Posts with the category “daniel-fast-2023”

Daniel Fast Day 21
January 22nd, 2023
Life in the day and hour that we are living seems chaotic and out of control. It seems that the odds are stacked against us, especially for people of faith. The tide has turned and is turning to a gre...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 20
January 21st, 2023
There’s this old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” If one picture is worth a thousand words then it goes without saying that a bunch of pictures are worth even more. Put a bunch of pictur...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 19
January 20th, 2023
There is foolishness that seems like wisdom and then there is wisdom that appears to be foolish. The foolishness that appears like wisdom is always rooted in either arrogance or ignorance. Arrogance, ...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 18
January 19th, 2023
One of the most crucial decisions that any of us will make in life is “Who will I listen to?” When we are young, we have an innocence and naïveté about us. We really don’t think much about what we hea...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 17
January 18th, 2023
Have you ever started something that you haven’t finished? Maybe as you’re reading this you are staring at an unfinished project and it is talking to you right now. We all start things. Some of us con...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 16
January 17th, 2023
Endeavoring to live a Christ-like life and helping others to do the same can sometimes seem like a challenging task. Paul talks about the hard work it takes to preach Christ’s message. He also talks a...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 15
January 16th, 2023
People love secrets. What we love even more are secrets revealed. We have television shows, YouTube channels, and podcasts that are dedicated to revealing secrets. Trade secrets, cooking secrets, secr...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 14
January 15th, 2023
The tension between rights and responsibility is at best a tenuous one. Godly people need to be taught the tension between rights versus responsibility. The culture in which we are soaked in is filled...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 13
January 14th, 2023
What a day and age we live in! A day where knowledge is exponentially increasing. Regardless of what field of endeavor you find yourself in, there is a constant progression of thought and information;...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 12
January 13th, 2023
As a kid growing up in a home with other siblings, especially siblings close in age, the phrase, “You’re not the boss of me!” was very often heard and expressed. Humans don’t like to be told what to d...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 11
January 12th, 2023
How do you see Jesus? Before you answer this question, take a moment and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be completely, ruthlessly honest with yourself in how you answer. This is, I believe, the most ...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 10
January 11th, 2023
The greatest transference happened more than 2000 years ago. It happened on a hill. A hill called Golgotha outside the walls of the city of Jerusalem. It was and is and will forever be the greatest re...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 9
January 10th, 2023
There is power available to us so that we can endure, but it isn’t simply power, it is all of God’s glorious power! We don’t have to be a statistic of failure. We can live in the glorious victory of J...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 8
January 9th, 2023
Many people fail to finish the way God intended for them to finish. A very sad and alarming thing we see in our Christian circles is the constant changing of the landscape. What do I mean by that? Som...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 7
January 8th, 2023
There is a phrase or saying in our culture that has become very prevalent. It has become such a part of our culture that we also find it communicated in church circles. But more than it is just being ...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 6
January 7th, 2023
The message of the Good News that impacted the people of Colossae is not a different message than what we are responsible to proclaim to the world today. They heard because someone was willing to prea...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 5
January 6th, 2023
Somebody has got to share the Good News! What good is it to have the best news the world could ever hear, but nobody is willing to tell it? For the church in Colossae their messenger was a guy by the ...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 4
January 5th, 2023
I would shudder to think where I would be without the Good News. We are living in a world and a world system where we are receiving more bad news than anyone can stomach. All we have to do is watch an...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 3
January 4th, 2023
You can live 40 days without food and three days without water, but you cannot live a moment without hope. You need hope to cope. The challenge is to discern between what is true hope and what is fals...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 2
January 3rd, 2023
One of the most powerful songs in the OT is the song that David sang to the Lord when the Lord delivered him from all his enemies. It is found in 2 Samuel 22 and in Psalm 18. His men had slain four mo...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins
Daniel Fast Day 1
January 2nd, 2023
The start of something new can be filled with excitement, trepidation, hope, anxiety, anticipation, or even dread. Something happens to many of us as we approach or enter a new year. We are hopeful. W...  Read More
by Kelley Watkins