Grayling Lighthouse Of Hope

06/05/2026

June 5, 2026, Today's Devotion
PRAYERS AND TEARS OF LOVE

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
1 JOHN 4:7 NIV

I've learned that serving the Lord requires prayer and often means tears.....

Any day that I leave my room without a quiet time with God, I look for the devil to hit me from every angle. Power for life, for ministry, doesn't come from our own ability; it comes from God. we need a fresh, daily anointing from the Holy Spirit, and that comes from the time we spend with God in His Word and in prayer. Are you a person of prayer?

In Boston, Massachusetts, the great soul winner John Vassar knocked on the door of a person's home and asked the woman if she knew Christ as her Savior. She replied, "It's none of your business" and slammed the door in his face. He stood on the doorstep and wept and wept, and she looked out her window and saw him weeping. The next Sunday, she was in church. She said it was because of those tears. Where are your tears?

A life fueled by prayer and characterized by His love is a life God will use.

06/04/2026

June 4, 2026, Today's Devotion

REVIVE YOUR PEOPLE, LORD

Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
PSALM 85:6

Jesus said, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9), and the desire for peace is universal. But simply telling people to stop fighting and love one another isn't the solution for the tension, discord, and violence that exist around the globe. Diplomats and leaders have tried to do this for centuries, yet world history is filled with wars and conflicts.

The problem lies within the human heart; by nature we are selfish and greedy. Even leaders aren't exempt from these sins. As the Bible says, "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?" (James 4:1 NIV). Even when we want peace, it often eludes us because of our greed or anger or jealousy.

Only God can change the human heart, and that is why our greatest need is spiritual renewal. Pray today for our world and its leaders--and pray as well for spiritual renewal in our time.

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

June 3, 2026, Today's Devotion

PERFECT IN WEAKNESS

WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG

2 CORINTHIANS 12:10

God's idea of strength and man's idea of strength are opposites. The Lord told Paul, "My strength is made perfect in weakness" ( 2 CORINTHIANS 12:9). Having learned this lesson, Paul could then say, "When I am weak, then I am strong" (2 CORINTIANS 12:10). A paradox? Not really. Only when Paul admitted his own weakness and was willing to get out of the way could God take over and work.

If we try to do God's will in our own strength, then we can take the credit for whatever gets accomplished. But that isn't God's way! When we let His strength work through us, then He alone will get the glory-- and that is as it should be.

In the Old Testament God repeatedly told the leaders of Israel to reduce the size of their armies, and sometimes He announced the size of their armies, and sometimes He announced in advance how their victory would be won. Why? So they would place their trust in Him and not in their own strength. As someone has said, "God's work, done in God's way, will never lack for God's provision."

06/02/2026

June 2, 2026, Today's Devotion
CONFESSION AND CLEANSING

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
1 JOHN 1:9

Corrie ten Boom told a story of a little girl who broke one of her mother's demitasse cups. The little girl came to her mother sobbing, "Oh, Mama, I'm so sorry I broke your beautiful cup."

The mother replied, "I know you're sorry and I forgive you. Now don't cry anymore." The mother then swept up the pieces of the broken cup and placed them in the trash can. But the little girl enjoyed the guilty feeling. She went to the trash can, picked out pieces of the cup, brought them to her mother, and sobbed, "Mother, I'm so sorry that I broke your pretty cup."

This time her mother spoke firmly to her, "Take those pieces and put them back in the trash can. Don't be silly enough to take them out again. I told you I forgave you, so don't cry anymore."

Don't keep holding on your guilt. If you have confessed your sins to Christ, He has forgiven them and taken them away--forever. AMEN!!!

06/01/2026

June 1, 2026, Today's Devotion
GOD'S PERFECT PLAN

Be transformed....that you may prove what is that...perfect will of God.
ROMANS 12:2

The Bible reveals that God has a plan for every life, and that if we live in constant fellowship with Him, He will direct and lead us in the fulfillment of this plan.

God does not reveal His plan through fortune-tellers, astrologers, soothsayers, and workers of hocus-pocus. His perfect will is reserved for those who have trusted Christ for salvation. He shares His secrets only with those who are redeemed and transformed, those who humbly seek His will for their lives.

You cannot know the will of God for your life unless you first come to the cross, confess that you are a sinner, and receive Christ as Lord and Savior. Once you do come to Him, you begin a whole new life--a life lived not for yourself but for Christ. From that moment on, God wants to show you His will. Whatever decisions you face today, commit them to God and ask Him to guide you-- and He will.

05/29/2026

May 29, 2026, Today's Devotion
WALK IN THE SPIRIT
Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
GALATIANS 5:16

To walk means to place one foot in front of the other and to go forward one step at a time. If you stop doing this, you are no longer walking. You standing still--or worse, going backward. Walking always implies movement, progress , and direction.

This is what it means to walk with God. It means moving forward in step with Him, confident that the way He is leading is best. The problem is that we are weak. We stumble or get diverted, or we get weary and stop moving forward. But that is one reason why the Holy Spirit has been given to us. Galatians 5:16 could be paraphrased this way: "Walk by means of the Spirit."

One of the highest commendations in the Bible is found in these words about Noah : "Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God" (Genesis 6:9). Could this be said of you?

05/28/2026

May 28, 2026, Today's Devotion
JESUS' PRAYER PROGRAM

He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray.
MATTHEW 14:23

It may surprise you to read this, but we were created to live a life of prayer. The problem is that sin has erected a barrier between God and us. To recover the role God intended prayer to have in our life, we would do well to follow Jesus' example: in spite of His hectic public ministry, He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer.

By contrast, how quickly and carelessly we pray (if we pray at all). In the morning we hastily ask God for His blessing on our day, then say good-bye to Him for the rest of the day until we rush through a few closing thoughts at night. This is not what Jesus modeled. Jesus prayed deeply and repeatedly. He spent entire nights in fervent appeal to God. How different is our pattern of prayer!

One more note: our Lord frequently prayed alone, separating Himself from every Earthly distraction. I urge you to select a room or a corner in your home where you can regularly meet alone with God. That quiet, secluded, one-to-One praying can be your day's greatest blessing.