Money can be restored. Property, cars, paintings, and old houses can be restored. Even relationships can be restored. But one thing that can never be restored is time. Years pass and we never get them back. Yet here we find God promising the impossible: “I will...

In Genesis 37, we read an early account of human trafficking in the life of Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers. In Egypt, Joseph was a slave to Potiphar, and thrown into prison when his wife lied about Joseph rejecting her temptations. But even in the...

  When the apostle Peter denied Jesus three times, he deeply regretted it. Luke 22:61 says, after Peter’s denial; “…the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny...

  Do you sometimes feel as if you have lost your joy because of something you did? King David made some poor choices by having an affair with Bathsheba and having her husband Uriah killed in the front line of war when Bathsheba conceived David’s baby. David’s...

  What does “restore” mean? It means to recondition, to fix, rebuild, renew. David wrote both Psalms 22 and 23. In Psalm 22 he was crying out to God who seemed to have forsaken him. It also depicts Jesus on the cross and how forsaken and abandoned HE felt by...

  Job 1 tells is that Job was “blameless and upright, a man who feared God, and turned away from evil.” He was an extremely good man who pursued righteousness and integrity. God blessed him with seven sons, three daughters and huge numbers of sheep, camels, oxen,...

  Most people love the story of Daniel in the Lion’s Den as well as the tale of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who refused to bow down to a statue even if it meant they would be thrown into a fiery furnace. Daniel and his friends faced two kinds of difficult...

  In 1 Samuel 1:10, 11 we read “In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears. And she made a vow, saying, “Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son,...

  Amram and Jochebed, the parents of Moses, showed great faith when they refused to fear and obey the edict of Pharaoh to kill all the Hebrew baby boys. They hid and saved their baby son Moses whom God planned to use to save the enslaved Israelites. [Heb. 11:23]....

  To be STEADFAST is to be fixed and solid, stable, and steady. [Col. 1:23] It means we need to be immovable but also flourishing in Christ’s work. [1 Cor.15:58]. Col. 4:2 states, “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it.” John Piper writes, “In...