tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82909488234752346632024-03-21T17:13:41.559-07:00Kingdom Come LifeLearning to reign in life todayWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-24019004915678178692024-02-06T16:17:00.002-07:002024-02-06T16:23:01.968-07:00Don't worry! God's got this “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-31387868152993503472024-01-05T08:03:00.001-07:002024-01-05T08:03:32.376-07:00How to do our Kingdom work “Jesus called out to them, ‘Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!’” Matthew 4:10 NLT
Jesus left us a clear set of instructions when he left—preach the Gospel, make disciples. This is for all of us, but how many of us struggle to actually share the Good News? Perhaps we don’t have a clear understanding of our own giftings and how to operate in them, or we’re Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-4660315569712731732021-07-19T15:47:00.001-07:002021-07-19T15:47:20.644-07:00It's a process“And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided…And the waters receded continually…the waters decreased continually…and it came to pass that the waters were dried up from the earth.” Genesis 8, selectedIn the trials of life, it can often feel like the flood is overwhelming us. It seems we will never see day again, nor recover from the calamity. Yet here in the story of the Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-7811921537182733532020-05-28T16:20:00.000-07:002020-05-28T16:20:42.172-07:00Power for Kingdom work
"And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness." (Act 4:31) Why did Jesus come to earth? He came to call us into God’s Kingdom—to receive salvation and a restored relationship with the Father through him by the Spirit. He left us an amazing example of Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-31466480601257626112018-05-01T11:12:00.000-07:002018-05-02T09:42:01.798-07:00Don't give up!I was reading in Judges 1 this morning--a disappointing story for the Israelites after the glories of victories under Joshua to take the Promised Land. The tribes of Israel, in one way or another, "failed to drive out" the enemies whose land they were to dispossess and which had already been given to them by God.
What were they missing? They had the promise of the Lord's help and complete Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-59663735206366311872017-12-24T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-24T03:00:00.219-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 12
Heaven's Light
The call to "walk in the light as He is in the light" (I John 1:7) is the invitation God has spoken to mankind since the beginning when He said "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3). It was never His plan to leave us in the devastation and darkness that sin caused. The good news of Christmas!The Lord is building a kingdom of light-transformed people who love Him and will spend Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-59200925008888890522017-12-23T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-23T03:00:42.980-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 11
Let your light so shine
One of the hardest things for our human nature is to let the Light shine in our darkness. Those deep inner places we don't want God to mess with. Weakness, fear, bondage, things we loathe and things we like and don't want to give up. Yet to enjoy all the promised goodness and freedom of God's love, we have let it be on His terms.
"For you were once darkness, but now Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-90421984912003841252017-12-22T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-22T03:00:25.161-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 10
Marvelous light!
Paul the
apostle had a startling encounter one day with the Light. In prison for
preaching the gospel, he recounts the amazing story to the king, hoping to
persuade him to see his need for Jesus.
On his
way to arrest Jewish Christians in Damascus for heresy, Paul reports, "At
midday, O king, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the
sun, shining Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-74517557565673632792017-12-21T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-21T03:00:47.784-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 9
The Light of the world
Just a few days ago, a Jewish festival was celebrated called Hanukah, or the Festival of Lights. This story is from the extra-Biblical Book of Maccabees in the Apocrypha. Though an entirely Jewish holiday, we see some wonderful symbolism in it that speaks of Jesus, our Light.In the years before 165 B.C., the Jewish nation had been under the rule of the Greeks. A pagan Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-14013257389913608172017-12-20T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-20T03:00:37.179-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 8
Open our eyes, Lord
We have seen what the prophets said about the Light that was to come, and we've seen what Jesus' followers had to say. Later, Jesus Himself boldly declared that He was the Light. He not only revealed what darkness looked like in the human heart, but showed the power of His Light to transform it.In the familiar story of the woman caught in adultery (John 8), we see Jesus' Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-39064503184296353322017-12-19T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-19T03:00:12.941-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 7
The perfect Christmas present
I remember as a child pondering once on the curious circumstance of 'waking up' born into the world, not having had any say about when or where I would live, which family I would belong to, etc. It struck me how unbelievably fortunate we were to have discovered that our Maker was benevolent, that the universe ran by His love, that we didn't find ourselves the Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-45859608887003611222017-12-18T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-18T03:00:48.533-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 6
He rewards the seeking heart
Within days of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, his parents Joseph and Mary obeyed what all Jewish parents of firstborn sons were to do: present him to the Lord in dedication at the Temple a few weeks after his circumcision.
Meanwhile, God was watching the heart of a certain elderly man in Jerusalem--nobody particularly special--whom the Bible says was "just andWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-20093225817033471482017-12-17T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-17T03:01:03.894-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 5
The grand exchange
The Christmas story is filled with the imagery of both light and darkness. The angels of glory sang in the night sky, while Herod sent his soldiers to try and kill the baby Jesus. The age-old battle between good and evil, love and hate, light and darkness, was why God promised to send a Redeemer.
"And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-17270480304999444862017-12-16T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-16T03:00:39.029-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 4
Everything we need
I wonder if Joseph and Mary had any idea as they gazed on their little newborn boy that night just what had really happened. They couldn't have fully understood the scope of the new era that had just begun for mankind. The curtains had been pulled back on God's eternal plan, and now his salvation was revealed for the whole world for all to see.
Could they have Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-85691624776049995182017-12-15T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-15T03:00:28.362-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 3
God's light shows the way
It's interesting to see how God used light to reveal Jesus when He was born--by a star.The wise men who came from somewhere in the east had an understanding that this unusual Star meant that the King of the Jews had been born (Matthew 2:1-11). In obedience to that revelation (prepared hearts!), they kept at their quest to find this baby King until that same star Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-77666619842375348712017-12-14T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-14T03:00:05.720-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 2
Prepare your heart
Picture this scenario: a few hundred years have gone by since Isaiah's prophesy about the coming Messiah, and Israel is still waiting. One day in the Temple in Jerusalem, one of the priests, Zacharias, is chosen by lot to burn incense before the Lord on the golden Altar of Incense, which stood at the doorway to the Holy of Holies.While busy about his work, Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-36863972163157301542017-12-13T03:00:00.000-07:002017-12-13T03:00:16.174-07:00Jesus, Our Light - Day 1
One of my most favorite things about Christmastime is the lights everywhere--twinkling on the tree, sparkling on homes and streets and buildings, candles shining their warm and steady light.
But the world generally doesn't even know the real significance of those lights at Christmas, that Jesus came to be our Light, to shine on our darkness. Without His Light we are blind and the Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-52262011478191735182017-08-02T20:13:00.000-07:002017-08-02T20:13:38.868-07:00The blessings of repentance
You don't hear a lot about repentance these days.
It's not a popular topic in churches. Preachers and pastors want to make sure people feel good about themselves, and they make the gospel appealing so people won't be offended and leave.
And yet, the Bible teaches that the very first and most fundamental step to peace with God is repentance.
Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is near! Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-28213099408167405532017-05-11T06:00:00.000-07:002017-05-11T06:00:07.922-07:00THROUGH the sea
If you find yourself facing a "Red Sea" trouble today and you can’t see a way out, I’d like to encourage you--God's way of deliverance is often THROUGH the sea.
You may remember the Bible story in Exodus 14. Moses had been sent by God to deliver His people from 400 years of slavery in Egypt. Through a series of warnings and disastrous plagues, the pharaoh finally agreed to let them go.
TheyWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-57969562868428624992017-04-18T16:24:00.001-07:002017-04-18T16:24:27.651-07:00There came a day...
When you find yourself getting discouraged, waiting for an answer to prayer, it's good to remember the Lord's encouragement in the Word.
The Kingdom is not static--God is always at work in every situation. Even when we see nothing in the natural to give us confidence that things are changing and moving toward our answer, the Word tells us otherwise. Jesus said "My Father is always working andWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-48103219897132187942016-05-17T16:09:00.000-07:002016-05-17T16:10:30.807-07:00Equipped to win
Are you fighting a battle today? Weary from your struggle in dealing with the challenges of life, feeling like you might just go down in defeat?
I’ve had a challenging week myself. Sometimes the battles just seem overwhelming, don’t they? Like they’ll never end, never change. Then discouragement sets in and down I go.
But one morning the Lord reminded me of the bigger picture. No soldier is Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-19548085998285030912016-05-05T20:11:00.000-07:002016-05-05T20:11:15.188-07:00Finishing well
My daughter has been in the last push before the end of her college semester, so her days are filled with the flurry of final projects, tests, and general wrap-up of her studies. I pray each day for her strength, mental focus, and the ability to finish well. You know how hard it can be to keep up the momentum and get the job done well.
It's easy to start...hard to finish!
Are you workingWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290948823475234663.post-14372305624629838572016-04-15T16:34:00.001-07:002016-04-28T18:05:44.635-07:00A good God
I remember when I was a little girl, a thought process worked mightily in me one night in bed. Who was I? How had I happened to be born now, at this time and not some other? Here I came on the world scene without any choice of who I would be, where I’d be born, who my family would be, and all the myriad things of my life. What if the maker of everything was bad? I was helpless, Wendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12304381199351833218noreply@blogger.com0