Walking with God, Digesting Scripture and Pointing Others to Grow Deeper in their Faith
Suffering - Endurance - Character - Hope - Rejoicing How? God! We cannot survive suffering here in this world without God. There's a huge difference in the suffering of God's people and the people who do not follow God. When God's people suffer, we turn to Him. We give it to God. We lean on... Continue Reading →
Why does God allow suffering? We have each chosen our own way, just as the first humans did. We are a rebellious people wanting everything to be as we want it to be, essentially placing ourselves in the place that should be God's. Sin entered into the word long ago and suffering came with it.... Continue Reading →
We are always walking through waters in this life, waters of death, waters of grief, waters of disappointment, waters of pain, waters of violence, waters of anger and the list goes on and on... The comments I hear inside our loving church family are many on how we don’t even know how people survive without... Continue Reading →
The pain of barrenness runs deep in the soul of a woman. While meeting with a social worker preparing to be a foster parent I was asked if I can have children. “I don’t know,” I said, “I never tried.” We both laughed at my unique answer, unique because I’d been single for many years... Continue Reading →
Lord, I thank You for the gift of Your Holy Spirit! Without You, Spirit, I’d be so lost. I’d be at a loss for words sometimes and as this verse in Romans points out, having a loss for words is okay because You stand in that gap where pain so deep resides. Where I’m weak,... Continue Reading →
Psalms 34 is absolutely beautiful. God brings beauty from pain. In times of sadness, suffering and sorrow. God is near. When my child dies what’s my response? When my spouse leaves, how do I survive? When someone I love commits a heinous crime, what do I do? I’ve seen two replies when these overwhelming circumstances... Continue Reading →
It’s Mother’s Day. This is an interesting verse for this day. The apostle Paul is called an apostle because of the encounter with God he had being blinded. He expresses gratitude to believers in Philippi as he writes to them. Thoughts of them brings up feelings of gratitude. My husband is with his father today... Continue Reading →
February, 2019 She has been in school for a few weeks now and I fully anticipated her arriving home droopy and exhausted but even her first day back was a pleasant surprise when she arrived home and was full of information about her first day of school. Last Friday we went for her 4th infusion... Continue Reading →
Each week that passes my daughter is gaining more and more weight and we celebrate each pound! She is still eating double portions and they are very slowly tapering her down off of steroids over a series of several weeks. School has started and we are thankful our high school here is sending her work. ... Continue Reading →
Well, now we see! This has been an exhausting week of travel and emotional strain. I called the hospital like I do each night hoping to speak with my daughter and the nurse who answered the phone said, “Um, she’s being taken to the ER. Sorry we haven’t had time to call you yet.” They... Continue Reading →
Jeni Martin Johnson 