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Mary was highly favored by God. Mary bore the Son of God. Luke 1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. Let's look at Mary's circumstances. Mary was pregnant with the Son of God and was not married. Mary was accused of sleeping around. Mary brought shame on her family and Joseph with this child out of wedlock. Mary was accused of being a liar and losing her mind by saying: I am a virgin and pregnant. Mary's Son was born in a manger, not in a hospital. Mary and Joseph had to flee for their Son's life from Herod. Mary's Son died brutally on a cross. BUT HOW CAN THE BIBLE SAY...

Jim was the man of her dreams. But how could she be sure their Marriage would be built to last? Two weeks before my wedding to Jim. It should’ve been the happiest time of my life. Instead, I sat in my car parked outside the courthouse, crying up a storm. Was I really destined to be Mrs. Jim Dunn? If we couldn’t even get through planning a Wedding, what did that say about the future of our Marriage? I’d just picked up our Marriage License and had called Jim afterwards to vent about my stressful day of errands. “Sweetheart, slow down and relax,” he’d said in that calm way of his. Relax? Easy for Jim to say! He lived seven hours away, so I was the one planning our dream Wedding, from the centerpieces to the vanilla...

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.-- Psalm 86:15 When you approach GOD in Prayer, what are the “givens” you believe about Him? That He hears you, forgives you and loves you with a steadfast Love? That’s how the psalmist describes God. But do you sometimes secretly picture Him as an unmerciful judge, wondering if He really will forgive this sin—the one you find yourself repeatedly battling? Or does God seem like an absentee parent who is unresponsive to your needs rather than a loving Father who understands your pain? When you’ve blown it again, do you sense that God has a scowl of disappointment on His face rather than open, welcoming arms...

Drawing near to the wonderful throne of God is the most beautiful feeling we can have. To fix our eyes on the glorious face of Jesus. Smiling, caring, waiting for all of us to come to Him. All men shall fall down before Him in worship, in adoration, in praise to Him who did it all for us. Every tongue of men shall confess that He is King of kings and Lord of lords. Let us all turn our eyes from worthless things and fix our eyes on Jesus. Blessed be Him now and forever more. Amen

I will look again into the light of Gods mercy. I shall wake up in the middle of the night and tell Jesus that I love Him with all of my heart. Fighting temptations and evil desires that comes to my mind. I am choosing to forget what I have done. But Jesus knows all our hearts desire. Cleanse us o Lord and purify our hearts wih Your mercy. Finally my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Eph. 6.10 Let us all rise above our hearts weakness. Cut out the longings we have for the world, the flesh and the pursuit of riches and glory. We shall not take anything from earth. The only thing God will ask us when we get to heaven is this. How many souls have you brought to the feet of Jesus and if you kept...

5 Tips to help you Deepen your Prayer Life. Prayer. We know it’s good for us, a healthy habit we want to include in our lifestyle. But do you really appreciate the awesome Power of Prayer? How can you deepen your Prayer Life, make it more vital and energized? These 5 tips can help: Move beyond just Asking. Of course, we should ask the Lord for what we need. He encourages, “Ask and it will be given you” (Matthew 7:7). But suppose you had a Friend who never spoke to you unless he was asking you for something. Wouldn’t that be a strange Friendship? Incorporate Praise into your Prayers; read the Psalms aloud; thank God for his wisdom and guidance. And don’t forget that Prayer time is also for Confession…and...

If you’re like most people, you’re afraid of something. It’s only natural. But if we let our insecurities rule our behavior, we are not letting “the peace of Christ rule in your hearts” (Colossians 3:15). While we heed the voice of our fears, we cannot hear the voice of the Shepherd; “no one can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24). So how do we begin to identify—and eliminate—the issues that keep us from God? We need to start by admitting that fear interferes. Whether it’s dread of loneliness, loss, separation, catastrophe or suffering, all of us have something which triggers anxiety and steps between our hearts and God. Here are 3 things that can help you make progress in this area: 1. Figure out the...

The key to a rich spiritual life is not how much you get done in a day, but taking time; time to just "Be." Everyone knows, of course, the familiar line from Shakespeare’s great play, Hamlet: “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” But few of us really believe it. To us the question is, “To do, or not to do.” The most casual glance at our lifestyles will clearly and certainly reveal that. Many of us spend our lives in spasms of activity. We speed through frantic work and frenzied leisure, as if the theme song to our lives is a ‘50s doo-wop song: We “go, go, go” and “do, do, do.” And day after day, month after month, year after year, that becomes our life: doing, not being. But isn’t it interesting that, when...

Dogs were her life. But she never thought a dog would save her life. Dogs have always held a special place in my heart. Where others might just see an animal, I see a part of my family. So when my boxer, Floyd Henry, came up to me one evening while I was sitting on the sofa, I put down my novel and leaned in to give him a hug. “Come here, boy,” I said, holding out my arms. He put his paws up on the sofa cushion and settled into my embrace. But then he reared his big square head. “What is it?” I asked. “What’s got you startled?” Floyd Henry regarded me with a questioning expression. This is odd. Floyd Henry had never given me such a concerned look before. Not in all of the five years we’d been together. He...

For those of us in the ER, dealing with death in our own department is difficult enough. But from time to time we are also called upon to deal with a death that has occurred elsewhere in the hospital. When someone dies, a physician is needed to certify and then document that a death has actually occurred. This responsibility clearly falls to the treating physician. However, if it’s late at night or the middle of a weekend and that patient’s physician is not in the hospital, the ER doc on duty might seem a reasonable alternative. After all, he or she is in the hospital, awake, and “available.” One night Bill Jones called and asked me to go upstairs and pronounce one of his patients. “Sure, Bill,” I responded. “Mr. Blake in...