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If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest of incidents takes on significance.
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Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action.
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When we invite God into our world, he walks in. He brings a host of gifts: joy, patience, resilience. Anxieties come, but they don't stick. Fears surface and then depart. Regrets land on the windshield, but then comes the wiper of prayer. The devil still hands me stones of guilt, but I turn and give them to Christ. I'm completing my sixth decade, yet I'm wired with energy. I am happier, healthier, and more hopeful than I have ever been. Str..
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Imagine considering every moment as a potential time of communion with God. By the time your life is over, you will have spent six months at stoplights, eight months opening junk mail, a year and a half looking for lost stuff (double that number in my case), and a whopping five years standing in various lines.7Why don't you give these moments to God? By giving God your whispering thoughts, the common becomes uncommon. Simple phrases such as..
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Jesus was robustly thankful.
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Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33
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Don't be too quick in your assessment of God's gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day.
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If today starts to get hectic, take five minutes to be alone with God. If your work gets interrupted, ask God for patience to deal with the interruption and for endurance to finish the task.
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him" (Deut. 11:2 TEV). Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it. God is at work in each of us whether"
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Jesus' love does not depend upon what we do for him. Not at all. In the eyes of the King, you have value simply because you are. You don't have to look nice or perform well. Your value is inborn. Period.
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The second redemption upstaged the first. God sent not Moses but Jesus. He smote not Pharaoh but Satan. Not with ten plagues but a single cross. The Red Sea didn't open, but the grave did, and Jesus led anyone who wanted to follow him to the Land of No More. No more law keeping. No more striving after God's approval. 'You can rest now,' he told them.
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Give my friends and loved ones freedom from their idols as well so they can fully enjoy being part of your family. Help them know that you are their only creator and nothing on this earth has ownership of them.
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God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach. Every king, despot, weather pattern, and molecule are at his command. He passes the shuttle back and forth across the generations, and as he does, a design emerges. Satan weaves; God reweaves.
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The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.
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You wanted to know how you'll make it on your own?" Manny asked as the sights and sounds of the lush Jerusalem garden gave way to the sterile hospital chapel. "You'll never know. Because you never will be."
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Imagine that . . . unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God.
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Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man and said, 'I will. Be healed!' And immediately the man was healed from his disease" (Matt. 8:3)."
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We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all.
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Ask God for a special alertness to sense moments in this day when you can clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Thank the Lord for each person who has demonstrated one of those character traits of Jesus in your life.
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And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words "God meant it for good in order to bring about..." The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term"
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By giving us stories like Joseph's, God allows us to study his plans.
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God as Master Weaver, Master Builder. He redeemed the story of Joseph. Can't he redeem your story as well?
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he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.
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Sometimes God takes his time...
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His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.
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Down to Egypt. Just a few hours ago Joseph's life was looking up.
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Life pulls us down.
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want to hang on to your
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It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.
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Vea a sus enemigos no como fallas de Dios, sino como proyectos de El.
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There is no separation. There is no chasm between you and the heavens. There is no divider, no veil between you and God's love.
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Father, you created all things simply with your words. One word from you and your power is evident. I am amazed by you. I need your power in my life, God. I face impossible circumstances and am desperate for a miracle. Would you show me your power in my life today? God, for those who have a small view of you, show them how mighty and enormous you actually are. Help them to find comfort in that knowledge. Thank you for sending your Son, who ..
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Ask God to show you specific areas in your life that require his special "renewing" attention."
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Don't settle for one-night stands in the arms of a stranger. Be obsessed with your wedding date. Guard against forgetfulness. Be intolerant of memory lapses. Write yourself notes. Memorize verses. Do whatever you need to do to remember. " Aim at what is in heaven. Think only about the things in heaven" (Colossians 3:1-2).You are engaged to royalty, and your Prince is coming to take you home."
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JESUS WASHES OUR FEET FOR TWO REASONS. The first is to give us mercy; the second is to give us a message, and that message is simply this: Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace.
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Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. --RUTH 4:14 ESV
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Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reason. We've all been there.
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God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.
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Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.
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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. MATTHEW 11:29 (NIV)
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God's pursuing you,
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But, Mr. Lucado, I want to be a missionary when I grow up,
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Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows.
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