Restoring Hearts Blog

“Faith is the supreme effort of your life-throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God.” Oswald Chambers At one time or another we will have a battle to fight. Let me suggest we fight our battles with our faith, just as David did when he faced the giant Goliath in I Samuel 17. Goliath defied the armies of the living God and that angered David. The shepherd’s boy faith was fueled and David’s love for God and his mission ignited his passion enough to fight. Davi

“The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.” John Ortberg I love to people watch. Whether it’s at an airport or in the Word of God, I’m intrigued with why people do things. I recently read II Chronicles chapters fifteen and sixteen and I was puzzled by King Asa’s behavior. The King of Judah got off to a good start when the prophet Azariah’s words convicted him to seek the Lord. His courage led him to remove idols and his peop

“And I must place no confidence in my own works but only in God. Trusting in my own mental understanding becomes a hindrance to complete trust in God.” Oswald Chambers We all come against giants in our life. In fact, as Joyce Meyer says, “Maybe you don’t just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!” The Old Testament story of David, a young shepherd boy fighting against Goliath, a 9’9″ champion and man of war, provides clues how to fight our own Goliaths. I’m prese