Table of Grace with Pastor Dreama

Photo Credit: D. Kelly @ Grant Co., WV REFLECTION “Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.” (Psalm 16:9, ESV). Question of the week: Can life’s circumstances steal our joy? A DEEPER LOOK Read Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Psalm 118:24 Isaiah 55:12 Psalm 4:7 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 Acts 2:28 John 15:11 Jude 1:24-25 This week’s verses remind us of the source of our joy. IMAGINE THIS Driving home , after a storm, an amazing sight caught my attention.  Mesmerized, I pulled over to take in the view.  Sliding out of the Jeep, I wanted nothing more than to simply be in the moment.  With a smile heavenward, I absorbed the sunshine and took in the view.  Life was trying to steal my joy…but it cannot steal my sunshine.  This cover picture is a good depiction of life after r...

Photo Credit: D. Kelly @ Grant Co., WV REFLECTION “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.”  (Philippians 2:12-16, ESV). A DEEPER LOOK Read Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Psalm 51 Psalm 67:1 Nehemiah 8:10 Revelation 21:4 Psalm 46:10 Hebrews 11:6 Psalm 147:10-11 IMAGINE THIS As the balloons floated out of sight, our family smiled heavenward. Each of us lo...

"God already knows our deepest thoughts" Romans 8:27a (ERV). Photo Credits: D. Kelly, Grant Co., WV                  REFLECTION “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (2 Timothy 2:22). Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Judges 16:19-20 Matthew 26:41 2 Timothy 2:22 Exodus 2:12 Genesis 39:12 Romans 8:26 1 Corinthians 10:13 IMAGINE THIS It came to mind. That thing I don’t like giving in to. Yet, time and time again…it has won. Somehow overpowering my good senses Alluring me to give in. And sometimes…I do even though I have learned it to be a poor sport. Because after I give in – after it wins – My ‘Christian’ label is mocked. It mocks my weakness – condemning me – and I feel lost...

Photo Credit: Z. Rexroad @ Pendleton Co., WV Winter Week 2: “ Echoes of a Broken Life” REFLECTION “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come…shall be able to separate us from the love of God…” (Romans 8:38-39). A DEEPER LOOK Read Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Psalm 34:18 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 Proverbs 3:5-6 Isaiah 57:15 Romans 8:37-39 2 Timothy 2:12-13 1 Peter 2:9-10 IMAGINE THIS Life didn’t always look like this.  Sometimes it was better, sometimes worse.  But there was always one unbroken remnant of me: Faith in God.  Faith that someway, sometime, He would get me through…somehow. Life almost shattered me, even tried to separate me from Him.  Ah but it didn’t understand that only through my brokenness, could His healing hand work. It didn’t under...