Sharing Your Story
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Our stories are the training ground God uses for His glory. He uses what broke us to birth empathy in us Your story is so meaningful because it comes through places you though you wouldn’t ever recover from. Romans 8:28 calls for in all things God works for the good of those who love Him. We don’t go through these trials just to move on. We go through them to move others. The devil would love nothing more than our pain to make us bitter, but God wants to use our stories to make us better equipped. When you share your story, you...
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Sacrificial Generosity
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This is an area of discipleship I believe we are called and commanded to do. Its the one area that God says, test me in this. Let me show you that when you fully trust me, I am worthy of your trust. Not in a do this and God does that. Its a posture. Its a position of surrender before the Lord to seek Him and what He desires you to do, not because of what I am saying, but ask Him Lord is this an area I need to trust you with? Show me what you want me to know. Show me what you want me to see and do in response to this. This may or may not be an overnight discovery for you. But its still...
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Digital Rest
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This rest is necessary. We have so many habits and addictions waiting to devour us and we need to have rest physically and digitally from what can potentially overtake us. There are even so many opportunities for us to sin with the access that we have digitally. Opportunity to covet. Opportunity to lust. Opportunity to put trust in man or self. Opportunity to fear. Opportunity to feel insecure. The list is long and its never what it was meant to be. What did God intend this life to be about? Its always been about HIm. The glorification of our savior. To know HIM. To...
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Conversations With God
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If you want your words to carry power, you have to stop speaking like a beggar and start praying like a BELIEVER.I think so often, we talk TO God and not WITH God. So often we forget that its a two way relationship. A two way conversation and that just as much as God desires to hear from us, He also desires that we hear from Him. Stop praying uncertain prayers about things God has already promised like healing, provision, and peace. Know His will and declare it. 1 John 5:14 says “this is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears...
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Study The Word
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Is this God's plan for your life? A book you read over and over again? A book you study every single day? A book He wrote for you. A book that transcends time. A book that will speak to whatever you are going through at any given time that will give you wisdom and discerment on how to raise your kids, to take that job or not take that job. To buy a home or not buy a home. Should you forgive and how to forgive. So much more. Its all there! Its revelevant. Its true and its for you and its for me. Let's take a shallow dive into the waters of what it looks like and why we...
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Time With God
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When I think back on my deepest formed relationships in life and how they were developed it is abundantly clear that those relationships developed by investing time in one another. We can spend time with people and then we can invest time with people. When we invest in a deeply connected manner we yield a return on our investment. When we spend time, I see it as the more superficial experiences where we exchange pleasant sterile formalities that lack the true depth of deep relationship building. Today I want us to consider what it looks like to deepen our...
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Contribute To The Church
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The purest form of courage is to rescue other people. We all need rescuing from time to time and its important that we see ourselves as usable by God for the benefit of his kingdom and for his glory. What does the bible say about this topic? Spiritual Gifts test
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I Feel Most Alive When I ....
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So many of us go around in life in our day to day activities with surface level questions, answers and conversations. I have learned that we can validate each other in our humanity when we are honest with ourselves, Honest with God (who knows it all anyway) and with others. Most people have a narrative and that narrative says we are the only one. And that simply is not true. When we think and feel like we are the only one, we tend to isolate, to think less of ourselves, we are inclined to shrink back in feeling small and insignificant. So much of our lives are spent...
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Make Disciples
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There is a narrative we are told and sold about what our lives are supposed to look like and then there is what God’s word says. I don’t know about you, but I recommend actively pursuing more of what matters - specifically what it looks like to be making disciples. This is a topic that once you gain that clarity, you can and should operate your days with more peace and confidence. Spiritual Gifts Test You & Me book
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Believing For What Is Possible
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God often gives us the dream first to help prepare us with hope for the future. The dreams are what sustained Joseph during extremely difficult circumstances. And your God-given dreams will sustain you too, no matter what your future holds. How do we stay devoted to our dreams, our family, and our faith when we are in the midst of our holding cell, like the one Joseph experienced? First, when we doubt God, we must be honest about our feelings and questions. Being honest lets us move toward our relationship with God. Hiding our doubts and questions will keep us stuck...
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Our thoughts of worry can become feelings that leave us unsettled and uncertain.
So how do we merge thoughts of hope with thoughts of worry?
First we have to ask ourselves: What can we be certain of?
The bible says that God will never leave us or forsake us.
So no matter how bleak it may seem, the truth is we belong to Him and he has us in the palm of his hands.
And while circumstances may not be ideal, or within our desires and hopes, we still belong to God and we are cared for by Him.
Ultimately I believe at the root of these worrisome thoughts we have that can become feelings of anxiousness, is our pride.
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