Category: Encouragement
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Feeling Like A Failure
I must confess: at this moment I feel more like Gideon in the winepress, than David running out to meet Goliath. What happened? Nothing in particular. Just life. But though my flesh is tired, and I’m frustrated with my circumstances, I will not quit fighting the good fight of faith. Though I feel like a…
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Hear, O Israel!
Hear, O Israel: the nations aligned against you are in for a rude awakening. “Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans? The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one. “Let us break their chains,” they…
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What’s next? Please think with me.
Something is stirring in my heart. I’m seeing something in the scriptures, yet I can’t quite see it. Do you understand what I mean? I read this yesterday: “So Solomon finished building the Temple.” (1 Kings 6:14 NLT) Then, as I meditated on that passage, I remembered what happened after Solomon had finished building. As…
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Revival Characteristics (Final)
Every spiritual awakening, revival, or whatever you’d like to call it, has certain visible characteristics. This is the third and final post in the series, “Revival Characteristics”. Fences are repaired. The boundaries of truth. Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set. Proverbs 22:28 NKJV Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the…
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Up Ahead: The End
“”The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about – the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!) “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills. A person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to…
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Revival Characteristics (Part Two)
Every spiritual awakening, revival, or whatever you’d like to call it, has certain visible characteristics. This is the second message of a three part series. Wells are reclaimed Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them…
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Revival Characteristics (Part One)
Every spiritual awakening, revival, or whatever you’d like to call it, has certain visible characteristics. These are the results of people coming face to face with their idol, and their God. I’ll mention three distinguishing characteristics that will be demonstrated before and during a spiritual awakening. Altars are rebuilt Places sanctified for prayer and worship…
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Generosity 2 (excerpts from eBook)
No strings attached… The Lord inspired the psalmist to write: “They share freely and give generously to those in need.” Psalm 112:9 NLT Freely and generously. The blessings of God are upon the doers of the word, not those who only dream about obeying him. And freely means no strings attached. Gifts aren’t gifts if…
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Musician Warriors
A Psalm of David “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” (Psalm 144:1-2 ESV) King David, God’s psalmist…
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