There is a small children’s nursery rhyme most of us learned growing up – usually in response to some bully calling us names. It first appeared approximately 1844. There are many variations but the basic is: Sticks and stones may break my bones But names (or words) will never harm me. You know what? Neurologists… Read More Sticks and Stones AND Words HURT
JESUS GAVE TO YOU: 1 – power (authority, force, ability, mastery, jurisdiction) over unclean (foul) spirits, to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease, 2 – power (ability) to heal sicknesses, and to cast out (expel) devils: 3 – power (mastery) over unclean spirits; 4 – power (force) and authority (ability) over… Read More What’s Stopping Your Victory?
Recently, Leland and I have been reading a chapter a day from the Book of Proverbs. It has been VERY eye-opening. There are so many scriptures about how danger, trouble, hurt, distress, and the like, are NOT supposed to touch us as children of God. Yet if you look around, that certainly is not what… Read More Power for a Better Life
For the rest of Summer, I am going to send a series of SHORT Musings – inspiration from others around me and from my own files of miracles (and other things) that God has done for this family, our friends and acquaintances. Today I will start with my friend Laura Godsey and one of her… Read More God and Rattlesnakes
…and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Romans 4:17b If you’re like me, you probably didn’t really understand what this scripture meant when you first read it. King James English sometimes leaves something to be desired. You actually can become more confused reading that version simply because of language differences –… Read More Calling Those Things That Be Not