The Morning Watch

I have this friend. We met several years ago under interesting circumstances. I was planning to drive a couple of hours to meet up with friends for a road trip that would take us to a conference in Idaho, USA. The night we were to leave, my car broke down, and I was going to have to cancel my plans to join them, but I got a phone call from a stranger. This stranger told me she would be coming to pick me up the following morning, leaving her house at 3 a.m. on her birthday, so that I would not miss the conference which she had attended prior, and was so encouraged by. Needless to say, this stranger became a very close friend. Although older and wiser, our hearts were knit together by a mutual love for a mutual Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ. We have kept in touch over the years, and recently started meeting at a halfway point, which happens to be the Doughnut Mill in what is known as "Gasoline Alley," near Redeer, AB. At the Doughnut Mill, she orders her usual Chocolate Ecl...

Do you ever have those moments where you’ve been in prayer, seeking the Lord, and then, in the most unexpected places He comforts you with His truth? It happened to me today while at an appointment. I noticed a verse on the wall. Hebrews 11:1. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Have you been there friend? In a place where there seems to be no hope? Abraham and Sarah found themselves there after they were promised a son, and he didn’t seem to be coming, at least on their timetable. But it says that Abraham believed God. The following scripture passage is taken from Romans 4, God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be." And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), ...