Category: Inspirational post
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In Your House and Beyond Your Gates
“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:9). Sometimes we wonder … my life is a normal life, simple and unremarkable, so where can I serve God? In our homes. To friends and guests when we meet them where they are and provide a safe haven to…
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Every Mundane Act, Every Messy Moment
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). There was nothing remarkable about walking down…
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I am NOT enough.
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). No. We are not enough. Only God is. And therein lies great freedom for our souls. Until next time, Shelby
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The Only Right Response
As my soul sits in the presence of my loving, limitless God … awash in His love, safe in His power … the only right response is worship. “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while…
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He Gives More
“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?” (Mathew 7:9). I realized this week I had been praying for the wrong thing. My prayer was not outside of God’s will, nor contrary to how He is working in this particular situation. It was simply “less than.”…
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He is a Mighty God
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing” (Zephaniah 3:17). Do you ever feel lost in this big world? Like your small, simple soul is swallowed up in the…
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Becoming “Me”–through Christ
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another” (2 Corinthians 3:18). I am not who I once was. But I am more myself than ever before. How can that be? Our culture tends to emphasize how our life experiences shape and…
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Each Has Received A Gift
Praying, painting, and parenting are ministries, too. Give your gifts to God and see what He can do! “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who served by the strength…
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Introvert…by Design
“I praise you , for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” (Psalm 139:14). This one is for the quiet ones, the thinkers, the ones who love and connect deeply yet find their deepest inspiration in stolen moments of solitude. You are not a mistake, my…
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Quiet, Not Disqualified
“With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone” (Proverbs 25:15). Quiet doesn’t mean disqualified in God’s kingdom. A quiet and calm spirit is powerful, too. Don’t let anyone make you doubt the value of your small, simple soul in the hands of our loving, limitless God. Until next…