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Tag: strength

2020-03-22

Your Heart, His Home

God is willing to change us into the likeness of the Savior. Shall we accept his offer?

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2020-03-19

You Are Mine

God promises – “I have redeemed you. I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”

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2020-03-17

Armed and Ready

Learning to put on the armour of God can change the way you begin your

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2020-03-14

Impossible Instructions

Lord. Please help me keep my eyes on you and my ears tuned to your “Be still.” Exodus 14:13 “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.”

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2020-03-11

When the Sparkle Goes

Scripture reminds us that it is also possible to lose our “first love” for the Lord.  In fact, it is more than possible—it’s inevitable—unless one is careful to keep looking to God and His Word rather than to embrace the ceaseless changes that swirl around us.

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2020-03-01

Lavished with Kindness

Lavished! With God’s grace! What an amazing word picture! You and I, right where we walk today, are being showered with the loving kindness of our great God. He is pouring out His unconditional love over us. He is heaping tremendous, overwhelming favor on us.

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2020-02-18

Winding Roads and Center Lines

What is your center line? What has kept you on course while following Jesus? My center line for staying the course? “I have loved you with an everlasting love…” (Jeremiah 31:3)

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2020-02-07

Storms of Our Own Making

God’s Storms...Get our attention; Humble us; Lead us to repentance; Align our life with His plans.

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2020-02-04

Unthinkable Instructions

What sea faces you? Before God gives the command to move on, he asks us to be still. Stop long enough to hear God’s sure whisper, “I will fight for you.”

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2020-01-29

Who Do People See

When I read that God is “compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love,” I can ask myself if those same characteristics are becoming more a reality in my life. Am I looking at difficult people with compassion?

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2020-01-28

Everything You Need

You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.

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2020-01-25

The Danger of Strength

Success and strength can become dangerous when uncoupled from reliance upon our Creator God, when we assume autonomy instead of recognition that all we are and all we accomplish are from the hand of a gracious God.

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2020-01-22

Renewed

May God restore your soul, refresh your spirit, and remove every cloud of despair, release every care of anxiety, lift every burden of strife, heal every wound of unkindness, cleanse every stain of sin, take every weight of heaviness, and renew to the fullest, every joy, hope, and blessing that He has made available to you in the riches of Jesus Christ.

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2020-01-16

He Can Heal the Hurt

I caught my husband making love to another woman. He swore it would never happen again. He begged me to forgive him, but I could not - would not.

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2020-01-11

Underneath: Everlasting Arms

Susan was broken-hearted. She had just lost her first child at birth. The trauma of that experience had affected her relationship with her husband and with everyone else around her. She had become cynical and moody. She blamed God

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2020-01-06

Reflections

I sit and I watch in awe, in wonder at the works of Your hands. It’s so majestic, yet so refreshing all in the same breath. Your power so quaint yet well-defined with each wave. You have taken me captive. I can’t seem to pull away.

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2019-12-27

Jehovah-Kavod

“Oh LORD God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O LORD, and your faithfulness surrounds you” (Psalm 89:7).

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2019-12-11

God Is Present

‘My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” (Exodus 33:14). In all of life’s challenges, God gives us the one thing we need the most:His Presence.

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2019-12-07

Silent Adoration

‘I wait quietly before God …. I wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.’ Psalm 62:1, 5. When we in our littleness and God in His glory meet, we all understand that what God says has infinitely more worth than what a person says.

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2019-12-04

He Bears and He Gives

Thought: Today I will take careful inventory of my burdens and my worries and be sure that I am casting them all on the Lord with the certain knowledge that He cares for me. I will also encourage those around me to cast their cares upon the Lord.

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2019-11-26

When We Dare to Let God be For Us

When We Dare to Let God be For Us: Dare to let God be for you all He has said He will be. Faith that rests will watch God work. Every time.

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2019-11-25

The Rock Pile

While our prayers may not be answered in the way we want, God will respond to our cries. Instead of despairing that things are not turning out as we hoped, let’s keep our eyes open for the ways he begins to lift the weight from pressing on our lives and brings relief, stone by stone.

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2019-11-19

Beware of Deception

Question: Have you been tricked or deceived in the past, How can we guard against being deceived?

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2019-11-17

God Knows Us by Name

We need a shepherd. We need a shepherd to care for us and to guide us. And we have one. ONE who knows us by name.

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