Hope For Today Videos

In our 24/7 never-ending activity it’s good to hear the call to stop and pay attention to the one who created us and acknowledge who He is as our Lord and how good He is to us as His beloved children.

We pray. God acts on our behalf.  Things are fine.  We go on our merry way until we bump into the next problem and then …. We find ourselves in mental and emotional turmoil wondering where God is. We don't understand what's going on because our hearts are hard.  I wonder how much or God’s goodness we fail to understand because of it?

In our topsy-turvy world of new information and change by the day and more often by the hour, we need to hold on to the things that are constant, that don’t change, and that will be there ongoing no matter what.

Someone once said, “The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.” I like that. There are so many opportunities around us every single day – opportunities to encourage, to lend a helping hand, to just listen and be with someone who is struggling.  The list is endless.  Today we pray to recognize and use well the opportunities that this day gives us.

Anyone who has tried to break free from the harmful use of a substance or an addictive habit understands temptation. We all know how easy it is to lie to ourselves until we are convinced that something we have been yearning for will make us happy and help us solve all our problems – only to relearn that painful lesson that things only get worse, not better.  Jesus knows best of all how difficult it is to deal with temptation. He'll show us what to do to live above temptation.

We all have friends we don’t know what we’d do without – friends who have been there for us through thick and thin – friends we could turn to when we needed help and they’d be there for us.  The Bible got it right when it says: A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. Proverbs 17:17

Prayers from the Psalms - great words to help us express our desire to know God and to come close to Him.

Jesus Christ has come to the world to be light, to show that truth could be revealed and displayed not just about our words and actions but about our motives. This is where goodness and safety is rooted.

I’m thinking about thinking today. What are we thinking?  What can we do about the thoughts that fill our minds? God’s word instructs us about how we are to think:

Here in the middle of winter I thought it would be good to consider  the topic of laughter and light heartedness. They are important to God because they are important to our well being. 

It's God’s heart that we have secure and peaceful dwelling places.  How do we know that?

Strong people with a true sense of their identity are often the gentlest souls in our community.  They don’t have to pretend to have courage in loud aggressive ways because they are confident in who they are and what they believe.