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Healing Prayer For Harmful Memories
Have you ever seen something that brought you distress or even traumatized you? Do you have any harmful images you’ve internalized that periodically come back to upset you? What do you do with these harmful memories and images? Jesus is the greatest healer including from trauma! While in prayer, invite Jesus to come and deposit…
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Prayers: Healing Heart Wounds
How can you receive healing in your heart wounds? If this can be helpful for others, I’m sharing the goods! 🙂 This below is some material that was given to me after I was prayed over by others for 3 hours to break word curses spoken over me that perhaps accumulated over 10 years of…
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Can God trust us to anoint us?
Can God trust us as the church today in order to anoint us? We have 2 options… (A Divine Confrontation by Graham Cooke) Thoughts to Ponder: Friendships led by the Holy Spirit lead to God’s power and anointing! How are you investing in the relationships around you? What is your motivation in investing in others?…
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A Lifestyle of Lingering
What religion does not consider is that the fragrance follows the oil. When you linger in His presence, He will change you. When you choose to lean on your beloved, your heart shifts. The church does not need more programs or printed bulletins. We have a surplus of whitewashed tombs. The church needs to get intimate with the bridegroom, seeking His…
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When Men are Silent
What happens when men keep silent…? (I wrote a post recently… When We Silence Women …but let us also highlight the value of men’s voices…) We need to hear both voices of men and women, not spoken in fleshly anger, but in bold Spirit-led risk-taking obedience… Dr Larry Crabb reminds us of the value of men’s voices… I always…
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Are you a dreamer?
In my time of resting, God continues to invite me to think outside the box. I feel like He keeps inviting me to be hungry for more. Here’s what I’m learning about dreams (the long forgotten language for many)… thanks to Murray Dueck. (A link to his book can be found at the bottom. Here’s an intro…)…
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A Future Not Our Own – Oscar Romero
This comes from Archbishop Oscar Romero who was killed in his church in El Salvador by a right-wing death squad on March 24th, 1980 out of his commitment to the poor… A Future Not Our Own It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond…
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From Word Curses to Blessing – Uncanny Story
Is life a bit nuts for you? …with people’s word curses rather than words of blessing? Do you live in a series of uncanny events? This is my uncanny story. First I needed some Biblical research… {This book pictured takes me back to my Old Testament prophets class in Bible school and my professor weeping over…
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10 Ways to Spot Spiritual Abuse
This post came because I woke up one night at 3 in the morning with this burden I couldn’t shake. So I wrote these traits of spiritually abusive ministries and churches. This is not an exhaustive list, but it typifies what happens. Often you don’t realize you’re in an abusive situation until your health is…
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Quit the Program?
Why do we think we need a program? (How to Live Life) Basic Christian Living 101: Our minds are so programmed to be in a program…for everything. (Thank you Henry Ford for your assembly line model…) We go to an education program, we go to a fitness program, we go to a sports program… we…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 