One of my friends recently said, “Expectations are premeditated disappointments,” and it resonated loudly with me. I searched on the Internet to find out who originally said this maxim, and in addition to that phrase, I found a number of similar sentiments: Expectations are premeditated ...
Archives for March 2016
The Adventure of Chapter Three
As I drove six hours home from a speaking engagement in west Texas, I heard a voice in my heart: “Draw near to me, and I will draw near to you.” It is from James 4:8, a verse I had read many times. In that moment, the written Word of God became the whispered Word of God. I knew He was calling me ...
[Archive] 10: His Voice!, Part II
“Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving. For this will please the Lord more than the sacrifice of an ox or presenting a bull with its horns and hooves” (Psalm 69:30-31). God invites to enter every experience at one level of relationship with Him and ...
How to Become a Hope Hunter #1: Believe There Will Be Spring
The thing that shocked me in my “hopeless situation” was finding out that I had hope I couldn’t see. “For in this hope we were saved,” I read in Romans 8:24, “But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?” That’s what it says in the NIV. In the New Living ...
[Archive] 9: His Voice!, Part I
"Don't kill them, for my people soon forget such lessons; stagger them with Your power, and bring them to their knees" (Psalm 59:11). We are quick to forget the voice of God when something we hoped for doesn't happen right away, or when something we depended on disappears. ...