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Part the Jordan River, Part III
Read more: Part the Jordan River, Part III(Part IV of our current Series: Parting the Red Sea and Parting the Jordan River.) Good Monday Morning Sumites. This is going to be a fantastic week. And I think we are going to discover what can happen in an ordinary believer’s life when we take a step of faith and then step out in…
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Weekend Worship – Lay Me Down!
Read more: Weekend Worship – Lay Me Down!My precious Sumites, I love this song by Chris Tomlin because it's about the surrendered life and the JOY of living like we belong to Jesus. Because we do! We are His and He is ours. This is also what Scripture means when it says, "the joy of the Lord is our strength" (Neh. 8:10.)…
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Part the Jordan River
Read more: Part the Jordan RiverHey SUMers! Did you enjoy the read through Joshua 3:1-7? I wonder about something. When you read the OT passages do you kinda view the people of the stories as characters. Like a character in a fiction book? Well, Joshua is a real man. He lived on this planet and I can’t wait to meet…
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Trust + Surrender + Obedience = Breakthrough
Read more: Trust + Surrender + Obedience = BreakthroughMy friends, a few weeks ago I talked about A Step of Faith. In that post I said “we will have to take a believing step of faith to activate the promise we’ve been given.” This was all about trusting God and moving in that trust (faith) to step forward. Nearly a month later I…
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Where is the parting of my Red Sea?
Read more: Where is the parting of my Red Sea?I’m wondering if you’ve noticed??? There has been a shift in our atmosphere here among the Sumites. This house has gone through a transition in the last six months. Dineen and I have talked about this transition a lot but what was really cool is that last week I was talking to Beverly Etzel, one…
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Weekend Worship – FREEDOM!
Read more: Weekend Worship – FREEDOM!My precious friends, since our conference I am more and more convinced that God is moving is a big way and His message is all about Hi love and freedom-the freedom that comes when we walk in faith, trusting Him for our lives and knowing who ecactly we are in Jesus. Recently I wrote a couple…
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Live With Intention
Read more: Live With IntentionSo, can I just say it’s been the weirdest week. I have experienced every emotion from sheer elation to deep sadness and about everything in between. With that said, perhaps my “word filter” isn’t in full gear meaning that you are going to get my guts… It could be Icky… but it’s always going to…
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The Path of Faith
Read more: The Path of FaithMy precious friends, I know we're mourning the loss of Rosheeda and celebrating her new home in glory! Ro is the one who inspired me a couple years ago to surrender to God and to seek to live and understand what a surrendered life looks like. She lived and breathed it. She lived and breathed…
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Rosheeda Lee
Read more: Rosheeda LeeThis page is to honor our ministry partner, Rosheeda Lee, who went home to glory on April 5, 2013. Rosheeda served this community with such love that we are forever changed. Please take time to read a letter from her parents, Sheila and Roderick Lee. Click here. The post below is the original post for our…
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Weekend Worship – I Surrender!
Read more: Weekend Worship – I Surrender!My precious friends, I'm still pondering the meaning of surrendering our lives to Jesus. I've always been struck by how Jesus stood before His accusors and said nothing to defend Himself. That speaks to me of a holy dignity that rises above the opinions of men and sits squarely and humbly with God. The Bible…
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The Surrendered Life
Read more: The Surrendered LifeMy friends, Lynn and I are just days away from meeting some of you at the Intentional Life Conference. I am so excited to finally meet you in person and give you hugs! This community (SUMites as Ro called us!) is so precious to me. Those of you not coming, I feel like I’m carrying…
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Faith, Hope, and Love
Read more: Faith, Hope, and LoveHi Everyone, Wow, it’s been a crazy, busy week. And now we are heading into our conference week with a million things to do. But before the crazy ramps up, let me just share a part of my heart. My favorite photo from the weekend. My daughter, Caitie, and my grandaughter, Elise. Elise is…
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Freedom
Read more: FreedomAll that Christ did, He did so that we would be slaves no more to the law-and more than that, to our own sinful nature. Freedom guys. FREEDOM. Christ redeemed us so that we could enjoy freedom in this life and the next. Oh Lord, thank you for Your Son. Thank you that our redeemer…
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The Greatest Sacrifice
Read more: The Greatest SacrificeThe word that came to mind for this post was "lent"… So, you guessed it. I started searching and reading and trying to flesh this thing out-and of all that I read and pondered, the one thing that stands out the most is that Lent is time of great sacrifice. Gang, let me tell you,…
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Hope Floats
Read more: Hope FloatsPraying over this post, this is what the Lord gave me. And I thought, "Ok. Hope is really a perfect topic for Holy Week." I mean…that's really what its all about. Freeing us of the bonds of sin and giving us hope in the security of eternity. But I still didn't get it. Hope floats?…
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Weekend Devo – God Loved Us First!
Read more: Weekend Devo – God Loved Us First!My friends, we have a wonderful week of devotions planned for next week. Rosheeda has prayfully written something for each day so that we can walk through the week with hope, faith and love planted squarely in our Jesus, and celbrate the greatest gift of this life and the next (yep, it's the gift that…
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The Prodigal and Our Unrelenting God
Read more: The Prodigal and Our Unrelenting GodGood Morning, Lynn Here. If you have prayed for any length for a prodigal or a spouse to come to faith and feel like they are so lost, so far from God that it will never happen, then this story is for you. I want to introduce my friend, Angie Knight. I met Angie in…
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God Set Me Up!
Read more: God Set Me Up!A couple weeks ago I wrote my post about the Israelites crossing the Jordan as a step of faith in their journey to claim their Promised Land. I also wrote about how this is our story as well, that we too have Jordans to cross and Jerichos to march around in order to claim the…
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Weekend Worship – Set a Fire!
Read more: Weekend Worship – Set a Fire!My friends, Lynn is at a women's retreat this weekend, serving as a leader for her church. I would love to direct our prayers toward her and the women she is serving this weekend. She has such a heart for these women and wants to see them walk in freedom. We are praying for godly…
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Special Guest Today! Please Welcome Suzie Eller!
Read more: Special Guest Today! Please Welcome Suzie Eller!My precious friends, today I want to introduce you to Susanne (Suzie) Eller. She's been a great support to the SUM ministry and now we get to share her with you! Suzie's message of forgiveness in her book, The Unburdened Heart is desperately needed today and by so many. I hope you find answers and…
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The Day Quickly Approaches
Read more: The Day Quickly ApproachesEaster approaches. Let’s hold up our spouse for a salvation, a transformation, experience this year on Easter morning. Almighty God, You are the Creator of all things. We are your chosen, your children. We worship you. We are your vessel to be used for your purposes and passions. Lord, fill us up with your…
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Weekend Worship – Moving Forward
Read more: Weekend Worship – Moving ForwardThis weekend I'm at Lynn's-we're working on the conference coming in April. We are so excited about this event! God keeps showing us more and more of what He wants to accomplish and reveal at this conference. We are so blown away! My friends, God sure seems to have us on a fasttrack to our…
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My Beloved Sister
Read more: My Beloved SisterHi Everyone, This afternoon Dineen will be arriving at the San Diego aiport where I will pick her up. We are heading off to the Jesus Culture Concert for what I’m anticipating will be three hours of worship and life-changing face time with our Great God. Dineen is then joining me at the Donovan Clan…
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A Step of Faith
Read more: A Step of FaithMy precious friends, God has put a fire in my heart to speak to you about taking a step of faith. There is something God is calling many of us to do-something unique to our place and time and season-and He’s given you a promise that goes with this. And maybe you’ve prayed and waited…