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Tag: refuge

2024-04-18

When Burdens Seem Unbearable

Stop and look up to your heavenly Father. Remember a time when God carried you through hard circumstances, and rejoice in His steadfast faithfulness.

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2024-04-16

Embrace the Rain

Is there anything in the circumstances of your life that you are struggling to embrace?

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2024-04-12

I’m so Impatient, Lord

Slow me down Lord! Help me be calm, relax and enjoy my day – my husband, my family, my friends, my neighbors, and the people I meet. “But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience . . .” Galatians 5:22

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2024-04-11

Encouragement for Every Season

One of the most distressing emotions is the bleak sense of isolation caused by a difficult situation or experience. This is especially true when a loved one has died or you find yourself in the middle of a severe trial that can’t be solved quickly.

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2024-04-11

PRESS ON

Lord, help me to press on with my goals as I seek to please, serve, honor and glorify you. What goals have you set for yourself?

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2024-04-10

Snares

What snares tempt us and entrap us?

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2024-04-08

Instant Forgiveness; Lingering Consequences

With repentance and confession, God forgives instantly. But He doesn’t remove the consequences of our sin. We have to live with those consequences.

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2024-03-28

Scorned Like the Master

If we were more like Christ, we would be more hated by His enemies.

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2024-03-27

The Believer’s Journey to the Cross

We all know that Jesus walked the road to Calvary, but did you know that believers also journey to the cross? We've all been positionally crucified with Christ, but those who hunger for Him participate in a deeper experience of this reality.

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2024-03-26

Changed from the Inside Out

The stumbles of a toddler do not invalidate the act of birth. And the stumbles of a Christian do not annul his spiritual birth.

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2024-03-24

Return to Me

Are you hurting? Is your heart in need of healing? Do you need God’s comfort, His hope, and His restoration?

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2024-03-23

Our Heavenly Father’s Unconditional Love

God's commitment to us has absolutely no conditions or restrictions and isn't based on whether we love Him back. Nor does He have more love for "good" people who may strike us as more worthy.

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2024-03-22

Prayer to Follow God

God’s word tells us that we are actually deceiving ourselves when we know God’s way and yet do not do what it says. The road to freedom is in doing what we hear in His word.

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2024-03-22

The Fragrance

Oh the joy of the refreshing presence of Jesus, clear and distinct to us once more as we come into His presence and ask forgiveness by His Grace.

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2024-03-20

God Our Great Deliverer

God is The Great Deliverer! That's his chosen expertise.

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2024-03-20

Do You Spend Time Under the Broom Tree?

When something great happens in our lives, when we have a good day, or when we have accomplished some good in the world for the Lord, many times, discouragement follows.

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2024-03-15

Our Steady Anchor

If we try to hold tightly to any earthly things during our hardships, we will be tossed about in various directions since we’ve affixed ourselves to an unstable foundation that’s continually shifting.

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2024-03-13

The Power of the Book

His story had my close attention, as well as all the others circled around him in a small group. Every eye was fixed on him.

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2024-03-12

Our Good and Righteous Father

Not all bad things that happen to you are really bad in the long run (this doesn’t mean it won’t hurt). God allows bad things to happen as a part of pruning you.

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2024-03-06

Without a Fight

A raging battle exists within every believer: our own sinful nature versus the desires of the Holy Spirit.

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2024-03-05

Shackled Again

Did you know it became a law in 600 BC that no Hebrew could enslave another? Makes sense, considering their ancestors had been slaves in Egypt. It didn't last long, though.

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2024-03-01

Blessing Of Your Belovedness

 Taste deeply of the love, of God, and of truth. Hear Him speak to you about your deepest yearnings, your wishes, your hopes, and your dreams.

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2024-02-28

Staying on God’s Path

Before every decision you make this day, ask God to direct your thoughts and your paths so that you remain in his will.

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2024-02-28

His Authority

Jesus in Chapter 7 of Matthew is clearly calling us to do more than just acknowledge His Words; He is calling us to follow Him.

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