The Lord Is Our Light and Strength: Psalm 27:1 NKJV
The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 NKJV We can have confidence and trust in God despite difficult circumstances. In the middle of an enemy attack, David wrote Psalm 27 as an outcry to God. David expressed the gravity…
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4 Prayers to Awaken Hope in the New Year
This time last year I was vision boarding. A couple of friends and I gathered magazines, art supplies, poster boards, and made vision boards capturing our hopes and dreams for the upcoming year. Then 2020 happened. I thought I would be reading more books and travelling to places unknown, instead I was homeschooling my children and quarantining. This year was…
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Hurting Teens Encounter Jesus in their Pain
“I was addicted to bad habits,” said Senura, a Sri Lankan teen. “I used to criticize people who are weaker than me and hurt and traumatize them.” Senura was carrying pain that enabled him to hurt others. But Senura’s life was about to change. Senura participated in a Bible-based Teen Trauma Healing program conducted in 2019 by the Ceylon Bible…
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How to Persevere in Prayer for the Pandemic
I still remember where the framed fabric was displayed in my childhood home. Its timeless words were lovingly sewn on antique cream cloth, etched in jagged blue-thread letters surrounded by beautiful pastel handsewn flowers. The quote read, “Sometimes God calms the storm, and sometimes, He lets the storm rage and calms His child.” After an enduring trudge through 2020, many…
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The Prayer Snapshot: “An Advent to Remember”
Waiting. We’ve done a lot of it this year. We’ve waited for quarantine periods to end, loved ones to recover, covid-19 vaccines, solutions to social injustice issues, and election results. Many of us would agree, there is both joy and pain in waiting. It reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from the popular new show ‘The Chosen’. Andrew…
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This Christmas Sing Your Way to Joy
This year, singing was a common theme. As Covid-19 erupted around the world, thousands turned to singing. From YouTube parodies, to people singing from their balconies, and apartment building sing-a-longs- singing brought communities together. What a wonderful reminder of the power of singing through crisis. That singing helps us express God’s hope and grace amidst crisis and adversity. In this…
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Praise God! First New Testaments for Nigeria’s Epie and Ogbia People
There is great joy in southern Nigeria! Epie and Ogbia speakers now have access to God’s Word in their mother tongues. This momentous milestone was marked by two celebrations. On September 22, 2020, just five years after the Bible translation project got underway, people gathered at the Ogbia Brotherhood Hall to celebrate the completion of the Ogbia New Testament. John…
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