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Delight in God

What is the key to receiving the desires of your heart? The key to having the secret petitions of your heart fulfilled is delighting fully in God.  Rather than selfishly seeking your own way take pleasure in seeking God’s will and his way. To delight in God is to revel in his presence to relish time […]

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Commit Your Ways to the Lord

Are you loaded down with concerns? You and I are invited to roll off our worries onto Jesus.  Just like a camel gets down on its knees to roll the load off of his back. You and I can cast our care on God. I’m so glad that I don’t have to be weighed down with […]

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Confident Trust

Do you ever find yourself worrying about the future? Worry tells you all the things that could go wrong.  But trust tells you who you can lead on, who you can rely on and be confident.  If your confidence is in your own abilities then be worried, because you will fall short. But if your […]

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Move Forward with Faith

When you are facing a new challenge do you sometimes get stuck in fear? Fear makes you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat or it causes indecision during the day, but faith overcomes fear. When God is calling you to move forward, you must take a leap of faith […]

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Fickle Emotions

Do you tend to be lead by how you feel? Fickle emotions try to trick you to follow every thought that pops into your head, but if you and I actively invite God’s spirit of truth to guard our thoughts and emotions, we will only act on those things that are true. Disappointment, despair, depression […]

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How to Be Salt and Light

How to Be Salt and Light The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke. A good woman is taking a stand to be salt and light during this year’s election where the majority of Christians may have given up on being a voice for God […]

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Overcome Temptation

Are you able to overcome temptation or do you stumble when you face your first trial? The book of James is clear. Temptation comes from our own desires which entice us and drag us away.  These desires give birth to sinful actions and when sin is allowed to grow it gives birth to death. If you […]

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Differences Attract

Are you able to come into agreement with someone who is so different from you? Differences attract.  If you are married it is likely that you are very different from your spouse.  My husband Wayne and I are opposites.  At the beginning of our marriage that meant that we experienced quite a bit of conflict, […]

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Careless Words

Do you have trouble controlling your mouth? It only takes a spark remember to set off a forest fire.  A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do just that.  By our speech we can ruin the world.  We can turn harmony into chaos and throw mud on someone else’s reputation. We […]

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Anchor of Hope

Do you hold steady when you are going through a storm in your life? Like a ship in a storm we need hope to anchor our hearts.  If you base your hope in God it doesn’t matter how tough your trial is you will prevail. Hope allows you to honestly look at your present circumstances […]

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