Mornings with Jesus

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WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN to pray without ceasing? Does it mean we chant at the wailing wall in Jerusalem? Or is it more like the meditative murmurs of a cloistered nun? I used to think that was the picture of devoted prayer. Today, it looks like cons

Mornings with Jesus

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LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE, I enjoy social media, television, reading, and talking on the phone. Until recently, the first thing I did every morning was look at social media and see what was going on with my friends. I enjoyed sending birthday and annive

Chicago magazine

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How can prayer help anxiety? Prayer helps us get perspective. It’s very interesting that Jesus says, “Give us our daily bread. Help us forgive.” His advice is to imagine yourself as part of something larger. Because anxiety isolates, and you end up f

60 Days of Prayer

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Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. COLOSSIANS 4:2 (NIV) DEVOTE A SPECIFIC time every day to connect with God. It is best to begin your morning with prayer and align yourself with God’s will. Pray that your day serves Him by sh

Mornings with Jesus

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RECENTLY I HAD TO MAKE a difficult career decision. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t stepping out of the will of God by trying to escape an arduous assignment for something easier. I prayed, asking Jesus to make the decision for me. Shortly after prayi

JOY Magazine

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Over the many years of leading a business, studying Kingdom businesses, and counselling Christian business owners, I have learnt that there are Kingdom principles that need to be honoured. Most Christian business owners tell me that they are in busin

Mornings with Jesus

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MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS HAVE passed since I received my first invitation to speak at a women’s event. Word of mouth spread, and invitations increased. It seemed obvious that Jesus was opening these ministry doors, so I walked through them despite feel

JOY Magazine

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These past few months of lockdown have been challenging for many industries across the world, especially here in South Africa. We have seen job losses, salary cuts, and many organisations shutting down in this time. One industry that has been particu

Mornings with Jesus

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WHEN MY SISTER AND DAD heard the same radio sermon separately and felt prompted to pray for my former husband, I knew I should do the same. I confess that I fought the side of me that felt justified in leaving him off my prayer list. He’d abandoned m

Mornings with Jesus

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I’D WAITED ANXIOUSLY TO FIND out who’d won the writing contest. I’d prayed and asked God to help me win so that I could use the prize money to go to a publishing conference in Brazil. With the registration fee, airfare, and hotel, the trip was going

Mornings with Jesus

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I SPENT FOUR DECADES PRAYING a prayer Jesus didn’t want to answer. My prayer was framed by what I knew was possible, not by reliance on the limitless creativity of Jesus. The always faithful One knew He should ignore my idea and go with His own plan!

Mornings with Jesus

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SOMETIMES I GET FRUSTRATED when I pray, wishing my mind didn’t wander so much, wishing that I could concentrate better, wishing I could find the right words to pray, wishing I had more time for it. Then I start thinking about all those other things I

The Christian Science Monitor

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Longstanding issues in the world may weigh on us at times, but that doesn’t mean we should ever stop praying. Through persistent prayer that continually acknowledges God as good and all-powerful, we can witness shifts in thought taking place and cont

JOY Magazine

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For as long as I could remember, I felt the calling of the Lord to be an evangelist burn like a wildfire in my heart. As a child, I would lie on my face weeping for souls in the presence of Jesus while Benny Hinn Crusade Highlights played on the VCR.

The Christian Science Monitor

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A Christian Science perspective: Letting love for God and for others motivate us awakens more love in the world and enlightens our daily activities in ways that meet our needs.

Mornings with Jesus

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MY SON, JACK, IS AN asker extraordinaire. He is persistent when it comes to asking my husband, Scott, or me for something that he needs or wants. And while he uses steady pressure applied on a daily basis, his approach varies. There is the gentle ask

Mornings with Jesus

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I HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY COLOR-BLIND since birth, so I see the world like a black-and-white movie. Attending a class at church about using coloring to deepen my prayer life might seem like an odd choice for me. But when I saw the blurb for Colorful Pra

Mornings with Jesus

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MY SISTER AND I SAT in the loud football stadium, watching my son play his final season in high school. To take my mind off how big his opponents were—and the fact that he was playing offense, defense, and on special teams—we began to talk about funn

Mornings with Jesus

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MY MOM WAS RIGHT WHEN she said, “You never stop mothering.” Even as a mother of adult sons, I’m tempted to manage them, but I know I need to let them figure out their own lives. Especially as they struggle with adult issues such as heartbreak, career

Mornings with Jesus

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WHEN MY PRAYER PARTNER AND I had to stop our weekly routine, I thought my time for needing a special person to pray with had ended. I had plenty of friends that I exchanged prayer needs with. But I soon missed the sacred bond and sense of Jesus’s lov

Mornings with Jesus

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THIS PAST YEAR, MY PRAYER life has taken a remarkable turn with profound impact on my life. I hope it shows in these pages. I’ve always prayed. Well, before I knew Jesus, I prayed with fervent expectation that God heard me, even after my prayers were

Mega Man

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We’ve been given this time to reflect and reset. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Each day I write down my intentions and try to make myself better, physically, mentally and spiritually. I gained three takeaways from this experience. First, I’ve

Mornings with Jesus

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I PARTICIPATE IN A WEEKLY online Bible study. At the end of each session, our leader assigns prayer partners. It’s our responsibility to connect, share our prayer requests, and then be faithful to intercede on each other’s behalf for the next seven d

The Atlantic

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I revisited the Louis Armstrong standard and found lyrics that help put our challenges into perspective.

Mornings with Jesus

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MY DAD HAD ALREADY BEEN diagnosed with congestive heart failure and had suffered two massive strokes when his doctor diagnosed him with advanced prostate cancer and lung fibrosis. I lived nearly a thousand miles from my parents for most of my adultho

History Revealed

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When I died the first time, the Good Lord took pity on my boy’s frail sparrow frame, caught the fleeing beat of my heart, and blew the breath back into my still-warm body. Then he laid me back into this nest of life, like some tumbled, trampled hatch

Mornings with Jesus

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WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME? WHY can’t I get it right with her? No matter how I framed comments, I managed to offend my friend repeatedly. I was frustrated and wondered who would listen, pray for me, offer wise counsel, and help me figure out what was going

60 Days of Prayer

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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. HEBREWS 12:11 (NIV) IF YOU HAVE been praying for something for a long time, ask yoursel

Sunday Independent

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ThE event hosted by the Gauteng Provincial Government in Tembisa last week could most probably have gone unnoticed hadn’t Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, prayed a fervent prayer that rocked the foundations of the establishment. The chief justice pray

MEGA

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We’ve been given this time to reflect and reset. That’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Each day I write down my intentions and try to make myself better, physically, mentally and spiritually. I gained three takeaways from this experience. First, I’ve