Tag: hope
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Life with a Capital L … A review
Matt Heard, senior pastor of Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs, has given Christians a gift with a capital “G” in his book Life with a capital L. A moment in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow forever transformed him. Nikolai Yaroshenko’s painting There is Life Everywhere…
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Mama is walking a jewel-studded path toward heaven
Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. … the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the…
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Colliding with destiny … Finding hope in the legacy of Ruth, A Review
This book is a must read for women who are in the middle of challenging times. I have read the book of Ruth quite a few times, but I had never approached it from the perspective of a young woman emerging from great loss, isolation, and the unknown. Sarah Jakes offers practical insight about…
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Is God working in your life … for good?
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 I’ve used this verse many times to “comfort” myself and others during dark times giving them hope that everything would be all right in the…
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Who do you need to forgive?
“Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. … “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for…
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Possess the promises God has for you
“For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.” Exodus 40:38 God led the children of Israel through the desert with a cloud overshadowing them by day and a pillar of…
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Are you truly free?
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 2 Corinthians 3:7-8 The second time…
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Hiding in the cave of despair? Do what David did
The entrance to a cave in Deir-Dubban, six miles southwest of Bethlehem on the border of the Philistine plains and at the foot of the Judean mountains. There are a number of vaults about 15 to 20 feet deep, and perhaps David and his family lived for a time in one of the vaults.…