"Sin has driven us out of the Garden....but Grace drives us right into the Father's Arms." Paul Tripp
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/02/24 Nothing is too little for Him. Nothing is too big for Him. Because all of the things pertain to you... and you, my friend, are His favorite. "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage: I have overcome the world." John 16:33
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/05/24 You can't. But God can. All it takes is faith, patience, and connection to His heart. "Truly I say unto you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. Matthew 17:20
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/06/24 Check your heart and make sure your posture before God is open to possibilities. His plan for success probably won't look much like what you think it should. "The Lord said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or, who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?" Exodus 4:11
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/07/24 When confronted with Jesus, a person will either be drawn in or push away. God is divisive..and that's what makes Him trustworthy, unchanging, and true. "The word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/08/24 The more we seek God and pray, the more we'll be in line with His plans for our future. The Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth." Romans 9:17
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/11/24 God thinks about us all the time. He chooses His gifts according to what He knows will bless our hearts. "Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow." James 1:17
"A message in a bottle seems like a thing of fantasy, romance. But, people still give it a shot, tuck a note into a bottle, toss it into the waiting waters, and cling to the hope that their message will one day arrive at the shore and be delivered to someone they love. Every once in a while, the message makes it into the right hands." "My name is Josh Baker. I’m 10. f you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95." "Josh Baker scrolled this note in his ten-year-old handwriting in 1995 and dug into his mother’s kitchen cabinets, dumped the contents of a vanilla extract bottle, and tucked the note inside. He tossed the bottle into Central Wisconsin’s White Lake and forgot about it. His mother remembers the time, when Josh and his classmates were studying time capsules." "When Josh was eighteen, he went into the Marines. After house-to-house fighting in Fallujah, he returned home safely. But, a few months later, at age twenty, he was killed in a car accident. The death hit hard, not only for his friends and family, but for the town of just under 400 people; everyone had known him and his family, and they were devastated." "About a year after Josh’s death, thirteen-year-old Steve Lieder found the bottle in a pile of debris washed up on the shore of White Lake." "“When the message came … that was Josh saying ‘Snap out of it, Mom. I’m here. I’m okay,” Josh’s mom, Maggie Holbrook, told CBS about the event. “The message surfaced at just the right time,” she said."
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/12/24 There's no shortcut to maturity in Christ. Persevering with God comes with its own kind of unique reward...and it is so worth the work. "Let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing." James 1:4
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/14/24 Not much can shake the wisest of people, because they've been shaken before and still remain standing. "A man's discretion makes him slow to anger. and it is his glory to overlook a transgression." Proverbs 19:11
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/15/24 Even in the most desperate of times, god is always with us. Cling to the Rock. "God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1
From today's "One Minute With God" Calendar: 12/16/24 If you trust Me, you'll feel a major difference. You'll learn over time what a true Partner and Friend I am to those who love Me. "Thus says the Lord, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord." Jeremiah 17:5
“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” Luke 2:14