Category: A Living Testimony
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A Heart That Is Wise
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23 As we continue to examine God’s faithful care for and transformation of our hearts, I can’t help but think about how God isn’t the only one interested in our hearts. Sweet friend, the enemy is just as interested in the…
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A New Heart
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 Lately, I just cannot get over God’s fascination with our hearts. Recently we’ve looked at how He gives us a heart to know…
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For His Good Purpose
For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose. Philippians 2:13 I read the quote below on a friend’s social media page a few years ago and it’s stuck with me ever since: You cannot become who you are meant to be and remain…
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Transforming Love
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never…
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2-19-23 Sunday Encouragement
Our people must learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others; then they will not be unproductive. Titus 3:14 (NLT) Sweet friends, God gives us all sorts of gifts, knowledge, and talents for meeting the urgent needs of others. Some are able to meet needs for physical rebuilding or physical healing. Others…
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2-18-23 Saturday Encouragement
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 A common belief is that if you are a “good enough person” or do enough “good works” that God will bless your life and you’ll go…
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All of Your Heart
“I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.” Jeremiah 24:7 What could be so important to God that He would talk about it in His Word over 800…
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A Direct Line to God
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 Wouldn’t it be great if we had a direct phone line to God? Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could just pick up the phone and hear His voice giving us comfort, advice, direction,…
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2-12-23 Sunday Encouragement
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. Psalm 107:23,24 As you can probably tell from the name of my devotional site and Facebook page, Psalm 107 is close to my heart. It opens with…
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2-11-23 Saturday Encouragement
In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 1:4 We all need more light in our lives. We may say, “I’m fine” or “I have it under control”, but the truth is we’re all at least a little broken in some area of our lives; we all have something…
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