We don’t make choices accidentally. Sure, accidents happen. But when we make a choice, we do so on purpose for a purpose. We choose for a specific reason. Likewise, we were chosen by God for a specific purpose.
When I go to the grocery store, I choose everything I put in my basket. (No, the Blue ...
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God Watches To Make Sure His Plans Are Fulfilled
In my previous post, I mentioned that one of my kiddos is facing a bunch of obstacles. She's working her way through a series of medical tests that, even to a veteran, can be intimidating. Add to that, she's 18 and now the "responsible party" for all of her paperwork. Although we don't expect ...
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Your Guide On The Unlit Path
Our family did a lot of camping when our kids were young. Yep. Real tent camping. We usually arrived at our destination in the late afternoon and quickly set everything up. Tent, food, chairs near the fire pit. As darkness descended, it was important for everyone to keep a flashlight in their ...
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God Has The Best Plan
Often I hear people say, "God is good." And He is! But it doesn't always feel like it. In recent years, I hear more people saying, "God is good, all the time. All the time, God is good." And He is! Even when it doesn't feel like it. I'm learning that in a new way these days--that God has the best ...
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Run WITH Purpose in Every Step
Sometimes events in your life line up together and point a focused light beam in the direction you are supposed to go. Well, without even asking God for it, He is doing that for me now. Reminds me of this verse in Isaiah ...
I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still ...
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Are You Drowning, Desperate, Confused? What Is Your Lifeline?
I stood in a wide hallway, crowded with bewildered parents--all in a rush to find their way to the next class. In an attempt to block out the noise, I pressed my phone tightly to my ear so I could hear my daughter's voice. I had just five minutes to make it from one end of the school to the other. I ...
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My One Thing
Paraphrased from Curly: The secret of life is this: One thing. Just ... one ... thing. You stick to that, and the rest doesn't matter.
I am evaluating one of my activities--in light of my ministry.
Very often God uses my husband to communicate truth to me. I trust him, and I listen to him; ...
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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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