Archives: Thoughts to Ponder

Subject text: Nehemiah chapters 1-6 The book of Nehemiah is an Old Testament account of how God works through and in all situations to meet His divine will and purpose. Nehemiah means “Jehovah comforts” and surely we see in the life of Nehemiah how God uses him and others to proclaim Himself to the world. [...]

I think often of the grace and the mercy of God.

Memorial Day is a day in which men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military are remembered.

On Sunday May 19, 2013 I used this as a part of a message entitled “Can I really know God?” in our morning service at the church @ Myrtle Lake, www.MyrtleLake.org

This was the Mother’s Day Message for Myrtle Lake Baptist Church from May 12, 2013.

Few people know the origin of Mother’s Day.

Father, we come to You to pray for our nation, the United States of America. How You have blessed us through the years, Lord! We rightly sing, “America, America, God shed His grace on thee.” Yet we see trouble in our culture today. We see the breakdown of the family, crippling addictions, and random acts [...]

If you were given the opportunity to know someone better, who do you think that would be? Do you know that God wants you to know Him better than any list of people you could come up with? When David considered the glory of the Lord in creation these words jumped to his mind and [...]

The key into making a request of God is that you must ask within God’s will.  The attitude of the request must be right.  The principles and procedures given by God Himself must be met.   I      God wants His people to ask Him in prayer   The reason for following this first principle [...]

Key Idea: A correct basis for our asking gives God a reason for answering our prayer Psalm 37:4 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 1 John 5:14 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according [...]