Encouragement
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Weekend Devotion – Knowing God
From now on if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am commanding you today, love God, your God, and serve him with everything you have within you, he'll take charge of sending the rain at the right time …. Deuteronomy 11:13-14 (MSG) God is all about timing. He knows the big picture, so…
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A Bumpy Ride
I just got back from a trip to Colorado. On the way there, I experienced the "rocky-ride" due to turbulence from flying over the Rocky Mountains. I planned for this on the way home so as to avoid an upset stomach. Unfortunately, what I didn't expect was a bumpy ride back into San Jose because…
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WITHOUT A WORD by Noreen
As a young engaged woman I worked at a Christian preschool and was surrounded by godly women whose lives modeled the role God intends us to walk as wives and mothers. I didn’t realize how much they influenced me until I began to write my wedding vows and although I wasn’t saved at the time…
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Relentless, Unforgiving, Pursuit!
The Aggressor, my 13 year old Daughter.Good Morning Everyone, I am running a tad behind this stormy Monday morning, so I am posting late. But as I read my Bible this morning, I was deeply impressed with a message that seemed to be written in the Holy Book for just me. As I thought about it, I bet some of you…
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Weekend Devotion – Love is a choice.
I thought Rick Warren did an excellent job with this devotional and wanted to share it with you. Hope you're Valentines Day is filled with love! – Dineen 2008/11/25 Love Is a Choiceby Rick Warren … That you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For…
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I Can’t Believe I sent this to a Radio Station.
It is strange but I find myself listening to a Christian Radio Station that is located in Texas. I found this station through ITunes and have enjoyed the music and positive message. I listen while I write and blog. Well today the station asked their listeners to submit a fun and creative relationship-building tool. Valentine’s…
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Weekend Devotion-End of a Journey
Today marks the end of a turbulent journey. So many of you have been praying for my daughter and my family as we traversed a world of brain surgeries, complicated recoveries, and radiation. The seven weeks of radiation therapy ended today. Words are so inadequate to express our burgeoning excitement this week as we counted…
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The Call to Fight
In my journey through the Bible, God’s showing me a constant thread of struggle and perseverance. From Jacob to Joseph to Moses and the Israelites. In Genesis 32, Jacob is faced with a potential disaster. His brother Esau is coming with 400 men, and Jacob fears the worst. He even prepares for the confrontation by…
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God’s Umbrella
One morning an interesting thought struck me. All our trials and sufferings fall under the umbrella of God’s protection, but beneath that covering they diverge into two areas: consequences and circumstances. Consequences are the result of our poor choices. Sometime we just make mistakes. It’s inevitable. Sometimes God allows us to experience them in order…
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God’s Promises: Abraham Believed
The best way I know of getting closer to God and getting to know him better is to read God’s Word daily. Abraham came to know the God of Israel well enough to be called “friend.” This year I’m returning to reading the Bible in a year* to glean more nuggets about God and to…
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Weekend Devotion – Isaiah 58
This past week, 1Peter 3 and many readers here have spent a week fasting for our loves ones. It's been a very powerful and promising week for many of us. New things have been revealed and promises reinforced. God is so faithful and good. This weekend is truly a celebration of our God who is…
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Day Four: Perseverance, Persistence, and Peskiness
One of the hardest aspects of praying long term is perseverance. Especially in today's society of immediate results, our patience muscle is sorely lacking exercise. Our food, our clothing, our shopping, our work-everything is structured to be quick and easy. You can even watch your favorite TV shows on one site condensed to about five…
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Day Three: Believing Like Abraham
Welcome to day three of our week of fasting and prayer. I know many of you have joined us in praying and even fasting for your spouses. I'd like to encourage you to continue, in whatever form God is leading you, to keep your vigil going. For the sake of simplicity for my family as…
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Preparing for the New Year
Reflection seems to be a common state this time of year. As the New Year approaches, we look back on the past year and wonder what the new one will bring. Over the last few years God has led me to take this last week of December and the first week of January to spend…
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Peace in the House at Christmas
I remember in years past thinking of Christmas and Easter as two very separate events. I understood the connection-why Christ came-yet now, after many years walking with God and delving into the rich layers of his word, I've come to see how the salvation journey Jesus walked began at Christmas. Christ came as a child…
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Giving Thanks @ Thanksgiving
Dineen MillerWhen asked to give my testimony, I never know what to say. God didn’t come into my life on a blazing horse, saving me in the middle of some catastrophic event or dark moment. As far back as I can remember, I always remember him being there. Which is amazing since I didn’t grow up…
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Weekend Devotion-What’s Your Life Message?
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow…
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The “Right” Prayer
I do not believe that there is such a thing in the history of God's kingdom as a right prayer offered in a right spirit that is forever left unanswered. – Theodore L. Cuyler Theodore L. Cuyler's words ring true when held up against the light of God's Word: Is any one of you sick?…
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Weekend Devotion-Jesus, Our Intercessor
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent…
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Letting Go
Growing up a latch key kid made me think the kids with parents had it made. As an adult I carried this belief over to my own children, thinking that if they had a mother and a father who loved them, they'd be happy, successful, and have an easier life than I did. I was…
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Triumphant Living is…
Living in Obedience 24/7I am creating this post in a new Word Blogger tool so if it looks weird, bear with me. Last week, I received in the mail, a book from my friend Dee. I am so glad she sent it. Thank you Dee! The book is, I Dared to Call Him Father by Bilquis Sheikh. This…