“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.” ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭2‬:‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬ I recently found myself pondering this passage and the significance of the white stone. It seems like a small detail and its significance can be overlooked but all Scripture is God breathed which

It never ceases to amaze me the lessons God speaks to me when I paint. Tonight I gazed at my current painting frustrated with the way some of the colors streaked and left uneven coloring. I picked up a brush to “try and fix it” even though I wasn’t really liking it at the moment. The first brush stroke, then the next, repeated until I changed colors. Little by little the image became clearer. Each of the flaws faded into the canvas. Much like our lives when something doesn’t

Have you ever felt that you disappointed God? Have you ever worried that you let Him down? You haven’t, you didn’t and you never could. So often we approach relationships this way but God never does. He knew every time you would stumble, every time you would sin, every mistake, every willful bad choice and He never turned His heart away. God doesn’t build relationships on expectations or hopes. He paved the way for us to be in relationship with Him because He loved us despite

In Biblical Hebrew, the word for rainbow translates to "war bow" (like an archer's bow). By pointing the bow upward, away from the earth, it signifies the end of God's wrath and a peaceful covenant with humanity Genesis 9:12-15 “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. It shall be,