Knowing God
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Overheard in an Orchard (A Lesson on Anxiety and Worry)
As a little girl visiting my mom’s childhood farm in Kansas, I remember my loving grandmother had a wooden plaque on her wall with a painting on it. There were two birds on it and a poem. Portions of this poem was in my head this morning around 9am as I walked across my frosted…
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How Big Is Your God?
How big is your God? If the Holy Spirit were to withdraw from your life and from the fellowship of your local church, would he be missed? In other words, is there anything supernatural about your life or the local church where you have fellowship with other believers?A skeptic, contrasting the actor and Christian worker,…
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Spiritual Protection Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for your Holy Spirit who leads and guides me today and fills me with all needed gifting and graces. Help me to discern between the righteous and the wicked. I am God’s child. I resist the devil and declare that no weapon formed against me will prosper. I put on…
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Lose Your Life
“Jesus’ secret to joy and life was simple: Die. …Against what all our instincts of self-preservation whisper to us every day, total surrender to Jesus is the safest investment we can make. Our only security is renunciation of all that this world holds secure. The safest and the hardest thing we can ever do. Jesus is…
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Choosing to Be Led by the Spirit | Flowing Faith
“There really are two ways to be in relationship with God. The old way and the new way. The law and God’s grace…” Read… Choosing to Be Led by the Spirit | Flowing Faith.
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Growing in Spiritual Discernment
Instead of falling to temptation, the Father wants to help us with a strategy for finding true peace, inner quiet, rest, well-being, joy, spiritual energy, holy disengagement and so on. Read… Growing in Spiritual Discernment « Alan Fadling: Notes from my Unhurried Journey.
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Becoming A Woman of Excellence
“Becoming a woman of excellence essentially has nothing to do with our family, friends, or circumstances, but everything to do with our relationship to God and our choosing to trust Him with our lives… A woman of excellence rises above the norm through virtue and goodness. The qualities she is pursuing include knowing God intimately,…
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Prayer— Battle in “The Secret Place”
“We must have a specially selected place for prayer, but once we get there this plague of wandering thoughts begins, as we begin to think to ourselves, “This needs to be done, and I have to do that today. Jesus says to “shut your door.” Having a secret stillness before God means deliberately shutting the…
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Guard Your Heart
No, you are not abandoned by God. No, your sin is not too much for him. Yes, he loves you even though you’ve been sinned against and have sinned grievously. Yes, he forgives you and will redeem you as his child. Know God’s promises to you in Scripture; he is the ultimate Keeper of your…
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Let Jesus Argue With Your Soul About Being Anxious
We should be slow to treat Jesus as if he doesn’t know what he is doing. He is not naïve in the way he deals with our anxiety. In Matthew 6:25-34 he tells us three times not to be anxious (vv. 25, 31, 34) and gives us eight reasons not to be anxious. Read… Let…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 