🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “When her son was born, she named him Samson.  And the Lord blessed him as he grew up.”  —Judges 13:22 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 In the Old and New Testament, very rare instances occur when God or the angel of God visits a family and announces they will have a miracle baby in their advanced…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “I will call on God, and the Lord will rescue me. Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the Lord hears my voice.  He ransoms me and keeps me safe from the battle waged against me.” -Psalm 55:16-18 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH 🌿 Saturday morning.  Library morning with our kids.  Today,…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Then the Lord said to me, “ Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover.   This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.”  —Hosea 3:1 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 A heartbreaking picture. Faithful…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.  —Lamentations 2:19 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 Grass is incredibly tough.   It can withstand the elements in a stratum of changing climates and devastating duress.  It springs fourth after being run over and trodden upon.  It regrows after encounters with blazing fire and forceful flooding.  It…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Building a house of wisdom provides a sanctuary to come home to.  But in our journey of faith, there are houses we build that we could never occupy. We generate a list and gather the supplies.  We pour the concrete foundation.  We line the walls with sheet rock.  We assemble the glass windows…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 “A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense.  Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.”  —Provers 24:3-4 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 To construct a house, you need the following: Foundation, walls, windows, doors, a ventilation system of circulating air, a plumbing system of circulating water,…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could touch and bless them.  But the disciples scolded the parents for bothering Him.   When Jesus saw what was happening, He was angry with His disciples.  He said to them, “Let the children come to Me.  Don’t stop them!  For the…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Let all Israel repeat:  “His faithful love endures forever.”  —Psalm 118:2 The Lord is for me, I will have no fear.  What can mere people do to me?  —Psalm 118:6 🌿BELIEVE TRUTH🌿 Stats, slogans, stories and many other non-consequentials inundate our lives on a streaming basis. What we allow to permeate into our…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH 🌿 Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days.  And immediately he began preaching about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is indeed the Son of God!”  —Acts 9:19-20 Saul’s preaching became more and more powerful, and the Jews in Damascus couldn’t refute his proofs that Jesus was indeed the…

🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Saul (before) They rushed at him (Stephen) and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him.   His accusers took off their coats and laid them at the feet of a young man named Saul.  —Acts 7:57-58 Saul was going everywhere to destroy the church.  He went from house to…