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Happy New Year 2025 Wishes

Happy New Year 2025

Here at Delight-in-God.com, we want to wish you a very Happy New Year 2025!

Do you have any resolutions yet?

My list is growing.

Yes, watching my weight is on there.
Did you have to ask? 😉

The most important resolutions for me are to:

Read the entire Bible again

Subscribe to a daily devotional

Memorize my favorite Psalm

If you have no idea where to start, here’s a good resource you can explore for a Bible reading plan and daily devotional.

Happy New Year 2025 Wishes

My New Year 2025 wish for you would be to get ready for what God has in store for us.

Does it feel to you like the world is changing rapidly?

Remember, God is already there.

And, things that we don’t like are going to happen this year.

It’s a fact of life in a fallen world.

Even so, God allows it all, and He is already there at the end of it.

Will you walk with Him through the challenges, or put Him on the back burner and go through your struggles alone?

God’s plans are perfect.

His timing, His timing, His timing.

Have I mentioned “His timing?”

No matter what you face this year, God loves you.

You and me are His children.

Speaking with the skeptical religious leaders of the day, our Shepherd Savior spoke the following timeless words.

27 My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” – John 10:27-30, (NASB).1

 

May they serve as a blessed reminder to us today that we belong to Him forever!

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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

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Merry Christmas 2024

Merry Christmas 2024 To You and Yours

Merry Christmas 2024 and Glory to God in the Highest!

Here at Delight in God, we wish you a Merry Christmas filled with much love and joy as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” – Luke 1:30-33, (NASB).1

Merry Christmas 2024

The great news is that it’s all true!

Nothing is Impossible For God – Merry Christmas 2024

For our Sovereign God, nothing is impossible.

We need to be convinced of the sovereign, life-giving power of God to do what is far beyond anything we can ask or think. We need to remember that the truth of Messiah’s birth should conceive in us an appreciation for the sovereignty of God, for with God nothing is impossible. The One who created the world from nothing caused a virgin to conceive by the Holy Spirit. Nothing is too hard for God, for which reason (1) there is no sin so bad that cannot be forgiven; (2) there is no heart so hard that cannot be softened; (3) there is no person so distant from God who cannot be brought near; (4) there is no trial so heavy that it cannot be sustained; (5) there is no promise so great that it cannot be fulfilled; (6) there is no barrier so strong that it cannot be overcome. For the Bible reminds us that “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Cor. 12:9); and “If God is for us, who is against us?” ( Rom. 8:31). Well should we declare, “Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift” (2 Cor. 9:15). – Pastor Roger Pascoe, courtesy of Bible.org.2

 

A special thanks to One Voice Children’s Choir for their beautiful and jazzy rendition of the beloved Christmas hymn, “Joy To The World.”

You may want to turn up the volume on your speakers for this one!

Merry Christmas 2024

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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

2 Roger Pascoe, “The Greatest Birth Announcement Ever: Unto Us A Son IS Given (Luke1:26-38).” Copyright ©1996-2020 Bible.org, reprinted with permission.)

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A Heart Full Of Thanks

With A Heart Full of Thanks

A heart full of thanks

Dear Christian – do you want to know how much you are loved?

These Bible verses from Ephesians, which exhibit God’s great mercy, can help to serve as a reminder.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. – Ephesians 2:4-7, (NASB).1

There are so many encouragements like these verses found in God’s Word.

What an impact God’s promises will have on us!

Even though we are undeserving sinners, through Jesus, we have His gift of salvation.

We choose to repent because of His transforming work in us.

That is great news to be grateful for.

With a heart full of thanks, we can come to His throne and know that because of His “great love”, we will live with Him in eternity.

Recently, I came across a beautiful version of a Brandon Lake song that I couldn’t wait to share.

The song is called “Gratitude”.

Please enjoy talented harpist and vocalist, Megan Tibbits, in this uplifting and beautiful cover.

You may want to turn your sound up for this one.

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1 Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

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Happy Thanksgiving 2024

Celebrating a Happy Thanksgiving 2024

On this Thanksgiving 2024, my husband and I want to sincerely thank you for your tremendous support and kind words.

We’ve had the blessing of talking with a few of you and are extremely grateful for your continued encouragement.

Many years ago when I had to quit my job as a TV reporter, I thought that was the end of everything.

Career, goals, a certain future . . . a life tied up in a neat little bow.

But God had other plans.

He shifted my passion to writing about Him.

Through every experience we’ve been through as a family (many shared here on my blog) our faith has only grown stronger.

God has touched my life in countless ways. I have felt His presence so many times, even during difficult circumstances.

I can’t help but think back to the year 1997, lying in that pitch black dark hospital room.

It was around 2:00 a.m. in the morning, my leg was in an uncomfortable cast, and emotional thoughts about our niece who lost her life at our family reunion haunted me. I was full of questions and grief.

God sent an angel to my hospital room that morning . . . literally.  Of course, all glory goes to God, not to His messenger. 

Dearest Heavenly Father, I know that You spared my life for a reason.

No matter what challenges head my way, distractions to throw me off or weaken my faith, You have never left my side.

Thank You for blessing me with a heart for writing about You, and for allowing me to share Your message of hope and love with others. May your Holy Spirit always give me the right words to say.

My goal is that each post I write is a testament to Your greatness.

Thank You God, and thank you for sending us Your Son.

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, God bless you and may you have an amazing year ahead.

Happy Thanksgiving 2024

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The Beauty of God’s Sunsets

Embracing The Beauty of God’s Sunsets

The beauty of God's sunsets

A glorious Texas sunset

An unnamed poet once wrote, “Sunsets are just little glimpses of the golden streets of heaven.”

I don’t think I could have said it better.  🙂

Have you ever witnessed a sunset that takes your breath away?

Praising God for His beautiful sunsets

To God be the Glory!

As the day comes to a close, the sun’s last ray’s delicately kiss the horizon for one last time, and the sky overhead descends into darkness.

Simple quiet moments reflecting on this and the beauty of God’s sunsets are priceless.

Thank you God for the perfect ending to another day!

Beyond
Poet: Unknown

The sunset’s crown of radiant gold
And robe of amethyst
Had paled to twilight gray and cold
And trembling veils of mist;
Then, up in the heaven the white moon sailed,
And, gleaming in her wake,
Her silvery shimmering garments trailed –
A shining way, in shadows veiled,
Across the dusky lake.

The darkness quenched the sunset hues;
Day, shrouded, sank in night;
Yet through the gloom and through the dews
Still trailed that track of light.
No wind bore upward hymn or prayer,
No step throbbed on the sod,
And yet my soul saw opened there –
Cross lake, o’er mount, through ambient air –
A shining path to God.

O coward soul, that fears to miss
The glow from out thy sky,
That shrinks from sorrow’s touch and kiss
When shades are drawing nigh, –
Beyond the night’s o’ershadowing form
Light gleams on wave and sod,
And thou mayst climb – thy robe and crown
Faded and in the dust laid down –
That shining way to God.

1 Photo meme features a Scripture quotation from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

2 Poet unknown poem featured courtesy of Catherine Pulsifer. “Beyond.” [online post]. From stresslesscountry.com, ©Catherine Pulsifer, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, n.d. Web. Accessed November 14, 2024. Beyond

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