The Living Word

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6. How many times do you make plans for yourself, your children, grandchildren, spouse, and others to do or have things in the future, especially since you have prepared…

“Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” Psalms 150:6 Creation is the masterpiece that originates from the only true source of light and all that is good; the expression of the Alpha and Omega, our Great and Almighty God; it is His inscription on all things visible and invisible…

“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,” Ephesians 4:3. In the Book of Ephesians chapter four, the central theme focuses on the spiritual unity of believers. The apostle Paul clearly discusses our election and call to salvation by the divine providence of…

“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32. In this life we all fall short sometimes and definitely need forgiveness.  God in His lovingkindness and mercifulness faithfully forgives us when we seek Him in true repentance. “If we confess our sins,…

The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:9. It is a true blessing to write and witness about the goodness of God. There is nothing better than knowing that you are kept safe in the hands of the Almighty. Langston Hughes penned these words Life for…

“These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.” Acts 1:14. Prayer is our direct and intimate communication with God., it is not to be taken lightly or as some whimsical list of things to do. God is sovereign…He is “wholly…

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens” Psalm 8:1. David writes with awe-stricken conviction of how excellent God truly is…in fact He begins the eighth Psalm by calling His name; O Lord, our Lord, translated in the Hebrew language as O…

“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Hebrews 10:36 Waiting is defined as- the action of staying where one is or delaying action until a particular time or until something else happens. I recall the analogy of two individuals waiting for the…

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” James 1: 23-24 My sister Harriet often tells the memory of my…

“It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”” Lamentations 3:22-23. The prophet Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet. He expressed his grief for the afflictions of his people during their exile and the ruin of Jerusalem. As…