This is the faith phase where you are starting to feel confident about the basics of your faith and you’re looking for some concrete & practical ways to grow beyond the basics. This can mean anything from overcoming doubt to finding your “tribe” or faith community (and everything in between). Let’s go there together!
All his life Joash did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 2 Kings 12:2 nlt ___ "The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching." - John Wooden I don't remember the first time I heard that...
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There will always be plenty of flour and oil left in your containers until the time when the LORD sends rain and the crops grow again! 1 Kings 17:14 nlt ___ If I wanted to know what kind of mythical creature I...
"This is what the LORD says: 'Do not fight against your relatives, the Israelites. Go back home, for what has happened is my doing!'" So they obeyed the message of the LORD and went home, as the LORD had commanded. 1 Kings 13:28 nlt ___ All my life, I have been...
So I am planning to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God, just as he instructed my father that I should do. For the LORD told him, 'Your son, whom I will place on your throne, will build the Temple to honor my name.' 1 Kings 5:5 NLT ___ There have...
As the troops heard of the king's deep grief for his son, the joy of that day's victory was turned into deep sadness. They crept back into the city as though they were ashamed and had been beaten in battle. 2 Samuel 19:2+3 nlt ___ We were not put on this earth...
Saul waited there seven days for Samuel, as Samuel had instructed him earlier, but Samuel still didn't come. Saul realized that his troops were rapidly slipping away. 1 Samuel 13:8 nlt __________ Last weekend, I had to have a medical procedure done. It was...
But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the LORD! So they set the idol up again. 1 Samuel 5:3 NLT ________________ A couple years ago, one of my coaches asked me to...
"Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me. I went away full, but the LORD has brought me home empty. Why should you call me Naomi when the LORD has caused me to suffer and the Almighty has...
Then the LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you." Judges 6:12 nlt ___________ So many times in my life, I have considered the experience I was going through as preparation for the "real...
But Moses gave no land to the tribe of Levi, for the LORD, the God of Israel had promised to be their inheritance. Joshua 13:33 nlt _____________ The word resourceful is an extremely powerful one to me. When I hear it, I picture someone like MacGyver or Survivor...
