This year I haven’t had the same “child like” excitement for the Christmas season.  The one I shared it with for 18 years of marriage isn’t here to share it with me, which has dimmed the.sparkle and joy.  It was difficult for me to put up the Christmas tree, because my beloved husband wasn’t here to do it with me.  His enjoyment of hanging candy canes on the tree and directing me as to where they needed to be placed was absent.  My Christmas tree is up and twinkling with cand

In these past several months following my husband’s passing, the Lord’s answer to my queries have continuously been, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. (Matthew 6:33). After the second answer of Seek Him first, I wrote it on my board in my prayer closet as a reminder that this is what He wants me to do.  How easy it is to want to do everything else but that.  I sought Him first about going to specific conferences to have a ministry table in order to make

We are so programmed to believe something has to happen on a certain time frame, in a particular way, and if it doesn’t then we get into a fretful dither and begin to take matters into our own hands, and we may even begin to doubt that prayer works.  God’s Word is our solid ground to walk on, and it cannot fail us, because He   will not  fail us.  However, we are no different than Martha and her sister Mary, who had sent and asked for the Lord Jesus to come because their brot

My husband received many wonderful insights into the deeper truths of Scripture from the Holy Spirit while he spent time alone with the Father in prayer.  One such deeper truth was that Peter did not walk on the water–he walked on the Word!  When the Lord Jesus said to Peter, Come , then you can mark it down that the water was about to get walked on because Jesus Christ said, Come!  Peter began to sink when he took his eyes off of the Lord Jesus Christ and began looking at th