I’m really not the most responsible car owner. I get my oil changed maybe once a year, and I would almost definitely electrocute myself if I tried to use jumper cables. God has shown up many times when it comes to my car. I guess he knows what’s beyond my limitations! Just last year, at…
Tag: Jesus
40:40 Day 13
Jesus often comes to Muslims in dreams. In one story, a missionary in a Muslim country recounts being greeted on the tarmac in a Middle Eastern country by a man who insisted they must talk. In spite of misgivings,the missionary agreed and they went to a private place where the man explained that a Shining…
40:40 Day 12
God speaks to me through license plates. Not all the time, mind you, but when he does it’s clear and so specific that I can’t believe otherwise. Take, for example, the time I was praying in my car, asking God to let me be completely open and without any pretense before him, laid bare in…
40:40 Day 11
Richmond, from what I’d seen on a weekend trip, was nothing more than a big Manassas. Dingy auto shops and chain restaurants punctuated long sentences of nondescript strip malls on both sides of Broad Street. Couldn’t I know someone in Miami? A fresh start should be exciting, and not contain the country’s largest concentration of…
40:40 Day 9
God wants to be part of our story. Actually, he’s invited us to be part of his story, but many people choose to believe he’s not there, can’t see, doesn’t care. He is there. He sees. He cares. I was planning to move in a couple months. Living on my own, while wonderful for hosting…
40:40 Day 7
GSU My living situation last year got rough. A dear friend with addiction had moved into the spare room, and while things were great for the first couple months, soon it became evident to me that something wasn’t right: he would leave the house in the middle of the night and started acting very defensive…
40:40 Day 6
GSU I have always envied the way God shows up in my best friend’s life. She experiences crazy answer to prayer because she takes crazy steps of faith. About four years ago she and her husband started the journey to adopt two beautiful children from the Democratic Republic of Congo. God’s leading was evident from…
40:40 Day 3
Today’s God Showed Up is one I heard from Francis Chan, a dynamic Chinese-American pastor from California. Francis is serious about God and heartbroken about the state of the church in America. His life and teaching demonstrate a fierce passion for the people of God to live according to God’s word and for God’s kingdom….
40:40 Day 2
Happy Tuesday! In case you missed yesterday’s post, I’m committing to 40 days of remembering God’s faithfulness to bolster my faith, and 40 days of prayer, knowing God can do all that we pray for and more according to His will if we only have the faith to ask! Today’s GSU (God Showed Up) Story:…
40:40 Day One
Silence fills the room. The lamp glows, warm and sunny over soft blankets and small stacks of books and journals. I’ve just finished my first week of a new forty days of prayer, and as I snuggle in on a quiet Sunday night, I can’t help but wonder if I’m really making a difference. When…
