Time With God, with John North Archives

As you consider your day today, move with purpose to fulfill your God-honouring plans, but hold them lightly, accepting God’s detours and changes...

God is reminding you today to rest in your relationship with Him. Live for God, not to earn your salvation, but out of deep gratitude for His gift...

The only way we could be saved was for Jesus to take the penalty for our sins. That is what He did when He died on the cross for us — He took our...

Death gets its power from sin and the law, but neither of those will have any bearing on us when we’re with the Lord forever. We’ll have ultimate...

We owe the Lord Jesus more than we could ever repay Him; yet, He doesn’t come to us demanding payment. His death on the cross for us was a gift to...

Jesus “has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.” It is a gift that we can never pay for, but can always show gratitude and love...

Paul spends a lot of time in his letters describing God’s grace, but as his heart fills up with emotion over what God has done for us in Christ...

God wants you to know today that giving is in His heart; it’s a part of His character. Because of that, He has given you the ultimate gift — the...

We must hold God’s great purposes for us in balance and constantly ask His Holy Spirit to guide us and show us what God is doing through us in this...

Representing God to people is a job that is way too big for us, but the great news is that Jesus will live His life through you, if you will invite...

A violent storm shakes and pulls apart whatever it finds. But a great rock in the earth is unmoved by whatever storm rages above it. God’s word is...

Obeying God isn’t the way to become acceptable to God. None of us are good enough for that. But after we’ve been made acceptable because of what...

God knows that putting Him first in your life is hard to do and opposes our sin nature in a major way, but He promises that it is the best way to...

There are many reasons to trust in God. First, there is our own inadequacy. We do not have what it takes to have a full and meaningful life. We...

Be more concerned about doing what you know God wants YOU to do than you are about making sure other people do what you think they should do!