Category: Trials and Tribulations

The Crossroads

Thomas

April 9, 2018

Doubt, Faith, God’s Will, Hearing God, Obedience, Overcoming, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, The Word, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

It goes without saying that we find ourselves coming up to many crossroads along our walk with God. Many of them involve choices that are easy to make, but it’s also certain that when God wants to make a point with us they present us with a challenge. That’s why the Holy Spirit gave James… Read more
Birds, Flowers and Grass

Thomas

March 12, 2018

Dying to Self, Faith, Fear, God’s Will, Jesus Rest, Obedience, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

Every time I sit down to meditate on the Word of God the Holy Spirit always seems to tie it back to Rom 8:29. But sometimes He links my study back to what has become my most important life verse. It is always found in connection with my walk through this life beside Jesus. And… Read more
A Fishy Reminder

Thomas

February 19, 2018

Dying to Self, Faith, Fear, Grace, Hearing God, Obedience, Overcoming, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

I have written and taught many times about the encounter that Peter and the other disciples had with Jesus after fishing all day and catching nothing. And one of the interesting parts of the meeting is when Jesus confronted Peter with those 3 famous questions… Peter, do you love me. The first two times Jesus uses the… Read more
The Box

Thomas

January 29, 2018

Dying to Self, Faith, God’s Will, Hearing God, Obedience, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

Sometimes in our efforts to “work” on behalf of God, we forget that the bottom line is not “our efforts.” It’s those efforts that always seem to put us in a place of calculating what will happen as a result of what we are attempting to do. Now, mind you, more often than not those… Read more
Just Look!

Thomas

January 22, 2018

Doubt, Faith, God’s Will, Grace, Jesus Rest, Overcoming, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, Trials and Tribulations

What Isaiah said under the power of the Holy Spirit carries a message for the bride of Christ; the saved and believing members of the body of His body, His church… Isa 45:22 “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. Oswald Chambers… Read more
Dead Fish

Thomas

January 15, 2018

Dying to Self, Faith, God’s Will, Hearing God, Obedience, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

There is a mixed message (one of many) between the Old Testament and the New with respect to “doing what is right.” But the root of the messages point in the same direction; the desired result is not achieved. Prov 30:12 There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed… Read more
Whole?

Thomas

January 8, 2018

Faith, God’s Will, Hearing God, Obedience, Overcoming, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, The Word, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

Webster defines “whole” as free of defect or impairment or having all its proper parts or components; complete/unmodified. Kinda sounds like “perfect” to me. I wonder if that’s what happened at the the pool; Bethesda? If we look at what both Jesus and the lame man said it’s pretty clear. John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he… Read more
The Rest of the Story

Thomas

December 18, 2017

Faith, God’s Will, Obedience, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

For years growing up and well into my adult years I loved hearing Paul Harvey’s stories on the radio. He had an incredible way of building up a true story by setting forth all of the circumstances and conditions without giving up the punch line. And when he finally delivered it, it was almost always… Read more
401J

Thomas

November 27, 2017

Covenant, Faith, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

How is your retirement account? Do you have one? In today’s turbulent world with its rising and falling economies, how is one to find the right place to put the funds in your 401k? This has been one of the greatest fears for so many today… how much will there be in the account when I… Read more
Conjugate – ugh!

Thomas

November 7, 2017

Faith, God’s Will, Grace, Hearing God, Obedience, Sanctification, Spiritual Maturity, The Bride, The Holy Spirit, The Word, Trials and Tribulations, Walk The Walk

It all began in first grade, that dreaded part of the school day… English! I never understood diagramming sentences or conjugating verbs and it haunted me all the way through school. I, me, he, she, it, they, them… past tense, present tense, future tense, and all the others… present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past… Read more