Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
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Be Not Angry
June 3, 2013 
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Marriage
May 31, 2013 15 Comments
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One of my fave ministries is “Telling The Truth” and this is an article on marriage by Pete Briscoe
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“Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts.” —Jeff Foxworthy
The Pew Poll reports that 44% of Americans under 30 believe that marriage is heading for extinction, but 95% of Americans want to get married someday.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?
There’s skepticism, but also intrigue. They know there’s something dynamic and special about this relationship, but our culture keeps saying, “Marriage was great for your grandparents, but it’s unnecessary bondage for this age of freedom.”
Time magazine recently ran a cover that simply asked in big letters, “Who needs marriage?” Good question. How would you answer?
Lie number 1: Marriage is an archaic institution irrelevant for enlightened modern people. Many believe this lie, the rest of us need to ask ourselves if marriage is even worth it. Why do we even need this anymore?”
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. —Genesis 2:24
This is the way God always intended it: one man, one woman coming together, becoming one, enjoying oneness in Christ. It’s God’s original plan, and it’s meant to last. He’s never rescinded it. Marriage is simply one of God’s great ideas.
I’ve done dozens of weddings over the years, and I start them all the same way:
“Marriage is:
- A holy estate.
- Instituted by God.
- Commanded in Scripture for all who enter it lawfully and in true affection.
- Confirmed by Christ’s solemn words and consecrated by His gracious presence at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee.
- Set forth by the apostle as signifying the mystical union between Christ and the Church.
- Ordained for the consecration of union between man and woman so that the natural instincts being directed aright they might live in purity and honor.
- Ordained for the increase of mankind and that children might be brought up in the fear and the nurture of the Lord.
- Ordained for companionship, health, and comfort, which husband and wife ought to have of each other.
- Ordained for the welfare of human society which can be strong and happy only where the marriage bond is held highly in honor.”
- Satan lies. The truth is that marriage is divine, timeless, and significant. You might be in it or out of it—either way, marriage is partof God’s eternal purpose for the Body of Christ… and it will be until death we do part.
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
God, make me a vessel of Your truth. When I begin to doubt the validity and need of marriage, make me willing to take that thought captive. By Your Spirit and Your Word, convict me of Your divine purpose in the marriage covenant for my good and for Your glory. Amen.
Love
May 28, 2013 9 Comments
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ~ C.S Lewis
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The Bad Stuff!
May 26, 2013 Comments Off on The Bad Stuff!
The bad stuff will take you further than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.
Where You Really Are With The Lord
May 22, 2013 5 Comments
To ascertain where you really are with the Lord, recall what saddened you the past month. Was it the realization that you do not love Jesus enough? That you did not seek his face in prayer often enough? That you did not care for his people enough? Or did you get depressed over a lack of respect, criticism from an authority figure, your finances, a lack of friends, fears about the future, or your bulging waistline? ~ Brennan Manning
To My Body
May 21, 2013 Comments Off on To My Body
You are always dragging me down,‘ said I to my Body. ëDragging you down!’ replied my Body. ‘Well I like that! Who taught me to like tobacco and alcohol? You, of course, with your idiotic adolescent idea of being grown up. My palate loathed both at first: but you would have your way. Who put an end to all those angry and revengeful thoughts last night? Me, of course, by insisting on going to sleep. Who does his best to keep you from talking too much and eating too much by giving you dry throats and headaches and indigestion? Eh?’ ‘And what about sex?’ said I. ‘Yes, what about it?’ retorted the Body. ‘If you and your wretched imagination would leave me alone I’d give you no trouble. That’s Soul all over; you give me orders and then blame me for carrying them out. ~ C. S. Lewis
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Don’t Oversleep
May 18, 2013 5 Comments
If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. ~ Nicky Gumbel
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Don’t Be Afraid Of Pressure
May 16, 2013 0 Comments
“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.” ~ Nicky Gumbel
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God Will Invade!
May 15, 2013 Comments Off on God Will Invade!
God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else – something it never entered your head to conceive – comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it. ~ C. S. Lewis
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Do The Test
May 13, 2013 12 Comments
‘Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.’
The Glad Sound Of The Gospel
May 11, 2013 2 Comments
“He who has not felt what sin is in the Old Testament knows little what grace is in the New. He who has not trembled in Moses, and wept in David, and wondered in Isaiah will rejoice little in Matthew or rest little in John. He who has not suffered under the Law will scarcely hear the glad sound of the gospel.” ~ R. W. Barbour
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Be Loyal In What You Say
May 10, 2013 7 Comments
Be loyal in what you say about those who are absent and you will build the trust of those who are present. ~ Nicky Gumbel
Worry
May 9, 2013 4 Comments
You can’t change the past, but you can spoil the present, by worrying about the future. ~ Nicky Gumbel
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a centre of fear. Corrie Ten Boom
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Don’t Compare Yourself With Others
May 8, 2013 3 Comments
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“Don’t compare yourself with others. God made YOU. God loves YOU. No one can do a better job of being you than YOU” |
Just Because…
May 7, 2013 4 Comments
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Just because you can’t see the air, doesn’t mean you stop breathing. And just because you can’t see God, doesn’t mean you stop believing. ~ Nicky Gumbel
Preach The Gospel Always
May 4, 2013 8 Comments
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Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary use words!
Grace Is Given
May 3, 2013 4 Comments
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“Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes.” –Martin Luther
My Recent Spiritual Attack
May 2, 2013 42 Comments
💬 Quote From My About Page by Broken Halo
Steve, what an amazing testimony you have! I am so thankful that when the world took sight from you God gave you a new vision and perspective. What a blessing that God graced your life with a love in Sarah when your life was at its darkest…I pray that God continues to bless you both…. ~*~
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After receiving this lovely comment on my About page from Broken Halo, it convicted me to write about the recent spiritual attack I have been battling with.
A couple of people have said to me that if I just had more faith or if I believed just a little more then God would heal my Sight!
The God I love and believe in is awesome and bigger than I can imagine, so I know he can heal anyone or anything if it is his will.
In the amazing book “Where is God when it hurts” by Phillip Yancey, I’ve read how destructive and poisonous peoples comments can be, it makes me wonder what they think about people like the truly inspiring and faith filled follower Joni Eareckson Tada?
Would they say f she just had more faith would she not be disabled and her amazing ministry Joni and Friends that helps transform lives and bring so many into the kingdom of God not even exist??
Can anyone please help me clarify?
All I know is, if God didn’t arrest me from my old life where I spent every day abusing my eyes with all kinds of wrong things,then I would never have had a relationship with him, never have found such a loving wife, never have this blog to hopefully inspire people, I would be another wasted lost soul.
The eyes of my heart are truly open and I’ve never seen so clearly since I’ve been blind, and if God thinks our relationship could be improved by having the sight that veiled me for so long, i’m sure he would give it me.
I know the apostle Paul talked about the thorn he lived with that God would not take away as it was for his own benifit that he didn’t receive healing.
I would love to hear your opinions on this!
Reprogramming
May 2, 2013 10 Comments
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Romans 12:2
New International Version (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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I have had a real impression on my heart to focus on the pollution that goes into my body through the filter called my face.
Travelling into London on the train I felt a real conviction to listen to what God was trying to tell me in that moment. As I was stood up and squashed into the carrage, I could just make out a few people intently reading books, magazines and newspapers and I thought about their brains as the most advanced computer on the planet and how they were programming it with the computer language from the stories they were reading. My thought process continued and as wondered how that code would affect their behaviour when they left the train to meet people,
Reprogramming….
On my iMac (desktop computer) there is an app called Terminal, if you type in a simple piece of code it can change the way the iMac responds, reacts and behaves for the rest of its life, or until you remove that piece of coding.Billions of pounds (maybe more) are spent trying to protect and secure ourselves when using a computer, smart phone, tablet etc, yet we fail to protect ourselves from this creeping death that we choose to let into our immeasurably more advanced brains as we watch TV, listen to music, audiobooks, Read magazines, listen to gossip etc we’re failing to empty our own trash and also stop more from seeping in and reprogramming our brains and hearts!
So…how is your programming doing? Are you using “wholesome” or “Worldly” code?
Are you aware of the code you use and how it affects your life and the people around you?
Or do you wear a face filter?
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Philippians 4:8-9
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
The Nobodies
April 30, 2013 7 Comments
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Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; then he spent forty years on the backside of the desert realizing he was nobody; finally, he spent the last forty years of his life leaning what God can do with a nobody! ~ Dwight L. Moody
The Real Measure Of Our Wealth
April 29, 2013 2 Comments
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The real measure of our wealth is how much we would be worth if we lost all our wealth.
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Better Not Bitter
April 26, 2013 2 Comments
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Let the past make you better, not bitter.
Don’t Move Ahead Of God
April 25, 2013 10 Comments
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When things aren’t working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.
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Father, I have been waiting for so long now, and I come before You today to ask your help. I pray that You will increase my faith and patience so that I will put my whole trust in your perfect timing and plan for my life. I will put my complete trust in You with confidence and eager expectation of Your answer, whatever that answer may be and whenever that answer may come.
Thanks for being always with me.
Thanks that You hear my prayers and will answer in Your time and in Your way.
Thanks for Your unfailing word and that You always keep Your promises.
I believe with my heart, mind and soul Your plan for my life is the best one possible and I thank You for Your answer. Being in Your will is the safest place I can ever reside.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Do You Do All The Talking?
April 23, 2013 4 Comments
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking! ~ Fulton J. Sheen
The Mirror
April 22, 2013 6 Comments
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“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.” —Samuel Butler
Create Many Ripples
April 20, 2013 2 Comments
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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Faith To See
April 19, 2013 2 Comments
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see, the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ~ Augustine
What A Wonderful Privilege
April 16, 2013 1 Comment
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Have you ever thought what a wonderful privilege it is that every one each day and each hour of the day has the liberty of asking God to meet him in the inner chamber and to hear what He has to say? ~ Andrew Murray
A Radiance Hidden In Your Heart
April 15, 2013 0 Comments
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There is a radiance hidden in your heart that the world desperately needs. – John and Stasi Eldredge
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Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. Put on your new nature, created to be like God- truly righteous and holy. – Ephesians 4:21-24
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
Jesus, I believe in You, I believe You have made me fully. I’m choosing today to leave the way I used to live. I place my faith in You, and not in the strength of my flesh! I choose Your wisdom and not my own knowledge. As a leap into this new existence, I trust You and You alone to live the Christian life through me. Show me the way! Amen.
You are not an accident
April 14, 2013 3 Comments
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You are not an accident or the result of a random process; you are unique, wonderfully made by God, loved and valued – His masterpiece. – Nicky Gumbel
Are You Drifting?
April 9, 2013 2 Comments
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We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. – D. A. Carson
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
Father, I ask that You would give me a moment to pause, right now, to contemplate what You say is true about my nature—I need You to lead me into the Truth so that I can be free to live according to your will. I ask for your spirit to lead and empower me today, Amen.
Grace and Glory
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
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Let Jesus be in your heart, eternity in your spirit, the world under your feet, the will of God in your actions. And let the love of God shine forth from you. – Catherine of Genoa
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
My Lord and my God, Your Word says I no longer live, but You live in me. I surrender to You now, and ask that in the big things and the little things my life would be a reflection of the radical Truth about who I am in You. I don’t want to make this up. I can’t do it in my own strength. I rest in You now and simply ask that You would live through me as You see fit. Praise to You! Amen.
NO CEILING TO HOPE
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
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NO CEILING TO HOPE
Hope is a refusal to accept a situation as it is.– XLP t-shirt.
Please check out XLP and the amazing work God is doing through them!
When our foundations are shaking
April 5, 2013 0 Comments
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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them. – Charles West
The Critical Thing
April 4, 2013 1 Comment
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When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Be Wise Pilgrims
April 3, 2013 1 Comment
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Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away.
— George Downame
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
Father, your Spirit of truth guides us to the way of Christ. May all who follow him reject what is contrary to the gospel. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
It’s Jesus
April 2, 2013 5 Comments
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Just think: Every promise God has ever made finds its fulfillment in Jesus. God doesn’t just give us grace; he gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace. If it’s peace, it’s only found in Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Even life itself is found in the Resurrection and the Life. Christianity isn’t all that complicated…it’s Jesus. – Joni Eareckson Tada
Our Greatest Need
April 1, 2013 3 Comments
If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent a financier; if pleasure, an entertainer. As it is forgiveness, He sent a Saviour. – Nicky Gumbel
Father in heaven, I know that I have broken your laws and that my sins have separated me from you. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life.
Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.
I believe that you sent your son Jesus Christ, who died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, and is now alive. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life—to rule and reign in my heart from this dayforward.
Please send me your Holy Spirit to help me to obey you, and
to do your will for the rest of my life.
In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.
Oooooooo He Has Risen! :D
March 31, 2013 2 Comments
HAPPY EASTER!!!
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Matthew 28:6(NLT)
He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying.
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“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
[Jesus Christ – John 11:25, 26]
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“Easter says you can put truth in the grave but it won’t stay there.”
Clarence W. Hall
🙏 Prayer 4 2day!
“Jesus, you have overcome death
And conquered every fear I could imagine
Help me to live each day remembering that You are alive
That You are bigger than anything or any situation
And that Your power is real
Jesus, you’re my hero and I’m walking with you.
Amen.”
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Jesus, how much do you love me?
March 30, 2013 1 Comment
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“I asked Jesus,
‘How much do you love me?’
And Jesus said,
‘This much’
Then He stretched out his arms and died.”
The Diocese of Exeter
This was written on an easter card Sarah received from her Mother yesterday. It hit me hard and I felt I just had to share it!
A Walk of Witness – The Cross Walk
March 29, 2013 4 Comments
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“The Cross is a picture of violence, yet the key to peace, a picture of suffering, yet the key to healing, a picture of death, yet the key to life. – David Watson
Epsom town centre was blessed with the incredibly moving reenactment of the events of Good Friday. It was really emotional to be apart of it. The actors were fantastic and it really drove home the message of how Jesus suffered and died for our sins.
A big thanks to my Christian brother Ben for taking my camera and getting some great shots of the costumes and the cross for me as I was in the crowd and couldn’t see anything! 😀
Camera used – Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
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Easter
March 25, 2013 0 Comments
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“Easter is to our faith what water is to the ocean, what stone is to the mountain, what blood is to the body.” – Raymond Linquist
Look up!
March 16, 2013 0 Comments
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“Don’t keep looking at regrets behind you, problems around you and sin inside you. Look up and see that God is with you.”
All Things
March 7, 2013 8 Comments
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“All that I want is in Jesus;
He satisfies, joy He supplies;
Life would be worthless without Him,
All things in Jesus I find.”
Our needs will never exhaust God’s supply.
March 3, 2013 0 Comments
Inspiring post! 😀
I believe in myself
Because God believes in me
He entrusted me with His precious gift of talents
To fulfill His purpose on earth for Him;
If He believes I can do it
Why can’t you?
Some may seem better at their talents than I am
But I am content because it’s not what people think of me that matters;
Because my main aim in life to earn God’s approval with all I do;
No talent is better than the other;
We were all bestowed with them from the One above, the Giver of gifts;
No one gives someone a gift unless he believes he can take good care of it.
So be proud of who you are and what you can do
You are unique; the world can’t be complete without you;
Your little input adds to what the world is today or can be tomorrow;
Believe in yourself…
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Battles of life
February 28, 2013 0 Comments
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“The most important battles of life are the ones we fight in the silent chambers of our soul.”
Bark directions
February 27, 2013 2 Comments
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“God does not want to bark directions at His children or have to force us to do His bidding. God wants a people who know Him well enough to move at His slightest urging. ” – David Wilkerson
February 22, 2013 0 Comments
This is amazing!! I love the way God can use others to speak to you! x 😀
Two sleepless nights. The worry monster sat on the edge of my pillow. It crops up every now and then since I’ve become widowed and lost the safety net of my husband’s income. Each time when it looks like I am running out of money, something, a definite God-thing happens.
Yet, I still go through the ritual toss and turn as each worry floats to the surface of my thoughts like a Magic Eight Ball phrase on the floating triangle. I haven’t been able to find a job, the freelance work is drying up, the books need to sell more, I should be speaking more, I got denied a lower rate of insurance because I have occasional muscle pains? Really?? . . . yah-di-yah, yah.
Last night, even my cats snuggled close and purred comfort–or maybe it was because it got below freezing and the cold air was seeping through their pet door in the…
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The presence
February 22, 2013 1 Comment
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“Sadness, disappointment, and despair have to flee in the presence of hope.”
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