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King David’s Heart Was Like a Pitcher
King David’s Heart Was Like a Pitcher By Martha Bush I know you were blessed as much as I was by the Summer Bible Study that all the writers wroteon the Psalms. On the first day, Lynn caught my attention with these words: “Within the Psalms, (written mostly by King David) we discover this amazing…
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Psalms Part II with LuAnn Wendover Summer Study
Verses 3 through 7 pf Psalm 91 are promises to us that he will preserve and protect us, delivering us from snares and pestilence (infectious disease). We don't need to walk in fear of the things in the night, nor of the attacks in the day, not for the pestilence that comes in the dark…
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Psalms/Songs with LuAnn Wendover Summer Study
Psalms/Songs Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” Why do we read psalms? Why are they important? What does the bible have to say about…
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Meet Evie. A Life Redeemed and Restored
Hello my Sumite Sisters, My name is Evie, and I have been following this ministry since 2015. I became a Christian after I married. My faith was not received well by my husband, my family or his family, and 26 years later, it still isn’t. There has been a lot of ups and downs,…
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Friendships — A Christian Perspective. Guest Post by Jim Edwards
After our recent pair of posts on friendships, a long-time friend of this ministry, Jim Edwards, was inspired to write a third piece to it. So without further ado, I hand over to Jim — ** Friendships — A Christian Perspective I’ve been much mused at Ian and Ann’s wonderful descriptions of our different friendships…
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Pray Instead of Complaining. A Guest Post by Lisa MacFarland
Pray Instead of Complaining The people started complaining to Moses, “Give us some water!”Moses replied, “Why are you complaining to me and trying to put the Lord to the test?” Exodus 17:2 (CEV) After reading Ann’s post recently about the “deliciousness of a wife”, I posted a comment about how easy it is to give…
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Get Over It!
SUM family, today we have a guest post from one of our long-time SUMites, Jan Bittner. I'm so happy to hear her voice on here as she has walked a great story. So now, over to Jan: By Jan Bittner “Get over it,” I felt God say to me just a month after my husband…
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My Trip To Israel, by Barb Twigg
Recently we shared Barb Twigg's testimony about her looking forward to the trip of a lifetime — to Israel. Now that she has been on that trip, here's the second part of her story. Over to Barb — I saw my dream in person! Except it wasn’t the empty tomb opening. It was the place…
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Headed to Israel! A Guest Post by Barb Twigg
Headed to Israel! I’m headed to Israel with 46 others from our church, one of which is my sister. But the fact this is happening is quite the God-orchestrated trip. Back in 2020 I had a dream that I was in the Oval Office with President Trump and all the secret service surrounding us. One…
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The Faith It Took, by Lisa MacFarland
When you think about the disciples, I wonder how hard their decision to follow the Messiah really was; the Faith it took to drop everything and go. Most of them came from nothing, or even had shady backgrounds – they were living in situations where they needed a diversion or change. They left everyone they…
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Get Back to Basics — Guest Post by Lisa MacFarland
Today we have the blessing of a guest writer. Many of you will recognize Lisa MacFarland from the comments over the years, she has been such a solid encouragement to many, and we're so happy to have her hop on and write for us today. Over to Lisa — ** Hello, my name is Lisa…
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The easy yoke …
Image courtesy of hin255 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hello, dear friends. Ian from a very chilly Sydney. I’m hoping those of you in the northern hemisphere are having lovely vacation time in warmer climes. We just finished a marvellous series from Ann on slaying giants. I was particularly grabbed by Ann’s idea of taking hold of 5…
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Living an Extra (Ordinary) Life
Photo courtesy of Stuart Miles and FreeDigitalPhotos.net Hello, dear friends. Ian from sunny Sydney here. It’s a big few days in America with the election and we all around the world watch on eagerly with prayerful hearts. Recently, I came across a little-known Saint, Alphonsus Rodriguez, who lived in Spain in the 1500s. Rodriguez was…
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How to Pray Psalm 91 For Your Children’s School
Praying Psalm 91 by Vidya Rodney Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. For he will rescue you from every…
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Learning to Love
Hello, dear Sumites. Ian from Down Under here. In this challenging year, it’s very easy to hop on the blame bandwagon and start griping about everything and anything. Life as we know it has been turned upside down and really the ‘new normal’ is still so uncertain. What will life be like in 2021, which…
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Want Your Spouse to Be Different? Pray Different! Pay this!
SUMites, Lynn again. Some of you know that I offer Healing Prayer and Spiritual Mentoring. I was so blessed to spend some time praying with a SUMite, Vidya Rodney. I was talking with her about the power of blessings, which I write about in Marching Around Jericho. She put together a prayer of blessings to…
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Forgiveness IS Powerful by Pam Osborn
SUMites, Lynn here. I've asked one of our long time community members to share with all of you about a forgiveness model she uses that is powerful and effective. I urge you to also try this. Having a physical anchor to ta spiritual concept is keenly helpful and significant to step into spiritual reality. This…
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Marriage Devotion – Patty Tower
My spouse is worthy of praise & honor I read an article about a woman in church talking to a couple members about her husband, and everything she spoke out of her mouth regarding her husband was negative. The members began to think negatively about her husband and the character of the man she married.…
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Love DEFEATS Knowledge
By Patty tower We are over a month post conference and boy…not only is God doing a work in me, but doing a work in my husband! Hallelujah and amen. I’m excited that God is opening doors of spiritual discussions between my husband I, and I’m thrilled to see where these discussions will lead. God…
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Loving Your Separated Spouse by Linda Rooks
Loving Your Separated Spouse I know in this community of unequally yoked believers, there is someone whose spouse has walked out the door and left. Your heart is breaking right now, and you don’t know what to do. Perhaps your spouse has never accepted Christ or perhaps, like my husband did many years ago, he…
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We Raise a Hallelujah!
There has been much to celebrate in SUMite land in recent weeks. The SUMite Gathering at the beginning of April and our dear Lynn’s Mike coming to know Jesus as his Lord and Saviour being two BIG highlights. My family received some wonderful news this morning. John, my brother, some of you may recall, has…