Category: Encouragement
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type of food for the mind feeds the thoughts.
What we feed our minds is what the mind will think. Our mindset is set upon what you put into it. If you put junk into it, your mindset will be junk. If you put healthy things into your mind, your mindset will be healthy. A mindset is impossible to…
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faith.
A good question to ponder this morning: DO we have faith that the Lord will move mountains that are obstacles to your faith? It is interesting as I started writing yesterday about mountains. The objects, situations, that we call mountains and what can God do with mountains. Yesterday I started…
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perseverance.
Perseverance and endurance. What are they? Perseverance is persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Endurance is the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way. Endurance is experiencing or surviving the pain. Perseverance, however, is not merely experiencing pain or hardships in life…
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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…
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the Hand that shuts the door
When we read the story of Noah, we are amazed at the detailed instructions he gave Noah. He told Noah exactly how to build the ark. 14 “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. 15 This is how you are to…
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He knows your name.
I was thinking about my goats the other day. I had dropped my kids at the airport and on my way back I took the country roads. I thought of each of them and a thought came to mind. They each had a name. There was Brownie that we nicknamed…
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transformation of weaknesses
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit with my oldest daughter. We were waiting on her fiance’s family to all arrive. They are taking a two week vacation to Florida. I was driving part of them in her finance’s car to the airport and returning his car to their home…
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Redemption is life changing
I heard a story about a preacher who saw a pattern. Year after year people would get excited, come to the tent revivals. They would make a tearful confession at the altar. Make a commitment to “change” and after three weeks, the people would disappear until the next tent revival.…
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it is never too late.
I had someone tell me that it was too late for me. That because I was not in obedience to God I would just return to my old ways and that God deemed it was too late for me. They used a passage of scripture to justify (just-a-lie) their position.…
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manipulation.
I found myself in a place, a year ago, of great confusion. While in a therapy session I described a situation to my therapist. I laid out all the events and what was spoken, but also this confusion because nothing was as spoken by a person. What this person said…
It Starts Small 