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Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment
Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment To be a true follower of Christ as Lord, there must be an exclusive abandonment of everything...
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Ever Thankful Prayer
A prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Thank you, that I dwell in the shelter o...
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He saw and He sees ...
He sees ... And when He drew near and He saw the city, He wept over it (English Standard Bible, Luke 19:41).
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Dear Jesus, be my Good Shepherd, now and always ...
The 23rd Psalm
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Looking Again, to See as God Sees
To see as God sees ... There is an aspect of seeing that we can miss at times, even if we have eyes to see everything around us. We can in o...
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Realizing the blessing, mercy is to us!
“God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7, NLT). You and I are completely undeserving of the great mer...
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The Ultimate Love of Christ
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us...
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Our Savior and Lord
In a familiar garden, he cried out, desperately, for a release from the brutal path before him, yet he humbly forfeited his submissive will ...
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A Tear in His Heart and a Flow of Tears from His Eyes
A Tear in His Heart ... when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it (English Standard Bible, Luke 19:41). The human heart in this pe...
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Connecting with Christ ... A Love Beyond Compare!
Connecting with Christ ... Longsuffering and liberating, overcoming and overreaching, valiant and vigilant, and extravagant and eternal are ...
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Looking again, to see as God sees …
"It says,” … “that you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all you...
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No Coveting
“Don’t desire with obsession the things of your neighbor and do not be consumed with possessing the affections of the spouse of your neighbo...
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Tears and Joy
How can it be that our eyes can overflow with liquid emotion and our hearts can ache with intense joy at the same time? How can it be that t...
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The warm Place
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows (Ja...
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Made Precious
Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for ...
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What would it be like ... if we were truly like God?
In many countries, little children wander the dirty streets picking through the rubbish thrown in corners of buildings and doorways, ever lo...
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The Compassion of Jesus
It is not an easy thing to find someone who cares about you as a person and acts in your interest because of their concern. It is inherent a...
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The Melody of God’s Love.
Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; make melody to him with the ha...
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Realizing the blessing that mercy is to us!
God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7, NLT) You and I are completely undeserving of the great mercy...
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Going Home
“An ox knows its owner, and a donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know, My people do not understand” (Isaiah 1:3, NASB). Th...
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A Branch on the Vine
Living as a branch on the vine ...
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A faithful servant of God …
“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?...
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Looking Again at Being “Born Again”
Sometimes we see it as born again into eternal life. If salvation is solely emphasized, we reduce our Christ to a ticket broker to heaven. H...
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In the deepest anguish, a soaring hope …
Theodor Galle after Jan van der Straet Jeremiah Published 1613 Print National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain “My soul continually ...
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This "Thank God Day"
Is not every day a "Thank God Day?" “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength” (Corrie Ten Boom). How...