It is good to be writing to you again! Ashley and I enjoyed our month-long sabbatical. We are grateful to God for the time we got to spend with each other traveling.
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There is one thing I noticed about this prayer for the first time today: Mary does not ask for a single thing in this prayer.
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While Jonah's prayer from inside the belly of the fish shows some good things we can emulate, it also shows us several things not to emulate.
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When you pray, remember to praise the Lord through your repentance. Our merciful and holy God is praised when His people repent of their sins.
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How easy it is to make that which we do not possess into an idol, to want it more than anything else. But the giver is more important than the gift.
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Prayer is truly such a privilege. There are also many great and well-known prayers in the Bible. This week, let's look at some of these famous prayers.
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When so many things in life demand attention, it's not always easy to spend time on certain things. But if something is important to us, we make the time.
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What a great way to live our lives: always on the lookout for ways we can help, ways we can use what we've been through or learned to encourage others.
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"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up..."
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"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as if working for the Lord." This isn't a command only when things are easy or when we enjoy the work.
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Until we become active participants, putting into practice what we've learned, we aren't being fully obedient, we don't experience all God has for us, and we don't grow in our faith.
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Jesus is with us in the hardest times of life, and He is not only with us, but His timing is perfect.
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How much of God's word is in your life? Do you read it as soon as you wake up? Do you read it throughout the day? Do you meditate on it throughout the day?
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Each day, we have opportunities to grow in our relationship with God, exercise our faith in Him, or be persecuted & glorify Him with our response.
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As followers of Jesus, we need to constantly reaffirm, think about, and meditate on our identity, which has been transformed by God.
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Are you constantly feeling rushed & at the mercy of the "tyranny of the urgent", or are you walking with the Lord & drawing your strength from Him?
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When you put yourself in a box, you're also putting God in a box, saying He can only use you in certain ways. What if He wants to use you where you don't feel naturally gifted?
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When you read the Bible, remember: you are making a deposit of truth into your heart and mind to be drawn from whenever you or someone else needs it.
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Being real with ourselves doesn't mean that we embrace sin & make it our whole personality. Being real involves recognizing our own limitations, shortcomings, & sin so that we can cry out to God for help.
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Being real with God means being honest with Him in every way. He already knows everything about us, so being less than open is only foolishly erecting a barrier in our own hearts and minds.
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