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Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.There was a week in November in which I almost lost two of my nieces.  Libby, in Texas, aged 12, and newborn Esther in England.We started the week anticipating the birth of Esther.  Scans during pregnancy had shown that she had a malformed heart, but the heart had subse...

Psalm 27:13-14 “I am still confident of this:  I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.  Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”  This past year, a couple of the things we’ve been praying for have started to happen.  Things that we have been praying about for over 20 years.  As I reflected on that, it got me thinking – how do we keep believing when...

Mark 11:4 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." I turned forty this year. The world would say it is a milestone birthday- one to be celebrated for all one’s accomplishments. And we did! Together with family and close friends, I celebrated all the Lord has done and His myriads of answered prayers in my forty years of life. Specif...

Proverbs 16:9  “A man’s mind plans his way [as he journeys through life], But the Lord directs his steps and establishes them” Psalms 73:23-26, 28 “Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand. You will guide me with Your counsel, And afterward receive me to honor and glory.  Whom have I in heaven [but You]? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and m...

Bob Ericksen Praise The Lord!                 I was looking through my computer files today for a spreadsheet I created a few years back.  I found a much more valuable document.  One that spoke to my heart and refocused me to the Lord.  It was the record of a dream I had. The Lord has spoken to me a few times in my dreams and I recorded this one back in March, 2022, so I could share it with my thr...

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”Hi! I’m a long-time online watcher. I was watching today’s service and I heard about the Boast in the Lord series and I’d love to share my testimony.I was raised in the Catholic Church, and attended private school for 8 years.  Unfortunately, when...

Psalm 119:90 “Your faithfulness endures to all generations.”God’s FaithfulnessOne night about a month ago, I had trouble falling asleep, which is quite a rare situation for me.For some reason, I decided to occupy my mind trying to remember as many names of teachers I had as possible that I had growing up, starting all the way back from kindergarten through high school. To further challenge my memo...

Jen Carey1 Peter 5:6-7 So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.As I’ve been slowly helping my toddler memorize 1 Peter 5:7, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you”, I’ve realized this verse may be even more for me than for him.Scripture memorizatio...

2 Kings 6:17-20  “And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”  When 50 years of praying came to pass….Sometimes five minutes of praying may seem daunting or even five days of praying on one theme can stretch our concentration, or patience. Fifty years o...

Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.”I am absolutely loving the season of life I’m in right now! Joshua is learning to speak with his adorable voice and I justlove getting to stay home and spend these days with him.  Being a mom is the best job in the entire world, and I’m so grateful that God blessed me with the cutest boy with the most adorable, calm, sweet personality who loves ...

Psalm 68:28 Your God has commanded your strength; show yourself strong, God, You who acted on our behalf.An Answered Prayer and A Lesson Learnt:One of my biggest prayers that was answered this year was for my family to find a church to call home. We moved to New Jersey in the fall of 2017 and had been searching for a church for a long time. We utilized online services and did a lot of church hoppi...

Psalm 94: 17-19 “If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.  When I thought, ‘My foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many Your consolations cheer my soul.”This year has been a challenging one on multiple levels. Some contributing factors are behind me and some are not. Walking alongside my aging mom who h...

John 15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”The impact Jesus has made on my life is not tied to any one experience or specific time but rather a decades-long journey of building a relationship with Him while He has remained faithful, patient and showed me more grace than I ever deserved.Ra...

2 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭5‬ ‭ “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‭‭‬‬‬‬‬‬I have to admit, I’m nervous writing this, mostly because I am not someone who seeks attention. This is a moment I hope gives praise to the Lord, and helps others who may be in a similar situation.I...

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.My Boast in the Lord is a bit strange, since in the physical, I’ve had an awful year, filled with months of pain so bad that led me to receive care from a pain management specialist, all the way to having two hip replacement surg...

Psalm 42:8 By day the Lord directs His love, at night His song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.I trusted in Christ at age 16 when I was introduced to the Word of God at youth group and received a Bible from my friend Joyce who had invited me.  This began a chapter of my life that would change it forever.  My boast is in the Word of God.  As a child, I had a card with the Fruit of the Spi...

Hebrews 4:16 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God.  There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.What could be more rewarding than discovering you had a part to play in the answer to someone else’s prayer?  How amazing is it that God Himself would invite us to partner with Him to pray for another one of His children?  This is the opport...

Matthew 7:13-14  Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.I pray my testimony serves as a reminder that true meaning in life comes from choosing the narrow path, that only few people take, instead of following the road everyone ...

James 5:16a Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.I think I could write volumes on the things that the Lord has done for me throughout my life, even before I knew Him. But this January 2026 is a special commemoration of the Lord deliveri...

Isaiah 43:2–3  “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”2025 has been a year filled with uncertainty, change, and challenges that have stretched me in ways I never anticipated. Career-altering events brought ongoing stress an...