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Redeeming the Time
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God Uses Yes
God wants us to say yes to Him. To fully submit to Him. Think of Mary saying yes to the strange message of the angel. she said yes even knowing others would not understand and there would be shame and gossip before she would see the fruit of her yes. Luke 1:38 [38] And Mary…
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Encourage Yourself in the Lord
This year my chronic health issues have increased after a mild case of COVID in early September. This resulted in my being home and isolated much more for last six months. After numerous treatments, including one in mid January that finally helped me significantly, I was so weak and had lost so much muscle strength…
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Changing Question Marks Into Exclamation Marks
“I can now look back and see so many of the question marks yanked into exclamation points in my life. I am so thankful that He said “no” to so many of the prayers I desperately wanted Him to answer with “yes.” – Mary Southerland This quote really spoke to me today. As I pondered…
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Prayer to Rejoice in Suffering with Endurance, Character and Hope
Today I am using Romans 5:3-5 as my prayer focus. Romans 5:3-5 [3] Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [4] and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, [5] and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through…
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Too Wonderful
Too Wonderful(Based on Psalm 139:5-6) Wonderful thoughts so much higher than mine;Incomprehensible, awesome and divine.Omniscient, all knowing, I cannot hide.Surrounding, He hems me in on all sides. Protecting, providing and guiding me;There’s no place or action He can’t see.Faithful, sovereign for me He has a planFulfilled by His providential hand. Deborah G. Peabody May 21,…
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Sufficient – My Word of the Year for 2023
In December I began praying and seeking God for my word for 2023. I gave up resolutions and began doing a word of the year in 2009. Each year God faithfully directs me to my word by New Year’s Eve. The words, while being very varied, help me focus on an area to grow in…
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Where the Red Sea Parts
I met a new friend, who Gail, in recent months who relocated from several states away. She and her husband attend my church and have joined our small group. Gail has multiple health issues going on yet exudes such joy and as faith and obviously lives in such a way that you know she finds…
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Jesus Christ Prays For Us
I find it so very precious that Jesus, the Son of God, and part of the triune God, prays for you and me.
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Canine Capers and Autumn Ponderings
Bella and Tozer are a relationship of opposites. Bella is petite, mature and fluffy white Bichon Frisée huntress that rules with a Napoleonic attitude yet her body melts into whoever is loving on her. Tozer is black, curly, energetic, gangly, adolescent standard poodle while intelligent he is unaware of his body size and all of…
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