Debi Tesser

With no income, occasionally I did not even have a dollar to buy food to prepare the soup. However, God provided because this was His calling. He also knew before He called me that I would be short of funds and that preparing food would not be an option. He took care of everything. One weekend, the church had…

When I learned of her death, I prayed for her husband. She hadn’t spoken of their financial need of late, but I also sensed that there was a huge monetary obligation with medical expenses because of her stroke and the funeral. Just a few hours later I was going through some things when I opened an envelope from my bank. Inside was a crisp...

Even though there was no other vehicle within sight, out of the misty rain stepped a police offer. We were in the middle of nowhere, no houses, no traffic, no moose (fortunately), but there was help. He asked where we were going, and he pointed us down a road I had...

Freedom is not the independence to do what we want or the absence of distress. Real freedom is the deep-seated confidence that God does have our best interests at heart and will provide for all our needs, even if the ordeal is very uncomfortable and difficult.

The disciples had not seen much of Jesus since His resurrection. They wallowed in a mire of questions with no answers. They needed to do something. But what? “I'm going fishing!” Peter jumped up and stomped off with purpose toward the fishing vessel. Bewildered, the others followed.