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He Is My Rock, My Strength 32 “For who is God, except the Lord?
And who is a rock, except our God?
33 God is my strength and power,
And He makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like the feet of deer,
And sets me on my high places.
35 He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of

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Ultimate Satisfaction Our bodies need daily physical nutrition in order to be sustained. When denied over time, its lack will cause our bodies to become unsatisfied and to weaken (picture what happens when we are in prayer and fasting). However, this nutrition and satisfaction are very limited and

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God’s Word – Medicine for Our Soul A Strong Cleanser – The Word of God, when taken as daily nutrition, has a powerful way of cleansing us from impurity. Like any disinfecting agent, it can feel uncomfortable as the cleansing occurs, but the end result is more than worth the journey. On a steady diet through this

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The God Who Won’t Let Go Yesterday we looked at Jacob’s all-night wrestling match with God in Genesis 32:22-32. We saw how he refused to give up and surrender control to the LORD. When the morning came and the LORD told him to “let Him go”, Jacob realized that it was the LORD with whom he had been

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Wrestling for Control As a result of our fallen sinful nature, one of the biggest things that we all struggle with (if we are honest with ourselves) is being in control. We wan to make everything in the world center around us and we struggle throughout life to manipulate our circumstances to conform

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The Breath of Life Two days ago as I slept through the night on Saturday and as He awoke me early Sunday morning, the Lord gently whispered to me a reminder that He had watched over me all night and that He had given me the breath of Life in my lungs. So I vowed to use that breath to give praise,

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Understanding the Power that Dwells Within Us In the past few devotionals we have been discussing the power that God has given to us in the form of the Holy Spirit. We talked about how we just celebrated the out pouring of that power on Pentecost Sunday. This power has been given by God to each one of us who truly believe

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Arm Wrestling God made each of us in His image. A beautiful masterpiece, He gave us all emotions, all desires and the ability to choose which to pursue (knowing in advance that this could/would bring chaos). So He sealed the deal by giving us His Holy Spirit to bring order to chaos, unity to

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A Call to Remain Faithful 17 But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ predicted. 18 They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires. 19 These people are the ones who are creating divisions

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Live by the Spirit’s Power This message started as a seed yesterday and wrote itself in the middle of the night as I slept. You see, at some point during the night, the song attached below was gently playing in the background as I slept and it spoke to me.

The message is simple. Given everything that we

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Discerning the Times In Monday’s devotional, the LORD gave me a closing thought about the days being evil and then pointed me to Matthew 7:13. This morning He took me back to continue that thought.

A while back we suffered a major power outage here in a large part of Leander, Texas. I was speaking

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God’s Amazing Grace – Unending? It is easy and it is our tendency to look at God as an all-loving God who loves everyone without measure. We can look at His grace as being never-ending and as our song says, truly amazing. But it is a mistake (and a common pitfall – see Galatians 5:21) for us to look only at

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Peace Love and Joy The question for each one of us this morning is “What is the true source of my peace, love and joy?” Where do I find my ultimate comfort and place of refuge? What is it today and everyday that brings me happiness and that I can’t imagine going through this day without? What is it

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Keeping Our Eyes on Jesus The bible encourages us to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus no matter where we go or what is going on around us. We should not try to figure things out on our own (making many mistakes) or run to and fro as if we are gods, but we should simply follow His example. He knows how this

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Knowledge and Wisdom in the End These are words that the LORD has been placing on my heart with increasing intensity (and confirmation from several disparate sources) for a few weeks now. A few weeks ago He had me go through a series on Matthew 24 where Jesus described the end times to His disciples, giving

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Prayer – Matthew's Subtle Warning about Pride We noted earlier in this devotional series about prayer that Luke’s account is different from Matthew’s account in subtle ways even though they are describing the same event. Luke was a physician and a detailed historian. He was not even Jewish (was a gentile) and did not always

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Prayer – The Key Ingredient for Power A few years ago I learned a very valuable lesson when it comes to cooking. I was making one of my large batches of home-made Belgian waffles from scratch. In preparing the batter, I overlooked adding one very key ingredient (salt). The end result was a large batch of waffles that

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Prayer – Persistent and Powerful

Yesterday I mentioned that the scene where Jesus gave His model for prayer is described in the Gospels of Matthew & Luke. I then went through Matthew’s description of that model. Today I want to look at Luke’s account because,

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Prayer – Understanding Our Most Powerful Weapon Early this morning the LORD woke me up with this powerful theme because He knows that it is one of my struggles. He knows (as you will see in this devotional) how much I often struggle internally with the way that I observe this weapon being miss-used all around me. So, I lay

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The War of Fear – Just Stop It!! This is a pattern of messages that continues from the events of 5 years ago this week. This was the word that the LORD awoke me with that morning. Once again it was a very timely word (a right-now word). It was a familiar word that He gently spoke in the beginning of that

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The Suffering Church vs the Compromising Church This morning’s devotional was given to me and inspired by recent events that took place 5 years ago this week right here around me in Texas. As I watched and pondered them, the LORD pointed me to them and then to the story of two churches. Just as it was when He told John to