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At Last, God Has Met the Need
God knows us infinitely better than we can ever know ourselves. He knows that we love comfort, and we look to people, relationships, places, and situations that will support our comfort level. When we find coziness, we typically cling to it, and we never want to let it go. As a single person desiring marriage,…
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Only One Person Gets the Prize
1Corinthians 9:24(NIV) says, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.” All good athletes are disciplined when it comes to their training. One of the defining characteristics about an athlete is they all know they…
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Baby Steps Will Yield Big Results
There was a time in my life when I celebrated the blessing of a new year with a long list of resolutions. Why did I put all that pressure on myself? I missed so much of the joy of newness by overwhelming my efforts with unreasonable expectations. Things like getting back into the gym, traveling…
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They Make a Good Couple
The holiday season is notoriously one of great expectations. It’s gift-giving time, and many men that have dated a special lady during the year will sometimes make it official on the Christmas or New Year’s holiday. Christmas, in particular, should be about celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our hearts should…
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Holding on When You Should Let It Go
One of my dear friends is 70 years old and admittedly, she’s stubborn, skeptical and cynical; in her mind, all for good reason. She says she loves God, but she’s never considered the reality of getting close to Him. Most of her faith practices are based on what she was taught as a child, and…
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Getting Ready for Two
The process of going from single to engaged, and then married, will require a kind of preparation that many will not undertake. There are the practical things like learning to share your time and learning to do those things that your future hubby may not be able to do. And yes, that might include the…
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Consistent and Unwavering
I don’t know if any of you have ever had a conversation with someone that is truly disappointed with life, but I have. I know a person that has lost everything in life that was important. This woman became jobless, then homeless and car-less, then her children were taken away. As a single mom, she…
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God’s Plan for You Won’t Fail
“Why do grown folks always have to spoil everything?!!!” As a teenager dating my high school sweetheart, this is what I thought to myself every time my mother commented on my future plans for marrying him. I was absolutely sure of our feelings for one another, and you couldn’t tell me anything different. Daydreaming about…
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No Struggle, No Strife
A long-time friend is a single man that has never been married, and we converse quite often. He is very handsome, financially stable, and over forty. He’s kindhearted, and He prays often for others. I’m impressed with his level of compassion and humility towards God, but I remain perplexed about his attitude towards marriage. I…
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Keep Ice Cream in the Freezer
Years ago, as I was just beginning to learn the principles of faith from God’s Word, I was struck by the number of sisters in Christ that I knew who were complaining about being single. They wanted to be married and felt they had been single long enough. They were told they didn’t have enough…
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Remember, God is Watching
Why do two people decide to get married? I will venture to say that most of us will choose to utter those profound two little words, “I Do!”, because we believe we’ve met someone we don’t want to live without. Our wise mothers and grandmothers will school us on this topic. They will tell us…
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A Happy Wife Keeps a Happy Home
Proverbs 21:9(NLT) says, “It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.” It’s amazing to think that this was written thousands of years ago, yet it is so relevant that it could have been written today. The wisdom of this verse was given to…
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When You Least Expect It, It Shows Up
How many couples do you know that say they met their husband or wife at a time in their lives when they weren’t expecting it? I’ve heard it said many times. Some would argue that it doesn’t matter if a person is looking for love or not. What matters is that when they find love,…
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The Master’s House is Still Open
Luke 13:24-27(NLT) 24“Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail. 25 When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I…
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Listen Carefully to the Truth
Hebrews 2:1(NLT) “So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.” After hearing her mother’s lighthearted but firm warning, a twenty-three-year-old daughter chuckled and told her over the phone, “You’re going to ruin my first date before it starts.” Her daughter had met a very…
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Do You Ever Wonder?
Do you ever wonder if the path you’re on is just not getting you where you want to go? Does it seem like you’re traveling rocky terrain and you can’t seem to build the type of momentum you expected? Many single believers feel this way about relationships and finding the right person. They’re wondering why…
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Caution and Compassion
Isaiah 55:6(NLT), “Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.” This week I spoke with a gentleman whose heart had been “broken into little pieces”, as he put it. He’d been in a long-term relationship with a woman for several years, and it had fallen apart. It…
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Looking Forward to What Lies Ahead
Philippians 3:13-14(NLT) “13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.”…
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Showing God Your Proof
We are in the last weeks of what has been a very difficult year for most. I’ve spoken with many single women that have described it as “a time of my life that I never want to see again!” In most cases, this is because of the difficulty of handling things without the support of…
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The Right Heart Will Put You at the Right Place at the Right Time
Luke 19:5-6(NLT) “5 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.” 6 Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. 7 But the people were displeased. “He…
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The Love of God on Display
1John 3:16-17(MSG ) “This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about…
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Work, Waiting, Want, and Will
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5(NLT) tells us, “4 Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. 5 Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all…
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Learning Who We Are
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for making us complete in the Lord Jesus Christ. Through him, everything that we need You have supplied. Ephesians 1:3(NLT) says, “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.”…
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The Sound of A Gentle Whisper
1Kings 19:9–13(NLT) 9 There he came to a cave, where he spent the night. But the LORD said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10 Elijah replied, “I have zealously served the LORD God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every…
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Tell Your Flesh to Stand Down
I watched an interview of an actress promoting her new movie. She had also recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary with her husband. She talked about how supportive her husband has been of her career, and that its one of the reasons she didn’t hesitate to say ‘yes’ when he asked her to marry him.…
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Delight in God!
Dear Heavenly Father, Just about everyone I know is rushing through their lives, trying to get to their promised land quicker. This journey through prayer and waiting isn’t the mammoth deliverance that You brought about through Moses in Old Testament times. All of us have mini versions of the Promised Land, and those versions are…
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Jesus Christ Is Our Blueprint
Dear Heavenly Father, You are holy, holy, holy. There is no other like You, and You alone are worthy of all praise, glory, and honor. Thank You for being our Heavenly Father, and for blessing us the way You have. Thank You for the finished work of Jesus Christ, our precious Lord and Savior. Because…
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Speak the Truth About What You Want
One of my sister-friends and I were talking on the phone the other day and I noticed she didn’t sound quite like herself, so I asked her what was wrong. She didn’t hesitate to reveal what was on her mind and heart. It was as if she had been waiting for someone to give her…
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Is He the Blessing You’ve Prayed to Receive?
When I was a little girl, I got burned on my ankle, and it hurt something awful. It happened one hot summer day in August, right before I started first grade. My aunt was in the front room of my great grandmother’s house straightening her hair. I watched in awe as the smoke billowed up…
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Stumbling in the Dark
Over the summer, we had a pretty bad tropical storm that rolled through my area. It knocked down trees, power lines, and most of our state was without power for several days, almost a week. My family and I were blessed, because we were without power for only two days; it was challenging to say…