Category: Meaning
This sub-category of God’s Word contains posts relating to the meaning of something, specifically, like a word in Scripture, etc.
Are you thinking, “Really?!? This, again?!? I’ve read/studied 1 Corinthians 13 so many times and heard sermons galore on love; I don’t need to read your post on it, too! Other things are calling for my time.” Before you exit out of this, please… Continue Reading “Love: The Key Ingredient–Part 2”
Category: MeaningTags: Abide, Actions, Bears, Believes, Brokenness, Continually, Empowered, Endure, Endures, Expectation, Faith, Hope, Listening, Love, Move Toward the LORD, Pray, Read Scripture, Safe Place, Storms of Life, Trust God, Truth, Under God's Authority, Under God's Protection, What God Prefers
Physical connection…That’s what some people believe strong love is. There are parts of this that are true…making time and making effort produces strong love, but a key element is missing from this equation. If this element is absent, love becomes whatever you want it… Continue Reading “Love: the Key Ingredient”
Category: MeaningTags: Action, Against Sin, Anger, Blessings of God, Celebrate, Compassion, Controlled by God, Cooperate, Effort, Enabled, Favor, Forgiveness, God is Love, God's Character, Hurt, Kind, Love, Obey, Offenses, Passion, Patience, Physical Connection, Practice, Retaliate, Serve, Share Joy, Share What God has Done, Share Who God Is, Spirit of God, Time, True Love, Truth, Useful, What God Prefers
“I LOVE that sweater!” “Look how soft this blanket is! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!” “How ya doin’, LOVE?” Love…We throw that word around pretty casually, don’t we? My hubby and I just celebrated our wedding anniversary this week. It still amazes me how someone can… Continue Reading “What’s Love Got to Do with Me?”
Category: MeaningTags: 1 Corinthians 13, Achievements, Agape, Anniversary, Be Cooperative, Be Friendly, Be Helpful, Consider Others, Crumbs, Don't Argue, Don't Complain, Expectations, Feed the Poor, Focus, Food, For Show, God is Love, Heart behind Actions, Helps, Intentions, Left-Overs, Live, Love, Mean Well, Needs, Possessions, Pure, Putting Someone First, Sacrifice for Others, Show Affection, Show Kindness, Unity, War, What God Prefers, Worth
A close friend and I were talking last week about eyes and how sensitive they are. She said that you can get dirt on your skin, and it doesn’t bother you. However, you get a speck of dirt in your eye, and it hurts… Continue Reading “Eyes to See”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Acted, Affection, Anxiety, Blind, Bowed Down, Cleansed by Jesus' Blood, Compassion, Do What Is Right in God's Eyes, Emotional, Eyes, Faith, Follow God, God Heard, Help, His Ability, Humility, In Need, Jesus Christ, Love, Mental, Messiah, Ministry, Our Inability, Pain, Physical, Poor, Raises Up, Respond, See Clearly, Shout, Sorrow, Spiritual, Took Time
Today is full of many opportunities that we choose to invest in or slam the door on. If you’re a parent, you know you have different opportunities to make time for your kids, but even during that time, you have the choice of how… Continue Reading “Encourage or Harden?”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Close, Deception, Declare, Encourage, Evil, Give Evidence, Harden Your Heart, Instruction, Listen to His Voice, Not a Part of God, Opportunities, Resisting God, Sin, Spirit of God, Stubborn, Testifies, Today, Truth, Unbelief, Walk in the Spirit, Warnings
Early last school year, we saw a man and woman, running side by side together, attached with a tether. I hadn’t seen anything like it! The only thing I’d seen that was somewhat close was those little backpacks littles wear that tether them to… Continue Reading “Tethered to the Holy Spirit”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Acting out of Raging Anger, Actions, Behavior, Boast, Calling Attention to Ourselves, Difficult times, Disagreements, Division, Emotions, Empty Value, God's Guidance, Hatred, Instruction, Justify Things, Opposer of God, Pain, Perceptions, See Clearly, Seek Self, Senses, Sin, Sinful Nature, Spirit of God, Stinging Response, Thoughts, Walk with God
Have you ever been somewhere, when you feel like you’re being watched? You look around, only to find out that, indeed, you are?!? “As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that… Continue Reading “Focus and Run the Race Well”
Category: God's Word, MeaningTags: Choices, Crowd, Determination, Finish Strong, Focus, Gaze, Hanging On, Joy, Load that Weighs You Down, Move Forward, Perseverance, Place Away, Pressure to Keep Carrying the Load, Pursuit, Race, Redirect, Run His Course, Sin, Watching, Weighs Heavily, What's Important, Witnesses