Tag: the character of God
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Finding God’s Truth in the Turmoil
My small, simple soul has been dealing with a big, daunting issue. An emotional issue that has been making me feel all the wrong kinds of small. Instead of small and safe in my Father’s embrace, I feel small and vulnerable. Small and not enough. I’m sure you have faced your own big life…
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Are You Holding Back Your Dreams?
Psalm 62:8: Trust in him at all times, people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. I didn’t realize I was holding a piece of myself back from God. I had been harboring a desire, a fear, a longing that I felt simply wasn’t mine to claim. It felt…
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Does Our Grief Matter?
You have kept count of my tossing, put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56:8 Have you shed silent tears this week? Or perhaps your grief was messy and loud—a full on “ugly-cry.” Or maybe your grief has been too deep for tears, but rather has been a hidden,…
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If God Says. . .God Will
God is not man, the he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? Numbers 23:19 Untrue words are spoken. Self-serving decisions are made. Promises are broken. It can be hard…
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Easter. 2024.
An Easter prayer: Oh, my Jesus. You are my Roaring Lion and the one I run to when my soul is weary. How I love you! I thank you and praise you for your holiness, your obedience, and your heart of love, all of which sent you to the cross for ME. You died in…
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God is Bigger Than My Overwhelm
“The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the water of the sea into a heap; he puts the depths into storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. …
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A God Who Can Do MORE
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. . .” Ephesians 3:20 In a world that tells us to be bigger, bolder, and flashier, the ideas of “small” and “simple” may seem outdated and irrelevant. But I…
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Rest from Expectations
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:28-30) Life is…
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Rest
Part 1 Genesis 2:2: And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. Not long before the holidays, I was in a teacher training meeting via Zoom. Our instructor asked everyone what they were most looking…
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A Book as Yet Unwritten
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years” (Genesis 1:14). As I sat at the end of 2023, the new year rolled out in front of me like a…