Summer Update – 2021

Dear Faithful Readers, I want to thank you for your consistent support of the God’s Word Gives Hope blog. Your reading, sharing, and comments encourage me to continue the work God has placed on my heart to lead people into God’s Word as a primary source for direction and encouragement in their lives. I will…

Prosperous Possibilities

Listen “In all they do, they prosper.” We desire it, we feel we need it, but we don’t know how to get it. Scroll through Facebook, browse the books at the checkout, or look at the ads that pop up on our computers; they are there. The numerous options are there enticing us to better…

Helpless To Helped

“My heart trusts in God, and he helps me.” It was cold, cloudy, wet, and dreary the weekend we traveled to Cartersville, Georgia, to interview for a potential staff position at a church. Our daughter was eighteen at the time and son fourteen, both plenty old enough to stay by themselves in our sunny warm…

Undone Dreams

“For you, LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.” Am I where I desired to be at this point in my life? No! I am not where I expected to be at this point in my life. I had dreams, aspirations, and a personal God-given mission. How does one deal with the disheartening…

When God Smiles

 “May the LORD smile on you…” The smile of a toddler when they see their mom has arrived to pick them up. The smile of friends when seeing each other for the first time in years. The heart of a parent glowing on the face when their son or daughter has returned safely and willingly…

Can Christmas Be Stress Free?

Revised post from December 2012 “Focus, Silas, focus,” seems to play like a broken record around our house these days. Off to accomplish the simple instruction to brush his teeth, which should be a quiet affair. From the bathroom, I hear singing and the countertop has become the little drummer boy’s drum. Instead of yelling from…

Is God Taking A Break?

Distant, unconcerned, lack of power, and control is the God described in the popular series called Supernatural. We wonder sometimes, when things do not happen on our time table or things do not happen in the way we feel makes the most sense, if God has taken an extended leave of absence. The time I…