Category: Encouragement
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identity crisis.
Yesterday I implored readers to consider the most insidious net, the worst trap of all shame. Shame is satan’s weapon for keeping our eyes on the ground. Shame is an identity we keep when we can not let go of our past sufferings or past wrongdoings. We keep our old…
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the net.
When we think of a net, twenty years ago, we would have been thinking about a hair net or maybe a fishing net. In today’s world, we almost automatically think of the world wide web, or as we call it, the net. The internet. I came across an interesting verse…
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finish what you start: strength
We are coming to what I feel is a close in exploring the reasons why we do not finish what we start. Why we lose our enthusiasm for the commitments we have made, the goals we have set, and work we are doing. We have explored a shift in our…
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finishing what we start: discipline
It has been an amazing journey to dig into God’s Word to look at why we find ourselves in the middle of a project, goal or commitment and we grow weary. We get tired, frustrated, distracted and disappointed, lose our focus, and why does that happen. We have looked at…
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finish what you start: frustration
Yesterday I opened a topic of why do we not finish what we start? I zoned in on the first reason being, our focus. Where is your focus? Let us look at our verse again: 11 Now also finish the task, so that just as there was an eager desire, there…
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the cursed. the blessed.
I believe part of the purpose for the current situation in my life is that God wanted to reveal something awesome and amazing. I used to have this vain hope that because my life was messed up, I was messed up, that somehow my kids could be spared, and they…
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monkey see. monkey do.
This was a phrase I first learned in kindergarten. There were kids putting paste in their ears. The teacher walked up and asked one of them why. They said because so-and-so was doing it. She said monkey see, monkey do. It took me years to understand what she was saying.…
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i want to know
What is your ultimate goal in life? WHat do you set your ambition and motive on? What are you trying to accomplish? This often comes to mind for me. I often ask myself what exactly are you doing and who are you doing it for. More than a year ago…
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who is waiting on who?
At the right time, God’s timing, He can do anything instantly. 22 The least will become a thousand,the smallest a mighty nation.I am the Lord;I will accomplish it quickly in its time.Isaiah 60:22 This passage of scripture was God speaking to the Israelites through Isaiah. He was giving them a picture of…
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coworker.
I have been studying the man mentioned in Paul’s letter to the Philippians: Epaphroditus. Paul had an amazing way of speaking about others and we can learn how to be Christ like by looking at the example of others in their character description. 25 But I considered it necessary to send…
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