Sudden Favor

If you have ever had a fever, you know that fevers are basically a whole lot of waiting for that moment when the fever breaks. You may have hours or even a day or more of discomfort as your symptoms work their course. And then, suddenly, the fever is done and you feel a sense

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The Ignorance Dilemma

The problem with ignorance is that often you don’t know you have it. There are the things you know about yourself.  There are the things that others know about you.  And there are some things that only God knows about you. In the same way, there are things that you know about reality more broadly.

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Indomitable Like a Lily

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “indomitable” as “incapable of being subdued : unconquerable”. God is indomitable. “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the

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Time To Prioritize Your Priorities

Successful people prioritize well.  They order their lives and their decisions by the value and importance that each situation, each opportunity, each relationship, each connection, each conversation, each resource, and each moment of time offers. Success is, in large part, the result of what you prioritize.  So, people should not be surprised when they achieve

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Consider the Consequences

The Bible says of Abraham that he, “…believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith” – Genesis 15. But was he?  Was Abraham righteous?  Did Abraham believe God? Let’s consider the evidence. God said, “I will make you into a great nation….All the families on earth will be blessed

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Choose Your Best Life Today

The phone rings.  You pick it up. “The company would like to offer you a new position, with greater responsibility, a better title, and a significant pay increase, but we would like you to move your family across the country to a new city to fill the role.  You are welcome to stay in the

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Run Your Race

Run your race — or, as it is stated in the book of Hebrews, “Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us” – Hebrews 12 There are three messages here. RUN your race. Don’t walk, sit, lie down, or avoid your race — run. Run with endurance.  Put your heart into it.  Focus,

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Take The Perfect Day Challenge

What is your perfect day? If you could do anything, what would it be? If you had all of the resources you could possibly want, and all of the time in the world, how would you spend it? What would you do?  Where would you go?  How would you spend your time and money?  Who

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Don’t Let It Get You Down

Don’t let it get you down.  Every time something negative has happened in my life I have told myself, “Don’t let it get you down.” But what does this really mean? You got passed over at work for a less qualified candidate.  Don’t let it get you down. You got told you have cancer.  Don’t

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Extraordinary Measures

Jesus is ready to take your life to new levels of joy, new levels of health, new levels of prosperity, new levels of peace, new levels of abundance, new levels of blessing, new levels of connectedness, new levels of success, new levels of fulfillment, new levels of satisfaction, the list goes on. Jesus is not

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365 Days of Blessing

Ever been in a place where you couldn’t find the bottom to bottom out or the top to climb out?  You were looking for an external driver to change and it just didn’t come?  No matter which direction you took you always seemed to come back to the same situation, the same challenge, the same

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Choosing Abundance

We have all benefited from the rich blessings He brought to us — one gracious blessing after another. The story of Jesus Christ as it is told by John starts with these words: “In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. He was in the beginning with God.

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