Our culture is preoccupied with personal perfection and physical beauty. The lengths people go to in order to achieve the look borders on obsession. The right lipstick, the right eyeliner or mascara. (I won't lie. I do have my own favorites.) And then the time to apply it ever so carefully.
And ...
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WITHOUT Blood There Is No Forgiveness
In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. (Hebrews 9:22)
Have you ever given blood? Have you ever needed a blood transfusion? Has someone you cared about ever needed a blood transfusion? Without ...
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WITHOUT Me You Can Do Nothing
We have a lot of trees and plants in our yard. A couple of times a year we do major trimming and pruning. We start as early in the morning as possible and usually finish by early afternoon--with several piles of green trash ready for pick-up. Sometimes I don't want to cut off certain branches, ...
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WITHOUT God There is Nothing!
He made it all! Everything you see. The sun and the sky. The moon and the stars. Mountains and seas. Animals of all kinds--even ones we've yet to discover!
Without God, there is nothing!
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (John ...
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Faith WITHOUT Good Works is Useless
Have you ever been grocery shopping for your evening meal and had someone come to mind and you thought, Hmmm. I need to make an extra pan and take it over them. Maybe you knew what was going on with them, maybe you didn't. But when you delivered dinner, you were met with surprise and deep ...
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Plans Fail WITHOUT Wisdom and Guidance
Success requires planning. Plain and simple. There is no way around it. From something as simple as getting your week's groceries, to graduating from college, if you want to succeed, you need a plan. The more complicated your goal, the more more important it is to include guidance from people who ...
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Not a Sparrow Falls WITHOUT Your Father Knowing
"What is the price of two sparrows—one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows." (Matthew 10:29-31)
These verses ...
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WITH Great Joy, WITHOUT a Single Fault!
It's been a long time since I've participated in Kate's Five-Minute-Friday link-up group. And it's a JOY to be able to participate this week.
Each week, a group of bloggers are given a one-word prompt. We write for five minutes--no editing. Then we gather up at her site and share our words. ...
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![This week in our small group study, I felt the Lord’s gentle chastisement.
We looked at the promise in Luke 11:28, “He [Jesus] replied, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’”
At first glance, the promise of blessing comes from obedience. But it’s much more.
In the preceding verses, Jesus had cast out a demon that caused a man to be mute. The crowd accused Him of casting out a demon with Satan’s power.
Jesus explained how ridiculous it would be for Satan to drive out his own demons. Then a woman cries out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you,” (v 27).
This is the sticking point. Jesus was in the middle of an important discourse when this woman interrupts Him. He corrects her with this:
✨ Blessed are those who HEAR the word of God and obey it.
That word HEAR means to LISTEN with FULL ATTENTION.
✨ We cannot truly obey God if we don’t know what He’s saying to us.
Basically, Jesus told this woman, and the others in the crowd, “Pay attention!! Don’t get distracted from my voice. I have important things to tell you. You won’t know what they are and what I want you to do, if all you’re thinking about is what you want to say or how you can gain attention. Put your attention on ME.”
It’s never fun to be Jesus’s object lesson.
The questions I’m asking myself …
✨ What keeps me from spending time alone with Jesus?
✨ When I finally get alone with Him, what distracts me?
✨ What keeps me from focusing on God’s Word?
✨ What causes my kind to wander when I’m praying?
➡️ Eliminating distractions …
➡️ Exercising discipline …
… to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5)
… brings true blessing.
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