Category: trust
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Giving God Our All
“God wants our hearts as well as our minds.” – William Wilberforce, Real Christianity God deserves our all. He doesn’t just want it. He deserves it. In fact, God delights in our willingness to obediently follow His commands as well as our willingness to forsake everything else to follow Him. Jesus said as much […]
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Problems with Patience
Have you really had struggles or trials with patience? Think back and see what you really thought during such times. Were you eagerly awaiting something, only to discover that you needed to exercise patience? Patience can become a problem when you have taken the ready position without any means of going forward. Some folks can […]
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Keep Count in 2012
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? – Luke 14:28 (KJV) In 2012, you had better keep count of some things. You should keep count and keep track throughout the year. Look back at how God answered prayers and provided […]
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Keep the Faith and Keep Going
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. – Philippians 3:12 (NKJV) I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:14 […]
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Worth the Risk
“Faith laughs at impossibilities.” – Smith Wigglesworth Faith involves a certain degree of risk. My pastor preached and taught many times over the years that faith can cause you to end up looking foolish following God. If you are going to have faith, you must be willing to take a risk. You have to be willing to stand […]
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From Eden to Egypt Day 26
Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. No one thought that I would be able to have Abraham’s child, but even though Abraham is old I have given him a son.” – Genesis […]
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From Eden to Egypt Day 25
1Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, 2and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her. –Genesis 20:1-2 (NIV) Have you ever repeated […]
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Christmas Crime
After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. -Judges 2:10 (NLT) This holiday season has disturbed me a bit. No, it’s not because me artificial tree looks like it needs a stimulus package or recovery funds. I can deal […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 23
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from […]
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Praise Under Pressure
But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works. – Psalm 73:28 (NASB) This psalm speaks of man’s lack of understanding the things observed and obsessed over in this life. The pressure of life is what emerges […]