Bringing Scripture to Life

In Jeremiah 31:13, the Lord says, "For I will turn their mourning to joy, will comfort them, and make them rejoice rather than sorrow." There is no better description I can give you when it comes to this day in my families history. This day has represented a day of great sorrow, and has been an instrument for many nights of mourning for my wife Lyndsey and me. You see, it was on October 26, 2001 when doctors gave us some devastating news. They told us that we would NEVER EVER be able to have our own biological children.  This news literally crushed us, and brought great sorrow upon our hearts and lives. This news would make the next 10 years of our life a challenging roller coaster of emotional ups and downs. Every mothers day, fathers day, every time it turned October 26th, and countless other scenarios have always tried to steal the joy of the Lord from us, and overwhelm us with sorrow.  But today on October 26, 2012, the Lord has truly turned our mourning ...

What Mountain is standing before you today? Is it a mountain of doubt, or is it a mountain that is increasing your faith. Are you having difficulty trusting that God will come through in a certain area of your life today? Are you struggling to believe that God has heard your prayers, and that God knows the desires of your heart, and that God is able to provide for you? Do you feel as if there are insurmountable obstacles that stand before you and the promises that you believe God has spoken into your life? I can imagine that the day God tapped on Abraham’s shoulder and told him to take a walk with his son Isaac to Mount Moriah, and then gave him the purpose for their journey (Genesis 22:1-2), that Abraham must have been rocked to the core of his being as he processed through what God had asked of him. The Bible doesn’t reveal to us what was going on in this loving father’s heart as he was travelling with the son in whom he treasured so much. However, I can imagine that there w...

The Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:8, "By faith Abraham obeyed God when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going." There is no greater example in all of Scripture of what it means to "walk by faith, not by sight", than in the life of Abraham. The Bible tells us here that when God came to Abraham, He called him to go, and when Abraham went, he went out, "not knowing where he was going."In other words, Abraham had to walk by faith in God, and not by what he was seeing with his eyes. This is how we walk by faith and not by sight, by following God's leading even when we don't know where He is leading us. This is exactly what faith does. Faith Responds to God and follows Him everywhere in life. Through the good times and through the bad times, through the easy times and through the difficult times. Faith responds to God and follows Him everywhere! There are people w...