Words Of Life And Beauty

How I love the life that the Word gives!
Last night my husband and I retired rather early in the evening  for us and it gave us time to read a little before sleep claimed us. I flipped to Romans 15 where I had read earlier in the day but never finished. I love Paul’s passion [...]

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Hard Memories Framed With His Goodness

Deut 8:3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Deut 8:16 who fed you in [...]

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The Victory Cycle vs. The Defeated Cycle

Psalms 106:43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.
 
I just want to share quickly today what I believe God has shown me through the whole Psalm 106.
There is a cycle that happens in everyone’s life, whether the believe God or not, we have periods of victory [...]

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Choosing How To Remember When I Can’t Choose What To Remember

Lamentations 3:17 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness  is; 18 so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.” 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, [...]

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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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