“… Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. […]
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In prayer. Perhaps I should say – in your praying.? Remember: “… pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].” [James 5:16] Would
I was asked to present a devotional the middle of next week, so I thought I’d share it with you. Who is the God You know? How do you relate to the Person? Do you have Him a box? Do you bring Him out only in times pf crisis? Do you only bring requests? How
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I checked. I have over 2,000 blog posts. 2,000. Perhaps not much according to those with a great deal more… maybe slightly impressive to those who are just beginning their blogging journey. One bit of advice … or 2. Make whatever you are saying yours. Don’t listen to critics, naysayers, advice givers or any of
I have a question… one that I’ve mulled over countless times, but still without an answer. The question: why do so many of us have difficulty asking others to stand with us in prayer about something or someone? Do we see asking for someone(s) help sound like we aren’t trusting a loving Father and we
Let’s admit it – we all are people pleasers to some degree. Is that so bad? It can be… depending on the degree. I believe that the degree is dependent on our belonging need, unmet need, and how/if/we value our belonging. Where is your comfort level (and we all have different points at which we
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“Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right and steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And
I’ve used the title – But what about meeee? – before, and though this isn’t the title of this post… it really will seem like I’m just using different words for the same message. Perhaps, but I believe that sometimes a title/focus has more than one application. Regardless, what about you? First… does everything in
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to yourself. Do you? Are you surprised by what you hear? Do you believe what you are saying? Those are only the obvious questions that spring to mind when you think about, focus on what it is YOU hear from what you say. Not a new thought and maybe not as important as I think
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Do we really mean that? Are we really asking that the Lord’s will be done? This question is asked to Christians, especially praying Christians. Regardless of the need in the prayer… do we ask that His will be done? Or do we mean ours? Actually, I was brought up a bit short today when I
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!