by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 27, 2012 | God's questions, heart change, humility, knowing and understanding God, motives, self-protective sinful strategies, surrender
Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.netAs we continue to move through the book of Job to help us resist a resistant or hardened heart, we find God’s next comments to Job centered on His formation of animals. He started with His creation of earth and the heavens....
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 21, 2012 | dependence, God's questions, guidance, humility, knowing and understanding God, lies, obedience, pruned, repentance, sovereignty, SPSS, surrender, truth
Do you sometimes recognize in yourself a resistant heart to the Lord? Or maybe it’s even as strong as a hard heart? I know that I’ve been convicted of that and I’m grieved by it. At the time, it’s seems impossible to change my heart. At times,...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 8, 2012 | holiness, humility, money, pride, self-protective sinful strategies, Trust
What do you depend upon for your feelings of security or love or peace or satisfaction? We’ve been looking at the book of Obadiah to discover the self-protective sinful strategies that we may not even be aware of in our own lives. In verses 5 and 6, we...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 6, 2012 | holiness, humility, pride, self-protective sinful strategies, surrender
Let’s continue our reading of the book of Obadiah to find another kind of self-protective sinful strategy. Verse 4 says, “‘Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,’...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 26, 2011 | Greece, humility
Our time in Greece is drawing to a close. On Thursday morning we’ll fly out for a two week vacation. We’re continuing to see the Lord work and it’s been both marvelous and humbling. To see how God uses you, especially as a broken vessel, brings great gratitude. I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Apr 12, 2011 | compliments, humility
While in Japan, I got the biggest kick out of the times I complimented a Japanese on their English speaking abilities. They just loved hearing that they spoke English well. I was really surprised at their joy in the compliment.At one point, my sister, niece, and baby...