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Our Focus is EVERYTHING This week in my life I was reminded by the Lord of a valuable lesson about our focus and where we place it. It truly shapes our outlook on life and sets the tone of what we can do. As believers in Jesus, when we keep our eyes on Him and follow His lead, there are no limits to

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Jehovah Jireh - The LORD Our Provider The Lord promises to provide ALL of our needs and that all we have to do is just trust (believe in) Him. That sounds very simple but it is also very deep. He provides all of our needs in ways that we don’t even understand. He provides for needs that we didn’t even realize we

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This is How We Fight Our Battles In these days of unprecedented events (both good blessings and extreme conflicts and rebellion), there is a continuous strong temptation to lash out with words of correction or retaliation. I have struggled with that intently over this past weekend watching local, national and

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God is Always Good This simple four-word message or theme is what the Lord woke me up with this morning as yet another burden on my heart. As I contemplated and reflected, I saw it as a reminder to you and me today of some important truths that will keep us focused and not distracted. The

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Wherever I Go… Today’s devotional is about one of my favorite bible verses. A dearly beloved brother who serves along side of me had a lanyard made for me with my name on one side and this verse on the other. I wear this lanyard daily in service as a reminder for me and often as a way to

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Fear God – The Beginning of Wisdom? In yesterday’s devotional, I explored the idea that there is no fear in love and that God’s perfect love casts out fear. Yet the bible also teaches us in Proverbs 9:10 that “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Is this a contradiction? I would submit to you that it

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Perfect Love Casts Out Fear “Faith, Hope and Love… the greatest of these is love…” When we have given our lives completely to God, His perfect love overshadows us and begins to develop a love like His in us. That type of love (based on faith in Him) can not co-exist with fear. What do we tend to fear

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The Potter and the Clay Six years ago today as I awoke, the Lord showed me the famous word He gave to Jeremiah in chapter 18 about the Potter and the clay. He showed me some basic things about this famous metaphor to give insight and comfort. First, just as He did in the beginning when the LORD created

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The Great Pursuit I had a dream last night that I was on the run for my life, being chased in hot pursuit by a group of adversaries. Have you ever had one of those types of dreams that brings about a somewhat restless night that bordered on tossing and turning? My dream involved running through

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No Negotiating with Sin This is the theme that the LORD placed on my heart this morning. He sends us into the world to be His light in darkness. He calls us to be steadfast and unmovable in His truth just as He is… in Him there is no variableness or shadow of turning (James 1:17).

Satan wants us to

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When There’s Nothing Left to Say – Where Do You Look? In these days when we can often feel betrayed, defeated, taken captive by hostile forces (basic freedoms ripped away) and as days of futile efforts, this is how the LORD woke me up this morning. He reminded me that our feelings can be misleading and what we see is not always as

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Fear and Love – The Antithesis This is the burden that the LORD placed on my heart as He woke me up this morning. The most common command that He gives in the bible is for us NOT to be afraid. He says please note that this is a command, not a guideline or a suggestion.

Then He pointed me back to the 3

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The Will and the Plan of God The well-known story of Jonah (and the whale) illustrates to us the important lesson that God’s plan is perfect and His will indeed shall be accomplished. We often have our own ideas, opinions and desires, but His word (which is His truth) does not change.

In this book about the

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Why We Fear As a result of our natural tendencies and the nature of the fallen world around us, we all struggle with where to place our focus. We rely on our own understanding (very limited perspective) of the situations around us and focus on what the world shouts at us every day. Those

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God’s Protection – Don’t Leave Home Without It Before describing exactly what God has provided to protect us, Paul first tells why it is so very important for all of God’s people. Before going into what it is, he tells us about the nature of the attacks that we are up against (deceptive strategies). Before telling us about

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Houston We Have a Problem! – God’s Holiness

Yesterday we talked about God’s character of love. It’s not something that He says or does, but it is what He is. Well, there is another essence of God that is even deeper than His love… His holiness. He is holy and

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Love is in God’s Name One of the mistakes that we all have a tendency to make is that we put God into a little box that we can understand. We do this in so very many ways. This morning I invite us to consider Agape, God’s ultimate love. The greatest commandment calls for us to love God with all of our

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Equality for Believers – Comparing Ourselves This is the theme that the LORD placed on my heart early this morning. Even as strong believers, we have a tendency to compare ourselves with others (both with believers and non-believers). It’s a lingering part of our fallen nature and it is a true blessing when we understand

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Choices and Ramifications This is a continuation of yesterday’s devotional with a closer look at the choices that God calls us all to make as He sends people to warn us (remember 1 Kings 18:21). Everything is a choice and has ramifications.

God chooses (is not forced) to do what He does and His choices

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Order Out of Chaos We serve today the God of order… the God of purpose. However, because of our tendency to make poor choices, we live in a world of chaos and confusion. The bible is filled with major and memorable examples of where God pulled order out of chaos; hope out of desperate futility;

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Light and Darkness This is the theme that the LORD gave to me as He awoke me on this morning with a beautiful sunrise. It is a word and a command from Him to let our light shine today in a world that desperately needs the light that we talked about last week in 1 John chapters 1-3… God’s light.