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Abide in Prayer ~ Day 31
Sent by God Jesus had a purpose, a calling for His life. He was sent by God, left heaven to come into the world as flesh, walked as a man, and became sin for us. As I think about Jesus … Continue...
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Does Prayer Effect the Gospel? ~ Day 14
Jesus left -ascended. The disciples stood there gazing -no doubt, I would have too-, and the two men in white asked: “why?, This same Jesus you see going will come back again…”. “Ye have heard how I...
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Prayer is Patient ~Day 1
Sometimes prayer lacks words all together. Instead, it is simply BEING in the presence of God. “Rest IN the Lord and wait patiently for him…” Psalm 37:7 You probably have first-hand experience in at...
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Running from, or Abiding in?
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. – Jonah 1: 2-3 How many of …...
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“What do YOU think, Lord?”
Silence on God’s part does not mean He is neutral about a situation. It also does not mean that He is in favor of what I may hope the will of God will turn out to be. Silence means that … Continue...
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All or None
“I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman” John 15:1 The statement was a perfectly yielded example of a man under authority, and not simply a man. God himself in human form. Here, Jesus faced...
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Desire the Purging
“Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away; and every branch that bringeth forth fruit, he purgeth, that it bringeth forth more fruit.” Jn. 15:2 Sanctification is a constant. There is...
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A Call to Dependency
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me.” Jn. 15:4 Here lies the truth “all our works are … Continue...
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Faith: Crippled Apart from Patience
Have you ever thought about it? Faith requires patience. It dies without it. It stagnates apart from the constant application of it. We believe in a Jesus we do not physically see. However, we...
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Faith Without Feelings: Prayer and A Song
We were created for relationship; created to delight the heart of God and find our fulfillment and satisfaction from the heart of God; created to give and receive, love and be loved; created to feel...
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Plumbing the Depths of Your Need (Intro)
I need Thee ev’ry hour, In joy or pain; Come quickly and abide, Or life is vain. Hymn writer Annie Hawkes later wrote about the origin of this powerful hymn, just before her death in 1918: “I remember...
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A Painful Past (Part 4)
After seven days completely bedridden, it was time for my second surgery. I had been on moderate doses of very strong painkillers (mostly morphine), and the drugs affected my memory at that time. Some...
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Jesus, Our Abiding Place
Happy New Year! I woke up this morning and realized it’s 2015 – that time is a gift that slips through our fingers and is gone in the blink of an eye. With the dawning of January, I want to close out...
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War Torn Soul (Pt. 2)
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law...
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Rocks, Sand and a Storm (Pt. 1)
“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds...
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Being Who We Ought To Be
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.” John 15:4 I’ve been a Christian for about 5 years, yet I...
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Is Jesus Your Best Thought?
BE THOU MY VISION, O LORD OF MY HEART NAUGHT BE ALL ELSE TO ME SAVE THAT THOU ART; THOU MY BEST THOUGHT BY DAY OR BY NIGHT WAKING OR SLEEPING, THY PRESENCE MY LIGHT. God brought to mind the verse,...
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Demanding Love
Thoughts from August 4th, 2013 LOVE SO AMAZING, SO DIVINE DEMANDS MY SOUL, MY LIFE, MY ALL. Sitting in church this morning during communion, these words wandered through my mind and made an imprint on...
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Living with Jesus
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” Colossians 3:3-4 Here’s something I wish I had...
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Like Last Year’s Leaves
I’m sitting at the park on a crisp, 52 degree day staring at a bunch of last years oak leaves that are still hanging on to their respective branches. Ironically, it’s the end of February. That means...
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