Tag: sacrifice

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2023-06-21

Yielded Heart

Yield: To relinquish control to someone or something; To give something up to someone else; The opposite of being in control or in charge.

2023-04-21

Jesus Is Risen. He Is Risen Indeed

This Easter be blessed to know and appreciate the many ways Jesus is present for you, even if you think He is just the gardener.

2022-07-07

Living in Forgiveness

Sometimes God uses the most unlikely persons to teach us a lesson. Jesus showed us that forgiveness has a cross in it. It costs us something. But un-forgiveness has an even greater price: It makes prisoners out of us.

2022-07-05

It’s Been Tough

When we suffer, God becomes present to us by placing a friend’s arm upon our shoulders

2022-05-21

Unreciprocated Love

It's crucial for us to love like God loves if we are to be witnesses to the lost. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another (John 13:34-35).

2022-04-05

Be Fruitful

You and I need to pay careful attention with the words we use. The tongue can create life or death. Our words can grow fruit on trees or wither healthy roots.

2022-03-28

Reaching Out

“Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.

2022-03-03

The Cost to be Merciful

To give up our self-centered, pride-filled, and judgmental human nature to serve God and others is a sacrifice. It is a lifestyle do-over. It takes commitment. Read the rest...

2021-12-19

God with us Now Residing . . .

How interesting that God chose shepherds as recipients of the “birth announcement” of the Savior. Shepherds weren’t men who worshipped in sanctuaries with stained glass windows.

2021-07-30

His Great Love for Us

"But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners" Romans 5:8 Do you know God's great love for you?

2021-07-14

Seek

Holy Lord, only in you do I find what satisfies my soul's desires. The things that have captured my eye are boring after only a short while.

2020-11-30

The Value of Godliness

Surely, you and I don’t welcome suffering, but it makes us better people if we continue to trust God. While we may not feel better, we become better.And God will reward us with the blessings attached to godliness.

2020-09-29

Who’s There?

We cannot close our ears to Christ’s steady knocks and think he will give up. He never will. Jesus wants us to welcome him in with hearts hungering to spend time with him.

2020-09-09

Disciple Through Hospitality

In the Bible, hospitality meant showing love to strangers by opening one’s home to them. Throughout our marriage, my husband and I have practiced hospitality by providing meals to strangers, but rarely have strangers spent the night in our home.

2020-08-04

God is Sovereign

Then life doesn’t make sense, we can know that it’s all known to God. No matter what our circumstances, we can know that God is always in control and He is bigger than our circumstances.

2020-07-27

Care-Givers

Will you join me in thanking God for the "care-givers" in our churches who continually find ways to reach out to their flock and will not let the Word be silenced? Lord, I am grateful for our amazing shepherds who have found such unique ways of caring for and feeding your flock.

2020-04-26

Sanctified Trials

Real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His children, not in dwellings of ease and luxury, but by using them in hard service.

2020-04-04

Many Hardships

Hardships are a part of our allotment. They were predestined for us. As surely as the stars are fashioned by His hands and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are our hardships allotted to us: He has predestined their season and their place, their intensity, and their effect on us.

2019-02-08

God’s Good Gifts

Ever feel like you have nothing? Just look at the gifts [God] has given you: “Every good action and every perfect gift is from God.” James 1:17 (NCV)

2018-10-16

Unselfish Choices

“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:35

2017-08-17

A Matter of Direction

No matter who we are, how old we are, or how physically capable we are, we can all give. God has blessed us with experiences, talents, and Spirit- guided incites that we can offer to others. "“Consider it pure joy, ..."

2017-04-18

A Wonderful Expression of Love

Heavenly Father, thank you for your ultimate sacrifice of your Son Jesus, so I may know you, love you, and share you here on the earth. Help me to remember that without you, I have nothing. Open my eyes to see the opportunities that you are giving me to share who you are with others. Amen.

2017-03-04

Fit for the King

Worship with anything less than our best is not worship at all. Discover the joy of giving to God the very best. Think and pray about what the best is that you have to offer. The Holy Spirit will help you understand what that means.

2016-10-11

Moving Beyond Good Intentions

“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.” Proverbs 10:12 When I was twelve, I had a horrendous fight with both of my brothers. I was shocked at the anger and hate I identified in myself.

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