Hope For Today

Hiding God's Word In My Heart If you would like to listen to today's devotion instead of reading it please click  here Dear Friends,  Do you struggle to memorise Scripture? It's been a long time since I was really serious about it. Years ago, I would regularly and easily learn Bible verses when I attended Sunday School and children's clubs at church.  Now I find it so much harder. I'm sure it's partly because of my age and partly due to having M.E. which has negatively affected my ability to concentrate and retain information. However, neither of these reasons are good enough to excuse me from trying to memorise God's Word.  This year I'm taking part in Kristi Woods' Scripture Memory Program. ( http://kristiwoods.net/ ) The aim is to memorise the whole of Psalm 34  one verse at a time through 2018.  Why should you and I memorise Scripture? Basically, I believe it's for our good. God commands it. Jesus modeled it whe...

Dear Friends, Have you ever felt inadequate when it comes to speaking into the lives of those around you?  When they come to you for some words of comfort, support, advice, do you worry that you won't have the right things to say to them?  Do you believe that you're not the best person for them to be talking to?  Do you compare yourself with others and think they really should be speaking with so and so because they always know just what needs to be said and how to say it?  I admit that there have been plenty of times when I have felt just like that.  I have believed that I just don't have the wisdom to know what they need to hear and have thought that they would be better off speaking with someone else. I have found great encouragement in a particular verse from Isaiah: "The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know how to comfort the weary.  Morning by morning he wakens me and opens my understanding to his will."  Isaiah...