Fascinating word. Provoke is one of those words that we can see a visible reaction to the cause, stimuli. You do realize that it has as many positive attributes as it does negative… yes? According to Webster: “to call forth (a feeling, an action, etc.) : EVOKE; provoke laughter; to stir up purposely; provoke a […]
Sound like a facetious question? Not. A legitimate wondering. Think about it… When there is something you want to remember, what do you do? The answer is that typically people make a note in their choice of techie devices that is currently their go to. We don’t even try to remember (fill in the blank).
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“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe [Me] because of the [very] works themselves [which you have witnessed]. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as Savior] will also do the things that I do; and he will do
In 2015 I wrote a post that I titled… ‘In the trenches’. Perhaps because of the times we live in, I thought a bit of a revisit was in order. I, obviously, can’t speak for you but, for me, there are times that this is precisely how I feel. YET… I have nothing to complain
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Have you ever thought about all the times God says “I Will…”? Whatever comes after those words were a done deal because God also said/says. “So will My word be which goes out of My mouth; It will not return to Me void (useless, without result), Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in
According to Google, abundant (more) is fullness of joy and strength: “More abundantly” (John 10:10) means to have a superabundance of a thing. ‘Abundant life’ refers to life in its abounding fullness of joy and strength for spirit, soul and body.” Abounding, beyond all define superabundance and a status we all can attain. It can
God gave us minds. God gave us free willErgo and thus… He expected us to use them. I also suspect that He expected us to use logic and compassion in our applications. Those 2 standards are not incompatible. Then we face the knotty problem of how do we resolve the issue of obeying those in
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Do you know if you are congruent? Do you listen to what you say… and see what you do? Do you like you… despite your ‘failings’? How do you know all that? Can one tell from your words and behavior? Are your words and behavior like shifting sand… all over the place, spilling over, not
Being blindsided… happen to you? I suspect we all get blindsided at times… by ourselves as well as by others and other types of ‘triggers’. To be perfectly clear – being ‘surprised’ is not the same as being blindsided. Blindsided is always unbidden, unexpected, and not wanted. Sometimes it takes our breath away, sometimes it
I realize that we often hear, at the end of the year, that it’s been a/an (choose your adjective) year. When it is 2020 that we are talking about, that ‘WHAT’ is far more than we realized when we began 1/1/2020. It is difficult, not impossible, to find the ‘good’ in the year. But the
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Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
