Strengthen Your Faith

from UCB word for today

...You gave me room when I was in distress...' Psalm 4:1 NRS

When God wants to make you a bigger person, He does it through 'distress'. The way to build stronger muscle is to lift more weight. Now when a muscle is put under stress, you groan. But if you persist, that muscle grows stronger and what you were groaning about last week you are smiling about this week. Who said the Christian life was supposed to be easy? Not God! His Word compares it to a battlefield, not a bed of roses. '...endure hardness, as a good soldier...' (2 Timothy 2:3 KJV) Satan's number one target is your faith! Jesus said to Peter, '...Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail...' (Luke 22:31-32 NKJV) In the same way you separate wheat from chaff, Satan wants to separate you from your faith. Not only did Peter survive this attack, he grew through it and wrote: 'Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you.' (1 Peter 4:12 NKJV) Because we tend to be shocked when trials come our way, Peter deals with our attitude toward attack. He wants us to know how to think when we're under attack, to understand the appropriateness of the battle we are in. Satan may attack your health but he's after your faith. He may attack your finances but he's after your faith. If he can destroy your confidence in God and His Word, he wins and you lose. So the word for you today is: 'Strengthen your faith.'



SoulFood: Ex 17:8-16, Eph 3:14-21

Verse for Today

Titus 2:11-12

“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,”

 I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Happy New Year

A Thought To Start The Year....

...people choose to change and chase their dreams in the new year, but when you think about it... nothing stops you from doing all of that any time in the year.


Happy New Year my friends, may you have happiness always,
God Bless
Kerry