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***** Share your voice, heart and love in the comments. Lynn has wonderfully mapped out the steps we all need to walk through to develop and grow this vital relationship with Him. This was the Lord’s intent for her transformation journey all along, and His intent for you too. Here she has spelled out the…
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Sumite Prayer Partners
Hi prayer family!! Please join me in reading from Luke and praying to our Heavenly Father! Luke 14:25-27 A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, “If you want to be my disciple, you must by comparison, hate everyone else – your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and…
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Rosh Hashanah Fast 2017
Hello Sumites! Dawn here. Welcome to the annual SUM Rosh Hashanah fast. Many of you may remember last year’s fast. I am honored and thrilled to be leading it again this year. It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed. I can’t wait to share the amazing things that God has been…
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Just Too Busy
Joanne Kraft always comes through with milk out the nose humor that is honest, authentic, and even educational! She’s one of my favorite writers.’–James N. Watkins Award-winning author and editor of Vista Just Too Busy is the story of the Kraft family’s head-on collision with busyness and the 12-month experiment that changed their lives. When…
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The Husband Project
Keeping a marriage healthy is all about the details-the daily actions and interactions in which husbands and wives lift each other up and offer support, encouragement, and love. In The Husband Project women will discover fun and creative ways to bring back that lovin’ feeling and remind their husbands-and themselves-why they married in the first place. Using…
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The Soul Saver
When Trusting God Is the Only Way Out On an average day, God jump-started her missions in her sculpting studio, revealing the face of the person she would soon meet at the grocery store, bank, or playground. The goal was always the same. Reach the lost, bring someone back to God, restore hope. But then…
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Not Alone
Not Alone: Trusting God To Help You Raise Godly Kids In A Spiritually Mismatched Home If your husband or ex-husband doesn’t share your faith, you probably pray and stress over how to raise faith-filled children. Your spiritually mismatched home may feel like the wilderness where the children of Israel wandered on their way to the…
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You Are Loved
Do you know how much God loves you? Many of us don’t. You may even believe God doesn’t love you at all, but it’s a lie. Romans 8 holds some of the most powerful foundational truths that answer that very question. Not only does God love you, He’s designed a purpose just for you. He’s…
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Winning Them With Prayer
Prayer strategies for the spiritually mismatched. If you are praying for an unsaved spouse or family member, it’s likely that you will face a host of struggles within your home such as loneliness, parenting differences, church attendance, tithing, moral conflicts and faith practices just to name a few. Join us, the authors, Lynn Donovan, Dineen…
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Raising Godly Kids in a Spiritually Mismatched Home
If your husband or ex-husband doesn’t share your faith, you probably pray and stress over how to raise faith-filled children. Your spiritually mismatched home may feel like the wilderness where the children of Israel wandered on their way to the Promised Land. Will they ever make it? What about God’s promises? Now the authors of…
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SUM Shop
The SUM Shop is full of products and resources to help you thrive in faith, prayer life, marriage and family. My Child Sees Monsters: Simple Steps to Send Them Away Does your child insist a scary monster is hovering in the bedroom? Is your little one seeing things you can’t see? Are terrifying dreams…
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This Is How The Devil Defeats You. (It’s Important)
Every morning of late, while in my prayer time, I sense the urgency of the LORD. I hear Him saying to me, “Press In. Do not let the devil delay the breakthroughs of this season.” Ya, wow. I know. This is what I’m sensing. See if this resonates in your heart. This entire past season,…
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Lenten Reflections: Week 6 – The Great Miracle of Easter
I got inspiration for this week’s post from an article in the latest edition of Christianity Today where the writer makes the reference to the “most astonishing Easter miracle”1 in a discussion centred on identity politics. And it got me thinking. The resurrection is spectacular and Jesus defeated death and our sinfulness to restore our…
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God Replies To The Cry Of My Heart
Sitting in church last Sunday, I read Acts 2 and felt the Holy Spirit cover me with revelation. God spoke to my spirit and said, “Lynn, I’m pouring out my spirit on all flesh. I’m giving people, visions, dreams and I’m empowering my servants, both men and women, with my Spirit that they would prophesy.”…
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Lenten reflections: the power of solitude and silence
Photo kindly supplied by Mary de Muth Two weeks ago I received an email from my brother letting me (and my other siblings) that mom was in hospital due to extremely high blood pressure and was likely to stay there for a few days. Mom is Dad’s main carer so it was clear that we…
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God Saved Our Marriage…and My Husband
Jamie and husband Jason Jamie’s Story: I first found the SUM Community in July 2014 when my husband said our marriage was over. We’d been married 1 month shy of two years. We were on vacation when he announced the end of our marriage-and needless to say, it was out of the blue. When we’d met…
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Winning Them With Prayer: Sample Chapter
Chapter Two: Praying The Word of God By Lynn Donovan Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. – Psalm 103:20 (NKJV) The WORD. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was…
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So here I am What's left of me Where glory meets my suffering I'm alive Even though a part of me has died You take my heart and breathe it back to life I'll fall into Your arms open wide When the hurt and the healer collide It's the moment when humanity Is overcome…
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Wisdom and Discernment
I'm finding myself at a loss for for words And the funny thing is it's okay The last thing I need is to be heard But to hear what You would say Word of God speak Would you pour down like rain Washing my eyes to see Your majesty To be still and know…
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A Story of Surrender
And when you're tired of fighting Chained by your control There's freedom in surrender Lay it down and let it go Lyrics to Just Be Held by Casting Crowns I was on the fence about sharing this today, because it gets a little personal. But I think it’s an amazing story of God’s glory. …
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Obstacles to Fasting
“If you’ve been walking the same old road for miles and miles If you’ve been hearing the same old voice tell the same old lies If you’re trying to feel the same old holes inside There’s a better life There’s a better life If you’ve got pain He’s a pain taker If…