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Impatience and Incompetence [Wednesday, #266]
What’s more important? The task or the person? When someone’s incompetence rears its head, think twice how you respond.
Jesus shows us how to do patience over and over again in the gospels. People were more important...
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My Big Patience Lesson [Monday, #265]
When you have a choice between panic and patience, it's hard to choose patience. But remember that God is bigger than your crisis. He wants to use you and your situation to glorify himself, as well as build the golden...
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The Urgent Isn't Always the Best [Friday, #264]
Peace of heart involves choices. Will you let the world tell you what to do with every minute of your day, or will you respond to God? No matter how busy your schedule is, you must find time to feed your soul.Â
The...
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Soul Peace and a Wounded Heart [Wednesday, #263]
You've been wronged, attacked, ridiculed, ignored, rejected, or slighted. It hurts. How can you recapture God’s soul peace when you have a wounded heart? There’s no step-by-step solution. It’s deeper than some...
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The Secret to Perfect Peace [Monday, #262]
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you” (Isaiah 26:3 ESV).
Is there such thing as perfect peace?Â
Our hearts long for perfect peace, which we will only fully experience...
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Do You Want to Be Perfect? [Friday, #261]
“For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10 NIV).
That verse always gets me. It makes no sense – humanly speaking. And I’m a human.
The statement before those nine words frustrate me even more. “I...
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Capsized for His Glory [Wednesday, #260]
Surrender to the Lord can be a bit like my “harrowing” kayaking experience one summer. When I leaned to the right, lurched to the left and immediately realized I was totally out of control and headed for a splash, I...
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Brokenness and Surrender [Monday, #259]
Why don’t we willingly give ourselves over to God as a way of life? Pride, self-will, selfishness. Burger King says we can have it our way, so we do.
There’s something deeper. Paul starts Romans 12 with these words,...
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Rest and Devices [Friday, #258]
When it comes to getting rest for our souls these days, has God left us to our own devices? Actually, I think he wants us to put them to rest so we can rest. Our devices . . . today’s biggest enemy to rest.
We’ve...
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Rest and Busy Moms [Wednesday, #257]
Mom, you might be so exhausted that your hope for rest is gone. Your spouse or friends seem oblivious to your situation. Or, if they see your struggles, they don’t step in. You might have accepted that you’ll live...
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How Jesus Rested [Monday, #256]
Jesus was fully God and fully man. And he often chose to rest. Reading through the Gospels, we see that this practice was a habit of Jesus. He commonly practiced rest and prayer together, in all hours of the day or...
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Restoring Joy When You've Been Betrayed [Friday, #255]
Think of a time when you’ve been betrayed by someone you trusted. There are few things as painful as that.
Emotions flood in. Anger. Grief. Anger. Frustration. Anger.
I know about betrayal. It happened to me not too...
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