“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” ― Mark Twain That’s an awesome quote that I never bothered to take time to focus on. Jesus asked us to love God and to love our neighbors. It is an easy thing to tell someone you love them. But, what are we doing […]
Have you ever wanted to do something but wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do? I think everyone has had that moment at some point in his or her life. But, what do you do when you just aren’t sure? Pray about it! It took me so long to learn that. I […]
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Romans 8:26 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. NKJV Have you ever tried to pray and drew a blank? Was there just so much going […]
When God sends you on a mission to do something, He will see to it that you carry out that mission. That does NOT mean that it will be a bed of roses. You will face persecution, sometimes to the point of death. But, if God determines that your mission is to spread his message […]
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Luke 9:3 And He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece. Matthew 10:9-10 9 Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, 10 nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for […]
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Jeremiah 1:5 4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” This is when God first spoke to Jeremiah; letting him know that he was set apart to be […]
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I’ve heard it said repeatedly, and it was taught to me as a child, that Jesus canceled the old laws of Moses and instituted only two commandments. That is simply not the case. Jesus said: Matthew 5:17 17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come […]
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Luke 8:42-48 42b As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. 43 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 45 “Who […]
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James 4:7 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Submission to anyone can be tough. I felt so deceived by so many people that I vowed never to depend on anyone else again for anything. I valued my independence highly and wasn’t about to give it up […]
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2 Timothy 2:24 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. If you look up the definition of quarrelsome, it says “inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.”. This makes it a personality trait, not something that you do at the point of exasperation. If […]