Live The Life God Created You For

David Facing Goliath
Faith

Have Faith – Like David Facing Goliath

Why don’t we have faith like David’s when he took down Goliath? After all, we serve the same God. We are children of the Most High King, just like David was. Why do we fall short and behave timidly instead of being fierce warriors for our faith? Most of us are probably familiar with

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Define Mountaintop Experience
Faith

Have You Fallen From Your Mountaintop Experience?

Was there a time where you felt like it was possible for you to achieve ANYTHING for God’s Kingdom? Just let you at it and you could move mountains, slay lions and nothing was impossible with God on your side? I hope that you are living that out now or you have at least

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Why Worry when God is in control
Life

Why Worry?

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. – Mark Twain Mark Twain’s words are definitely worth a moment to ponder. How many of your worries have ever actually become reality? It isn’t as if we can change ANYTHING by fretting about it. Maybe you are like me

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Love Other's Like God Loves
Faith

The Love of God

Do you love your enemies? Do you pray for those that have caused you difficulties? I remember the first time someone asked me if I prayed for the people in my life that were causing me terrible pain. Honestly, in that moment I remember thinking that the thought had never occurred to me before.

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Be the Change You Want to See Bible Verse
Life

Be the Change

The following story is based on an excerpt from the book,  The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change By: Jon Gordon and Damon West The Story of The Carrot, The Egg, and The Coffee Bean A young girl went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things

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Don't Waste This
Life

Don’t Waste This

Do you ever hear something that convicts you so deeply that it disrupts your entire day? The other day, I was listening to a radio show where they were discussing a couple that had recently been handling some very difficult health issues. The wife had been hospitalized for cancer treatment and then a week

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Insanity
Life

Stop Repeating the Insanity

Insanity….the best single incident of insanity that I can recall was when I was in what could have easily been a fatal accident. I won’t get into the messy details of how I got into this situation at the age of 19, but here’s the rest of the story….. I was driving over a

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Praying to God With Authority scriptures
Faith

Pray to God with Authority

Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.   Do you pray with the authority that God has given us? We must always pray with the power given to us by Jesus Christ due to his

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God's Light in Despair
Faith

God’s Light in Despair

Are your days filled with butterflies and rainbows or does despair sneek in when you least expect it? Has darkness consumed portions of your life that you wish it hadn’t? Oh how I wish I lived a life that was filled with ease and joy, but that is apparently not to be. I have

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Don't Dwell on the Past
Life

Burn the Ships, Don’t You Look Back

Do you look back at what has passed by? Have you walked away from situations, but can’t quite quit dwelling on or reassessing how it could have been different? I was listening to the for King & Country song called Burn the Ships and it hit me so hard how often we continue to look

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Joseph's Overcoming Life's Challenges
Faith

Joseph’s Perseverance Through the Storm

The story of Joseph is my very favorite story of unending perseverance. Through every trial Joseph never lost faith in God. I would like to think that I would respond the same, but I’m fairly confident I would fall miserably short. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if I had been

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Scripture Live by Faith, Not by Sight
Faith

Live by Faith, Not by Sight

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. had an incredible gift with words and this quote has been so powerful to me. In the simplest way it describes unwavering faith. If you can see the destination then you really

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God Uses our Pain to Help Others
Life

Your Pain is Your Platform

Do you believe God can’t use you until you have corrected all of your flaws, until you are perfectly pressed and without wrinkle? I hope not. I have a news flash for you, there are NO perfect people in this world. However God doesn’t use us because he has no other choice; he uses

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A Little More Compassion A Little Less Judgement
Life

A Little More Compassion, A Little Less Judgement

All around me I see society judging based on their OWN knowledge. As a whole they are not reaching out in compassion; not trying to learn, grow and seek guidance…just leading out of their OWN experience and not attempting to understand anyone else’s perspective. It is easy for each of us to operate only

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Understanding Other's Pain
Life

Understanding Other’s Pain

My heart is so hurt right now for our broken world. For days I have not had the “right” words. Each day that goes by I feel more and more that there are no “right” words to fix the racist injustices within our culture. The pain is so deep within the wounded communities that

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