Father God, my heart breaks as I have thought today about all the abuse Your young son, Jesus, must have encountered from his peers in Nazareth…the taunts about who His daddy was, why His mom was not married when He was born. I guess part of me is glad You have in Your grace not […]
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Dear LORD, it is hard enough for us to help struggling families all year long, but doubly hard in this coming season of excitement and celebration. So many families are teetering on the brink of dissolution and children are being cast into fear and depression these days. Please send people to us in this season
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Dear God, my Father, I stand amazed at your exquisite timing in all things. Only in hindsight can I see just how the confluence of so many things conspired to make the time for Jesus to be born just right. As I look forward to the entire Advent season, please remind me of how and
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“By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household.” (Hebrews 11:7) Do you remember the story? His name was Harry Truman. No, not “The buck stops here” Harry Truman. Not the “Dewey Defeats Truman” Harry Truman. Not the haberdasher from Missouri…not
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Finally, sisters and brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worth of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heardand seen. Then the God of peace
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Father, as the focus of our world shifts to the season of Christmas, please help me to always always keep my focus on the birth of Jesus. Regardless of what others do, may my thoughts and music and prayers be of thanksgiving for Your magnanimous gift of Your Son to come live among us and
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Dear God, everywhere I look I am bombarded with pleas for me to acquire more stuff so I can be ‘content’. Teach me to learn to be content with what I have, where I am, who I am with. and always with the sufficiency of Jesus and His grace, for it is in His matchless
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LORD God, my Abba, thanksgiving is more than just a day for me, but I am grateful for the reminder to do so every day. I am grateful today for an earthly Daddy who heeded Your call on his life to ministry and became the instrument of my healing from fatal illnesses as a little
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Father, You who have created and sustained all life and creation, please help me as we approach this season we call Thanksgiving to remember to be thankful for all my blessings. Thank You for protecting me from illness, accidents, and life altering pains. Thank You for giving me healthy children and grandchildren. Thank You for
Victim or The Yoda Principle? There are two words which grate on me like fingernails on chalkboards for those of you who remember slate chalk boards. They drive me nuts. CAN’T is one and TRY is the other! I hate both of them because they are the private preserve of victims and quitters everywhere. Let me explain:
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