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Faith in God’s Healing Power
Whether we’re dealing with a terminal diagnosis, a chronic condition, or a debilitating fear, addiction, or dependency, God is willing and able to deliver us. This is a phenomenal truth, and there’s little else that the devil seeks to attack more than our faith in God’s delivering and healing power. The world and its systems…
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Security and Trust Are Not Automatic
Colossians 2:7(NLT) “Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.” My conversation with one of my friends didn’t sit too well with her. She was saying how she’d kept a…
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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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Getting Past the Roadblocks
1John 4:19(NLT) We love each other because he loved us first. When you see a couple together out in public, can you tell if they’re in a solid relationship? At a social gathering, I recently saw several married couples taking a picture together. They were well dressed, poised, and smiling from cheek to cheek. From…
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Passionate about Knowing God
God is more than enough for us! In truth, He is infinitely more! Our knowledge of His wisdom, power, and love should be ever expanding, and an eternity is not enough time for us to reach the end of all that He is; for He has no end! If you and I intend to fulfill…
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A Harvest that Thrills Your Heart
It was advertised that a well-known Christian speaker was doing a special series dedicated to helping bring single women closer to their husbands. A friend of mine called me frantic with excitement. “I believe this is the breakthrough I’ve been waiting on! This is my year!” she declared. She couldn’t stop talking about it. She…
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Destined for A Miraculous Transformation
Anyone that is familiar with God’s Word knows that the Apostle Paul made an amazing spiritual transformation. He went from being in utter darkness, imprisoning and murdering believers in Jesus Christ, to preaching and teaching the Gospel himself. This was pretty extreme by anyone’s estimation. Imagine the kind of shift he had to make in…
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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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Learn Your Lessons Well
Salvation is a gift that God freely offers us through His beloved and powerful Son, Jesus Christ. We can’t do anything to earn it. He’s given this overwhelming gift to us because He loves us so much. Ephesians 2:8(NLT) says, “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for…
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When Time Moves Slower Than Your Faith
Psalm 130:5 (NLT) “I am counting on the Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word.” The thought of waiting on anything is hard for most of us. Whether it’s waiting in line at the grocery store or our favorite fast-food joint, none of us are too keen…
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The Bridegroom and His Bride
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom and the church is his bride. In John 3:29-30(NIV), John the Baptist taught, “29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is…
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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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Disappointed in Your Spouse
My daughter and I watched an interview of a man who had just recently gotten married. This couple dated for a little over a year and moved in together immediately after their wedding. Both husband and wife were in their early thirties, and each came to the marriage with certain expectations. The wife said she…
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Lights in This Dark World
Going about our everyday routines, we can see that people that are not prone to kindness will no longer constrain themselves. They display a kind of anger and ruthless attitude that is very destructive, and very sad to see. God’s expectation is that His children of light will not meet them in that same place…
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Doing What God Wants
John 3:19-21(NLT) 19 And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. 20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. 21 But those…
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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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Steer Clear of Negativity
It has become incredibly apparent that God is allowing us to see how far the world has deviated from the path of His love. There seems to be no end to the depth of wickedness and evil of those that are greedy and power hungry. Many of us think we know where this is headed,…
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The Understanding Wife
Proverbs 19:14(NLT) “Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the LORD can give an understanding wife.” Three years ago, when Melvin and Jacquelyn met through mutual friends, they quickly became a couple. After their first date, their conversation over the phone lasted five hours. If neither of them had…
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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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Faith Works!
Matthew 17:20 (NLT) The disciples asked Jesus Christ a question after witnessing him cast out a demon out of a boy. “Why couldn’t we cast out that demon?” “You don’t have enough faith.” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say…
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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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God Disciplines Those He Loves
More and more, we’re witnessing Christians align themselves with systems of the world. They are adopting worldly philosophies and new age principles; and they are attempting to comingle these with the teachings of Jesus Christ. None of us have a soapbox to stand on. God allows us the intelligence to formulate opinions and the free…
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God Keeps His Word
Although we’ve had our fill of romantic movies and novels, by now, most of us realize that marriage isn’t intended to be a romantic novel. It is both glorious and challenging, and it will stretch our faith and give it quite the workout at times. As single women desiring marriage, our responsibility and duty is…
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What the Times Are Revealing
We are living in perilous times, and never has there been the level of confusion, dysfunction, corruption, and disunity that we are witnessing today. Some people are paralyzed with fear and anxiety, while others are falling away from the faith in droves. Increasingly, we’re hearing talk of the end of the world, and although this…
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God, Do You Have A Man for Me?
“If God has a man for me, why haven’t I met him yet?” This is a question that continues to be asked by many of God’s daughters. For those single and saved, born-again believers, please know that our Heavenly Father is not withholding this blessing from you. How do I know? Because He doesn’t withhold…
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He Is Always with Us
Whether we realize it now or later, there will soon be a time where we will have to make an extremely important decision. We must choose to either love the Lord and be totally committed to Him or love the world and all that it represents. The times are pressing, and it’s a now or…
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How to Be Content in Life
John 10:10 is probably on every believer’s list of scripture favorites. It’s the words of our Master Jesus, and he teaches us, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” In this verse,…
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Kick Your Faith in High Gear
1Timothy 6:12 (NIV) “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” As little girls, many of us believed in fairy tales. We read them in school, we saw them on television, and many…