It's like a sigh, a peaceful sigh, when we read, "Then the land had rest from war" (Joshua 11:23b, NIV). Father, there is so much conflict in our world today...in large scale and small, outwardly and inwardly. You are the God of all peace and comfort, the God of shalom. Help us find our rest in You, and may the land in which we live have rest because hearts are turned to You. We ask this all in th...  Read More

Thank You, Father, for the reminder that You listen to the bold prayers of Your children. Truly, the faith that calls the sun to stay fixed in place (Joshua 10:12-14) has universal implications. Yet, for those You love, whose battles You fight and whose favor You bless with abundance, there is nothing beyond Your power or care. After all, You created the universe with Your spoken word. You can spe...  Read More

Father,Remind us that in the huge displays of victory (Jericho, Joshua 6) and in the humbling defeats of careless self-confidence (Ai, Joshua 7) that You are God alone and that obedience to Your voice is our hope, our deliverance, our strength. Help us march through this day with the confident assurance that You go before us and behind us, all around us and within us. May we trumpet Your praises a...  Read More

Father God,Who can know what a day will hold but You alone? There are moments we get ambushed by what we see, where we have been, what we have done, or what has been done to us. Even when we have done all in surrendered service to You, our enemy wants to draw our focus away from You...to our past, our failures, or to the seeming ease and careless excess of a world that lives in antagonism to You a...  Read More

Today, the word repeated, reinforced, is 'be strong and courageous' (11 times in Scripture...more with variation)! So, today LORD, we embrace the call and the challenge with the reminder that You Yourself go with us having prepared the way, You Who are mightier than any warrior, any general, any foe...You Who fight our battles. Yes, we can also have such confidence when we are 'walking in Your Way...  Read More

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me.I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand. (Deuteronomy 32:39, NIV)Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things.    Who is like you, God?Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again;from the depths of the...  Read More