Category: Inspired, encouragement
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You Can’t Control Everything
I was having a therapy session with my trauma-focused therapist and she said “you do realize you can’t control everything and the only thing you can control is you”. This was not the first time someone said you can’t control everything. This was the first time I was asked did I realize it. My response…
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He is Just Pruning You for Greater
For whom the Lord loves He chastens and scourges every son whom He receives. If you endured chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? But if you are without chastening of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.…
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God’s Grace is Sufficient
“And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9). When we are without strength and look to the Lord, He provides power by…
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Why Worry?
As we live in such a busy society filled with lots of struggles and often uncertainty we can all say worry would seem natural. The truth is worrying about things is due to a lack of trust, lack of control, or fear of the unknown. Worry is a common emotion in today’s society. What does…
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Trusting God
How do you trust God? How do you trust what you can’t see in the natural? How do you trust something that is bigger than you? I must say I have not arrived at any of these questions. I do enjoy believing in God who is bigger than me because it gives me hope. I…
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Leaving the Past Behind
The past has its relevance but it should not control your present or future. You are bigger and stronger than your past. You can overcome all things with God. God intended for us to overcome our stumbling blocks and the struggles we face. Your future can be whatever your heart desires no matter what your…
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Faith Walk
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). Faith is believing what has not yet come to pass. Over the years God has shown me that faith is also about action. “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:26). God wants us to believe in the unseen…
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Living an Abundant Life
What does it mean to live an abundant life? Many would think of riches, big houses, and lavish clothes, but this is not what the abundant life is all about. These things are fine to have and whoever God entrusts them with it’s okay. The bible speaks a lot about being a good steward of…
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God Loves a Cheerful Giver
“But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:6-7). God did not intend for born-again believers to be…
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