AUG. 4, 2026 God can heal you (3) "At the proper time we will reap...if we do not give up." Gal 6:9 NIV Healing can happen in different ways. Sometimes God performs a miracle and instantly heals someone. Other times He heals a person progressively. When looking at Scripture and the many miracles Jesus performed, it's easy to think He always healed people in the same fashion. But on closer examination, we see that in many cases He didn't do the same thing twice. For instance,

AUG. 3, 2026 God can heal you (2) "He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases." Ps 103:3 NLT The psalmist wrote: "Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies" (vv. 2-4 NLT). David reminded himself of these four things, and you should too. God had forgiven all his sins. God had healed all his diseases. God had

August 2,2026 God can heal you (1) ''I am willing,' he said. 'Be healed!'" Mt 8:3 NLT The Bible says: "A man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. 'Lord' the man said, 'if you are willing, you can heal me.!..Jesus reached out and touched him. 'I am willing,' he said. 'Be healed!' And instantly the leprosy disappeared" (vv. 2-3 NLT). God does not want us to go through life wondering if it's His will to heal us. That's why He graciously gave us His Word. David said

AUG. 1, 2026 Take time for rest and restoration. "Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength." Isa 40:31 NKJV Feeling tired tells you: (1) that your body needs to rest, (2) to take life at a more normal human pace, and (3) to take time to just abide in the presence of God. God "rested on the seventh day" (Ge 2:2 ESV). Think about that. God-the One who transcends all things, knows all things, and has all power-rested! What makes you think you don't have to? Now i

JUL. 31, 2026 Admit your shortcomings "Confess your faults one to another." Jas 5:16 KJV It seems that everywhere you turn today, somebody is making an excuse for his or her poor choices, performance, or behavior, or failing to admit a weakness or shortcoming. Yet we all make mistakes. One of the best examples of admitting a mistake is found in the account of David being unjustly pursued by King Saul. David became a fugitive, and in the process unknowingly jeopardized t

JUL. 30, 2026 How to deal with discouragers. "He then turned away to someone else." 1Sa 17:30 NIV The first person who tried to discourage David from fighting Goliath was his own brother. "Eliab...burned with anger at him and asked, 'Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are...You came down only to watch the battle.! 'Now what have I done?' said David. 'Can't I even speak?' He then turned away to s

JUL. 29, 2026 God is working on your behalf. "We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him." Ro 8:28 NCV The Bible begins with these words: "In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God's Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good" (Ge 1:1-4 NCV). Even when your life seems like a jumbled me

JUL. 28, 2026 Study. Work. Hope. Perseverance. "Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings." Pr 22:29 NKJV Helping the deaf to communicate was what truly motivated Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Perhaps that's because his mother and his wife were both deaf. "If I can make a deaf-mute talk," Bell said, "I can make metal talk." For five frustrating and impoverished years, he experimented with a variety of materials to make a metal dis

JUL. 27, 2026 Get ready for change (2). "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven... He has made everything beautiful in its time." Ecc 3:1, 11 NKJV In his book Good to Great, business leader and author Jim Collins compares mega grocery stores A&P, the largest retailing organization in the world in the 1950s, with Kroger, a small, value-based chain of supermarkets also thriving in the fifties. Both of these companies realized that the world was c

JUL. 26, 2026 Get ready for change (1) "Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly." Job 8:7 NASB We often cling to people and things as if we can keep everything the same, but it can't be done. What you can do is be ready to deal with change when it happens. You may not be able to predict what the change will be, but you can put things in place to help you to deal with it when it arrives. Children go to college, so wise parents consider savi

JUL. 25, 2026 Live the crucified life. "I have been crucified with Christ." Gal 2:20 NKJV Paul wrote: "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." It's hard to get offended when you're dead. It's hard to get angry, get upset, or get depressed too. Why? Because you're dead! The day you put your faith in Christ is the d

JUL. 24, 2026 The God of second chances. "Arise, go up to Ai." Jos 8:1 NKJV After suffering a humiliating defeat, God gave Joshua a second chance at victory: "Arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land." The king of Ai, still strutting with pride from victory number one, set out for victory number two. He marched toward Joshua, leaving the town unprotected. Joshua's elite squad charged in and set fire to it. And Jos

JUL. 23, 2026 Always do a good job. "The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it." Ge 2:15 NCV The first thing God did when He made Adam was put him to work. That's because work gives us a sense of purpose, meaning, and dignity. "God put the man in the garden...to... work it." So Adam was a gardener. But whether you count cash in a bank, trade futures on Wall Street, flip burgers in a beach-side stand, whip up pasta specials at a five-star resta

JUL. 22, 2026 Talk back to your giant. "I come against you in the name of the Lord." 1Sa 17:45 NIV Goliath towered over David. But David looked at Goliath through the eyes of his omnipotent God who sits high, looks low, and conquers all. "You come against me with sword and spear...but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." Intimidation is one of Satan's favorite weapons. He will get you to think yourself in

JUL. 21, 2026 In partnership with God. "In all things at all times, having all that you need." 2Co 9:8 NIV Paul wrote: "God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work...Now he who supplies seed to the sower...will...increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion" (vv. 8, 10-11 NI

JUL. 20, 2026 Don't speak with "a forked tongue". "Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing...These things ought not to be so." Jas 3:10 NKJV Note what the Bible says about an uncontrolled tongue: "Sometimes it praises...and sometimes it curses...And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely, my brothers and sisters, this is not right! Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives, o

JUL. 19, 2026 Obedience: it's your key to victory and blessing. "Consider your ways! You have sown much, and bring in little." Hag 1:5-6 NKJV In Haggai chapter one, we see a group of people whom God told eighteen years previously to rebuild His house. They still had not obeyed Him, yet they didn't understand why their lives were a mess. They wondered why God was not blessing them. So He said to them: "Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this tem

JUL. 18, 2026 Be a sower. "Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness." 2Co 9:10 NKJV Three young men were each given three kernels of corn by a wise old sage. He told them to go out into the world and use the corn to bring themselves good fortune. The first young man put his three kernels of corn into a bowl of soup and ate them. The second thought, "I can do better t

JUL. 17, 2026 God is putting the pieces together. "Our light affliction...is working for us." 2Co 4:17 NKJV Without God's Word, most of our experiences in life make no sense whatsoever. With it, we can decipher our experiences. Few things are more comforting or more exhilarating than knowing that God is the One putting together the jigsaw puzzle of your life. It was a London cartographer, John Spilsbury, who is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760. During

JUL. 16, 2026 You're called to do "good works". "Being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God." Col 1:10 NKJV Many people know how Helen Keller overcame the difficult physical challenge of being left without hearing, speech, and sight after contracting fever as a baby and how she eventually learned to communicate by learning Braille. Her life inspired millions of people. One of her ardent admirers was author Mark Twain. She was invited to visit eve