60 Days of Prayer

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Lead us not into temptation. LUKE 11:4 (NIV) WHEN YOUR WILLPOWER needs a boost to help you reach a goal or to turn away from temptation, embrace God. His will is strong and righteous. He will guide you to be your best, to reject destructive choices

Mornings with Jesus

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THE WORDS “Mailed from a Correctional Institution” were stamped boldly across the letter that read, “Dear Pat, Kitchenettes, Church, and Pastor.” The writer, a man I’ll call Trevor, had enjoyed a Guideposts article I’d written about women who call th

JOY Magazine

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In our missionary travels around the world, it is easy to see the desperation and hopelessness of people and sometimes wonder where God is in all of this. Each time we face situations like these, God reveals Himself through His people. In each and ev

The Paris Review

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but which verbs do you employ when it’s clear that you are tryingto side-eye murder your mother, when you are the chilling moral of every blazing honor thy Sunday sermon, when you are nothingless than blasphemy blown wide? How you do lift the bleatin

Mornings with Jesus

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AMONG MY DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES, I’M tasked with evaluating manuscripts for their publication potential. In a way, I’m a quality-control specialist in a story factory. I examine an author’s writing with the literary equivalent of a “tuning fork.” If i

Mornings with Jesus

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A HIGH ENERGY TYPE A person, most of my life I’ve been very disciplined, structured, and motivated. Like all virtues, it has a flipside. While I’ve enjoyed (and shared) tangible benefits from my manic methods, it’s also cost me and others peace and p

60 Days of Prayer

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Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. LUKE 12:7 (NIV) WHAT IS ON your mind? If it matters to you, it matters to God. No doubt this has been an especially challenging year wit

60 Days of Prayer

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“I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” JOHN 16:33 (NLT) JESUS TOLD US that problems and difficulties are part of life. The

60 Days of Prayer

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Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” JOHN 13:7 (NIV) THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES in life beyond your control. Instead of putting your energy into trying to manipulate the situation, focus your faith an

60 Days of Prayer

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ROMANS 8:26 (NIV) WHEN YOU ARE so overcome that you do not have words—know that you ar

PEARL

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For your guidance! 1 What seek ye? 2 The call for the helper 3 The Antichrist 4 Morality 5 Awake! 6 Silence 7 Ascent 8 Cult 9 Rigidity 10 Childlikeness 11 Chastity 12 The first step 13 TheWorld 14 The Star of Bethlehem 15 The conflict 16 Modern psyc

JOY Magazine

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Precious friends, this is a testimony that happened during our recent evangelism outreach in Alexandra, Gauteng. A young man was born-again in the outreach and we prayed for him for the pain in his chest and stomach. Some weeks after the outreach he

Mornings with Jesus

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EVERY SUMMER OUR CHURCH OPENS its doors to the community by hosting a VBS (Vacation Bible School.) This year, a group of older children stood at the back of the registration line. These rowdy kids had attended before, but now they were older and rowd

JOY Magazine

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Jesus gave a promise to the church in Philadelphia, “I have set before you an open door.” He noted that they had “little power.” This may sound like a rebuke, but it wasn’t. It was merely a statement of fact. Compared to the other churches, they had

JOY Magazine

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A happy and blessed New Year to you all! I expect that many of you will be wondering what 2021 will be like after 2020? My Arnie (Aunty Trish) told me that there are many encouraging and inspiring verses in the Bible for a new year, or new beginning

Mornings with Jesus

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IT’S A TIME OF TRANSITION for our family. My oldest daughter, Grace, just graduated from high school. This whole year has been a series of last times, juxtaposed with all of the possibilities open to her for the future. I’ve been a bit of a train wre

JOY Magazine

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Harvesters trains disciples and plants churches  in over 50 countries. Harvesters’ curriculum  is available in 43 languages. Harvesters works in closed countries and trains pastors using an App for security reasons. Harvesters plants over 70 chu

Mysterious Ways

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A trained nurse, playwright and actress, Gabrielle Bossis began to receive messages from God as a young child. This continued throughout her life. For decades, Gabrielle pursued God privately while touring as the lead actress in her plays. Then, in h

60 Days of Prayer

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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” ISAIAH 30:21 (NIV) JESUS PROMISES THAT He will provide light and guidance when your life takes unexpected turns. Though you

60 Days of Prayer

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Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” LUKE 5:5 (NIV) DO YOU RESPOND to God’s instructions as Peter did, and “let down your net” simply because God says s

Guideposts

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Moments of grace. We can find them anywhere, but it’s only by God’s grace that I came to Guideposts and have the privilege of doing what I do now. Would you like to hear about my journey? After graduating from college, I was determined to become a bu

60 Days of Prayer

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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. EZEKIEL 36:26 (NIV) GOD OFFERS YOU a fresh start. When you turn to Him for help, you open yourself to His guidance an

JOY Magazine

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It’s because of our donors that we have been able to make such great strides in 2021. Here are some of the ground-breaking ministries that donors supported in the past year: • Guam tower restoration — enabling broadcasts into several East Asian cou

60 Days of Prayer

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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. JOHN 10:10 (NIV) JESUS PROMISES YOU an abundant life. His endless blessings flow to you, filling you with His light. No matter what cir

Mornings with Jesus

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I TRAVELED FOR MUCH OF June. Efficient for travel connections, but hard on my “there’s no place like home” heart. I missed strawberry season and making homemade freezer jam. When I arrived home, several small bouquets of lily of the valley and other

Mornings with Jesus

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES to meditate on for New Year’s Day is Isaiah 43:19: “For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?” (NLT). These words fill me with excitement the same way hanging a new calendar on the wal

JOY Magazine

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Here at Christ for all Nations, it feels like we’ve only just shaken the dust from our shoes from the last Operation Decapolis in June, and already it’s time for the next one. This October, we will be holding six crusades simultaneously, another leve

Mornings with Jesus

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FIVE MONTHS AFTER WE MOVED into the marina, an eleven-month-old puppy belonging to one of our neighbors broke its leg. The neighbor, unemployed at the time, managed to take the dog to a vet. Surgery was necessary. “I don’t know what to do,” the neigh

JOY Magazine

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Gantulga, a taxi driver from Mongolia, shared this testimony with us after listening to Lifebelt, one of the programmes that FEBC (Far East Broadcasting Company) broadcasts. Mongolia has a population of 3.2 million people and is known as one of the m

Who Do You Think You Are?

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w familysearch.org This free website from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contains billions of records. Its Italy portal includes 18 short instructional videos. w antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?lang=en Here you can browse digital im