Devotionals & Poems

Monthly archives for August, 2016

Soar Like The Eagle

Soar Like The Eagle

Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”  Eagles are amazing birds having eyesight four to eight times that of humans and being able to spot a rabbit two […]

A Secret Place

A Secret Place

In a world that is filled with anxiety, unrest, and fear, our heart cries out for a secret place of refuge from the “storm”. That place of refuge is not found by vacationing on a remote tropical island, a white-sand beach, or a mountain top cottage; it is only found in the presence of God, […]

What Are You Thinking?

What Are You Thinking?

“As he thinks in his heart, so is he” Proverbs 23:7. From this verse we see that words can be deceitful, as the surrounding text bears out. There are those who have a deceitful tongue and speak with a lying mouth according to Psalm 109:2. Thoughts and words are closely connected, (even those whose words […]

Our Victory

Our Victory

Have you ever noticed how many “natural” things have so much symbolization of the spiritual, and how God uses these things familiar to our understanding to teach us the realities of their spiritual counterpart?  One such picture is found in Ephesians 6, beginning at verse 11, using the armor and battle attire of a first […]