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Tag: strength

2019-08-28

Fruit of Kindness

Be blessed with the fruit of kindness that the Holy Spirit produces in you, your grateful response to unmerited kindness

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2019-08-27

Jesus Desires Mercy, Not Sacrifice

When you feel condemnation coming at you like a furious flood, look to Jesus, who says, “I no longer condemn you. Go and sin no more”

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2019-08-22

Blessing of the Fruit of the Spirit

The fruit of the spirit is not an emotional response. It is God in you. Be blessed to keep in step with His Spirit and draw on who He is.

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2019-08-19

God is Jealous

Your Lord is jealous of your love. Did He choose you? Then He cannot bear that you would choose another.

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2019-08-18

Feelings of Inferiority

The misery of inferiority is never what God intends for His children. Its seed usually takes root in the impressionable hearts of the young and thrives in an atmosphere of comparison.

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2019-08-17

Broken Relationships

“I want to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering” Philippians 3:10 How are you doing today? Is everything going great or are you struggling with a broken relationship? Or perhaps you have an incurable disease - maybe something worse.

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2019-08-03

Remember Whose You Are

I don't know your story and you don't know mine, but we share a common theme. We are driven by the search for true identity,

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2019-08-02

You are Defined by God, and God Alone

Your faith will grow stronger as you focus on your identity in Christ (Galatians 2). What this means is that you abandon any image of yourself that is not from God.

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2019-08-01

Hit and Run

God wants us to face our problem situations and work them out. With His personal presence in our lives, and His wonderful promises of help and encouragement, we will begin to see His hand at work in our lives,

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2019-07-25

The Stones Cry Out

If the stones were to speak, they could tell of how God took them from the quarry, shaped them, and made them fit for the temple. We too can testify of all the ways God has guided us,

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2019-07-24

One of Those Days

So the next time you have one of those days, try this. Instead of wondering “why”,  with Job you can say, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” Not only when good comes your way ... but also when you have “one of those days.”

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2019-07-19

Be Assured

I have experienced weakness and I have cried out for help in desperate situations. I have needed to be told over and over again by the Lord to not be afraid. I have needed his reassurance. He is our God. He is Sovereign. He has ultimate power and authority.

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2019-07-14

You Are My Savior

Sit for a moment and repeat that great truth. Let it soak into your being. “You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long!”

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2019-06-10

Christian Civility

Jesus calls Christians to words and actions that go far beyond civility, even civility. His call is life altering, indeed it is death to self.

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2019-06-01

Why Worry?

When Jesus says, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body what you will wear…Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” It doesn’t mean we should be lazy and not provide for our families.

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2019-05-31

7 Good Things…to Know about God’s Love for You

No one knows you more thoroughly: O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up: (vs. 1) No one understands you more completely: You understand my thought afar off. (vs.2) No one cares about you more deeply: You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are

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2019-05-27

How to Turn Tangled Thoughts into Trust

I was planning to read Psalm 18 before falling asleep last night. A busy day,

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2019-05-19

Pursue Peace

“So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit

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2019-05-13

A Walk of the Heart

Walking with the Lord is a walk that takes place in the heart—a heart to follow Him. My journey with the Lord is a walk to seek Him. This is a walk of the heart I choose to take each brand new day.

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2019-05-06

God Never Gives Up

God’s people often forget their God, but God never forgets them.  When Joseph was dropped

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2019-05-06

God is Faithful

“Because of the LORD’S great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.

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2019-05-01

It’s All about Forgiveness

It opened in theaters recently and my wife and I attended the second night. The movie is October Baby, a story about a college girl who learns she was the product of a failed abortion and goes in search of her birth-mother and her life.

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2019-04-30

God’s Love Fills Me

“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the

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2019-04-27

Persecution and Hardship

I pray that you will bring deliverance from this time of persecution. I pray that their sufferings will be the source of powerful witness so others will come to see the great value of Jesus and our allegiance to him. This I pray in his precious and holy name. Amen.

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