Author: Melissa Fuller

Empowered Today – Guisette’s Story

I lost everything. In a matter of a few months, I lost my job, my apartment, and my car completely broke down. My three children and I were effectively homeless. In the midst of this, I had also committed to a two-week-long mission trip on the other side of the

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Walk in Love (Know Love Translations)

Walking in God’s love is a truth that has been so powerfully displayed in my life. In my career at the United Nations, I changed jobs often. Each time, I had to readjust to a new team and each time it was challenging. When I joined the Human Resources team,

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Know Love Introduction

“Love one another.” Thirteen times in his letters, the apostle John instructed his readers to love one another. John explained why loving others is so important: it communicates our faith in Jesus to the world, it is an act of obedience to God, and it brings joy to ourselves and

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Empowered Today – JoAnn’s Story

I joyfully embrace my Italian heritage! Scrumptious food, fun, super-relational people, beautiful art, culture, and typically a deep love for God. Though I didn’t come to know Christ as Savior until I was a teenager, I always loved Jesus. One of my distant ancestors is highly acclaimed in Acts 10.

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Empowered Today – Marsha’s Story

But Peter sent them all outside, knelt down, and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up.” Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up (Acts 9:40). Five years ago, I was about to board a plane back to the United States, when

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Trusting His Provision (Empowered Translations)

Last year, things were a mess. We had to shut down our office for an entire month. Then, my husband had an operation that left me at home caring for him full time for two months. Immediately following this, my state (Kerala, in southwest India), was hit with the worst

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Witnesses

In Acts 1 we find the last words and actions of Jesus before He ascended into heaven. After His resurrection, Jesus spent forty days with His disciples. They were convinced He had been raised from the dead, convinced He was the Son of God, and convinced He was the Messiah.

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Empowered Introduction

Jesus commanded His followers to be His witnesses in “Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth” (Acts 1:8). The book of Acts is the record of all the things Jesus’ disciples did as witnesses to His life, death, and resurrection. The Book

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Empowered Today – Stephie’s Story

During the summer of 2004, I attended a Bible study about double-mindedness. We talked about how we could do something we knew wasn’t good for us, such as smoking. I had smoked most of my life. I had grown up as an often unsupervised child and had experimented with smoking

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When We Know the Ending

I’ve recently been re-watching a television show that I started several years ago. I’d seen the first two and a half seasons, stopping somewhere in the middle of season 3 because I was bored (clearly, I dropped it right before things got interesting). I had seen an episode or two

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