Facts of Life… and of Death (#348 of 365+)

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23)

The Lord has placed a heavy burden on my heart today. I’m thinking of a

Battle Plan (#347 of 365+)

“Though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments

The Defeat of Disease and Death (#346 of 365+)

“When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: ‘He took up our

My Own Baggage (#345 of 365+)

“When they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding” (2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV)

Joni talked about how silly it is to envy someone else’s life only because it

Rubbish (#344 of 365+)

“If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for

John 3:16 (#343 of 365+)

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NASB)

Believe It! (#342 of 365+)

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16)

Joni talked about Chuck, a developmentally delayed young man who was

Glimpses of Glory (#341 of 365+)

“Blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen” (Psalm 72:19 NKJV)

The other day my son and I walked out of Walmart during sunset and we

A Good Kind of Anger (#340 of 365+)

“You’ve dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss. I’m battered senseless by your rage, relentlessly pounded by your waves of anger… I’m standing my ground, God, shouting for help, at my prayers every

Wake Up! (#339 of 365+)

“He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son” (Proverbs 10:5)

Yesterday I prayed that I wouldn’t become “too content or satisfied with the

Out-of-the-Box Thinking (#338 of 365+)

“Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some” (1 Corinthians 9:22 NLT)

Joni shared an amazing story from her trip to Havana, Cuba. She found

He Carried Our Sorrows (#337 of 365+)

“Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows…” (Isaiah 53:4)

As I said yesterday, we can take Isaiah 53 as truth. This part of the chapter prophesies about a suffering servant of God who, to Christians, is

Living under the Curse (#336 of 365+)

“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5)

A Gift for a Gypsy Girl (#335 of 365+)

“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3)

At a recent wheelchair distribution in Romania, Joni’s team saw officials turn

Behind the Scenes Miracles (#334 of 365+)

“Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29)

Jesus sightings abounded after the resurrection but Thomas rejected all the

A Lesson from Atlas (#333 of 365+)

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24)

In Greek mythology, Zeus doomed Atlas to carry the weight of heaven and

Closer to the Other Side (#332 of 365+)

“I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me” (Philippians 3:12)

Yesterday I prayed for the Lord to make me more heaven-hearted. Well, it

And Reasons Lead to… (#331 of 365+)

“Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live” (1 Corinthians 8:6)

Reasons! (#330 of 365+)

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be

Familiarity (#329 of 365+)

“Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength” (Deuteronomy 6:5)

I’m back home in the desert now. These last few days I enjoyed clean air