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Don’t You Get It!
Genesis 1:27(NLT) “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” God called human beings, “man”, and He made man in His own image. This doesn’t mean that we looked like God’s Spirit. It means that He made us in the…
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Use Your Gift
1Peter 4:10-11(NLT) 10 God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all…
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Humbly, Seek Direction
James 3:17(NLT) “But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.” I visited with a dear friend a while ago and she had…
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God Says Not to Worry
Matthew 6:26(NLT) “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are?” A friend of mine say to me that often she doesn’t feel good enough to be loved by a man. I asked…
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The Right Instructions for the Right Results
Matthew 19:4-6(NLT) 4 “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” 5 And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ 6 Since they are no longer…
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The Result of Doing It Your Way
1Corinthians 6:12-13(NLT) 12 You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is good for you. And even though “I am allowed to do anything,” I must not become a slave to anything. 13 You say, “Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.” (This is true, though someday God will…
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Jesus Christ is The Door that Leads to God
Revelations 3:7-8(NLT) “7 Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open: 8 “I know all the things…
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He Will Do It for You
Often in our lives, we do not take our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, at his Word. When it comes to our desires to partner with a wonderful spouse, we pray about it, give it over to him, but then we’re very quick to take it back. A lot of us are confident in the…
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To Pursue or Not to Pursue
A woman of God that I absolutely adore recently celebrated her 40th wedding anniversary. That’s a milestone for any couple, especially for those that are still working towards their first year of marriage. When someone asked my friend what she thought she had done differently than most women to snag her husband, she said that…
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Plans Change, You Change, but Not God
“For I know the plans I have for you. Declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11(NLT) When I was eighteen years old, I thought I would marry my high school sweetheart one day. The seasoned women who loved me encouraged…
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The Blessing of Companionship
Having a significant person in your life that you can lean on is a beautiful blessing. God even says so in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12(NLT). This passage states, “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls…
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Keep God’s Love at the Root of Your Union
In a conversation recently, a man confided to me that he and his wife will probably go their separate ways once their youngest daughter goes off to college, which will be in the fall of this year. “I still love my wife, but I can’t remember the last time I held her hand or even…
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Fully Developed in the Lord
Jeremiah 17:7-8(NIV) “7 But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a…
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A Close Friendship Is A Gift
Proverbs 27:17(NLT) “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” Charlotte, a young woman I know, shared with me that she felt disappointed by something one of her close friends from high school has done. Both in their twenties now, Charlotte’s friend, Helena, has become close with a young woman that is known…
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What Our Heartache Reveals
A healthy relationship with the significant person in your life is a beautiful thing. Most of us long for this type of relationship. When we meet someone that we believe will give it to us, we believe that our heart’s desire has been met, but sometimes these relationships do not work out as we hope.…
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Trust God’s Plan for Your Life
Jeremiah 29:11(NLT) ““For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”” “If I don’t meet my husband before this summer, I’m going to take things into my own hands.” I chuckled when I heard Daphne…
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Doing What God Wants
John 3:20-21(NLT) “20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. 21 But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” Through His Word, God has made it available for…
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Life is No Playground
Luke 14: 28-30(NLT) 28 “But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it? 29 Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you.…
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Trust in God’s Love First
Esther said in Esther 8:5(NLT), “If it please the king, and if I have found favor with him, and if he thinks it is right, and if I am pleasing to him, let there be a decree that reverses the orders of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, who ordered that Jews throughout all the…
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God Will Give Us What We Need
God will give us what we need. This truth is one of the building blocks to establishing faith. It is impossible for our Heavenly Father to miss a beat. He knows us through and through. He knows how to bless us, and He knows what we need. If we have any doubts about this, those…
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Greet Your Blessing with Open Arms
Because of disappointments and setbacks, life for many single women today is one of slowly giving up on the idea of marriage. They’ve allowed themselves to become weary from battling to keep their hopes lively, and they are opting to move this area of their lives from spiritual to walking in the flesh. Spiritual strength…
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LOVE is a Decision
1John 4:7-11(NLT) “7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only…
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Forgiveness Is Not Always Easy, But It’s Required
Ephesians 4:32 (ESV) “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Shelby clicked on the email her ex-husband sent the day after he moved out of their home. It had been several years ago. She didn’t know why, but she kept his email and would re-read it often.…
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Before the “I Do”
Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NLT) “A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” Why do two people decide to get married? The individuals that choose to say, “I Do”, do so because they believe they’ve met someone…
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Don’t Be Tricked Out of Your Blessing
Carmen said to herself, “This is just another trick of the adversary!” She and her boyfriend of eleven months have had a pretty good thing going between the two of them. She was becoming hopeful that he was the one sent by God, but the strangest thing was happening. Boyfriends from the past were coming…
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At Your Core
This week I had one of the best laughs I’ve had in a long time. It was the kind of stomach-aching, down to your core laughs that doesn’t happen often in life. When it does, you want to hold on to that feeling as long as possible. It goes so deep that it hurts a…
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Recognize Your Value
“And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.” Matthew 16:19(NLT) “Know your worth” is more than a mantra these days. It’s an anthem that signals our refusal to allow society…
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Together, We Can Succeed
Ecclesiastes 4:9(NLT) “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.” “Didn’t expect the two of them to make it at all, and they’re celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary.” Statements like this one were made after a popular couple recently celebrated their five-year wedding anniversary. The husband, Devonte, had many…
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My Children Listen to My Voice
A dear friend is just starting to pick up the pieces of what she calls a bitter heartbreak. She and her boyfriend ended their relationship over the Christmas holidays, and she didn’t see it coming. As a matter of fact, she was so convinced that he was the one for her that she purchased several…
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What’s Taking God So Long?
Like me, many of you were probably raised to believe that men are supposed to be providers, protectors, and producers for their families. This is the most basic of lessons for women growing up in an era where being a wife was greatly esteemed. The women I grew up around expected their husbands to be…