Monthly Archives: November 2017

 Whether walking through a difficult time or just feeling no passion or purpose in our walk of faith, we all need encouragement. Yet often, when someone needs understanding or an encouraging word, believers tear down one another, judge one another, and put their opinions on one another. On the contrary, God tells us to encourage one another, inspire one another, cheer on one another, and reassure one another that His love is larger than our weaknesses, and He will see…..

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“And your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:4b). God recognizes every act of kindness, service, and love we do for Him in secret. Because we are God’s children, we do not need to be acknowledged by people in order to be valued. When we look to people for approval, we will soon discover that in general mankind can be generally fickle and changeable as the wind; praising you one moment, tearing you down or judging…..

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The covenant God made with His people in the Old Testament required all to keep the law. Then when God’s people fell short and could not keep the law, the high Priest was required to offer sacrifices for the people’s sin, year after year. But now we live by the new covenant, in which Jesus Christ, our high Priest, gave His Life’s blood to be the sacrifice for our sins once and for all – the Just for the unjust……

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Many times in our lives we overcome difficulties and process through our feelings by praying, leaning, relying, and trusting in God. But at other times- perhaps when we are physically, emotionally, or spiritually weary, adjusting to new conditions, while continued negative circumstances seem to keep hitting us- we may feel beat down, low, without hope, as if we are unable to keep stepping forward. In this hard place- depression, fear, self-pity, hopelessness, and the oppressor’s lie that God does not…..

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  When we think of the word repent, our minds’ eye may be filled with a vision of angry preachers yelling at fearful congregations! Yet Jesus spoke of repentance in a totally different spirit. His words were always spoken in the spirit of love, power, and truth towards those He was calling to Himself. Whenever Jesus preached repentance, it was out of a heart of love and desire for broken humanity to turn to Him and connect in a larger…..

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With our words we create. As we speak positive words of faith, light, goodness, kindness, love, patience, gentleness, and hope-or negative words of darkness, hatred, fear (Satan’s greatest tool), unkindness, intolerance, gossip, judgment, jealousy, despair, and discouragement-our tongues are producing life or death in our spiritual and physical world. What comes out of our mouth when we are under pressure, truly reveals what is in our hearts. In Matthew 15 Jesus told the crowd, “What truly defiles a person is…..

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Just as an occurrence of bad weather can stop us in our tracks and disrupt our plans, so can the storms of life. In these storms, we experience uncertainty and fear when we are suddenly bombarded with trying or challenging circumstances. On this certain day, Jesus’ disciples walked with Him, and were privileged to personally see and experience His wisdom, gentle love, and mighty miracle power manifested.  Later that evening, Jesus said to his companions, “Let’s go over to the…..

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