Yesterday, I received notice that the building where my husband and I had first met, and where our relationship first began 47 years ago, had gone up in flames overnight. It had begun as a church building in 1885, but that church fellowship apparently sold it to the University of Akron in 1952...
We live in a time of great deception within our governments, within the church, within our families, and coming from the media. There is so much fakery going on these days that it is often difficult to separate truth from fiction; reality from fantasy. So many people are trapped in sinful...
Sometimes our bodies get tired and need rest. Other times our spirits get tired and need refreshed, i.e. our emotions sometimes get drained, or even our spiritual lives might feel like something is missing. Sometimes it is because we lack true Christian fellowship with the Body of Christ, and...
An Original Work / March 22, 2018
Do you ever feel an overwhelming sadness?
All around you seems then to be so much pain.
Sin has run amok within the walls of churches.
For the gospel truth, there is so much disdain.
Men in pulpits hiding sins behind the curtain,
Making jokes about the sacred...
Of Such a Kind
It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife. You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed...
Journal 1/9/18, 11:01 p.m. –
Wow! So, Rick (my husband) told me this morning that he gave his heart to the Lord, and that he made him Lord of his life. He acknowledged to me that he had never done that before. And, when I shared things with him this morning, he did not have the same old...
Friday, November 10, 2017, 6:38 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “God Be with You till We Meet Again.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Isaiah 2 (Quoting select vv. NASB).
Influences from the East (vv. 5-8)
Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord...
Monday, October 16, 2017, 10:13 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Trust Him.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Psalm 19 (Select vv. ESV).
God’s Word (vv. 7-11)
The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 7:44 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Trust Him.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Joel 2 (Select vv. ESV).
Warning of Judgment (vv. 1-3, 11)
Blow a trumpet in Zion;
sound an alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land...
Monday, August 7, 2017, 5:55 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Oh, To Be Like Thee.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Isaiah 33 (Select vv. ESV).
A Destroyer (v. 1; cf. Psalm 2:1; Rev. 11:18)
Ah, you destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 7:00 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “God Be with You till We Meet Again.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Jeremiah 30:23-31:11: (Select vv. ESV).
A Whirling Tempest (30:23-24)
Behold the storm of the Lord!
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 5:30 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Be Strong and Take Courage.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Jeremiah 31:15-22a (NASB).
Bitter Weeping (v. 15)
Thus says the Lord,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping...
Monday, May 8, 2017, 8:02 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Refresh My Spirit, Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Psalm 1 (ESV).
Ways of the Wicked (v. 1)
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits...
Saturday, April 29, 2017, 7:45 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Softly and Tenderly.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Ezekiel 24 (quoting vv. 1-16a ESV).
In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man...
Saturday, April 15, 2017, 7:17 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Here I Go Again.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Malachi 3 (ESV).
Prepare the Way (vv. 1-4)
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 7:33 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Oh, To Be Like Thee.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Zechariah 12-13 (Select vv. NIV).
A Spirit of Grace (12:10)
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of...
Monday, April 10, 2017, 6:59 p.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Seek the Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Zechariah 10 (Select vv. NASB).
Ask from the Lord (v. 1)
Ask rain from the Lord
in the season of the spring rain,
from the Lord who makes the storm clouds...
Saturday, April 8, 2017, 7:16 p.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “Seek the Lord.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Zechariah 2 (NASB).
A Measuring Line (2:1-5)
Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. So I said...
Friday, April 7, 2017, 2:42 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “No Less.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read Zechariah 1 (Select vv. NASB).
Your Evil Ways (vv. 1-6)
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of...