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Pleasing God
From “The Battle Plan for Prayer”: The key is, if you are walking with Him on the path He wants you to walk, and if He’s your first love, and if your heart’s desire is to please Him, then He delights in granting your heart’s desires. Your good ones. When your motivation for wanting His blessing isn’t
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Divine Guidance
From “The Battle Plan for Prayer”: The leadership that God gives as you pray your way through hard decisions is not to be evaluated merely by the physical events happening around you. Just because His calling is seeming to lead you toward opposition or difficulty is not the cut-and-dried definition of a closed door. Sometimes
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Who You Are in Christ
“You are not your sin, your failure, or your past – You are who God says you are in Christ.” -James MacDonald
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Be On Guard
“Guard your marriage. Guard your family. Lots of people can do your job. Lots of people can even do your ministry. Only you can be a spouse and a parent. So, it’s your job to guard those as a priority.” -Ed Stetzer
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Grace
The same work God did through Christ long ago on a cross is the work God does through Christ right now in you. Let him do his work. Let grace trump your arrest record, critics, and guilty conscience. See yourself for what you are – God’s personal remodeling project. Not a world to yourself but
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God’s Plan
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. Our broken lives are not lost or useless. God’s love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out his wonderful plan of love. -Eric Liddell, “The Disciplines of the
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Immanuel
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14) I have had psychiatrists tell me their schedules are overloaded with people who find the Christmas season almost more than they can bear because of their loneliness and isolation. Christmas is God’s reminder that we are not alone.
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Real Power
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) “In the eternal economy of God, strength that believes itself to be strength is weakness, but weakness that believes itself to be weakness is strength. Weakness plus faith plus grace equals power. That’s another one of God’s paradoxes.”
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Loving Man – Loving God
I don’t know about you, but God, over the years, has worked overtime on me about my pride. So I find much of what Andrew Murray has to say about humility and pride from his book simply entitled, “Humility” applies to me. Below is one of his many powerful statements in this book. Pride has its
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The Cost of Prayer
From “The Cost of Prayer” by Oswald Chambers: Paul takes the illustration of battle and applies it to what goes on in a saint’s life. The whole meaning of putting on the armor of God is about prayer. In this battle the struggle with the Devil centers around the position of prayer and the simplicity