Category: Inspirational post
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The Reason We Run
“Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:1-2). This week my gifts felt more like burdens I needed to squeeze into a hectic life and less like opportunities to walk next to God. It made my feet feel heavy and…
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Liabilities? … Or Gifts in Disguise?
“God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful” (1 Corinthians 1:27, Good News Translation). Too sensitive. Too quiet. Too caught up in your imagination. The world loves to take who we are and say it…
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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…