When a house is built, a contractor uses a blueprint to create an engineered masterpiece. A dressmaker uses a pattern to copy a design that was a previous success. The Tabernacle had a pattern, the Bible has patterns, and God does things in patterns. These examples go to show that…
Do our actions indicate that we are comfortable and have given up? We can’t give up as long as we have breath and britches. God is trying to pull us out. We can’t say that all men are bad and then complain about men (that one was for the ladies)….
Sometimes we walk along, and our foot catches against the ground, causing us to trip and stumble. As we continue, we look back and see NOTHING where there should have been a HUGE obstacle. There are things in life that we don’t always see that trip us up called patterns….
When God changes us, nothing happens on the outside, but something happens on the inside. We need to KNOW that the Lord loves us not based on what we do but based on what HE did. We need to stop and celebrate where we are right now and focus on…
In Matthew 4:1-4, the Bible reads, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become…
Do you truly realize that God loves you? So often we don’t love ourselves because we know that we’ve been bad. When we were growing up some of us heard that if we didn’t act right that God would “get” us. If that were true, God would have “gotten” ME…
We have to get our minds right. We have what we say. If we say I’m stuck and have no options, and that we are not going anywhere, then we are not. We can only go as far as our mindset. If we can get around people who think differently,…
Our God is everywhere all the time. That means he celebrates with us in the good times and walks the path with us in the tough times. He loves us enough that he paid the cost. He thinks we are worth it. In the Bible it reads, This is what…
Sometimes it can feel like everyone and everything is against us. It’s even more pronounced when we feel like we don’t have anyone to turn to. We might act tough and push people away acting as if we don’t have mud on us and we don’t need help getting cleaned…
By yourself you’re unprotected with a friend you can face the worst. A threefold cord is not easily broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) When we get stuck in a rut, we need to have some friends around to help pull us out. We don’t need people around who are going to…
In families, the type of thinking held by the parents is often passed down from generation to generation. People become a product of their environment. Until some of those individuals stop and think about what they are thinking about and choose differently. My Dad And Grandpa Were In A Rut…
I’m a visual learner. I love creating visuals that relate important messages to tangible everyday things. So I went four-wheeling in the woods with friends and got stuck in a rut. I see many life experiences in ruts. The first thing I’d like you to know is that we ALL…
