Steadfast-Love-Colored Glasses
Read: 1 John 4:7-21 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. (v. 7) Have you ever heard the idiom seeing through rose-colored glasses? It’s used to describe someone who always sees a person or a situation in a positive way, sometimes […]
Merciful
Read: Psalm 51 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. (v. 1) I used to picture God like the Lincoln Memorial—a huge stone face peering down at me from his lofty throne with a look that said, “I expected better of you.” Any […]
Loyal
Read: Deuteronomy 7:6-11 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. (v. 9) Recently we removed an oak tree from our yard because mistletoe had overrun it. You may know mistletoe as a […]
Perfect
Read: 2 Samuel 22:21-31 This God—his way is perfect. (v. 31) “Perfect,” the receptionist said as she scheduled my next appointment. “Perfect,” replied the waiter upon taking our order. “Perfect,” the representative commented on the phone at least three times while taking my information. It is driving me nuts how this word is being overused lately! […]
Inseverable
Read: Job 10:8-17 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. (v. 12) If anyone ever had anything to complain to God about, Job did. His livestock, servants, ten children—stolen or killed in one day. Soon after, he was struck with loathsome sores from head to toe. All that […]
God = Steadfast Love
Read: 1 Corinthians 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (v. 13) I like the logic of math. The Transitive Property of Equality states that two things that are both equal to a third thing are equal to each other; also recognized as “If A = B and […]
Humongous
Read: Psalm 36 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. (v. 5) A few years ago, my husband and I visited a planetarium in Bradenton, Florida. We sat in the darkened theater as the dome overhead brightened. First, we saw Bradenton, then zoomed out above the state of Florida, […]
Steadfast Love
Read: Lamentations 3:21-33 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end. (v. 22) In the ESV translation of the Bible, the adjective translated steadfast is used to describe God’s love for us about 200 times. If you look up the word steadfast in a dictionary or two, you will […]
February 2023 Prayer Guide
TURKEY — Praise the Lord that our ministry director in Turkey was able to share about Jesus in person recently with six young men. All but one of the men were very interested in what our director had to say and asked to keep learning more about Jesus. We praise the Lord for opening doors […]