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When we say yes to God’s simple requests, we receive some of life’s most wonderful blessings. God’s simple requests act as a stepping stone towards His greatest blessings in our lives. Simon Peter is an illustration of this principle. One day while Jesus was speaking to a large crowd, Jesus wanted to use Simon’s boat
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As children of God we are never victims of our circumstances. To say that life is not simple, is an understatement. In our journey into discipleship, we stumble over many bumps in the road. Our race is a very real battle. Painful experiences pierce our hearts. However, our circumstances DO NOT define who we are
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Disappointments are inevitable, but discouragement is a choice. God has a plan for each of our lives. His plan does not change according to unexpected circumstances. We are going to encounter situations that do not line up with our understanding of how God wants our life to proceed. The key is to stop and look
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You can never out give God. Have you ever thought about that? We can never out give God. Malachi, the Old Testament prophet, believed and teaches us this principle. Through him, God teaches us to bring Him full tithes. “Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house.
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Adversity is a bridge to a deeper relationship with God. What is the point and goal of adversity? God’s objective is to draw us closer to Him. Can it really be that simple? I’ve spent a long time looking back over the years of my life. The major moments of adversity. Life is always 20/20
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Anything we hold too tightly, we will loose. Our knee jerk reaction;to when the storms come is to take control over the situation. It’s an emotional response and we all want to control. We want to live life with assurance everything is going to be okay and the things that are not okay can be
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We learn more in our valley experiences than on our mountaintops. Our school of experience is through adversity, anguish, trails, tribulations, and headaches. They operate as lessons that bring us to a place of new insight and understanding. They can alter our perceptions of the world, our views on God, and lead us to changed
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Whatever we acquire outside of God’s will eventually turns to ashes. This is a harsh statement but a truth we need to understand. The deepest desire in every human heart is to know God. This is how he made every single human. We were made this way so that no worldly thing could ever satisfy
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Brokenness is the requirement for maximum usefulness by God. Who do you love more than God? Who do you trust more than God? What is God stripping away from your life? The answers to these questions many be the explanation for why God is working so hard to break your dependence on the answers and
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Those who wait upon the Lord, He acts upon their behalf. Waiting for anything can be a great trial of our faith. It can cause us to loose our temper and our good sense. Just climb in the car and take a trip to the local supermarket. I see more crazy examples of this than
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