by Joanne | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
We started the week with Genesis 43:11-17, where we find Jacob resigned and agreeing to send Benjamin back to Egypt. We hear in his words an attitude of defeat. Of hopelessness. He must have stood and watched as his sons went off into the distance – unsure of...
by Joanne | Mar 19, 2020 | Encouragement, Prayer
It was a morning like many other mornings except this one was the most different from any other morning yet experienced in my life. Pulling into the parking lot, I prepared to enter. Putting disposable rubber gloves on, I pulled clorox wipes from the dispenser to wipe...
by Joanne | Feb 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it give us assurance about things we cannot see.†(Hebrews 11:1, NLT) Faith can be such a hard concept to figure out and we often turn to Hebrews 11 to gain understanding. The chapter lists the...
by Joanne | Feb 16, 2020 | Prayer, Uncategorized
“We had hoped he was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.” (Luke 24:21, NLT) “The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer … … all the time God is at work in our everyday...
by Joanne | Jan 29, 2020 | Encouragement, Prayer
Jonah is probably most commonly known for his adventures with the whale. But hidden within this short book of the Bible (just four chapters long), we find Jonah’s prayers to God. “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish. He said,...
