Tag: devotional
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Let Yourself Be Real
Psalm 19:14: May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. I love quirky people. Real people. People with pesky imperfections they just can’t escape! I love the friend who snorts when she laughs. The co-worker who makes up songs…
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What Do You Bring to God’s Team?
My small, simple soul shrank a little at the question. It plummeted from the cozy kind of small to the insignificant kind of small in the space of a sentence. “What is the most important thing you bring to a team?” I don’t know! my heart cried. It was an old conversation in my…
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Are These Dark and Difficult Paths the Lord’s?
Psalm 25:10: All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. When I read this verse, I am struck by its beauty. “All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness.” Yes, please. My small, simple soul conjures images of moonlit…
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She Walked with God
Genesis 5:24: Enoch walked with God and disappeared because God took him (CEB). The Bible speaks often of walking with God. In the Bible, a person’s “walk” was used as a way to describe how that person “did life.” Or we might say it was a metaphor for how they conducted themselves. So walking…
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Expect New Things
Isaiah 43:16-17“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…
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Don’t Put God in a Box
Isaiah 43:16-17“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…
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Commemorate Spiritual Markers
Isaiah 43:16-19“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…
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Preparing to See God in our Difficulties
Isaiah 43:16-19“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…
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Just Two Little Fish
I come into the presence of my Father, empty-handed, basking in His grace and His greatness. There is nothing more I must do to earn His affection, but like the daughter I am I want to please my Heavenly Daddy. Yet, I come empty-handed. I am a small, simple soul—perhaps too small. Words spoken to…
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The Greatness of God (part 3)
Part 3/3 Job 11:7-8 Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? I joyfully place my small, simple soul in the hands of my loving, limitless God. But what does it mean when I refer to God…