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Being Your Truest, Highest Self
Proverbs 4:7(KJV) says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Wisdom is defined as truthful, right knowledge that aids correct and right believing, and God’s Word is the source of it. He tells us that wisdom is the principal thing, and we need to take a minute…
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Overcoming the Discomfort of Dissatisfaction
Discomfort is often a calling card for change. This is a truism that we need to be reminded of constantly. We’re creatures of habit, and we like being able to count on the familiar. Even individuals we consider to be spontaneous and impulsive have made a habit of not adhering to plans and schedules. Inevitably,…
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Love to the Very End
It is believed that the Gospel of John, chapters 13 through 17 cover a short period of about 36 hours of the life of Jesus Christ, prior to the Garden of Gethsemane experience. It is a short period, but boy is it an important one for us to keep in our minds and hearts. Heavenly…
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The Lord’s Purpose Will Prevail
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Solomon wrote in Proverbs 19:21(NLT), “You can make many plans, but the LORD’s purpose will prevail.” Making plans is what we humans do. We have plans to get married, have children, land our dream jobs, pursue goals, and live happy lives. We…
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What God Requires from Us Today
In Acts 2:17(NLT), God made a promise to born-again believers living after the ascension of Christ. He said, “In the last days…I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.” We are in truth living in…
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The Difference Between Faith and Hope
Our Heavenly Father begins His Word, the Holy Bible, with the Book of Genesis. Most of us think of this book as His Creation Story, and while this is true, Genesis is also designed by God to lay the first layer, if you will, of the foundation of our faith. God teaches us by His…
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Uprooted from Her Hilarious Unbelief
Sarah, also known as Sarai, is the wife of Abraham, who is known as the Father of our believing. He is named in the Great Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 12:1, because he was fully persuaded that whatever God said, He is able and willing to perform. During the period in which Abraham and Sarah…
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What Do You Hunger For?
The dictionary defines the word ‘hunger’ as a craving or urgent need that is caused by a lack of food or a certain nutrient. It is certainly fitting that this definition of hunger relates to food specifically, because food is necessary for survival. It also causes us to develop cravings towards one type of food…
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Prosperous and Pleasing God
John 10:10 tells us that Jesus Christ came that you and I would have access to a more than abundant life. This is good news indeed! For many years, hundreds of years in fact, religious thinking has taught us that poverty equals piety. The thinking that equates poverty with pleasing God has been burned in…
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Avoid A LOVE Breakdown
In Genesis 1:26(NKJV), God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God is having a conversation…
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Three Things that Build Your Faith – Part 1
Part 1 – Understanding the Power of Your Words In Mark 11:23(NLT), our precious and powerful Lord and Savior said, “I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have…
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Seeking God’s Will for My Life
It was a hot Sunday in the middle of summer and the church was packed, unusually so. It was 1977, and services had typically been well attended, but for months our choir was missing the best soprano probably in the entire state. The closest thing to a celebrity in our book, Deborah had a voice…
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The Demolition of the Word ‘IF’
In Mark 9, we can read the record of a child possessed with a demon and was brought to the disciples. They were perplexed because they could not cast out the demon. This account, also in Matthew 17 and Luke 9, is the subject of many sermons and teachings, and there is little doubt in…
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The Time for Weeping is Over!
Many of you are waiting on something phenomenal. You have a strong sense that God is going to deliver the mega-load of blessings in your life, and it’s going to make all the struggle, suffering, confusion, and heartache make sense. It’s been a rough road, and you’ve seen some times that you never want to…
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Closed Mouths Don’t Get Fed-What about Closed Hearts?
On hot summer days in the south, there was no way that my grandmother would allow us grandkids to stay inside. With visiting cousins from up north, sometimes there would be seven or eight of us around, doing what children do—driving grown folks crazy. We were banished to the yard, and we had better not…
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Combating the Blahs
The body of Christ is so incredibly blessed to have men that are tremendously gifted and eager to serve God’s people in leadership roles. They nurture us in God’s Word and help us to grow in Christ, but sometimes women of God need to connect the dots spiritually AND emotionally. When there’s a disconnect, and…
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Preparing to Surrender
Those of us who hunger and thirst for God want to experience more of Him through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We need to understand that Jesus is in charge of leading us into the closeness we desire with Heavenly Father. In John 14:6(NLT), he said, “I am the way, the truth, and the…
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How to Overcome Being Stuck
There’s very little that is more debilitating than being stuck in a bad situation, and feeling as though you can’t do anything about it. My experience is that many people are feeling this way, but they’re hiding it. There was a time when I would be surprised by those who put on a public face…
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Don’t Make a Temporary Situation a Permanent One
Two women hear about an upscale store having a fantastic going-out-of-business sale for one day only. Both women, perfect strangers, get lost and end up at the same gas station. They strike up small-talk at the pump and voice their frustration at not being able to find the store, even with their devices. A disheveled…
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Soldiers Are Always Prepared for the Fight
You can be the sweetest Christian ever, you’re still going to have enemies. People will not like you just because, and that’s the truth of it. Sometimes they’re the people you’d least expect. I read a story the other day about a Christian couple who have recently gotten engaged. They are happily planning their wedding…
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Better Acquainted with the Holy Spirit
The Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2:20(NLT), “My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Explaining the unparalleled beauty of this…
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Freeze! You’ve Been Tagged!
When I was a little girl, we played this game called ‘freeze.’ The person who was “IT” had a big job, because there were lots of kids in my neighborhood, and we had a big yard; plenty of space to run, play, and hide. The designated “IT” would have to chase the other kids to…
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Leftovers from the Ex-husband
With God, problems, no matter how small or great, can morph into opportunities for growth and blessings. He tells us this in Romans 8:28(NLT), where He says “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” When…
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Empowered by God!
A young woman said to me that she’s very confused by all that is going on, particularly in this country. She believes that people have fallen away from God and His Word to such a degree, that the human race will not get any better. “How can we bounce back from this?” she asked. I’ve…
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When Our Loved Ones are Attacked
As believers of Jesus Christ who love our families and friends, sometimes the most difficult tests of our faith occur when one of them is attacked. It is even more troubling when our relationships with them suffer as a result. It can be exhausting when it seems that you’re continually praying for a loved one…
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The Cat is Out of the Bag, Can’t Put Him back in
Don’t miss your blessing. There is very definitely something wonderful slated to happen in your life soon. Some of us have had more disappointments and let downs by circumstances and relationships than we ever thought we could handle. Because of this, we’re afraid to cast our hope on something we can’t control, but this is…
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If You Think Suicide Is An Option
You have to have gone through some things before you can say, “I’ve tried Him for myself, and I know He won’t fail you.” A person that hasn’t been there just won’t get it. We do, because we’ve been there. Teaching about the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ is our great privilege and…
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Are You Ready for the Fight?
In Matthew 6:24(NLT), Jesus Christ said, “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other.” This is such common-sense wisdom that we might underestimate the depth of its truth. Not only is he giving us instruction and guidance about…
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Uncompromising Womanhood
It was around the 1980s when I started to hear about what is now referred to as autonomous or driverless vehicles. I thought the idea was too futuristic to even warrant a serious discussion. But here we are, some thirty years later, and semi-autonomous cars are actually on the road. Nearly all cars will have…
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Rolling Up Your Sleeves Like a Conqueror
There’s one thing that you and I can be sure of, and it is the reality that God is preparing us through whatever we’re dealing with today for what comes next. God became one of us and dwelt among us on earth to teach and show us the way. John 1:14(NLT) tells us, “So the…