Author: Inspirations By Katheryn

I am kind of a world traveler. I have lived in Korea, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, Canada, Afghanistan, India and USA. I remember when President Kennedy was assassinated, watched the first human walk on the moon, Alaska became a state, President Kennedy & Martin Luther King were shot, and the first human walked on the moon. I remember when the first Star Wars movie came out, 900 religiously misguided humans committed suicide in Guyana, when Microsoft was "invented" and the Ayatollah Khoumeini took over Iran, kicked out western companies (employers) and returned his country to the dark ages. I WAS THERE WHEN MOUNT SAINT HELENS BLEW. I remember when the Berlin Wall fell, the Internet was created, the first warm-blooded animal was cloned (a sheep) and the Hubble Telescope was launched - all in the 1980s. And you?

Tuesday 4/2 ~ He does not take “no” for an answer

On April 2, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, Daily, good works, Inspirational, love, problems, Thanksgiving2 Comments

The scripture for today, April 2 (4/2), is Exodus 4:2f as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“Then the Lord said to him, ‘What is that in your hand?’ “A staff,’ he replied.”

God had just called Moses to go into Egypt and free his people from their slavery ~ one man against an entire nation. Moses objected that he couldn’t do it. Five times In Exodus 3 and 4 he argued with God. “BUT I’m not famous,” “BUT they won’t believe I come from the God of their ancestors,” “BUT they won’t believe God sent me, “BUT I’m not a good speaker,” “JUST send someone else.”

Then God replied, “What is that in your hand?”.

Moses had a staff. God showed him how to use it to perform miracles. Today, are you using excuses to claim there is nothing you can do to show the love of God? “What is that in your hand?” It is a steering wheel, a shovel, thread, a computer, a spoon, a wrench, a cookbook, a band-aid. Whatever is in your hand, God can use to bless people through you.

God does not take ‘no’ for an answer. God challenges you. He wants to stretch you to do what you think you cannot do. You are God’s hands and feet. Go ahead. Use them. Today.

What would people do for good works if none of us was ever sick, ever was in an accident, never lost a job, never lost a house in fire or flood? God can turn every bad thing into something good. A HANDBOOK OF 500 GOOD WORKS is full of ideas for every age and every size community. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2UcVX8z

#GoodWorks, #excuses, #sick, #ill, #handicapped, #poor, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Monday 4/1 ~ Rise Up!

On April 1, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn death, Heaven, persecution, Saved from hell, teaching1 Comment

The scripture for today, April 1 (4/1), is Ephesians 4:1 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”

Paul, imprisoned for spreading the word about Jesus? Now he wants others to follow his example, even if they end up in prison like him?

Did Paul’s incarceration stop the Christians he was writing to from spreading the word? More, did Jesus’ crucifixion stop them for fear they would be crucified too? Did early Christians decide it was too dangerous to tell people the way to escape hell and go to heaven? Never.

They loved people’s souls so much, they were willing to take insults, persecution, imprisonment and even death in the hopes their persistent love would eventually lead to people becoming Christians and being saved from eternal hell. They knew their “calling” as Christians.

How about today? Do you live a life worthy of your calling as a Christian? Do you stand up for Jesus and reach out to the lost, regardless of how they treat you? Or do you cower and use the excuse, “Once people see my godly life, they will ask me how to be saved”? How many times do the lost really do that?

Rise up! Stand tall as a brave soldier of the Lord. Dare to march into enemy territory and do everything you can to snatch the lost out of the claws of Satan.

No matter what they do to you.

PAUL: THE UNSTOPPABLE told people how to be saved from hell, knowing their leaders would try to kill him. Each time he was beaten and lashed, he would cry out, “Jesus! This is for you!” To BUY this novel now, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FG8tmL

#persecution, #heaven, #hell, #Satan, #devil, #prisoner, #roadblocks, #hurdles, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Sunday 3/31 ~ Family

On April 1, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn church, Daily, family, forgiveness, judging, love, patience, worshipLeave a comment

The scripture for today, March 31 (3/31), is Mark 3:31ff as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him and they told him, ‘Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.’ ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.’ “

Do you need a mediator between Jesus and yourself? Jesus said his followers are his brothers, sisters, and mother. You do not need anyone to intercede and beg Jesus to give you special attention (I Timothy 2:5). He already gives us special attention. After all, we are his family.

Oh, how comforting. No one has a perfect family here on earth. You love your family anyway. It is the same with Jesus’ family ~ the church. We are not perfect. But we forgive each other just as Jesus forgives us. Do not refuse to be with Jesus’ family because of someone’s imperfections of offenses. Ephesians 5:23 and elsewhere say Jesus is the head and we are his body. To break away from Jesus’ body is to break away from Jesus ~ our Brother, our Savior, the Lover of Your Soul.

No matter how dangerous the world was in Jesus’ time, JOSEPH: THE OTHER FATHER protected his step-son.

To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FH8HKA

#family, #church, #body, #brother, #sister, #mother, #forgiveness, #patience, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Saturday 3/30 ~ Think. Think long and hard.

On March 30, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn ego, ethics, humility, power, sacrifice, sin1 Comment

The scripture for today, March 30 (3/30), is John 3:30 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“He must become greater; I must become less.”

This is John the Baptist speaking. He had a great following. People “were constantly coming to be baptized” by John (3:23). He had it made! But at the height of his popularity, he said, “I will be stepping down soon.”

Can you do this? Are you at the height of your popularity, perhaps at a club, an organization, church? Could you step down if someone more qualified than you came along? Or will you say, “I started this _______, and I was here first, so this is my project!”?

Look inside. Deep inside. What are your motives for doing good? Selfish ambition or love for others? 1st Corinthians 13:1 says that, even if I offer my body to be burned and do not have love, it benefits me nothing.

Jesus warned, “Be careful not to do your acts of righteousness before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.”

Think. Think long and hard. Do you have some repenting to do? Father in heaven, help me see myself the way You do.

A CHILD’S BIBLE HEROES: ISAAC & JACOB is about Jacob who just had to be ahead of everyone else, so he lied and cheated in order to be first. He never saw the big picture and what it was doing to others. He had to be broken. It took 20 years in exile before he understood how to be honest and good. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FIkHvr

#ego, #pride, #selfishness, #humility, #steppingdown, #leadership, #power, #sacrifice, #humility, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Friday 3/29 ~ Obscure Greatness

On March 29, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn church, governments, Inspirational, judging, persecution, sacrifice, worshipLeave a comment

The scripture for today, March 29 (3/29), is Luke 3:29 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“…the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi….”

Who in the world were these five men: Joshua, Eliezer, Jorim, Matthat, and Levi? Some were named after famous Jews, but no one in this list was famous himself. In fact, nothing else is said in the Bible about any of these men. They’re just a single name in a single but long list made in obscurity.

Who were they that they earned even one brief mention in the Bible?

They were ancestors of Joseph, the human “father” of Jesus. What else? They were born and survived long enough to have sons. Not important at the time? No, but eventually it was.

We read obituaries and sometimes wonder about our own. Our whole life reduced to born, married, had a job, had children, died. That’s it. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just another one of billions in the world having come and gone.

Hold on! Maybe not!

Maybe your life, as ordinary as it seems now, will someday serve a greater purpose through your descendant or someone you become friends with. In a later generation ~ maybe ten or twenty generations from now ~ someone may do something extremely important for souls of the world. And it was made possible because of your “unordinary life” way back in the early twenty-first century when you survived one day at a time.

WORSHIP CHANGES SINCE THE FIRST CENTURY not only tells who made the changes but also those who resisted and were tortured to death. We only know the names of many of them and nothing about their family and life. Meet those who attained obscure greatness. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2U5NWlG

#obscure, #unimportant, #ancestor, #descendant, #ordinary, #hero, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Listen!

On March 28, 2019 By Inspirations By KatherynIn InspirationalLeave a comment

Mitch Teemley

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” ~David W. Augsburger

“The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.” ~Alfred Brendel

“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ~Shannon L. Alder

“Our entire theological tradition…is defined as the willingness to enter into the chaos of others.” ~Jesuit priest and writer James F. Keenan, S.J

And don’t forget the Source: “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”~Criss Jami

View original post

March 28 (3/28) ~ Forgiven

On March 28, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn Bible, Daily, ego, forgiveness, Inspirational, knowledge, Scripture, sin, truth1 Comment

The scripture for today, March 28 (3/28), is Mark 3:28f as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

“I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.”

This is confusing to many because we aren’t sure what it means to speak against the Holy Spirit. Jesus clarifies it in John 14:17 where he said he was going to send to us another Comforter, the Spirit of Truth. And in John 17:17 he said God’s Word ~ the Bible ~ is Truth.

If we refuse to believe what is in the Bible, then we are going to refuse to believe in a Savior and refuse to repent of our sins. These things are unforgivable because God cannot forgive someone who does not believe in Jesus, likes to sin, and refuses to repent.

Have you ever tried reading the Bible through in a year? You could divide all the pages in your Bible by 365 so you know how many pages to read each day. If it’s too much for you, the New Testament half of the Bible was written to the Christians. Read God’s Word. It will fill you with an amazing amount of knowledge and understanding, all from the Holy Spirit ~ the Spirit that communes with your spirit.

THE HOLY SPIRIT: 592 VERSES EXAMINED looks at every verse in the Bible to find out what God’s opinion is of His Spirit, not our opinion. This is a short book at a low price. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FzldM9

#unforgivable, #eternity, #HolySpirit, #repent, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Wednesday 3/26 ~ When? Today? Tomorrow?

On March 26, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn #Handicaps, Daily, good works, problems1 Comment

The scripture for today, March 27 (3/27), is Proverbs 3:27f as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, ‘Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow’ ~ when you now have it with you.”

Christians generally are good people. They stay out of trouble at work and in the neighborhood. They obey the laws. They don’t use profanity, they don’t lie, they don’t cheat, they don’t steal, they don’t commit adultery, they don’t murder. These are bad things Christians don’t do ~ sins of commission.

But what about good things Christians should do but do not do? Too busy to stop and look around you for someone needing help? Too busy to drive someone to the doctor, or watch a child when a parent is sick, or fix a meal when a family is bereaved, or send a card for someone’s birthday, or call someone who is lonely? Too shy to say something to someone in distress? Too afraid to bring up heaven and hell to a lost one? These are sins! Sins of omission and they are just as serious.

Today, look around you. Who needs you? Not needs your neighbor, or a relative, or someone else at work, or one of the other members of your congregation, but you? You! When do they need you? Not tomorrow or next month or next year, but today!

Get out of your comfort zone. Quit committing sins of omission. Make a point to do something for someone else. When? Today. Too busy? What if God made as much time for you and you do for others?

APPLIED CHRISTIANITY: A HANDBOOK OF 500 GOOD WORKS. Ideas for good works for all ages and all types of communities. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FuXKM1

#GoodWorks, #sick, #benevolent, #time, #omit, #commit, #prisoner, #children, #orphans, #widows, #handicapped, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Monday 3/24 ~Flaming Hope with a Flickering Candle

On March 25, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn Bible, discouragement, emptiness, healing, Inspirational, Loss, love, patienceLeave a comment

The scripture for today, March 25 (3/25), is Lamentations 3:25 as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.”

That’s all? Just hope? I don’t have to have a deep, deep faith for God to be good to me? All I have to do is hope he exists? Hope he loves everyone. Hope he loves me?

Were you raised by atheists or have you attended a university where professors criticize theists (believers in God)? Have you been told deity is just the essence of the universe with no personality? Are you confused by it all? You can still hope there is only the One God who does exist, has personality, knows your name and loves you.

Have you had a major tragedy in your life and can’t understand how a good God could allow that bad thing to happen (heaven on earth)? Do you live among people who believe all the gods in the world are the One God, so don’t pay special attention to any of them?

Amidst such confusion, is it hard for you to sort it all out and have faith in the One God of the Bible? What is faith anyway? It is the evidence of what you hope for. If you cannot go so far as to say you have a deep faith in the One God, you can still hope! Keep that hope alive. Let the Lord be good to you.

DREAM MAKER: For thousands of years, people had been dreaming for God to keep his promise to come to earth and rule personally. The angel said Jesus’ name was to be Emmanuel ~ “God With Us”. In Book 2 of the THEY MET JESUS series, Jesus goes public and one by one began recruiting his 12. TO BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2FpLD2U

#dreams, #hope, #faith, #goodness, #seeker, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Sunday 3/24 ~ Never, ever take it for granted

On March 24, 2019July 15, 2025 By Inspirations By KatherynIn Bible, Holy Spirit, Inspirational, knowledge, Scripture, truthLeave a comment

The scripture for today March 24 (3/24), is 1st John 3:24 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”

Some people think we can tell that we are obeying God and he is therefore in us by how we feel by our emotions. But emotions are fickle. We can feel great one day and sad the next and frustrated after that, then great again. It can be confusing to rely on how we feel as to whether or not God’s Spirit lives in us.

Jesus said in John 14:17 that he was going to send us the Counselor, the Spirit of Truth. And in John 17:17 Jesus said God’s Word is Truth.

Now that makes more sense! Even in the days before the New Testament was assembled into one book, Christians were given the gift of prophecy by the Spirit of Truth, and sometimes they wrote it and circulated it.

In the meantime, the apostles went everywhere teaching, and they wrote letters that were circulated (even those we don’t know about today). Those letters that were preserved were copied and circulated everywhere.

Finally, their letters were assembled into what we call the New Testament. So, today we can still know God’s Spirit lives in us by reading the Bible ~ God’s Word ~ and putting it in our mind and heart and following it. God thought of everything. His word is clear, and that is how we know we have obeyed him and he lives in us.

How grateful we are today for his Bible. No guessing. So, do not take it for granted. Never take it for granted.

365 PEARLS OF WISDOM: GOD’S SOUL TO YOURS is a practical and beautiful gift book filled with quotations from the Psalms, Proverbs and other “wisdom literature” of the Bible. Only $6.00 for the paperback. To BUY NOW, click a picture or paste this: https://amzn.to/2IXOkO8

#HolySpirit, #Truth, #wisdom, #commands, #blog, #inspiration, #devotional, #worship, #vespers, #meditation,. #godliness, #Christianity, #JesusChrist, #church, #Bible, #Scripture, #HolyBook, #religion, #love, #truth

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” ~David W. Augsburger

“The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.” ~Alfred Brendel

“A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.” ~Shannon L. Alder

“Our entire theological tradition…is defined as the willingness to enter into the chaos of others.” ~Jesuit priest and writer James F. Keenan, S.J

And don’t forget the Source: “Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”~Criss Jami

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this:

Share this: