Dineen Miller
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Are You Ready for Christmas?
I know I’m not-still have shopping, baking, and a birthday to prepare for! So much to do along with work and taking care of the family. Are you nodding along with me?Keeping our focus on Christ this time of year is tough for anyone, so I’m not going to talk about the busyness that threatens…
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The Perpetual State of Waiting
I’m in a perpetual state of waiting. I believe many of us are. In fact, I’ve yet to meet someone who isn’t waiting for something. And as Christians, aren’t we all in some form or another, waiting to one day meet Jesus? We’re all waiting for something. And I’m finding in this time of waiting…
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Weekend Devo – Thanksgiving Offering
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus…
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God’s Preparation
During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became…
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Weekend Devo – Basking in the Light
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart…
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Digging for God
19 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 20 "This is what the LORD says: 'If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, 21 then my covenant with David my servant-and my covenant with the…
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The Power in God’s Word
Yesterday I read this really great devotional by Rick Warren about the power behind Scripture. Then I had this awesome conversation with Lynn (I love that woman so much!) and what do you think she started talking about? Okay, God. I get the message. And I’m hoping you will, too. I’m sharing Warren’s devo as…
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Waiting on God
God never ceases to amaze me in the intricate perfection of his work and plan. Have you found yourself in a place where you see how the details surrounding you are linked together and blooming like a flower? And as the petals open, the legitimacy of each event suddenly comes into view, perfectly planned and…
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Weekend Devo – From Fear to Courage
NOTE: Currently our comment box is not appearing. I have left a help ticket with Typepad and hope to have this resoved soon. Please email me your comments and I will post them when we get it figured. Out. Thank you ~ Dineen Please email me The women’s ministry at my church is currently studying…
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How full is your net?
"I'm going out to fish," Simon Peter told them, and they said, "We'll go with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. He called out to them,…
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Day 6: God is Good
You send an email to a friend updating her on everything going on at the moment. Your letter seems more like a list of crises than anything else. Then you go to sign it with “God is good” but you hesitate. Can you honestly say that and mean it in the midst of your discouragement?…
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Theme Song!
We're just days away from the kick off of the Mind of Christ. I hope you've decided to join us for the month of October to refocus our lives on Christ and put him back on the throne of our lives. I will tell you, God is doing some amazing things-some a bit painful. Yesterday…
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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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The Prizes of Victory
“I’ve prayed, but nothing’s happening.” I felt my daughter’s pain. Not just over the health issue she was struggling with but also her confusion that God hadn’t taken the condition away. How often had I prayed over several issues in my own life-some for years-to see nothing change? Through those years I’d come to learn…
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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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Eternity’s Waiting
As I mention in the weekend devo, Ecclesiates 3:11 became quite significant to me last week. I'll tell you why. I've shared recent posts about "living out loud" and searching for God's will in my marriage, and what that means. What should I say or not say about my faith? Am I living out loud…
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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…