4 Reasons God’s Word is the Truth We Need

So much of the chaos surrounding America and the world stems from the absence of truth. God is Truth and His Word is Truth. And the Bible is the Truth we need.

When it comes to what the world says versus God’s Word, I’m going with God every time.

Why? Because truth is not up for debate. God’s holy Word wins hands down. 

Let’s look at 4 things that make God’s Word the truth we need. Especially in the current state of our world.

(1.) God-breathed and Useful: God’s Truth

God’s Word comes from Him, the Creator, and sets the standards for how to live the Christian life. 

The Bible is alive, the living Word of God. 

But how do we go about living God’s Word? And how does the Bible show through in our lives? 

Living Scripture in our daily lives equates to a life of no compromise. Because our goals, desires, values, morals, and decisions are affected by Scripture. Also, our relationships, lifestyle, worldview, heart, mind, and so on, stay bent toward scriptural truths. 

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV, emphasis added)

Notice this verse doesn’t say some Scripture is good for you to live a pleasing life to the Lord. No, “all” Scripture, the whole counsel of God from Genesis to Revelation. And it’s breathed out (living), and profitable in living the Christian faith. Because it trains us in righteousness. 

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(2.) Nourishing and Sustaining

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12 Prayers for Things We Exchange with God

Have you ever made an exchange and received the best end of the deal?

In elementary school, I exchanged notebooks with a girl in my class. Her pink and glitter cover dazzled and captured my attention. But my notebook paled in comparison. 

So, I wondered why she ever agreed to such an uneven exchange.

Then I realized exchanges with God are the same, my meager for His ample.

So I begin praying prayers of exchange.

Here are 12 prayers for powerful exchanges using scriptures.

Exchange Our Measly

1.) Our lack for His bounty.

“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance” Psalm 65:11, NIV.

Father, You are abundant and bountiful. Exchange the areas where I lack spiritually, with Your wonderful bounty. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

2.) Our shame for God’s mercy.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved” Ephesians 2:4-5, ESV.

Lord, thank You for Your great mercy. Help me to keep exchanging shame for mercy. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

3.) Our sorrow for the Lord’s joy. 

“And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away” Isaiah 35:10, ESV.

Lord, exchange my sorrow in this life for Your everlasting joy. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

4.) Our darkness for His light.

“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” 1 John 1:5, ESV.

God, I long for Your light in a dark world, thank You for giving me the light of Christ. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

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Hope Changes Your Life Forever

Do life’s hurts, heartaches, and injustices leave you feeling hopeless? Me too. But there’s something I want you to know. You are never far from hope. And hope changes your life forever.

All humans hope.

Still, sometimes things turn out differently than we hoped.

But the Bible tells us authentic hope is found in the God of hope.

So let’s look at 4 ways hope changes our life forever.

(1.) Life’s Drive-Thru Window Lacks Hope

Just as we often end up with the wrong order or a problem with our order at a drive-thru window, the world offers us hope that fizzles and fades away.

The only choices on the menu offer false promises. High hopes placed in people, programs, possessions, money, goals, careers, or religion. None of these serve us well.

People fail us. Programs unravel. Possessions leave us hollow. Money never satisfies. Unreached goals magnify our weaknesses. Aspiring careers crash. And religion commands our tireless effort.

God’s Word offers a hope established before drive-thru windows…before the world even existed.

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31 ESV). The NIV states it, “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.”

The only hope worth waiting on comes straight from the ample, fully-stocked windows of heaven. No drive-thru service needed. This is a real and lasting hope found in the true Hope-Giver.

(2.) Hope in True Love: Hope Changes Your Life

“He loves me, he loves me not.”

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Confident God’s Working for Our Good

Have you ever questioned what God’s doing? My hand’s raised. But once we know how God thinks about us and sees us, then we are confident God’s working for our good.

I used to flat out question God in a particular situation.

Because I couldn’t fathom the end result and even wondered if the Lord really wanted my good.  

Like when I lost a job and lost a baby in utero.

And the times I didn’t get the job or the award or the “thing” I wanted. 

Also, when my father died and the ache never seemed to go away. 

Oh, there’s more lost hopes and dreams along the way. And I imagine for you, too.

Even now, I still have to remind my heart to go to God’s Word, since Scripture reminds us of truths that point to how God’s working for our good.

I pray each reminder encourages you of God’s never ending love, care, affection, and good for you.

God loves us with a sunup to sundown, 24/7 kind of love: Confident God’s Working

God’s love is a sure love…never lost, only found. And it gives us hope in a guaranteed pledge of love that’s never eliminated from our lives.

“This I call to mind and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.” Lamentations 3:21-22 (ESV)

Look at how this love is described in Ephesians 3:18-19 when the Apostle Paul noted how he prayed for the church:

“..may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (NIV, emphasis added)

God loves us with a sunup to sundown, 24/7 kind of love. “This I call to mind and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.” Lamentations 3:21-22 (ESV) Share on X

The Lord always works behind the scenes on our behalf.

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Have We Forgotten Our God Never Fails?

The world seems to have gone half mad and continues to spin out of control. If you’re anything like me, “breaking news” also breaks my trust in positions, programs, and people. But in the midst of all the uncertainty, I’m reminded that our God never fails. Never. 

While we fail, this is never the case with our faithful and Almighty God.

He never fails His children. And He never fails as God. Because it’s outside God’s capacity to fail at anything. 

Humanly speaking, failing is a natural part of life. But God is supernatural, failing is not in His wheelhouse. 

So we learn from our own failures, how to cope with difficult life circumstances, and try to find peace in all the world’s chaos.

Still, let’s look at 5 ways to remind our hearts that God never fails (F-A-I-L-S).

F – Focus on God’s ability: God never fails

God “is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us.” Ephesians 2:20 (ESV)

There’s not a better time to really know who God is and what God does than right now in our nation and world. 

We trust God’s ability, not our own.

God. Is. Able. 

A – Acknowledge God’s sovereignty

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