Daily Meditations

December 11 2 Thessalonians 1:11 11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our […]

December 11 2 Thessalonians 1:11 11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so that the name of our

December 10 John 6:35 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. I came to participate in 12 Step Recovery through Overeaters Anonymous. I came to understand how addictive refined sugar can be. I think we each

  December 8 Matthew 9:20-22 20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.” 22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith

December 7 Hebrews 10:22-23 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is

December 6 2 Peter 1:5-8 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will

December 5. Luke 7:41-50 41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?” 43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the

December 4 Romans 6:14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. The spiritual program of recovery is not just for alcholics. We all need to admit “we are powerless over…….” Think of it this way. When the going gets tough what do you do?

December 3 John 4:14 ….whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal.   There is a more or less famous line from the movie ET when he says of humans we are “ugly bags of