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Holy Spirit, we come before you this day in humility and gratitude to plead for your blessings upon those who govern to insure our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Grant them in abundance your gifts of: WISDOM: that they may always be guided to place the spiritual good of communities...

"[Love] keeps no records of wrongs" (1 Corinthians 13:5b NIV). When we love we feel wonderful. Remember when you were "in love?" I do. It was such a creative and growing time. Then I got married and started keeping records. Bad! In a booklet I wrote, Why NOT Divorce, I suggested ten...

Several friends of ours have gotten divorces through the years. It surprised and dismayed us, for these seemed stable marriages built on the Rock. Instead, they crashed on the sharp rocks of contention and discontent that tore them and their children apart. When I read Proverbs, the book in the...

Oh! I can't imagine your sorrow! I lost my oldest son years ago and I still miss him. Four months after he died I wrote a booklet, GRIEF, which went into a worldwide ministry, and is now available on Internet. God bless you!

Please read the Book of Job. When my son committed suicide I had already read Job twice that year (deaths of loved ones), but when my son died this book became even more important. It occurred to me that God trusted Job to come through these horrors in his life. I held on to that thought in...

God bless you, dear Freyajem - thank you so very much for this touching comment! Patricia Nordman

"For this is the Eternal's promise: `Those who survive the sword shall find grace in the dungeon'" (Jeremiah 31:2 Moffatt). "About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God..." (Acts 16:25). It is surprising what verses help us in our needs. The verse from Jeremiah is a...

"What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand" (John 13:7). At the time Peter could not comprehend why Jesus wanted to wash his feet. Later, when he heard the rooster crow, perhaps then Peter understood the servile act his Lord bestowed upon all the apostles, including...

"...Though I fall I will rise again! When I sit in darkness, the Lord himself will be my Light...God will bring me out of my darkness into the light, and I will see his goodness" (Micah 7:8,9 TLB). Darkness is frightening. We can't even see shadows--God's or ours--much less light when all is...

"Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden that its spices may flow out" (SOS 4:16). What a beautiful verse this is! We are special buds in His garden, "precious plants of His own planting," as one writer expresses it. A comforting thought is that He takes great care of His...

"What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand" (John 13:7). At the time Peter could not comprehend why Jesus wanted to wash his feet. Later, when he heard the rooster crow, perhaps then Peter understood the servile act his Lord bestowed upon all the apostles...

"But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." (Luke 22:32). Simon Peter loved Jesus as much as any man could and he was so confident in his love that he told his Friend, "Even if all fall away on account of you, I...

The story is told of the little boy who loved to play with toy soldiers. His mother and father gave him a chocolate soldier, carefully wrapped in bright red foil, for his birthday. The little boy was ecstatic. He took it outside on a very warm afternoon and placed "General Julius," as he named...

The story is told of the little boy who loved to play with toy soldiers. His mother and father gave him a chocolate soldier, carefully wrapped in bright red foil, for his birthday. The little boy was ecstatic. He took it outside on a very warm afternoon and placed "General Julius," as he named...

"I have come into my garden..." Song of Songs 5:1; "Thinking he was the gardener..." John 20:15. Many gardens are mentioned in Scripture, but four are extraordinary: the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:8); the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36); the Garden of Joseph (John 19:41); and the Garden...

". . .He leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul" (Psalm 23:2b,3). “Perhaps He sees that the best pastures for some of us are to be found in the midst of opposition or of earthly trials. If He leads you there, you may be sure they are green for you, and you will grow and be made...

"[Love] keeps no records of wrongs." 1 Corinthians 13:5b NIV. When we love we feel wonderful. Remember when you were "in love?" I do. It was such a creative and growing time. Then I got married and started keeping records. Bad! In a booklet I wrote, Why Stay Married, I suggested ten...

"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God" (Luke 12:6). Paul Harvey tells about the farmer who heard irregular thumping sounds against his kitchen storm door. He went over and watched as tiny sparrows beat in vain against the glass in an attempt to...

In Job 2:8 we see a picture of a man who took an instrument to scratch his itch and sat down among the ashes. Many times as we journey on in this process with God we feel itches. Sometimes things with God just don’t go the way we had planned. Somehow the road He takes us down is not the road...

"Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden that its spices may flow out" (SOS 4:16). What a beautiful verse this is! We are special buds in His garden, "precious plants of His own planting," as one writer expresses it. A comforting thought is that He takes great care of His...