As Elijah experienced worsening conditions despite his obedience, God’s provision for both Elijah and the widow demonstrates that faithfulness and trust in God’s promises can lead to miraculous outcomes.

Drawing from the story of Abraham and his willingness to sacrifice his son, Paul emphasizes that true faith involves presenting our lives to God, trusting in His provision and embracing His perfect will.

Despite his pivotal role as a leader, Moses is not often immediately associated with prayer in popular perception, yet his journey reveals a consistent pattern of intimate dialogue and supplication with God.

Through the Holy Spirit living in us we experience God taking us by the hand and keeping us. We watch daily as our former ways of sin fade and our new life in Christ emerges as we submit each day to the lordship of Christ.

Isaiah's assurance of victory over adversaries resonates with the psalmist's words, reminding believers of God's promise to preserve and deliver them from trouble.

When we trust in the promises of God and heed to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, we will see evidence that the words of the prophet are true and reliable even today.

Our obedience matters.

Aim to practice servanthood today and every day.

God will never abandon us.

There is a moment when each of us must consider if at the words of Jesus, we would be willing to shift our focus to the kingdom work of Jesus over and above anything else we might be trained to do.

God’s direction seemed harsh to the prophet, and his ways sometimes seem difficult to us, too.

“So what do you do to get God’s attention? There must be something he wants from you. Actually there are a couple of things; expressing your gratitude and faithful obedience. Psalm 50 indicates that God basically rejects everything else we might offer.” Read this favorite post from our archives.

Read the whole post, one of our favorites, from October 2021.

Our surrender to God’s plans results in a demonstration to the world of God’s surpassing power at work in us.

“All is well.” That’s what she said. Was she in shock? In denial?=And how and where do we find the boldness, the faith to say “all is well” when what we can see does not appear to be good at all?

Have you noticed the number of people around you who say “Bless you” or “Have a blessed day”? For those of us living in the South, there seems to be a lot of blessing going on.

God spoke to both of them, giving all of us an example for overcoming barriers and putting aside prejudices in answer to his call.

The history of people of faith over the centuries has demonstrated that the instructions we’ve received are not that hard to understand. Our trouble is with implementation!

The truth is, we don’t do a particularly good job with the things God has already revealed, so giving us more would probably not make things any better for anyone.

The Pharisees tried to trap Jesus, and sometimes we do too—for sadly similar reasons.