Category: devotional
Devotional: Guard Your Heart
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Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Proverbs 4:23-27 The Message (MSG)…
Devotional – Dress for Success: Put on the Whole Armour of God
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Passage: Ephesians 6: 10 -17 (NIV) Focus verse: Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. (Ephesians 6:11) The Christian life is a constant battle and so each day, as soldiers of Christ, we are at war with forces of evil,…
Devotional – Seeing God in the Little Things
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Before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear. Isaiah 65:24 (NIV) It’s amazing how God often shows up in the simple and seemingly insignificant things of life. Two recent incidents in the past two days have securely cemented this fact in my mind and…
Devotional – Restoring the Broken – Part 2
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Yet you, Lord are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter. We are all the work of your hand.Isaiah 64:8 God continues to impart valuable spiritual lessons through seemingly mundane and pedestrian events of life. Saturday, July 13, 2024, was one such event when he showed…
Devotional – When God Speaks
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I collected my first royalty cheque for my published works in December 2016. I was thrilled and pleasantly surprised. Earlier that year I had attended a writers’ workshop and learned that persons who have published works could register them with a local copyright organization and would receive royalty payments…
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT – DON’T GIVE UP!
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Hey, you! Yes, you! God sees that you are struggling. He is El Roi, the God who sees and indeed He sees your pain. He knows how much you are hurting, but He wants you to remember that He is standing by. Do not give up. He will never…
Devotional – Get Rid of Your Load
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Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. – Hebrews 12: 1 My handbag was waaaay…
Devotional – The Brightness of Your Dawn
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Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn. Isaiah 60: 3 It was 6:15 a.m. and I was on my way to work. As I headed east on Washington Boulevard, I was struck by the awesome display of God’s handiwork when I encountered…
Devotional – God’s Lavish Love
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See what great love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called the children of God! 1 John 3:1 Recently, I had some business cards printed in order to advertise my new business in editing services. I had ordered 100 cards but when I received the package…