Based on:  Psalm 23:3a

…he restores my soul. (NIV)

Excerpt:

My friends, we serve a Soul restoring God. If you need to be restored, then just make your way to that place where the waters are still. Find yourself a corner of calm and let God restore your Soul.

Based on: Phillemon 15-16 (MSG)

Maybe it’s all for the best that you lost him for a while. You’re getting him back now for good—and no mere slave this time, but a true Christian brother!  That’s what he was to me—he’ll be even more than that to you.

Excerpt:

My brothers and sisters, stop waiting for the apology and claim your freedom. It is your freedom. The price for which was paid by the death of an innocent Man on a criminal’s cross. It is your God given right to be free from the torment of your oppressor. Free from physical, mental, emotional, and verbal abuse. You are a daughter and son of the Most-High God and heaven has declared that you are unapologetically free.

Based On: Psalm 57:1 (GNT)

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, because I come to you for safety. In the shadow of your wings I find protection until the raging storms are over.  

Excerpt: 

Late in the evening of September 5, 2022, I discovered an abnormality in my right breast. My first reaction was shock. My second reaction was disbelief. My third reaction was fear. Saints of God, if any woman tells you that the discovery of a breast abnormality does not send her into an emotional and mental whirlwind, she is dancing around the truth.

Based on: Luke 7:9-10 (NIV)

9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.” 

10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.

Excerpt:

When we exercise our faith it becomes a force that shakes the foundation of heaven. It disturbs the throne of God and creates an uneasiness in the ethers. It sets the angelic guard on alert. The totality of heaven knows that something is about to happen.

Based on: 1Corinthians 10:13 (GNT) 

Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test,  he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out. 

 Excerpt: 

For we have been kept by our God who is all powerful, but who also has limitations. God may not come when we want God to come, but God will always step-in right-on- time. There is a limit to what God will allow us to go through. So, hold on my brother. Hold on my sister. God’s limitation is our lifeline. God will pull us through.

Based on: Psalm 143:10 (NIV)

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God;

may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Excerpt:

It’s up to us. We can go on scratching, digging, and wallowing in unproductive places, or we can  pull up a chair in God’s heavenly classroom and allow our Souls to be opened up to the will, wisdom, and way of God.

Based on: Romans 1:12 (TLB)

For I long to visit you so that I can impart to you the faith that will help your church grow strong in the Lord. Then, too, I need your help, for I want not only to share my faith with you but to be encouraged by yours: Each of us will be a blessing to the other.

Excerpt:

The gifts of Holy Spirit have no respect of person per degree, status, or credential. The only qualification is that we have given our lives to God through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We are then qualified and expected to desire, receive, and dispense our spiritual gifts to strengthen the body of Christ.

Based on: Philippians 3:13 (GNT)

Of course, my friends, I really do not  think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.

Excerpt: 

For many, an honest self-assessment will reveal an old pain that has continued to block our progress. I am a firm believer that if we do not conquer the traumas of our past, then those traumas will conquer every area of our lives.

Based on: Ephesians 1:10 (GNT)

This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head.

Excerpt:

Saints of God there is more. More than pain and suffering. More than war and conflict. More than poverty and lack. More than racism and hatred. There is a heavenly realm where what we know of earth and what we believe of heaven will come together under one head who is the Christ of God.

Based on: I Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm.

Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,

because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Excerpt:

God is notorious for showing up in unexpected, simple, uncomplicated spaces. And it’s the unassuming, uncelebrated moves in these spaces that create messianic moments. These are the moments when the Christ of God stands up in the middle of the room. These are the small spaces where the substance of Christ centered ministry is revealed.