt 7:6 | Obedience | 01.08.04 | We wouldn't need angels if we would just listen to God's Word and obey. | |
| Mt 5:41 | Obligation | 01.06.04 | God loves us all the same, but we demonstrate how much we love and respect Him by the way we serve others. | |
| 1Chr 29:28 | Opportunity | 07.19.04 | Today is the tomorrow I talked about yesterday. | |
| Ps 144:3 | Opportunity | 06.26.04 | If you're going to make a difference, today might be the last opportunity you have to do it. | |
| Jer 32:39 | Parents | 10.18.04 | If you won't submit to God for your own good, will you at least consider it for your children so they don't inherit your consequences. | Tornado warnings |
| Lu 14:33 | Passion | 04.11.04 | Before the resurrection the disciples lacked passion; after it, their passion ignited the world. | |
| Lu 9:41 | Patience | 04.01.04 | Patience is coming, if we will just hold our horses. | |
| Isa 28:10 | Patience | 09.17.04 | God is patient with sinners, but has little for His people who are ignorant. | |
| Ex 25:40 | Pattern | 02.06.04 | God's method of delivery may have changed but it's always been about Jesus. | |
| Psa120:7 | Peace | 12.01.04 | A truce is nothing more than time to reload. | |
| Pro 3:23 | Peace | 01.17.04 | We can't have peace when we're at war with God | |
| Amos 7:8 | Perception | 12.12.04 | It's amazing that what some people see as restriction, others view as freedom within liberal boundaries. | |
| Isa 11:2a | Perception | 09.12.04 | It's difficult for some people to see Jesus anyway but as a baby in a manger. | |
| Jas 1:5 | Perseverance | 11.17.04 | While testing develops perseverance, its primary purpose is to point us to God. | |
| Heb 10:36 | Perseverance | 11.11.04 | Perseverance is the refusal to quit, a desire to finish that's greater than the desire to give up. | |
| Pr 12:16 | Persistence | 04.04.04 | Prayer isn't just about attitude and words, it's equally about persistence. | |
| Pro 11:2 | Perspective | 03.15.04 | If you have tunnel-vision, just make sure God is in the tunnel with you. | |
| John 17:1a | Position | 05.28.04 | It's not your physical position of prayer that gets God's attention but your spiritual position. | |
| Ex 8:10 | Possessions | 01.29.04 | Since you won't take it with you, why not learn to live without it now? | |
| 2Cor 12:9 | Power | 09.11.04 | God's power is best demonstrated through the weaknesses of believers. | |
| Lu 19:43 | Praise | 04.19.04 | We're no better than the palm wavers in Jerusalem that day. We're also conditional praisers | |
| 2Ki 13:4 | Prayer | 06.28.04 | Sadly, prayer is often the first thing mentioned in church, but the last thing done. | |
| Mk 16:11 | Prayer | 03.12.04 | Your actions may indicate your love for Jesus, but your prayer life proves it. | New "Pray For" format with navigation to prayer primer |
| Eph 3:12 | Prayer | 09.24.04 | Prayer is often ignored for the sake of exercising things conceived in the heart of men. | |
| Lev 10:10 | Prayer |
02.20.04 | If you want to be a good pray-er, then practice, practice, practice! | |
| Josh 10:14 | Prayer | 04.14.04 | Prayer is where faith begins. | |
| 2Chr 6:18 | Prayer | 07.22.04 | Is you life filled with intimate time with God, or do you just listen while others pray? | |
| John 10:18 | Prayer | 05.18.04 | It's amazing how many giants of the faith are out there that never put on God's armor. | |
| Isa 66:4b | Prayer | 10.02.04 | Prayer has become a knee-jerk reaction for most people. | |
| Rev 8:3b | Prayer | 12.17.04 | I wonder how some will answer God with an empty bowl of prayer in their hands? | |
| Acts 1:14 | Prayer | 06.03.04 | Acts shows us that corporate prayer should be precursor to both preaching and witnessing. | |
| Isa 62:6 | Prayer | 09.30.04 | Have you taken up a position on the wall of prayer, O watchman? | |
| Ps 13:1 | Prayer | 07.17.04 | We shouldn't expect God to answer a question we never pose. | |
| Heb 5:7 | Prayer | 11.03.04 | Have you learned to approach God in such a way He's interested in what you have to say? | |
| Ps 5:3 | Prayer | 01.05.04 | When God speaks to your heart, you've got your Bethel. | |
| Gen 32:26 | Prayer | 01.16.04 | The wrestling match between Jacob and the Angel of the Lord was fixed. | |
| Pro 15:22 | Prayer | 05.20.04 | Prayer is spending time in God's presence with conversation as an optional activity. | |
| Ezra 9:6 | Prayer | 08.09.04 | The way we pray demonstrates how well we know Him. | |
| Php 4:6 | Prayer | 10.03.04 | Not only was Paul a man of prayer, but he did so with power and inspired others to do the same. | |
| Rev 22:13 | Prayertower | 12.31.04 | My heart's desire is to see other prayer-warriors grow out of this ministry with a similar and even greater passion as mine. | Announce Pray Thru the Word in 2005 |
| Acts 2:42 | Preaching | 06.04.04 | The only purpose for preaching is to tell the Good News and call for a personal decision. | |
| Lu 12:35 | Preparation | 04.08.04 | Proper prayer requires preparation and the cornerstone of preparation is persistence. | |
| Ecc 10:10 | Preparation | 09.05.04 | Don't let others chop wood while you're sharpening your ax. | |
| 2Sa 5:19 | Preparation | 05.24.00 | Preparation is taking action now so we can spend time enjoying something later. | |
| Mt 15:8 | Pretender | 01.23.04 | Much of religion today is 90% trash and 10% Jesus. | |
| Dt 7:6 | Pride | 03.27.04 | Are you so busy acting like something that you've forgotten what it feels like to be a nothing? | |
| 2Chr 32:26a | Pride | 08.02.04 | If you think you don't have any pride in you rlife, you just admitted your guilt. | |
| 2Chr 26:15 | Pride | 07.30.04 | The day is yours, and yours also the night. | |
| Isa 29:16b | Pride | 09.18.04 | Arrogance is a process that begins by denying or ignoring God. | |
| Ps 111:10 | Pride | 11.13.04 | Having pride is an invitation for God to look at our heart and reveal to us just how bad we really are. | |
| 1Ki 14:27 | Problems | 06.15.04 | We'll know what our faith is made of when the heat gets turned up. | |
| Job 2:10b | Problems | 08.21.04 | Sometimes problems are blessings in disguise. | |
| 2Pet 1:10 | Promise | 11.27.04 | To promise a person something not in your power to deliver is irresponsible. | |
| Micah 5:2 | Prophecy | 12.16.04 | There are thirty-eight predictions in Scripture about the Messiah that Jesus has alreaqdy fulfilled, but thirty-eight million wouldn't convince some people. | |
| Lu 17:21 | Provision | 04.15.04 | Prayer is the key that unlocks the door of God's provision. | |
| Neh 10:39 | Race | 08.15.04 | "Winning the race" is doing whatever it takes to be the best and out performing every other believer in the competition. | |
| Heb 9:12 | Redemption | 11.08.04 | Jesus' work in achieving forgiveness for our sin is a perfect paradigm. | |
| Pro 27:12 | Refuge | 11.10.04 | No reasonable person endures being in the rain for very long without seeking shelter. | |
| Dt 4:2 | Religion | 03.25.04 | Religion is built on guessing God's intention rather than obeying His instruction. | |
| Gal 5:6b | Religion | 09.19.04 | God's not impressed with religion or man's attempt to make Christianity one. | |
| Mt 22:29 | Reluctance | 04.12.04 | Why don't you get up and do what God says instead of asking, "Is that your final answer?" | |
| Pro 5:21 | Reluctant | 01.27.04 | God found in Moses someone who, even though he was reluctant at first, would be faithful. | |
| Ps 3:1 | Repent | 01.03.04 | The message of John the Baptist was only three words long: "Turn or burn!" | |
| Mal 1:10 | Repentance | 12.30.04 | Malachi: Forgiveness = Confession + Repentance. | |
| 2Cor 7:10 | Repentance | 09.04.04 | James refutes anyone who elevates personal choice over the power of God to save and change a person. | |
| Eph 5:6 | Repentance | 09.27.04 | How can someone speak to another person about something they see no need for doing? | |
| Lu 13:22 | Repentance | 04.09.04 | Repentance requires stopping, turning around and going in the direction God is going. | |
| 1Ki 19:12b | Repentance | 06.18.04 | God forgive us for thinking repentance is necessary for only those who don't know you. | |
| John 8:11b | Repentance | 05.14.04 | Repentance proves we're sorry for disappointing God and not that we got caught. | |
| John 7:34 | Repentance | 05.13.04 | The only thing a pretender and an backslidder have in common is the need to repent. | |
| Acts 26:20b | Repentance | 07.08.04 | Scripture never says God's grace is a substitute for our repentance. | |
| Jdg 10:13 | Repentance | 04.29.04 | Without repentance, confession is an apology for doing something you'll do again. | |
| Neh 1:11b | Respect | 08.11.04 | Don't allow the world to use your timidity as a license to mock God. | |
| Ge 45:13 | Responsibility | 01.22.04 | We should never abuse God's grace. | |
| Mt 23:3 | Responsible | 02.03.04 | We're responsible to not only know what to do, but to do it, even when our authority doesn't. | |
| Heb 7:21b | Results | 11.06.04 | It's impossible to know in advance the results of action we take, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't act. | |
| Zech 2:5 | Return | 12.22.04 | Before Irsael and the Palestinians split the property called "Temple Mount," they need to consult the coming King of Kings, who owns the title. | |
| Rev 11:15b | Return | 12.20.04 | The last time Jesus came, we mocked and crowned Him with thorns. One can only imagine what this generation will try to do. | |
| Acts 18:6b | Revelation | 06.27.04 | God has a way of revealing his character to us even when our actions contradict it. | |
| Gal 1:11 | Revelation | 09.14.04 | God's word is not subject to man's experience or interpretation, but will always be revealed to those who seek Him. | |
| Ezel 38:15 | Revelation | 11.18.04 | I'll take the word of one angel over the host of talking heads on television. | Network down for 3 days |
| Nu 12:9 | Revelation | 03.09.04 | When God's Spirit leaves, you don't want to hang around. | |
| Amos 4:6 | Revival | 12.11.04 | Revival - Few, if any, have experienced it, most pray for it, but would stop doin so if they knew what was required of them. |
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| Acts 19:15 | Revival | 06.29.04 | Preaching and teaching are nice, but the first step in revival is destruction, not instruction. | |
| Jer 23:6 | Righteousness | 10.13.04 | The good news is you're made righteous in Jesus Christ, the bad news is you had nothing to do with it. | |
| Ro 3:22 | Righteousness | 07.16.04 | We approach God through the righteousness of Jesus Christ alone and not our own. | |
| Ps 54:3 | Righteousness | 03.10.04 | God doesn't see our righteousness but rather the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus in us. | Add new left panel navigation bar |
| Lu 2:10 | Risk | 03.16.04 | You'll never be a winner until you're in the place you stand to lose something. | |
| Isa 6:8 | Sacrifice | 09.10.04 | You can tell a lot about someone's professed love of God by judging what they're willing to give up to follow Him. | |
| Josh 24:15 | Salvation | 04.22.04 | If you come in through a wide gate, you can go out the same way. | |
| John 1:33 | Salvation | 05.01.04 | We're saved by possession, not a hopeful profession. | |
| Zech 14:5 | Salvation | 12.29.04 | Saints are needed - the job is rewarding and the benefits eternal. | |
| Acts 8:14 | Salvation | 06.12.04 | Salvation begins when you hear the word of God under conviction of the Holy Spirit. | |
| Gal 5:22-23a | Salvation | 09.20.04 | The best evidence of salvation is idenifying the fruit of the Spirit. | |
| 1Sa 10:7 | Salvation | 05.11.04 | If you're saved but unchanged, you're the first person to have ever lived with that distinction. | |
| Ex 35:10-11 | Salvation | 02.13.04 | The death of God's Son wasn't the saddest part of the story. Rather, it's the fact that some people still don't get it and it can't be explained any clearer. | |
| Ro 8:15 | Security | 07.23.04 | The person who knows Abba, knows the love of a Daddy who will never leave or forsake him. | |
| Ex 21:6 | Servant | 02.04.04 | The ultimate freedom is to be a willing slave of Jesus Christ. | |
| Mk 3:13 | Serve | 02.18.04 | You've been chosen to serve, not sit. | |
| Dt 25:4 | Service | 04.03.04 | Make us like the Good Samaritan who helps those who others ignore. | |
| 1Ki 17:24 | Service | 06.16.04 | There's no such thing as a normal day when you're serving God. | |
| Job 42:8 | Service | 09.01.04 | To be an ambassador for Christ, we must bear the needs of others in His Name. | |
| Neh 4:14 | Service | 08.12.04 | The wall-builders worked, were well-armed, watched, prayed and remembered God's awesome ability to give them victory. | |
| Ex 5:22 | Service | 01.28.04 | Are you so busy recalling your failures that you've taken yourself out of God's service? | |
| 1Cor 1:28b-29 | Sight | 08.05.04 | If you're limited to seeing only what you see with your physical eyes, you're missing some good stuff. | |
| Ex 23:13 | Sin |
02.05.04 | Sin can not only be a cycle, but can run over you if you let it. | |
| Lu 23:12 | Sin | 04.27.04 | If you've seen the Passion Play and want to know who is guilty of Jesus' death, get a mirror. | |
| Dt 21:21b | Sin | 04.02.04 | We condone stubbornness in our kids because we erroneously think God winks at our own. | |
| Jdg 3:9a | Sin | 04.24.04 | It's sad the way we, as God's people have perfected the sin cycle | |
| Ps 148:14 | Sin | 06.30.04 | The fact we consider our sin "small" doesn't mean God does | |
| 1John 5:16b | Sin | 12.05.04 | Have you committed the unpardonable sin and didn't know it? | |
| Ps 146:7b | Sin | 12.27.04 | The real prisoners are those in a spiritual jail of their own making. | |
| Heb 9:22b | Sin | 11.09.04 | If you're lost and clean on the outside, you're still filthy on the inside. | |
| Acts 14:9b | Slander | 06.22.04 | Slander begins with too much information; it ends with not enough information. | |
| Isa 23:9 | Sovereignty | 09.16.04 | It's amazing to me we can discuss God's sovereignty and man's choice and some will vote in favor of man. | |
| Isa 55:6 | Specificity | 09.28.04 | Are we praying with the specificity of a laser guided missle? | |
| 2Ti 1:13 | Specificity | 10.22.04 | A person who aims at nothing will hit it every time. | |
| 1Ti 6:7 | Stewardship | 10.21.04 | We shouldn't worry about what we don't have, but use what we do have with godly discretion. | |
| Ex 3:17 | Suffering | 01.26.04 | Believe it or not, not everyone wants to be freed from their misery. | |
| Mk 9:10 | Teachable | 02.27.04 | A teachable person is willing to surrender his plans to God's without qualification. | |
| 1Ki 22:7 | Teachable | 06.20.04 | Are you seeking a word from God or simply looking for confirmation for your own plans? | |
| Tit 2:1 | Teaching | 10.27.04 | Everyone teaches without opening their mouth. | |
| Gen 4:7 | Temptation | 01.02.04 | You may not realize sin is crouched at your door until it's pounced on you with both feet. | |
| 2Th 3:2 | Terrorism | 10.15.04 | Terrorists find that a threat can accomplish what a negotiation may not. | |
| Ps 119:81b | Testimony | 11.26.04 | People may not be able to see Jesus, but they can see you. | |
| Pro 15:21 | Testimony | 05.19.04 | You can tell a lot about somebody by the way they pray and how much time they spend doing it. | |
| 2Sa 11:11 | Testimony | 05.26.04 | Regardless of your apologetics , one unconfessed sin can make your adversary's point. | |
| Job 38:1 | Trouble | 08.31.04 | Just because Jesus is Master of the storm doesn't mean it will end prematurely. | |
| John 13:17 | Trouble | 05.23.04 | We should thank God when He has enough faith in us to give us trouble. | |
| Ps 138:8 | Trouble | 12.19.04 | The most brilliant diamond is the one with the sharpest cut in it and displayed to reflect focused bright light. | |
| Isa 2:22 | Trust | 09.08.04 | Jesus is the only One who can make sense of the world's nonsense. | |
| Pro 29:25 | Trust | 12.13.04 | Most of us are afraid to trust God even though He has never failed us. | |
| Ro 16:19b | Truth | 08.03.04 | It's funny how we've come to believe that tradition trumps truth. | |
| 2Th 2:11a | Truth | 10.14.04 | The day after Jesus comes back, those left on earth will not know the truth from a lie. | |
| Ps 128:6 | Truth | 06.10.04 | Solomon proved that knowing the truth doesn't always mean you have regard for it. | |
| Ro 14:7 | Unity | 07.31.04 | The word denomination is an antonym for division. | |
| 1Cor 11:19 | Value | 08.16.04 | The value of something is best judged when it's in use. | |
| Pro 8:11 | Value | 02.07.04 | Failure to fully utilize what God has placed in our care renders it worthless. | |
| Lu 19:10 | Victory | 04.18.04 | Joshua marched in a city and seldom lost; Jesus rode in and went to the Cross. | |
| Rev 12:11a | Victory | 12.21.04 | It isn't just blood that makes us victorious, it's Jesus' blood AND our testimony. | |
| Pro 27:3 | Victory | 11.05.04 | A fight is won by standing on God's side of an issue and not swapping licks with the other side. | |
| Ps 106:13 | Wait | 11.07.04 | Failing to wait of God is the wrong thing at the wrong time for the wrong reason. | |
| 1Cor 3:10 | Weakness | 08.07.04 | Your life is no stronger than your weakest member uness the Spirit is in control. | |
| Lu 9:1 | Will | 03.30.04 | God's purpose is being fulfilled regardless of our willingness to obey and participate in it. | |
| Lev 8:8 | Will | 02.19.04 | You don't need to depend on anyone but the Holy Spirit to know God's will. | |
| Ecc 1:18 | Wisdom | 09.02.04 | Solomon found that much wisdom leads to much sorrow and more knowledge to more grief. | |
| Pro 28:19 | Wisdom | 11.28.04 | The difference between work and fantasy is in your ability to see things from God's point of view. | |
| 1Cor 4:16 | Witness | 08.08.04 | The best witness is to live like Jesus and invite others to follow your example. | |
| John 21:11b | Witness | 06.02.04 | When evidence is gone, the only thing that counts is the testimony of a credible witness | |
| Ps 3:8a | Witness | 07.05.04 | God planted us where we live in order to bloom and spread the fragrance of His love. | |
| Ps 4:3 | Witness | 01.04.04 | You may have to travel in the same boat with the world, but you don't wait till you reach shore to show them that you're different. | |
| 1Th 4:11 | Witness | 10.11.04 | The best way to win souls is to live a holy life in full view of the lost. | |
| 1John 3:9a | Witness | 12.03.04 | A person who knows Jesus should not only act like it, but also stop acting like they're immune from the consequences of sin. | |
| Pro 13:17 | Witness | 04.21.04 | Silence is golden unless you fail to tell someone what God told you. | |
| Mt 13:57 | Witness | 01.21.04 | Jesus didn't spend much time with people blinded by prejudice. | |
| Mt 10:26 | Word | 01.15.04 | God can use anyone to speak his Word. | |
| Acts 22:9 | Word | 07.03.04 | The next time God speaks to your heart, remember that He will never contradict His word. | |
| Ps 50:10b | Work | 09.06.04 | God alone provides opportunity to be both boss and worker. | |
| 2Ti 4:3 | World | 10.25.04 | Today we have naysayers who doubt everything God says, debaters who argue with everything He says and spinners who twist everything he says in order to give them reason to start over. | |
| Lu 12:22 | Worry | 04.07.04 | Worry is most often inversely proportional to the degree we've been blessed. | |
| 1Chr 15:3 | Worship | 07.13.04 | We should be prayed up before we walk into the sanctuary to worship. |