“A Very Present Help”
Dark days call for right thinking and vertical focus.

Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
Dark days call for right thinking and vertical focus.
There is no impossible situation that God cannot handle. He won't handle it necessarily your way, but He'll handle it.
When you wait, your situation may not change, but you will.
Often when we are faced with a crisis, the standard, garden-variety answer is to sort of tuck your tail between your legs, run into a corner, and let cobwebs form on you. But there is a better way.
And in his weakest moment, Abigail did not fight, she protected. How gracious of her...how wise!
Jesus Christ, who went through hell for you, can give you the power you need to overcome the worst kind of condition in your life.
You're responsible for telling a person the truth, but it is impossible to make him change his opinion.
Hey, who knows whom you could persuade if you walked with God? Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle.
Friends give each other complete freedom to be themselves. When you've got a friend that close, that knitted to your own soul, you don't have to explain why you do what you do. You just do it, and your friend understands.
I tire of hearing that the Christian life is just one silver-lined cloud after another—we're always soaring. Not so! Sometimes the Christian life includes a deep, dark cave.