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A Reason For Hope A Christian, Bible-teaching audio ministry featuring Don Patterson. Browse more messages at AReasonForHope.net Studying the Bible messages God left for you...

✝ I do not need so much to be freed from my problems as I do from my morbid curiosity with them.📖 We always thank God, t...
10/16/2026

✝ I do not need so much to be freed from my problems as I do from my morbid curiosity with them.

📖 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people-the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel.
-Colossians 1:3-5

📖 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes int...
10/15/2026

📖 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.
-Colossians 2:18-19

🙏 Dear Jesus,
I do not know anyone who worships angels like those people Paul mentions, but I do know some folks who go into great detail about the visions, dreams, and subjective experiences they have had as Christians.

Sometimes, I am led to crave the same supernatural experiences, but I see in your Word that you are my head and that it's your words I need. As tempting as subjective experiences sound, they are really a fog that clouds my relationship with you and makes you hard to see.

Protect me, Lord Jesus, from the desire to have faith in what I experience instead of faith in you as my Savior. In your teachings, I have all the peace and joy I need for my soul.

Keep me from the uncertain ground of experiential mysticism. Forgive me when I cannot tell the difference between authentic moments with your Holy Spirit and simple human psychological wanderings.
Amen.

✝ Jesus and I will live this life of mine. Together, we will serve you without regard for your response. 🙏 Dear Jesus,So...
10/14/2026

✝ Jesus and I will live this life of mine. Together, we will serve you without regard for your response.

🙏 Dear Jesus,
So often, I base my motivation to work hard at my job, in my family, or at my church on the approval and praise of others. When I do that, I am forgetting about you.

When I remember that you sent me into these callings, you are watching me work, and you are the one, at the end of the day, that will settle all just accounts with me, then I am not so dependent on other people's encouragements or responses.

My opinions don't have to be honored, and my "perfect perspective" does not have to be accepted. I can be involved with all my heart, even when I am not always recognized or followed.

Help me to live for an audience of One! You and you only have my heart.
Amen.

10/13/2026

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📖Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men....
10/13/2026

📖Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark.

On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in."
-Joshua 6:2-5

🙏 Dear Jesus,
What crazy battle plans you gave Joshua, but you wanted your people to know that you were the One delivering the land to them and not themselves.

Help me to remember this when you thwart my plans and take me in another direction that seems crazy to me. Help me to quietly trust your ways and move forward in the direction you lead.

You call on me to trust your Word and obey, when I have no way of seeing how my life will work out. Give me the faith to follow you in that great adventure. I know that if you did not spare your own Son for me, that you have blessings and not curses in store for me.

Give me peace today, so I comfort and encourage the people along on my journey instead of giving way to negativity and complaining.
Amen.

📖 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise-the fruit of lips that openly profess ...
10/12/2026

📖 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise-the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
-Hebrews 13:15-16

🙏 Dear Jesus,
I love being a Christian. I have peace in my heart. My sins can't bother me so much. I have love from you that helps me be a blessing to others, even those who work against me.

I have access to your Word that guides and protects my heart from huge, silly, worldly mistakes too, but I don't always show others how happy I am to be a Christian. Instead, I hide my contentment under surface gripes and complaints about petty things in my life.

Please help me to openly profess the joy I have because you have brought me to faith. Don't let me be weird about it.

Just help me freely express how wonderful it is to be your follower.
Amen.

🙏 Dear Jesus,Sometimes I cannot sleep because of the worries I have about my health or my loved ones. I try not to wake ...
10/09/2026

🙏 Dear Jesus,
Sometimes I cannot sleep because of the worries I have about my health or my loved ones. I try not to wake myself with my thoughts, but sometimes they are too overwhelming.

In those times, I want to be like David who wrote above, "On my bed I remember you; I think of You in the watches of the night... I sing in the shadow of your wings."

I know you love me and protect me and that you want to give me sleep. Help me to remember that your right hand upholds me and that I will not pass away one minute early.

So many times, you have rescued me. You are worthy of my trust. Your gift of salvation alone makes me let go and trust you with everything else.

Thanks for being there and help me next time I cannot sleep.
Amen.

📖 Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.-Proverbs 19:21💭 Man proposes. God ...
10/08/2026

📖 Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
-Proverbs 19:21

💭 Man proposes. God disposes. Then, God re-proposes a new and better plan.

✝ Job's suffering was "good" in God's eyes because it taught the devil a lesson. I wonder what my suffering is teaching ...
10/07/2026

✝ Job's suffering was "good" in God's eyes because it taught the devil a lesson. I wonder what my suffering is teaching him.

🙏 Dear Heavenly Father,
I spend my whole life trying to avoid suffering. If I feel pain, I do whatever I can to get rid of it. If I sense a conflict in a relationship, I tend to shrink back to protect myself from emotional pain.

If I see struggle and work coming my way, I think of how I can hurry up and get past it. I'm naturally wired to avoid pain.

Then, you say in this verse, "those who suffer according to God's will..." How foreign the idea is to me that you would will my suffering, but to help me grow, you lead me into suffering. I believe it. That's what your Word tells me.

Help me to continue having a good attitude, even in suffering, to continue to do all the good I can to continue to glorify your name.

By your Holy Spirit, give me the same maturity about suffering that your Son had when He willingly took up the Cross for me.
Amen.

💭 This is not our home.📖 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." Je...
10/06/2026

💭 This is not our home.

📖 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
-Luke 9:57-58

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