Category: Dependence
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Peace. Peace. Jesus

He has conquered the enemy and He has conquered death. The work has already been completed and He sits at the right hand of the Father. Do you see it? He isn’t in the throne room of heaven, wringing his hands and pacing back and forth. He is seated on His throne; the work is…
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Heart of the matter…

I can tell you that no matter what may come your way, that unforeseen diagnosis, the test results that you are desperately waiting on…God is already there and He is with you. You matter to Him! He wants you to stop struggling. He wants you to jump off the hamster wheel, stop striving to carry…
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Living poor…

Can you imagine becoming instantly rich? Now, can you imagine, having all that wealth, every physical need you might have, being instantly satisfied, and yet, you don’t change the way you are living? You have all that wealth, and you continue scraping by, struggling through each day, barely surviving, while your enormous fortune goes untouched.…
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Prayer…

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” (Martin Luther)
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Pain and Purpose

Without God, His Spirit indwelling in us, we are nothing! We are but dust that will be blown away with the sands of time. The good Lord knows that sometimes, we need the jogger of life to shake things up, get our attention, so that we can fall into alignment with the ways of our…
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Broken…

What I am trying to share this cold February morning is that God uses the broken, the hurt, the messed up… He didn’t come to save the righteous, He came to save the broken.
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Preparations

When we place our faith in Him, our work is over. We won’t get to the gates of heaven just to find out that we hadn’t done enough, and our eternity will be spent without Him. However, because we know that our salvation is secure in His sacrifice on the cross, that doesn’t mean we…
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The heart of the matter…

I urge you friend, to guard your heart from the distractions this world offers us and focus your attention on the eternal. Do not allow your heart to be stolen by the temporary!
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Insignificant…

I was never truly independent. Only in God’s sovereignty and in His gifts of grace and mercy has anything in my life come to fruition. It has not been of my own power that I built my life, but through His power, in accordance with His will. Somehow, He predestined the insignificance of my life…
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Get off the treadmill!

God has called us Christians to be light in the darkness, and I challenge you today—look at how dark the world seems to be. Turn on your light! Shine into the dark void of this world and make a difference in someone’s life.
