Romans 4:18-22, “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.’  Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.  Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.” A prerequisite for receiving is believing.  Every promise...

  In life there will be opposition and resistance.  It is inevitable and there is no way around it, but we do not have to allow opposition and resistance to cause us to retreat, but we can rise above it!  I think many times in life we set ourselves up to fail because we don’t prepare for the opposition, we don’t prepare for the resistance and we don’t prepare to fail.  I know, no one ever sets out and starts something with the intention of failing, but when you step out into unchartered territories and do things you have never done before you may be met with some failures along...

2 Corinthians 12:8&9, “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’” (NIV) This is a very familiar passage of scripture to many of us who have attended church for any numbers of years.  I have heard it preached, but this week as I have been meditating on this scripture God has really ministered to me through this scripture.  I believe God wants me and someone else to know that no matter what we are going through that His grace is sufficient, it is more than enough! ...

We serve a big God!  Our God is limitless and infinite!  He cannot be contained!  We have to stop trying to contain God and boxing Him in.  I know, we don’t do it purposely, but we do it when we try and tell Him how to bless us.  God bless me with an apartment when God wants to give you a house!  God bless me with a six figure job when God wants to give you your own business and make you a millionaire!  Don’t limit God and don’t box Him in with your limited mindset!  God’s ways are not like our ways.  Isaiah 55:8&9 says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither...

John 9:1-3 As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth.  His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?  Neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in Him.” I just want to encourage someone who may be going through something that it had to happen!  We may not understand it, but it had to happen and it had to happen that way.  In the scripture we have a man who was born blind; not because he sinned or his parents’ sinned but so that God’s works would be displayed...

Jeremiah 32:27, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?”  (KJV) Today, I just want to encourage someone with these six little, but very powerful words, There’s nothing my God cannot do.  I keep hearing this song on this morning and I cannot stop singing, There’s nothing my God cannot do.  I believe God wants to remind someone on this morning that there’s nothing He cannot do!  Someone may be feeling discouraged and you feel like God has forgotten you, you feel like there’s no way out or there is no recovering from this.  I don’t...

Matthew 9:18-26, While He was saying this, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him and said, ‘My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.’  Jesus got up and went with him, and so did His disciples.   Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the edge of His cloak.   She said to herself, ‘If I only touch His cloak, I will be healed.’  Jesus turned and saw her. ‘Take heart, daughter,’ he said, ‘your faith has healed you.’ And the woman was healed at that moment.   When Jesus...

Mark 6:1-6, “Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, “Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands!   Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?”  So they were offended at Him.   But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country,...

Luke 5:1-8, So it was, as the multitude pressed about Him to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.   When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”   But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught...

Exodus 8:1, Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, this is what the Lord says: let my people go, so that they may worship me”. Many of us are familiar with this story.  The Israelites had been in Egyptian bondage for over 400 years. During this time they had begun to lose faith in the God of their fathers.  They believed He existed, but they doubted that He could or would break the yoke of their bondage.  Have you ever found yourself in a situation, and because God did not come when you wanted Him to, you began to lose faith in God?  You know He exists, you know...