Walking with God, Digesting Scripture and Pointing Others to Grow Deeper in their Faith
Debt felt like a noose around my neck. I had just graduated seminary and for a time I lived on a credit card. Ends didn’t meet. I went out with friends and put it on my card thinking it was ok. I’ll pay it off later when I graduate and have a full time job.... Continue Reading →
Safety, this might be the number one need a woman has: safety and security. God extends to us a safety and security that cannot be found anywhere else. I cannot find this kind of safety in my husband or in buying the car that has the most safety features. I cannot find this in a... Continue Reading →
Before heading to college I made a decision. This decision gave me a desire to pray I would find good Christian friends when I arrived at college. I think this might have been the only difference between myself and those who didn’t pray for this? I’d already chosen. I had decided. I knew. This decision... Continue Reading →
Jesus was God in the flesh. God chose to come to earth in the form of a human so we can know who He is. He was obedient unto death and many have followed in those footsteps for centuries, being slaughtered for their faith. The proper word for this is martyr. Stephen was the first... Continue Reading →
Yes, Jesus is the bread of life. What’s this mean? How can someone never hunger and thirst again? These are basic needs for every human. God is concerned for our physical needs but this verse goes much deeper than that. As a teen I reached out to God and experienced transformation immediately. I stopped craving... Continue Reading →
CEV says, “Calm down” instead of, “Be still.” What could the world be like if we would all calm down? I know it’s in those still, quiet moments that God speaks. If we never stop we cannot hear the voice of Guidance, the voice of Divine Comfort, the voice of Healing. God speaks to us... Continue Reading →
Mercy is something we all desperately need. Without God’s mercy we would all be in the same boat headed nowhere and then to doom. Humbling ourselves and reaching out to God, praying for mercy, asking for forgiveness for our wrongs is what sets one person apart from another. The one who has experienced cleansing is... Continue Reading →
When I was young, having just connected with God, I struggled with knowing how to love God. I’d sing a song in church and feel like I wasn’t being truthful because I knew I didn’t love God like I loved my family. This bothered me and I prayed. It was a beautiful moment when I... Continue Reading →
I learned years ago that when I counteract evil with evil everything escalates. It’s takes a strong person to stop this process. There was a girl who seemed to hate me in high school. I’d never had a conversation with her but I heard she was saying some terrible things about me. She rode the... Continue Reading →
Christmas is filled with carols and songs of bells. I think of hymns we sing in church like, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and "Carol of the Bells." We even have fun secular Christmas songs that have bells in them like "Jingle bells," "Jingle bell rock," and "Silver... Continue Reading →
Jeni Martin Johnson 