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Weekend Worship – A Story of God’s Faithfulness
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Silva I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. – Psalm 17:6 My friends, this is a special day for me and my family. It's my oldest daughter's wedding day. For me it's also a testimony to God's faithfulness.…
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Chronicles Of A Humbled Donovan
Okay….. So, ahem… You know what ALWAYS happens when I share teaching with you. I live it out… Well, this series on taking a step into the Jordan is no exception. So today I’m going to share with you an experience that has opened up a giant hole in my heart that only our merciful…
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Beauty For Ashes
My friends, below is a precious letter from Rosheeda's parents. They have reached out to Lynn and I and have expressed their desire to be a part of this community. Even in their grief, God's love shines so profoundly through them. Such beauty rising up from ashes… If you scroll down in the side bar,…
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A God Encounter Changes A Marriage
Crossing the Jordan series has covered a lot of new territory that we haven’t trekked before. I’m convinced that God is using this online community of The SUMites to take His love encounter to the communities where we live. Please know the Dineen and I have literally prayed and prayed for this very thing. So…
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Weekend Worship – Overwhelmed by God
Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far? This was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of Your servants house for a great while to come,…
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Weekend Worship – A New Twist on Loneliness
My firends, we've talked a lot about loneliness in our mismatched marriages over the years, but I heard a new twist on it while listening to a podcast by Pastor Nathan Edwardson. It's amazing. Are you ready? This is what he said: "Loneliness is an invitation to know and pursue the One who will never…
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Trusting God is Like Building a Puzzle
My friends, I have to tell you I wrote this post partly on my iPhone as I did my walk and pray. I can only imagine that my fellow walkers and joggers thought I was a text addict, but when God has something to say, I’ve learned not to rely on my memory and write…
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Weekend Worship – Lord, I Need You!
Happy weekend, my precious friends! This song by Matt Maher is getting a lot of play time on the airwaves and on my playlist. The words Maher croons out, "Lord, I need you" is the common cry and song of our hearts, isn't it? What's so profound is what happens when we tell Jesus, "I…
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Do You Really Believe God is Good?
As I prayed and asked God what He wanted me to share with you today He kept bringing me back to His goodness. And not just His goodness but BELEIVING He is truly good and desires only good for our lives. As I listened to His heart and I listen to the hearts of so…
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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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Trust + Surrender + Obedience = Breakthrough
My 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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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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The Path of Faith
My 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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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
My 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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The Greatest Sacrifice
The 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
Praying 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!
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
Good 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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Weekend Worship – Holy Hummingbirds, Batman!
My wonderful and precious friends, I wish we could all be in one room worshipping God together. What a sweet incense that would be, rising up to our Lord, wouldn't it? The beautiful part is, one day we will get to do this. Our room will be the throneroom of heaven and we will all…