Category: A Living Testimony
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (11)
Hi, Friend! Thank you for joining me for our third week of exploring God’s good and perfect gifts! If you’ve been following this series since the beginning, you’ll be relieved to know that when this post comes out, if all goes to plan, I’ll be out Christmas shopping for my sons because they have finally…
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A Gift for You!
John 1:16 Phone and Computer Background Hi Friend, I just can’t shake my wonderment at God’s grace lately. Everywhere I look, I see reminders of how He has poured grace upon grace into my life. I’ve keyed in on a specific verse to memorize so I don’t forget the amazing nature of God’s grace when…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (10)
For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given one Spirit to drink. 1 Corinthians 12:12-13 CSB Welcome back,…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (9)
For all those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, and if children, also…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (8)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23a CSB I hope I’m not dating myself too much here in this age of streaming apps and the ability to “skip” content we don’t want to see, but do you remember those infomercials for kitchen gadgets and stain lifters and hair styling tools…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (7)
In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Romans…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (6)
“When the Counselor comes, the one I will send to you from the Father —the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.” John 15:26 CSB On Friday, I left us meditating on the gift of Holy Spirit. A gift made possible by the selfless love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ who…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (4)
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. Psalm 127:3 NLT Thanks for coming back, friend! I hope you are enjoying this month’s series on God’s good and perfect gifts. Since this series was inspired by my on-going, and so far unsuccessful, attempt to find good Christmas gifts for my…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (3)
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift – Ephesians 2:8 CSB “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” I know it’s not a Christmas hymn, but as I prepared to write today’s devotion, I couldn’t stop humming “Amazing Grace”.…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (2)
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 CSB Thank you for joining me on this month long exploration of God’s good and perfect gifts! In the launch post for this series, I shared that the inspiration for the…
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