Prayer

  • Want To Know How To Pray For Real Results?

    Want To Know How To Pray For Real Results?

    A few weeks ago I experienced a breakthrough in my faith walk. Breakthroughs are amazing but I find in my life they usually follow a difficult season. This was true once again for me. However, the result of persevering in faith through the challenges is astonishing. So my friends, if you are in the darkest

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  • God is Watching Over This House!

    God is Watching Over This House!

    My daughter Leslie is visiting and helped us write Scriptures! Hello SUMites! Today I wanted to share with you how amazing it was Saturday to write those beautiful Scriptures on the beams, doorposts and stairs. There are now over 30 Scriptures written all over this home. As we wrote, we prayed, blessed the house and even

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  • Foundations Series: SALVATION

    Foundations Series: SALVATION

    Hello my dear friends. I just love the Scriptures you’re sending in response to my post on Tuesday. Thank you for sharing your treasures with me. I’m so blown away by your stories of how God is moving! I will be writing these precious Scriptures on the beams of our house and holding them close

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  • Friday Prayer: The Armor of God

    Friday Prayer: The Armor of God

    Hey there, SUMites! Here's one of those surprises! On Fridays I will post a prayer through the month of July. God's impressed upon me to share these prayers to help encourage and bless you. So here goes…are you ready? (Turn up your volume if needed. I forgot how allergy season here in Florida makes me

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  • Part Four: The Promised Provision

    Part Four: The Promised Provision

    My friends, are you ready for more of God’s amazing truth and love? Are you ready to have your thinking transformed a bit today? Let’s go back to the book of Jeremiah and take another look at King Zedekiah’s story. Let’s look at the first five verses of Jeremiah 34, because this is where things

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  • Consuming Fears About our Children

    Consuming Fears About our Children

    On Friday I shared some truths about stepping out of this curse of the fear of man. Growing in our faith was the first truth I shared and leads to victorious living. Our faith growth, learning and living out of God’s Truths is what I stand upon every day. I’ve become a ROCK, a house

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  • The Big Reveal

    The Big Reveal

    Hello SUMites! I bet you're looking at these two covers and wondering what is going on. Well, this is our big surprise. I put my graphic designer skills to work and created two covers for a book that we are going to publish-a book filled with prayers for the salvation of our spouses. Guess who's going to

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  • How Did (and Do) We Honor Our Husbands?

    How Did (and Do) We Honor Our Husbands?

    SUM family, are you enjoying this walk down memory lane? It’s amazing to look back over our history and see how God has moved in the big picture of our community. I truly believe part of our continued growth and endurance as a ministry has been our desire to honor our husbands in doing this. 

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  • The His-story of SUM

    The His-story of SUM

    My SUM family, I have felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit to share how God has worked in very subtle ways to progress this ministry and the SUM family. This part of this story is probably one of my favorite parts because one, it shows how clearly God is in the smallest details and

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  • How Do We Become Free Of Offense?

    How Do We Become Free Of Offense?

    SUM Nation: This post is going to challenge you. However, working through the steps I discuss will, indeed, free you from the ugly snare of the enemy’s weapon of -offense. Surrendering the offense is the first step. Well, perhaps recognizing that you feel offended is where you begin. Recognize it and name it. Then say,

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  • The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living

    The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living

    On Tuesday I wrote about God’s promises and asked you to choose one promise you are standing for right now, write it on an idea card and as a prophetic act, stand on it and speak this promise over yourself, your family, or whatever the situation this promise is for. I want to back up

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  • Resentment Turns Into THIS… And it will hold you captive

    Resentment Turns Into THIS… And it will hold you captive

    Part IPart IIToday is: Part III So the weird anger explosions transpired a few years ago. And I can state fully that I haven’t had a moment of raw anger since then. Hallelujah. That doesn’t mean I don’t get mad or angry at times. Just not to the extent of a few years ago. Jesus

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  • Seeking a Deeper “Rest” (and an update)

    Seeking a Deeper “Rest” (and an update)

    In my post last week I touched on Mathew 16:24 about taking up our cross and standing for Jesus. My friends, I feel like Holy Spirit is sitting me on the subject of rest as a continuation of standing for Jesus. In fact, Abba whispered to my heart just recently. “Rest in Me, daughter.” Now

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  • Powerful Prayer To Defeat Anger

    Powerful Prayer To Defeat Anger

    This photo CRACKS ME UP! Continued from Friday's post…. BUT…. This is what I learned from that experience. I believe I was wrestling with a spirit of anger. I believe it was demonic in nature and it erupted in very rare moments as to keep me from recognizing it. And just like a volcano, when eruptions

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  • Good Grief, Their’s More… The Spirit of Anger (2 part-er, must read for anyone dealing with anger)

    Good Grief, Their’s More… The Spirit of Anger (2 part-er, must read for anyone dealing with anger)

    -Chronicles of the Donovan Clan Okay, ya… There’s more.  I’m not sure what classroom I’m currently enrolled within the Kingdom. But I think the sub-title is humility, mixed with a large study of personal revelation, confession and healing. This is a good and can also be extraordinarily challenging learning season for a believer. However, when

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  • Are You Weary In The Waiting?

    Are You Weary In The Waiting?

    Hello SUMite Nation, I’ve been traveling and so has Dineen. So Monday’s post is waaaaaay late and likely to show up in mail boxes on Tuesday. But, I’m moved to share a quick word of encouragement. Winning Him Without Words Study Group Over the past several weeks, I’ve been privileged to meet many of you

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  • How Do You “Hear” God…For Your Spouse?

    How Do You “Hear” God…For Your Spouse?

    My dear friends, I hope the journaling exercise to "pay attention" to how you hear God has been a blessing and encouragement to you. Your comments have encouraged me greatly! I love how God speaks to us in many ways and specifically to our need and relationship with Him. Let’s review that verse again: “So

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  • Dancing With Jesus….. The Miraculous Happens

    Dancing With Jesus….. The Miraculous Happens

    Part II …….   And indeed, a second and successful surgery saved her life. AMEN! My privileged vantage point has been awesome. I have a front row seat to view the life-long, faithfulness of God in these very later years of my mother’s life. Over the last few years as my own spiritual journey expanded and intensely

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  • No Longer A Pre-believer but a Believer

    No Longer A Pre-believer but a Believer

    Today I have another amazing story that arrived in my email box. This is from Pam Anderson who has been a SUMite for a number of years. She is sharing what is happening in her home right now. I pray you are greatly encouraged and also find these breakthroughs she is experiencing are for you

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  • Conference At Merriman in Garden City, MI

    Conference At Merriman in Garden City, MI

    Perhaps for a moment in time, just perhaps, we stood upon holy ground.   Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”   I bet many of you know

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  • God Shows Up

    God Shows Up

    It’s the final day of our community fast. SUM family, what an experience. For me personally, at the beginning of the week, I was feeling far away from God. I had lost my will to pray and even reading His Word felt as a chore. I was stinging from family pain over the holidays and

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