Category: Adversity

For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. – Isaiah 25:4. Here in Sweetwater, Oklahoma some...

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and...

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. – Romans 8:28. Before I was old enough to have a driver’s license my parents had bought by grandfather’s car for me to have...

But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to...

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth. O LORD, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years! – Habakkuk 3:1-2a. When I heard, my body trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entered my bones; and...

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. – Isaiah 41:10. Today there is another reason for fear, in addition to the approach of...

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. – 2 Timothy 1:12. BMW has a new offering for those who...

We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but nor forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed – always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our...

When everything goes wrong, and you are just hanging on by your fingertips - remember that God is still God....

Before you give up - remember that God is still God and He has the power to change things....