Which Weight Am I Trying To Carry?

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
I have begun to carry a pair of small weights when I walk and run on the treadmill. I started doing this last week when I had read that it added endurance and caused [...]

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My Timeless Redeemer

Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Joshua 2:8Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has [...]

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Who’s Scent Are You Spreading?

2 Corinthians 2:14But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
 
A couple of days ago, we received a catalog in the mail that had quite a few fragrance papers in it. My children usually love these things and [...]

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“Deanna, Abide”

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, [...]

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The “W” Word

2 Corinthians 5:7  For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Over the span of, I would say at least 15 years, God will bring me to a point where I believe He is doing some particular thing at that very moment, and instead, I hear Him whisper to my spirit one word. “Wait”.
Sometimes like a [...]

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The Day God Stood Still

 
Mark 10: 46And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
 47And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, [...]

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Just Keep Walking

Philippias 3:12-16
12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what [...]

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The Blood Is Still Warm And Still Speaks

Hebrews 12:24
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
 
My heart is still so moved by the salvation of several people in our services yesterday. In the morning service I had the privilege to speak to a young 13-year-old girl named [...]

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Before All Things

Colossians 1:17 And He is before all things and in Him all things hold together.
Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.
 
Ever feel like your life was out of balance? I have. I actually get there pretty easy. I am a routine, routine, routine person! ( I just heard my husband shout “amen”) [...]

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Excuse Me, What Did You Say “Really Satisifies Me”?

Psalms 103: Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good
so that your youth is [...]

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