Winning Him Without Words
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Part 1: The Journey to Complete Abandonment
SUMites, Lynn here. I will be traveling this week. While I'm away, one of our long-time readers and Sister, SUMite Gillian Russell will be sharing a portion of her story. You may remember her and her astonishing story of traveling to meet me and Dineen in Texas. You can find her story about that adventure,…
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Submission – The Books of Peter
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such…
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A Testimony by SUMite Holly Boone
Dear friends, Holly Boone (a different Holly from the one I shared about in my last post) shared this with me in an email and I asked if I could share it with our community. I pray it blesses you as it did me. I remember being in a similar place in my marriage years…
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Pray With Power
I believe. I’ve decided that I believe the Bible. I believe the sun and moon stood still and there has never been a day like that before or since then. But I believe that if God tells me to command the sun, He will surely do it. And He will send the hailstones as well…
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Keys To The Kingdom – Part I
SUMites: I have a thing about keys. Last week I believe the Lord poured out revelation upon me regarding keys and their significance in the Kingdom. I also believe that the revelation was not only specific to myself but also to others. Way back in 2009 I penciled together an idea for a book. That…
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Easter and our Faithful God
Oh He is faithful. If you’ll spare me some time, please let me share some of my story with you all. I pray God will use it to speak life into just one of your dear hearts. I have a confession. I had a problem, a big problem. This problem was masqueraded by me being…
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The Power We Have To Sanctify Our Spouse
SUMites. In the last week, through scripture, other books I’m reading, and email, I’ve been continually drawn to OUR power passage. 1 Corinthians 7:12-14. (See it below.) I am coming into new revelation that this passage is even more powerful than we think. When combined with the passage from Matthew 18:19, which is also being…
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This Time, I Prayed Differently For My Husband -Chronicles Of The Donovan Clan
I started to pray differently. My friends, in the past two weeks I’ve experienced a shaking. A shaking in my prayer life, my husband has been shaken, our marriage too. God is shaking things that have been entwined in our marriage for nearly two decades. Two weeks ago I prayed for my husband and since…
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Precious Message from a SUMite
Dear friends, our SUM sister, Darby, sent this beautiful and encouraging message this past week. I just love Darby's heart for God and the joy she is finding in her faith walk as she trusts God with her furture and especially for her husband's salvation. She is walking in a place of thriving and freedom! …
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A Season Of Miracles. A Great and Unexpected Story!
Hello SUMite Nation, My friends, it’s the season of miracles. And I have a story for you. Most of you know that I have been really ill. I have prayed a lot about these weird and frequent illnesses that have plagued myself and my family since August. Remember my daughter had the flu, then pneumonia…
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An Escape Clause?
Hello SUMites, My friends, I missed you while I was roaming the Rocky Mountains and all over the state of Colorado. What a crazy trip. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long, long time. I hope to share some of the many photos on my Facebook page soon. But I’m back in my…
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Line by Line: Monday
Hi Gang, Lynn here. I am really feeling under the weather. I've been sick for three days with a terrible headache, upset tummy and a pain in my foot from jarring it in my tall shoes a few days ago. Sheesh! So I humbly ask you to forgive me as I won’t have a line-by-line…
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Line by Line: The Bible and Divorce
Hi Everyone, Well since Thursday I have read and re-read this particular passage we are studying, 1 Corinthians 7. I know I said we would look specifically at the verses 12-15 however, I’m feeling convinced that we must actually consider the two verses prior. So today, I’m going to tackle something I HATE to address.…
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Line by Line – Precept Upon Precept – Unequally Yoked
Line by line. Precept upon precept…. Most of the time I write articles and commentary on topical subjects related to faith, marriage and parenting. But recently my love for the Word of God has grown exponentially. I am falling more in love with His Holy Word. I didn’t know that was still possible but that…
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Guest With Arlene Pelicane
I'm a guest with Arlene Pelicane today on her podcast. Arlene: Are you and your husband on the same page spiritually? My dear friend, author Lynn Donovan shares her story of what it’s like to be married to an unbeliever. You are going to love her spunk and honesty. How has she found love, peace, and happiness…
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Humble Confidence
Dear friends, our very own Teresa T. has a great message for us today: This group loves God’s word and often discusses how to best apply the scriptures. Winning Him Without Words encourages us to serve as a living testimony, rather than to badger our pre-believers with arguments and ploys. So, it is important for…
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Reader Question: How Do I Respect Him
Today I'm tackling another reader question: Lynn, Hi there, thanks so much for getting back to me. I am worried because I feel that my marriage is more than just spiritually mismatched–it's all around mismatched. Somehow, during a period of rebellion apparently, I got myself into a marriage with a man whose core values I…
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The Most Unusual Interview
Good Friday Morning my friends, I want to tell you what happened when I asked Dineen to marry me. *grin*. I didn’t really ask her to marry me but I did do something extraordinary. But I must move the end of that story to next Friday. Today I want to give you a heads up.…
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A Ten Year Journey to Becoming Equally Yoked
My friend, Carol, and her husband are both Christian. This spiritual unity enhances their marriage union. But it wasn’t always that way. They agreed to share their story as an encouragement to those of us who are, or have been, in unequally yoked relationships. Wherever you are on your own journey, won’t you join me…
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I Am Taking The devil To Court!
Good Monday Morning SUMite Nation: Did you know that three years ago today, Winning Him Without Words, was released? Who knew God would take two ordinary gals and we would share our struggles in a book. And today, three years later, I’m humbled to the core to know that many of you have read this…
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No Apologies for Apologetics
(Image courtesy of artur84 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net) We were on vacation and sitting under the shade of a palm tree overlooking a breath-taking blue lagoon. “Are you seriously sitting there reading the Bible?” Yes. I am reading about how beautiful Queen Esther saves her people. I love this Bible event. (I try not to call…