Thursday, May 18, 2006

Enriched

Mountain Laurel

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion.--2 Corinthians 9:10-11a

Fountain of Life

Sweet Canada Violet

For with you [O LORD] is the fountain of life; in your light we we light.--Psalm 36:9

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Eternal Kingdom

Trillium grandiflora

For He is the living God and He endures forever; His kingdom will not be destroyed, His dominion will never end.--Daniel 6:26b

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Sweet Blessings

Green-headed Coneflower

The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.--Zephaniah 3:17

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

No Bounds

Dwarf Crested Iris

Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.--Psalm 36:5-6

Friday, April 14, 2006

Level Path

Mountain Gentian

This is what the LORD says: I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble.--Jeremiah 31:9b

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Steadfast

Obedient Plant

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD is the Rock eternal.--Isaiah 24:3-4

Friday, March 24, 2006

Healing

Turk's-Cap Lily

I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily.--Hosea 14:4-5

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Amazed

Sweet Betsy Trillium

LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.--Habakkuk 3:2

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Dead to Sin and Death

Dead Wild Hydrangea

We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.--Romans 6:6

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Plea

Bloodroot

Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.—Psalm 36:10

Monday, March 20, 2006

God's Glory

Long-spurred Violet

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.--2 Corinthians 4:6

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Bound by His Word

Clingman's Hedgenettle

The LORD declares, "I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD."--Hosea 2:19-20

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The LORD does good

Dwarf Crested Iris

...But this is what the LORD, God of Israel, says:..."I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good...."--Jeremiah 32:42

Rewards of Obedience

Showy Orchis

...But this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:..."I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children after them."--Jeremiah 32:39

God's People

Mountain Myrtle

...But this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:... "They will be my people, and I will be their God."--Jeremiah 32:38

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Strength

Bloodroot

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.--Ecclesiastes 4:9-10,12

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Peace with God

Wild Blue Phlox

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.--Romans 5:1-2 (NAS)

Monday, December 19, 2005

A Gracious God

Pink Dogwood

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you. And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; how blessed are all those hwo long for Him.--Isaiah 31:18

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Perfect Gift

Curtiss' Milkwort

Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow.--James 1:17 (NASV)