Tag: Week 1 // Friday

Recognizing Deceit

I have heard it said that the best way to recognize a counterfeit is to study the real thing. Take, for example, a dollar bill. In order to know if a dollar bill is counterfeit you should study a real dollar bill. And when I say study, I don’t mean

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Redeemer and Restorer

They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times. – Isaiah 61:4 One profound truth that my heart was open to while I was reading this chapter was the fact that

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Hope: A Tender Weapon

I have noticed myself succumbing to patterns of apathy recently. Feeling like I have been walking through life to the hums of this world, letting anxiety affect my personhood and my purpose. I miss witnessing the truth wage war and win against the lies and gloom. I miss feeling the

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I Will Take Hold of You

I stood before the vast ocean with wide eyes full of fear as the waves mercilessly crashed into the shore. The wall of water stood taller than my 10-year old tiny self, and I didn’t want to go in, because I was certain I’d end up dragged away into the

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Transformed

Have you ever been given a nickname? Nicknames can be given due to something you have done, the way you look, your surname, or to distinguish you from others with the same name. John is often referred to as John the Baptist. This helps us to distinguish him from other

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5 Ways to Pray for Others

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. –Colossians 1:9 There is a battle raging all around us. We all feel it. For

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See the Signs and Celebrate

I answered a call on my cell, and the voice on the line sounded distressed. “Is it raining there? Are you home right now?”    It was my mom. As she has grown older, her fear of impending doom has grown larger. She wanted to make sure I was indoors

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Some Things Take Time

“Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows, because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So

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Always Remembered by God

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, here is your son!” He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home. – John

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How Long, O Lord?

We packed the car in sunny South Florida before lunchtime and started the long drive to visit Aunt Beth in the mountains. Not long into the drive, I heard a loud voice growling out of a tiny body strapped into the car seat in the rear. “This is taking too

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