After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! (v. 1, ESV) An open door. We all want open doors — for a job, for opportunities, and for our desires. Open doors mean invitations and welcoming. The open doors we have walked through tell our story of success or distress. In Revelation […]
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Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry (James 1:19, NLT). What is a Miggy Moment? Several years ago, I started using the phrase “Miggy” after reading about a small part of the brain named the amygdala. It’s the part of
Despite all this, Job did not sin, nor did he blame God (Job 1:22, NASB). We’ve all heard of the trials of Job. The Bible says simply, “There was a day!” (1:13, ESV). And on that day, Job lost his sons and daughters, servants, and herds of animals, and everything he had. But the trials of
The Book of Nehemiah is the only book in the Bible that’s a journal. Nehemiah was chosen by God to help rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. In his journal, Nehemiah records one of the most amazing prayers in Scripture. And this prayer ends with an unusual request. The prayer. . . Please grant me success
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Forgiveness is the key theme of the Bible! We all require God’s grace, as Romans 3:23 states, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” In Psalm 130, we find a contrite soul crying out to God. . . From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Hear
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To You, Lord, I lift up my soul. My God, in You I trust (Psalm 25:1-2a, NASB). Our minds think 50,000 thoughts a day. Sometimes, I think most of those happen when I’m praying. I sit in my “devotion” chair, read my Bible, then begin praying, and my mind begins to wander. True confession — I’ve also fallen
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Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy (Jude 24, NASB). When I first became a Christian, just months out of the drug-infused hippy culture of the 60s and 70s. I began wondering, with my background, if I would
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Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it (Psalm 139:14, NLT). After one of my many youthful indiscretions, my mother said, “Use your entire brain, Grant!” A teacher told me after one of my high school pranks, “Sometimes you need to use the other half of your
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Oh, Lord God! Behold, You Yourself have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You (Jeremiah 32:17, NASB). We’ve all experienced carbon over the holidays: The black wicks left after burning candles scented to smell like cranberries, evergreen, or farts (gag gift to me from
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We can’t understand the Book of Nehemiah without understanding the importance of city walls in Old Testament times. Nehemiah understood! Nehemiah’s brother and several of his brother’s friends returned from Jerusalem to Susa in Persia to give this report to Nehemiah. . . They said to me, “The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its
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