Here We Go Again
Have you ever had God teach you the same lesson over again? I was all geared up to follow the same path again, but as I prayed I felt that above it all I needed to focus on displaying the fruit of the Spirit.
Have you ever had God teach you the same lesson over again? I was all geared up to follow the same path again, but as I prayed I felt that above it all I needed to focus on displaying the fruit of the Spirit.
The Christian life is an adventure because we are following a God that is creative in how He deals with us. Have you come to know this wonderful adventure?
Is it not true that the folk who are most oppressed by the problems of prayer are the people who have least praying experience?
It is a totally wrong and fatal idea for one who would really pray to think of God as reluctant or unwilling to bless.
Prayer at its best is living with mind and heart utterly open to God.
Lately I have been praying Paul’s prayer with my daughter each night. Here are some things this practice has taught me:
This tradition makes the bedtime routine long, but it is also very rewarding having this one-on-one time with them after being gone at work all day.
What an amazing thought from Carey Casey of being so close to God. To sit in His lap and feel His protection as our Dad.
…Although seasons in our lives when God is silent may be important in our spiritual growth, they can also be deeply disturbing. As a result we often attempt to solve the problem of God’s silence with simplistic explanations of complex situations, lopsided applications of Scripture and platitudes of premature comfort. We are afraid to simply wait with the mess of problems unresolved until God Himself unmistakably intervenes, as He did on Easter Sunday.
Taking on the heart of flesh requires moving out of the heart of stone. The stone has been removed, but you need to move out of the tomb.
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