AUG. 11, 2026 Get God involved in your finances. "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give." 2Co 9:7 NIV God can be sitting on the sidelines watching you struggle financially or actively involved as your financial partner. It all depends on what kind of steward you are. Your finances are yet another area of life where you can begin to experience an interactive relationship with your heavenly Father. But if you want God involved in your finances, you need to put your...

AUG. 10, 2026 Guard against prejudice. "If you favor some people over others, you are committing a sin." Jas 2:9 NLT James wrote to the church: "Suppose someone comes into your meeting dressed in fancy clothes and expensive jewelry, and another comes in who is poor and dressed in dirty clothes. If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, 'You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor'-well, doesn't this discrimination show that your...

AUG. 9, 2026 God can turn the curse into a blessing. "God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you." Dt 23:5 NKJV Paul told the Corinthians, "Therefore we do not lose heart...For our light affliction...is working for us" (2Co 4:16-17 NKJV). Jim Stovall proved this to be true. At age seventeen, his doctor told him he was losing his sight, and nothing could be done to reverse it. Rather than drop out of life, he pursued a college degree and also studied...