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Life Lesson from 3-Legged Lucy / DAILY INSPIRATION

Life lessons can come in all shapes and sizes and with all number of limbs and legs or missing ones, I have discovered given my caring for 17 mostly special needs and senior rescued dogs. Three-legged Lucy, found under an abandoned shack with an unusable leg due to what was discovered to be bone cancer upon which her leg was amputated, is no exception. Returned to Walk by Faith Ministry just days ago due to anxiety over thunderstorms and separation from her then family, Lucy reminded me immed...

** Prayer Request / Sharing My Heart **

My dear pastor hasn't known me long, but he trusts me. I don't believe he finds it hard to do. As he likes to remind me, I have a transparent heart. From my personal testimony to my struggle with sins, from my over-the-top passion for the Lord to my hurts and challenges, from my rejoicing to my praises, from the heights and depths of my love for the Lord to how zealous I am about my calling as an evangelist, from the times I am broken to God's gracious gift of mercy and wholeness, my heart an...

What Are You Bowing Down to? / BIBLE TAKEOUT

I know a person who struggles with a particular sin in which the person actually is in a kneeling position while engaging in that sin. How easy it would be to point the finger in judgment, which I did for many years mind you before the Lord grabbed a hold of me and led me to repentance, and condemn that person for sinning in such a way the person is literally bowing down to the sin. The sins with which you and I struggle may not result in our being physically bowed down while engaged in the s...

REJOICING in GIVING / Daily Inspiration

Little did I know as I drove along the road with my car jam packed with disabled dogs and a zillion other things I needed on my hurried errands as I dashed off to the beach for a photo session for an article with a local magazine that God was paying close attention, as He always does mind you, to my rambling thoughts. When my mind took a quick visit to a wish I had that someone would make a personal donation for me specifically since I live on a very low income because of my ministry work and...

Goodbye People Pleasing - Daily Inspiration

Goodbye people pleasing. If you struggle with people pleasing the way so many of us have done, you might want to look at it from a different angle. Like the angle from above. That's right. The perspective from heaven. Because while people pleasing might produce a lot of satisfied customers as far as the world around us is concerned, how God views it is an entirely different matter. I should know. After all, God has spent a good part of the past few years showing me in His Word and in my heart...

Is Your Sin Keeping You from God's Heart? - Bible Takeout

Have you ever felt like you have made too many mistakes to be a man or woman after God's own heart? Ever felt like you have struggled with sin way too much to please God? Ever felt like your life will never have any true significance as far as God is concerned because you have fallen too many times? Those who know King David's story in the Bible may know he was considered "a man after [God's]...own heart," and may also be familiar with how he had an affair with a woman and then had her husban...

The Meaningless Man's Threshing Floor - BIBLE TAKEOUT

Have you ever felt like your life is meaningless? Totally insignificant? Like you can't seem to see the purpose in your life? A man called Ornan only appears in two places in all of the Bible, and his job was nothing more than to thresh wheat. How many hours, and days, and years, he must have wondered if his life would ever amount to anything more than the threshing floor. Then God called King David to repent for his sin and thereby prevent Him from punishing the people any further for King D...

NATIONAL ENQUIRER magazine - Your Enquiring Mind

For as long as I can remember, the National Enquirer magazine - along with its wild, wacky, and sometimes raunchy photos and headlines - has flaunted itself proudly in the faces of supermarket and drugstore customers propelling their shopping carts up the checkout line. Its long-time motto, "enquiring minds want to know", may seem like the farthest thing imaginable in the way of a catalyst to launch into a vitally important Bible lesson, but in fact it is not. For just as much of the world ha...

Need Help? Where Are You Looking? - BIBLE TAKEOUT

"How do you do it?" the freelance journalist asked me when I told her I now have 17 mostly special needs and senior rescued dogs in my care along with the numerous responsibilities of being an evangelist in full-time ministry. Then she laughed; she already knew the answer. She had interviewed me some time ago for an in-depth article for an area newspaper; she had already heard my heart and testimony. But she also knows her own. "I know," she said. We both know what it took me decades to disco...

The Reason for Your Hope - DAILY INSPIRATION

My life was a roller coaster of hope - and hopelessness. I hoped for a man to love. I was hopeless when relationships with men fell apart. I hoped for a wonderful vacation. The vacations always came to an end. Then what would I hope for? I hoped for a happily ever after marriage. Two husbands abandoned me. I was beyond hopeless. I hoped for this, and I hoped for that. I was high when I was full of hope. I crashed hard, and low, when my hope was not fulfilled. I couldn't get off the hope rolle...