Category: Confess
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Joyless Living
Restore the joy of your salvation to me, and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit. Psalm 51:12 We covered most of this Psalm is a previous post: Restoration. This is a psalm of David. He is asking God to restore the joy of salvation. He had committed some…
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Restoration
First, lets break the 10 verse down. The Psalmist is asking God for a clean heart. Notice the psalmist says, God create in me. He gives acknowledgement that a clean heart comes from God. Only from God can we find the cleansing of our hearts. There’s nothing on this earth that can cleanse…
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Change Your Clothes
One of my favorite things to do, when I lived on a little farm was to work on a project, get really dirty, and then go take a shower. To throw off the dirty clothes and get cleaned up with a fresh set of clothes. There was some sort of accomplishment in…
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My Anger
Yesterday I wrote about preparing our hearts every morning for forgiveness. Forgiveness is an action. It is continued cooperation with Jesus everyday of our lives. It produces kindness and compassion through the Holy Spirit to walk in a spirit of forgiveness. Yet, even though we we prepare each day to…
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A Heavy Heart
Jesus taught us in Matthew 6 the perfect prayer to pray each day to help us get ahead of any offences we might encounter. The disciples asked Jesus how to pray. This prayer is known today as the Lord’s Prayer. Today, let us look upon and note the parts Jesus…
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the thrill of trusting God
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to seeing what God sees. In our discipleship journey we are going to encounter mammoth sized trials and difficulties. We have to learn from God’s Word how to respond to threats by laying hold of a victorious faith that looks beyond…
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the darkness lasts just long enough.
The dark moments of our lives last only so long as it is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us. Are you on a dark road of adversity? Do you want God’s best for your life? Do you desire to be used by Him? At some point you’ll…
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intimacy with God
Our intimacy with God determines the impact of God in our lives. One of our greatest needs is to be loved and know we are loved. each of us needs to feel deep dow inside that we are loved, cared for, and that someone has our best interests at heart.…
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the gap.
The question of the ages: If the gospel is supernatural, then why doesn’t it seem to make more of a difference in the lives of so many who claim to believe it? That is a great question! Skeptics ask it and fellow brothers and sisters ask it. I believe it…
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i shall not want.
I love Sunday mornings! I find I wake up the earliest on sundays. I am so excited to grab my coffee and just sit with Jesus and my Heavenly Father. Most of my morning prayer is spent in thanksgiving. Thanking God for all he is continually doing. The greatest blessing…
It Starts Small 