Strength & Power
September 29, 2016
Filed under Christian Growth, Devotionals
Tags: Devotionals, Exercise, faithwriters, Knitted Together By God, Pam Ford Davis, Strength, Wing His Words
It goes against logic.
In the natural realm, we deplete our strength.
Our muscles ache after a long day.
When God is our source, we go from strength-to-strength!
“Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
They make it a spring;
The rain also covers it with pools.
They go from strength to strength;
Each one appears before God in Zion (Psalm 84:5-7 NKJV).”
I can access His strength and power.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13 NKJV).”
Spiritually Blind & Bewildered
September 8, 2016
Filed under Bible Studies, Christian Growth, Devotionals
Tags: Blind, Devotionals, faithwriters, Knitted Together By God, Pam Ford Davis, Pam's Tea And Testimonies, self-righteous, Wing His Words
Can you see Me now?
I get the message.
Sometimes I am blind to God’s presence and purpose in my life.
LORD, open our eyes.
The self–righteous are blind and bewildered.
“All a man’s ways seem right to him,
but the LORD evaluates the motives (Proverbs 16:2 HCSB).”
What motivates you & me? Is it love for Him and His commandments?
“There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death (Proverbs 16:25 HCSB).”
Will we see Him as sovereign? Why continue blindly down the same dead-end street?
“Hear this,
you foolish and senseless people.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear (Jeremiah 5:21 HSCB).”
Big Boys Do Cry
September 1, 2016
Filed under Bible Studies, Christian Growth, Devotionals, Grief
Tags: Devotionals, faithwriters, King David, Knitted Together By God, Pam Ford Davis, Pam's Tea And Testimonies, Wept, Wing His Words
‘Big boys don’t cry!’
Who told you that?
Big boys and full grown men do cry…
“Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive. Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God (1 Samuel 30:1-6 NKJV).”
David, fearless before the giant Goliath shamelessly wept before his men.
His army, often fearless when outnumbered by their enemies wept before their leader.
Mourning turned to rejoicing…
“So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all (1 Samuel 30:18-19 NKJV).”
