Lynn Donovan
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The Wonder of Forgiveness
This Easter, I’m undone as I consider the forgiveness of Christ. I can’t help but to feel all the feels every time I read about the crucifixion of Christ. As we ponder this week, let’s ask Jesus a few questions. I believe it’s this Easter that He is walking us into greater freedom and hope.…
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Bet You Didn’t See THIS in the Bible
The Forgiveness of Easter SUMites, what if we prayed and we witnessed supernatural healing? What if we pray and we send back a hurricane? What if we pray and demons flee, or we pray and see life return? I want all of these things to occur when I pray and I believe we are able…
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Significant Key to Prayer
Significant Key to Prayer Hope you read last Friday’s post about prayer because you need that background to unlock this powerful and effective key to answered prayer. Also, all of this teaching is leading up to Easter….. Just wait until I make that connection!!! It’s stunning. Okay, let’s read on. The commonality came to me…
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Key To Effective Prayer
As we approach Easter and consider prayer for our unsaved loved ones, I want to turn our study to what Jesus taught about prayer AND the key He revealed regarding effective prayer. I’m exceedingly interested in praying effectively. There are lives on the line. Eternities are at stake. Tremendous needs for supernatural healing surround us.…
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Launch Prayer? Does it really Work? Read This.
Image credit: Chatgpt, Lynn Donovan Greetings SUM Nation. Lynn Donovan with you. I’ll be with you every Friday now as I’ve settled back into a routine and the Lord is encouraging me to write on the blog regularly again. Easter Sunday is April 20th. So, for the next few Fridays, let's consider the weeks leading…
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Want To Pray Differently In Front of Your Family?
Praying for your family or praying while they listen in an unequally yoked home is challenging. But I've found a prayer model that works. So tune in tomorrow and I'll explain Launch Prayers. Are you curious? Today, I bless you in the name of our Lord Jesus with hope. Great BIG and life-changing hope. In…
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Donovan Clan Update
Hi, SUM Nation. Lynn Donovan here with an update on Mike: Mike’s six-month, bone marrow biopsy, came back clean. No recurring disease. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ, our healer. Also, the blood work continues to reflect positive results. They will continue to monitor Mike for at least three years. His next biopsy will be at…
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Happiness IS A LIE. Want to know why?
Sumites! Lynn Donovan with you on this fine Friday. So, the Lord has been speaking to me regarding our voyages through adversity. After walking through a tremendous adversity for most of 2024, I’ve now had time to reflect on my questions of why. What did I learn. God’s view of adversity and the truth of…
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The GREAT reward of the Unequally Yoked
Sum Nation. Lynn Donovan here. Today in my Bible reading I was reading through the book of Mark, Chapter 3: 28 “Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; 29 but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is…
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Valentine’s Day- The Day of Love
Valentine’s Day Oh, the emotions that arrive with the mention of this day. I want you to know that God LOVES Valentines Day. He sees it as a day where we celebrate the most significant thing in the universe. God loves us. He loves us so much He died and rose to life in order…
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Did 2024 Suck? Read This
Hello SUM Nation, If your 2024 sucked (can I say that on a Christian blog?), then this post is for you: Get ready. Bible, pen and paper. Lynn Donovan with you here. Open your paper Bible and underline this passage: Nehemiah 8:9-10 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the…
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Book Resources
Spiritual Enforcer This book is for the serious believer who is ready to engage in a higher level of spiritual warfare. This book is NOT for anyone who is less than desperate to pray with real power and authority in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 6 is our training guide for the unequally yoked in marriage. This…
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Father’s View of Christmas. Profound
The Christmas story as told from the Throne room. My child, settle in with Me in this hour. Imagine yourself climbing upon My lap as a small child. You are welcome in My house, upon My Throne and into intimacy with Me. Let me tell you a story. Long ago, before you were born, My…
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Tablecloth of Thanks
Hi friends, Lynn Donovan here on this brilliant November day. Thank you for your prayers on Wednesday. We must remain vigilant. But now let's turn to our homes and families. Let' make our home a place of peace and welcome. Even welcome to our faith in Jesus. Below is my annual Thanksgiving tablecloth post: Every…
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This is Urgent. Please read. Then Pray
Hi SUM Nation, Lynn Donovan here. Today I was going to post my timeless photo and offer up again the family tradition I call, a Tablecloth of Thanks. I’ll post that on Friday. But today, I feel deeply within my spirit to call this community to prayer. This is why. In the last few weeks,…
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Donovan Clan Update- THREE MILLION DOLLARS
Donovan Clan Update Three Million Dollars As I turned the calendar to November and consider the holidays are upon us, I’m sensitive to the praise and thanks that is welling up inside my heart. 2024 has been a challenging year. I prayed for so many things that needed divine intervention. One specific prayer was for…
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John Bible Study – The Last and Most Important Post
John 15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you.. One of the main topics that Jesus was trying to communicate to the disciples on His final night of ministry before the Cross is to abide. Several scripture verses in chapter 15, Jesus implores the disciples to abide in Him. And we have already covered the…
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Politics and the Unequally Yoked
Politics and the Unequally Yoked Lynn here. Politics in the Bible? John Chapter 14? I’m so glad you asked. Let’s quickly define the scenario that is often at hand in our mismatched marriages as it relates to politics (and religion). In our marriages we view life, morals, beliefs and purpose through the lens of God’s…
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Explaining God to Kids OR Perhaps Grownups
Hi Sumites, Lynn Donovan here. A few weeks ago, I was stuffed in the backseat of a rental car with my two granddaughters. My son and his wife were driving us to an overlook in Portland where we would view the entire city and the volcano in the background. It was spectacular. Somewhere in the…
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Glimpses of Glory John Chapter 14:2
John 14:2-4 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”…
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Glory and a New Command
Glory and a New Command (Read to the end. The prayer at the bottom is good) John, chapter 13, concludes with two messages. The first, Jesus is glorified. But what does that mean? I jumped into some research and the one-word-summary that fits is: honor. Father, is bestowing honor upon Jesus. And the honorable actions…