Marlene Patrick-Cooper

Wait and Pray

God simply wants us to be humble, be prayerful and be obedient to His will and His way. We just need to take a little time to pause in the midst of life's pressures to look to the Lord whose promises…

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NET)

Glory to God

I'm still here, thanks be to God. My pledge to you, my awesome God is to continue to strive to walk Your path, for Your purposes and according to Your will. To always remember that You, my awesome God,…

Let Go and Let God

The highest call on our life is to enjoy God. We can't enjoy Him if we are convinced He is upset with us. Jesus came to deliver us from the wrong kind of fear in our relationship with our heavenly Father.…

Jeremiah 1:5 (NLT)

Thanksgiving Everyday

In Deuteronomy 5:15 Moses gave the Israelites God’s Ten Commandments. As Moses related “Observe the Sabbath day,” he challenged the people with this sentence: “Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and…

Deuteronomy 5:15 (NLT)

Praise for the Lord's Mercies

I will bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me, I will bless His holy name, His praises shall continually be in my mouth. My God is so good to me, yea yeah!!! God is a good God. He is a Savior…

Psalm 103:1 (NLT)

Do the Right Thing

Remain in faith and trust God. Powerful results happen when you do what is right. Doing right is high-tech spiritual warfare. It puts you in a position where the devil can't affect you, because you have…

Psalm 37:1 (NLT), Psalm 37:2 (NLT), Psalm 37:3 (NLT)

Bend before you break

We should be willing to readily adjust ourself to to people, things & siituations. By learning to be adaptable, we christians don't have to operate on the world's system, reacting like world. The world…

Romans 12:16 (NLT), Romans 12:17 (NLT), Romans 12:18 (NLT)

Waiting on the Lord

Not receiving an immediate answer to prayer is no reason to give up faith. Waiting for God is never a waste of time. Not ours to know the reason why unanswered is our prayer, but ours to wait for God's…

Isaiah 30:18 (NLT)

Try Jesus

Even when we are at the lowest of low, when we feel doubt ourself, when our self-confidence is shaky, when we are off our "A" game; there is a name above all names, He is constantly opening doors no man…

Psalm 91:1 (NLT)

Praise Him, Praise Him!!

What an awesome God, what a merciful God. Coming out of a situation where in the beginning I was intimidated when actually I was allowing the situation to overshadow these facts "I know my God is able;…

Conscience and Repentance

What a friend we have in Jesus. Even while our flesh is plotting & planning how we are going to tell so and so a piece of our mind; God (our conscience) is riding our shoulders saying "My child , don't…

Jeremiah 7:23 (NLT)

Hold to God's Unchanging Hand

Only Jesus Christ and God's Word offer us complete security in this world. Praise God that Christ cannot betaken away from us, nor can we be snatched out of His hands, nor will He ever leave us or forsake…

2 Samuel 23:8 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:9 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:10 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:11 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:12 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:13 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:14 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:15 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:16 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:17 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:18 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:19 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:20 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:21 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:22 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:23 (NLT), 2 Samuel 23:24 (NLT)

By the grace of God

Growing up, my grandparents & parents always used the phrase "by the grace of God.". Even as a child I knew this meant if God wanted to He was able to will goodness in situations. As an adult, growing…

2 Peter 3:18 (NLT)

Pressing Forward

Respect the past, expect the future. We must trust God's grace with our future; trust Him by being still in His waiting room.