Category: From the Heart!
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Spiritual Hydration…
I play competitive tennis and as strange as it may sound, oftentimes forget to drink enough water. My mouth goes dry, my throat is parched, and I can even feel my strength fade. How easy and satisfying it is to simply drink and be hydrated. To be spiritually thirsty is to be dried up inside,…
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Alice Cooper said so…
At times, do you find it difficult to be a Christian…especially in the workplace? Do people seem to dislike you for no good reason or talk about you behind your back? Do you find that topics of conversation change when you walk by? If you want an easy life I don’t recommend following Jesus. It…
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Take It From Me…
I found this story so moving that rather than paraphrasing it, I though I’d share it in its entirety. “The great Christian leader, John Stott, was speaking on one occasion at a university mission in Sydney, Australia. On the last night of the mission, as a result of an infection, he had virtually lost his…
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Transformational…
Straight after witnessing the amazing miracle of feeding of the 5,000 (John 6:1-13), the disciples find themselves in a storm (John 6:18). Jesus calls his disciples to move from a faith based on a very visible miracle that fulfilled their physical need to a faith that is a total trust in him and his words.…
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Patience is the key…
Gideon was a frightened, inadequate and uncertain man. That makes him even more of a hero to me…lol. It shows how incredibly brave he was to go against so many (Judges 6:1-7:8). Gideon was also sensible to check that he had got it all right by asking God for His confirmation. If you feel prompted…
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Not Self-Confidence…
I love the story of Gideon found in the book of Judges. Gideon ‘did as the Lord told him’ (Judges 6:27), even though he risked death (v.30). When fear knocked on the door of his life, faith was his answer! The secret of Gideon’s power was that ‘the Spirit of the Lord came upon [him]’…
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Cry Out…
Have you ever cried out to God for mercy? I certainly have, many times. In Psalm 57:1-6 David cried out ‘to God Most High’ (v.2). He prayed, ‘Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me’ (v.1a). There is an Eternity-sized prayer for mercy that God always answers. That is the prayer for forgiveness…
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Less is Greater!
In all of my professional life, I have been told I needed to be driven to become greater, more important, successful and make more money. These are not all bad aims in themselves, but our daily choices we make will most certainly be swayed by these ambitions. We all have a choice as to how…
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Like a Rocking Chair…
‘Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere.’ No one goes through life without facing problems, battles and causes for worry. In Psalm 55:12-23 David chose to turn to the Lord and cry out to him ‘evening, morning and noon’ (vv.16–17). If you are involved in…
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A Light in the Dark…
Obviously, no one wants anyone to see the dark, shadowy areas of our lives (come on, we all have them). We hide all of it inside behind a facade of goodness. Sin hates light. When we sin, we want to avoid the light of Jesus. We do not want our evil deeds to be exposed.…
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