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Jesus continues in this passage in Luke telling us our prayers should be like The Parable of the Persistent Traveler. When we pray boldly, pounding on Heaven’s door, refusing to give up, the powers of darkness cannot win! God will either give us peace, our relationships will be reconciled, we’ll gain wisdom, or all of the above.

Sometimes we think we have to go to an extreme length to be a Good Samaritan or a Good Neighbor but maybe it’s a little simpler than that. Maybe Jesus is calling us to all shapes and sizes of Good Neighboring. So, how will you Go First in being a Good Samaritan, or Neighbor, today?

I don’t know about you, but I stopped trying to know everything about God and what He is doing or not doing. And instead, I find so much peace in the mystery of His sovereignty. I love just saying: “I don’t know.” And that is completely okay. Let me tell you, it is so freeing! Say it with me: I don’t know!

When you feel like you just can’t get it right, maybe Jesus is reminding you that he righted the wrongs for you.

One of the things I love most about Jesus is that He understands you and I so perfectly, so completely, so deeply. He knows you, inside and out, better than you know you, inside and out. Time and time again, in the Bible, Jesus introduces Heaven's eternal promises smack dab into the very center of our earthly temporal insecurities.

You have a purpose regardless of the situation in which you find yourself, and you have a story to share.

Isn’t it interesting that Jesus can reveal a reality unlocked by faith that far surpasses the predictions we can make in our minds? Today, don’t speculate about what Jesus might do, look to the Scriptures to see what He’s done. Because what He’s done shows the character of who He is, and what He will do for me and for you.

Now I have to take a pause. In both of the situations I mentioned as I started today, my first response was to panic, take control, and try to navigate the news I’d received my way. But, like Jesus with the disciples out on the lake, I imagine Jesus has at times asked me the same question: “Pam, where is your faith?”

If God gave you 1 mouth and 2 ears it’s because He wants you to listen twice as much as you speak, right?! And maybe how we listen is even more important. So, how are you listening to God today friends?

Isn’t Easter all about the unconditional forgiveness Jesus has shown you and me over and over again? A man who understood to his core who he was and what he came to do – a life, death and resurrection that allowed each of us to hear “you are forgiven.” Friends, these three little words can change someone's life today – maybe it’s yours.