In 1 Kings chapter 19, we encounter an exhausted Elijah. He prays to die and the Lord provides him with fresh bread and water. He goes into the cave and then experiences the majestic presence of God in the form of a gentle whisper. God asks him twice “What are you doing here?” Elijah responds […]
I figuratively hit a wall last week. Last weekend, after cooking my 6th meal in a row, I almost lost it. It really wasn’t the cooking that did me in. It was the prepping, cooking, eating, and clean up which only left me room to do a load of laundry before this cycle started all […]
Pound the Rock. “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did […]
The day before my grandmother, (Ammachi) passed away, I sat with her at my parents’ kitchen table. She was reading and studying the Word of God. Less than 24 hours later, her earthly body lay on a hospital bed. I couldn’t help but think of Elijah. I thought of God’s anointing on Elijah’s life and […]
Make Him Known
It was the first day of his sophomore year of college. My son was enrolled in BIOL1322. It was a small class, so the professor asked everyone to go around and give a quick introduction