
Praise and thanksgiving are the entrance into the courts of God, and the booster rockets to our prayers.

Praise and thanksgiving are the entrance into the courts of God, and the booster rockets to our prayers.

God has a purpose and a plan for each of us, and in Christ, He has already given us all that we need to fulfill that plan.

We need to be careful about the things we allow into heart. We can’t allow Satan to dump his garbage of fear, doubt, and sin in the well of our heart.

The choice is clear: continue in sin and receive the wages due to sin; or turn to Jesus and receive God’s gift of eternal life.
Incidentally, this is the 200th Joyful ‘toon to be published to the site.

You may feel as small and weak as a cub in the face of your troubles, but when you cry out to God, He will hear and come to your rescue.

When trouble comes, when things start heating up, what comes out of you will be whatever you have been putting in.

You may think that your faith is small and ineffective, but the good news is that small faith can grow to be strong faith. Some things that are essential to growing faith are a willing and steadfast heart (Luke 8:15), preaching and teaching of the Word of God (1 Corinthians 3:5-9), and fellowship with and encouragement from other believers (Romans 1:12).

Hope in Jesus gives us a vision of good things to come, and keeps our faith and love from becoming weary and giving in.

We may think that we should get our lives in order BEFORE we invite Jesus to come in. But, the truth is, we will never get our hearts right UNTIL we let Him in. He is the only one who can take our messed up hearts and minds, and begin to transform them into clean, sound hearts and minds.

As Christians, we can do a lot of “good” and “spiritual” things, and we can expend a lot of energy doing them. But, if our “good” deeds do not proceed from a motive of love, they are worthless.