Devotion
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Weekend Devo – Time to Worship
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. – 2 Corinthians 12:9 Something's happening. Over a week's time, God showed me 2 Corinthians 12:9 at least five times, the last at a conference I was at last weekend, given in a moving devotional by a doctor who's a missionary…
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Weekend Devo – Grace
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." – 2Corinthians 12:9 God has brought me to this verse four times in one week. Each time I’ve prayed over a specific ongoing issue, he’s bought me back to or reminded me of this verse. Years ago I remember asking someone…
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Weekend Devo – Discouraged?
Another great article from Rick Warren about patience and perseverance. We can easily become discouraged in a S.U.M. I hope this devotional encourages you to keep going, to keep praying, and above all, keep believing. Blessings! -Dineen Having Patience in the Midst of Discouragementby Rick Warren “You need to persevere so that when you have…
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Weekend Devo – We Are Known
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. – 1Cor. 13:12 1 Corinthians 13 is known as the love chapter. Yet at the end of this wonderful chapter is…
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Weekend Devo – Restoring Joy
9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your…
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Weekend Devo – Have you noticed?
Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever. – Psalm 106:1 Have you noticed God in the little things? The bloom of a flower, a clear blue sky, a special word you needed at a particular time of discouragement? God's presence is all around us, constantly. He…
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Weekend Devo-To Know and Be Known
(This is a re-post from July 30, 2007, with the addition of applicable Scripture. In light of our recent topics I thought it might be a good one to revisit.) But the man who loves God is known by God. – 1Corinthians 8:3 As I wrote down my prayer, the ache in my heart formed…
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I Have a Bad Reputation
It’s True, I have a bad reputation. My friends in the neighborhood all know about me. My family has known for a long time. I have an issue. Sometimes I catch an off-hand word about my peculiarity or a casual remark in conversations in the yard or at church. I know I should change. So…
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Weekend Devo-Time and Eternity
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11 I don't know about you, but there are certain books in the Bible that take more energy to read than others. Ecclesiastes…
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Weekend Devo – Living Out Loud
God Is Interested in Your Work by Rick Warren "It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose…
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Wekend Devo – Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual warfare is a major issue in spiritually mismatched marriages. I loved this message from James MacDonald at Walk in the Word. I hope it ministers to you as much as it did to me. Great reminders here that our God is bigger than anything we face!Praying and believing,Dineen Strategic Lessons for Spiritual WarfareBy James…
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Weekend Devo-Praying Fervently for our Children
In celebration of Father's Day, I'd like to share this wonderful article by Rick Warren with you. -Blessings! Dineen Fathers: Pray Fervently for Your Children by Rick Warren "I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they are Yours" (John 17:9 NIV). Jesus reflected…
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Are you listening, God?
Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. – Proverbs 19:20 In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers speaks frequently of the challenges in the valley, which he likens to the trials and travails of everyday life. Those moments on the spiritual mountain tops are fine for what…
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Weekend Devo – Are you with God?
"The Lord is with you when you are with Him." – Asariah, son of Oded (2 Chronicles 15:2) Here's another one of those Scriptures that kept my interest for days. It fascinates me to find something I could so clearly hear Jesus say in the Old Testament. But that makes sense, doesn't it? After all,…
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Weekend Devo – Talk Like the Animals
As my daughter and I were driving to the dog park, she told me a cute story. See, one day a while back, her dad had taken her and Shasta, her poochy, to the dog park. She said the most interesting thing happened. The dogs were drawn to my hubby. According to my daughter, they…
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Weekend Devotion – How can they believe?
"But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" – John 5:47 Oddly, reading this gave me great comfort recently. In Jesus' words, I hear my own dilemma with my spouse. Since he doesn't believe in God or the Bible as his Word, how can he…
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Weekend Devo – Love God and Love Your Spouse
This weekend's devo is from Purpose Driven Connection by Rick Warren. A great way to look at the two most important commandments… "'Teacher,' he asked, 'Which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' Jesus answered, ''Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is…
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Weekend Devo – Puppy Dog Tails
I once read a story about an atheist scientist who gazed upon the shell-like elegance of his daughter's ear and was suddenly struck by the beauty of its design and function. In this moment he believed in God because he realized it could only be a manifestation of the Creator's hand. Something so small had…
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Weekend Devo – Love Never Fails
"Love never fails." – 1 Corinthians 13:8 I grew up thinking love was the key to everything. I don't know why, but this was my mental make-up as a child, a teenager, and then a young adult. Yet as I grew older, I started to question if love was really enough. Over time I noticed…
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Wekend Devotion – Worldly Wisdom Takes a Blow
For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? – 1Corinthians 1:19-20 I know there's been a lot…
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Weekend Devotion – The 99
Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then…