As we write letters to our friends or family, our minds are thinking of what to write, what to say, and the details that are involved in completing the story. As I have been reading the bible starting in Genesis and coming to conclusion in the Old Testament and soon will be reading the New Testament, I realized that the complete bible of sixty-six books, written by forty authors, all share the complete history of the world, from one Author's point of view. If we really think

What a great mystery this is for us to fully grasp, "the power of "Christ in Us." The Apostle Paul addresses this very mystery to the Colossians. He begins by writing to the Colossians that Jesus rescued them from the "dominion of darkness" and brought them into His kingdom of His Son, where we have redemption and the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1: 13-14 For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, 14 in whom we

As we wander through our lives as Christians in this ever-changing world of darkness and deceit, I know that we must pray for God's love and power to be with us in this dangerous journey we call life. But so many times we feel that we must be walking in this journey alone. We say to ourselves, "Why is God not here with me...Why do I feel so alone?" In the Book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul addresses these concerns to the Christians in Ephesus. They too struggled with these v

In reading today's "Our Daily Bread", I am reminded again of how awesome and powerful our God is. In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 40: 21-28, Isaiah speaks about our God who looks down from His canopy in the heavens and see all that is going on among the people of the earth. Isaiah 40: 21-23 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is He who sits above the circle of the

So many of as Christians want to live a life of "absolute surrender" to God, but we have so much fear of what we think God will call us to do. We tend to say to ourselves, "Oh, my desire is not strong enough, I am not willing for everything that may come, I do not feel bold enough to say I can conquer everything." All God asks of us is to have a "willing heart." He will provide us the strength. We need to pray to God the following: "My God, I am willing that You will make me

When it comes to our "Absolute Surrender" to God, so many of us think, "How much more does God want from me? Haven't I suffered enough for His kingdom? There is still so much of my 'self-life' remaining for me to live for." And there lies the problem of our "surrender" to God. We still want to hold on to our "self-life", our "self-will", thinking that by holding on to our self-will we will have better control of ourselves. This is so untrue, and this way of thinking comes onl

As we look at today's world and see what is happening around us, it becomes easy for us to lose focus on what should be important to us. Our family should be our priority, then our work, which provides the resources to support our family. And then we have other activities that are as important, such as time with our friends and church. All these things are good, but we tend to leave out the most important relationship in our life, our relationship with our Heavenly Father. Th

In preparing for today's message, I asked the Lord to direct me to a subject that would bring encouragement to our hearts. In reading Psalm 80 He brought me to the following verses: Psalm 80: 8-11 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it. 9 You prepared room for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its boughs. 11 She sent out her boughs to t

I was in a bible study this past week and the subject of creation came up and I posed the question: "Is all of creation that God created, completely and absolutely surrendered to Him?" Some said yes, others said no. Think about it...God created the sun, moon, stars, flowers, trees, and everything the earth has to offer us. All of creation is surrendered to God because He created them. Do they (creation) not allow God to work in them just as He pleases? Of course, they do, He

In a previous issue of Our Daily Bread entitled, "Goodbyes and Hello," we are reminded of our fragile time here on earth. Many times, we must be saying "goodbye" to a dear loved one close to us, or even harder, a family member. Those times when they do happen, can be difficult to say the least. But as we get past the initial loss and turn our eyes to our Creator, we are reminded that our life here on earth, though short, we can now focus on our future, our eternity in heaven

In today's reading of "Our Daily Bread", in the book of 2 Corinthians, we are reminded that as Christians, believers in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, we now have the opportunity and privilege to go before God and commune with Him on a personal level. Just as Moses did in the book of Exodus, he asked God if he (Moses) could see His glory. By the power given to us through the Holy Spirit living in us, we can go with confidence before God and talk with Him. Read the follow

The test of this question will always become evident in our lives. Every time we are put to the test of worrying about things in our life such as money, job, security, family, etc., we are putting that object or circumstance first before God. Our God is a very jealous God. He wants our full and absolute dedication to Him. He deserves it! God was willing to give up His position as God for us in heaven, become a mortal man, live a holy life for us for thirty-three years and th

I am sure there have been many times in our early lives as Christians that our cries out to God went unheard. It seemed at times that our prayers were bouncing off a brick wall, only to bring us to deeper despair. Through coming to understanding God's word and promises better, we can come to the point in our lives of saying that those feelings of "unheard prayers" are long gone. We can come to know in our hearts that every time we pray and speak to God, He is listening. Even

As I have read throughout the scriptures the stories of the many people who have commune with God and were used by Him, all have a common thread that runs through them. All of them eventually had to come before God with a "clean heart", you might say a broken and contrite heart. To be able to have a "clean heart" before God, to be able to truly speak with Him and know that He is truly listening to us and to know that He speaks with us through His Holy Spirit, and His word, i

I am dedicating today's post to the service men and women who are and have served at their post in Afghanistan. This week we have lost 13 brave individuals, who we know very little about at this time. The one thing we do know, they gave their lives to help serve the people of Afghanistan. Through these past 20 years, we have lost over 2400 men and women during our involvement in this country. As we pull out completely of this country, in the next few days, we do not know if m

I have found by talking to many different people over my lifetime, that many Christians still face the hard truth of forgiving themselves for their past sins of themselves and of others, to the point of crippling their walk with the Lord. Upon reading a message from "Our Daily Bread" entitled, "NO FISHING ALLOWED", I was reminded many of us still go fishing in the deep waters where God has already cast our sins into. We as believers, fail to grasp, the important truth of God'

Darkness is continually around us and the world is getting darker every day. As we see the horrific news from around the world come before us via our computers, cell phones, and television, we must wonder at times why God is allowing this to happen. The thing is, God is not allowing this to happen. It is "man's self-will" and our "sinful nature" that chooses these awful things to happen. You see, God has given us, human beings, to have a free will. That "free will" can choos

Many of us as Christians know where our "final destination" will be. But the question is this: Are we truly prepared before we get there? What I mean by this is; "Are we too complacent in our walk with our Lord? Do we take for granted the blessings God has given us?" I have. I was shown this very lesson this past weekend. I hurt someone close to me that almost destroyed our relationship we have had for years. I took for granted their trust, their love and most important thei

All of us as Christians go through trials in our lives, that's why the book of James say to "consider it joy". We are going to go through trial, but it is how we respond to these trials that makes a big difference in our lives. Do we go through the trial holding on for dear life, waiting for the trial to be over, or do we allow God to show us what He is trying teach us in our life to make us a better person? James 1: 2-4 (NKJV) My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into

In the book, Salvation to Surrender, A 35 Year Journey in Finding True Rest, I tell the story of my life as a young Christian coming to know Jesus as my Savior in my early twenties. For over 35 Years as a Christian, I constantly struggled with sexual sin in my life...as a young boy, as a teen, as an adult, and into my first and second marriages. I constantly went before God after becoming a Christian and asking Him for the power to stop this controlling sin in my life. What I