Mornings with Jesus

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THE INCREDIBLE BEAUTY OF GOD’S creation always takes my breath away: the majesty of Colorado’s mountains, the magnificence of Alaskan glaciers, and the Eden-like shorelines of Kauai, Hawaii. I cry joyful tears as I watch, amazed at His wonders. But I

60 Days of Prayer

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Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. PSALM 36:5 (NIV) FAITH GIVES YOU the ability to develop beautiful perspective. Whenever you are feeling down, turn to God and He will lift you above your problems to a heavenl

60 Days of Prayer

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But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. JOHN 4:14 (NIV) WHEN YOU FEEL depleted and need spiritual refreshment, take a moment and sil

Mysterious Ways

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Have you ever tried to picture life after life? John Burke, a pastor and author of the book Imagine Heaven, believes that God has given us glimpses. Burke found that most accounts of heaven from people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs) close

60 Days of Prayer

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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. EPHESIANS 6:12 (NIV) IF YOU ARE experiencing a s

60 Days of Prayer

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How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. HEBREWS 9:14 (ESV) IS YOUR CONSCIENCE troubling you over a deed, thought

60 Days of Prayer

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Stand steady, and don’t be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Bring others to Christ. Leave nothing undone that you ought to do. 2 TIMOTHY 4:5 (TLB) OFTEN, DURING LIFE’S darkest times, we experience a glimpse of the divine that significantly changes

The Atlantic

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Chiwetel Ejiofor is tremendous in this drama of a real-life Pentecostal minister who challenged his church’s orthodoxy.

Mornings with Jesus

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I WAS EIGHT WHEN MY sister told me about heaven. “No one gets sick,” she said. “Everyone has food. No one fights or cries!” Images of happy, healthy people filled my mind. Nice place to go when I die, I thought. Decades later, heaven means infinitely

JOY Magazine

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Church Unusual lifts the paradigms of pastors and Christian leaders to see the church beyond its natural element and environment. It is the avenue and vehicle for the Kingdom of God manifesting here on earth as it is in heaven. When this happens, God

60 Days of Prayer

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. ISAIAH 55:8 (NIV) PHILIP YANCEY WROTE, “Faith, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” Unfortunate events can leave

60 Days of Prayer

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You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. DEUTERONOMY 28:6 NIV SOMETIMES A SHIFT in perspective is all that is needed to ease anxiety. Instead of worrying about the future have faith that God will bless you. Change your uneas

60 Days of Prayer

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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. COLOSSIANS 3:15 NIV IF YOU ARE feeling restless, fill your mind with God’s Word. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, an

60 Days of Prayer

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We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain. HEBREWS 6:19 (ESV) JESUS INVITES YOU to come to Him. He will help you rest when you are too tired to sleep. He will help you find p

60 Days of Prayer

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He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. HEBREWS 1:3 (ESV) GOD IS PRE

Mornings with Jesus

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LOVE IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. But the mystery of Henry and Bertha’s love letters wasn’t just a love story; it was a family story. When you marry love with family, it is powerful. My sixth-grade history class could not wait to reunite the letters with Be

Literary Hub

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My soul mates Have yet to be conceived Underneath the mating Of surrogate spirits  vacating bodies By the minute Directed To live by, but I Want to live By the future Ordure I want to eat it     I want to feed it A pool-like visage On the crumpling h

The English Garden

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What makes a great garden? Many factors are involved, but what is essential is that such a garden is unique and that it relates to its location in a meaningful way. When Alan Kennedy bought The Old Rectory in Northamptonshire in 2012, he could immedi

Mornings with Jesus

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I SUFFER FROM BOUTS OF discontent, times when I seem to focus on what’s lacking in my life rather than on what abounds, which, by most standards, is plenty. Take where I am today. We recently moved to the Florida Gulf Coast, a physical paradise and t

Mornings with Jesus

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A FRIEND, FACING A THICKET of seemingly random yet serious problems with her family, asked me, “Is God punishing me? What else could account for this persistent mess?” The fact is, life this side of heaven is broken. Sometimes things go wrong for no

60 Days of Prayer

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His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 PETER 1:3 (NIV) JESUS OFFERS US His power, so that we may live our lives to bring Him glory. Lift your eyes

60 Days of Prayer

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And we also thank God continually, because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. 1 THESSALONIANS 2:13 (NIV

60 Days of Prayer

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Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” JOHN 20:29 (NIV) THOMAS HAD HIS doubts resolved by a personal visit from Jesus. Yet for most of us, when we face a dark ni

Street Machine

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I’VE just been through the toughest time of my life. First, I got angina pectoris and then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering from those, I got tuberculosis, pneumonia and phthisis. Then they gave me hypodermics. Appendicitis was followed by

Mornings with Jesus

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SOMETIMES I CAN STUMBLE ACROSS some real gems while surfing the internet. I came across one recently linked to the long-running animated show The Simpsons. In one episode, daughter Lisa asked her dad, Homer, if he knew that the Chinese used the same

60 Days of Prayer

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For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. MATTHEW 6:13 (KJV) TODAY AS YOU celebrate Father’s Day, thank your Heavenly Father for always supporting you and being there to help and comfort you. Know that by the power of H

60 Days of Prayer

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He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). MARK 7:34 NIV WHEN JESUS HEALED the deaf man, he yelled out, “Be opened!” When you are open to trusting God, you are receptive to His guidance, help an

PEARL

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There is only one Creator, one God, and hence only one Power which streams through all that exists, animating and furthering it! This pure, creative Power of God flows continually through the whole Creation, lies in it and is inseparable from it. I

60 Days of Prayer

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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. JUDE 1:3 (KJV) IN THE ABO

60 Days of Prayer

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Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” 1 CORINTHIANS 15:33 (ESV) ARE THERE PEOPLE in your life who bring you down, or distract you from your faith? It’s important to surround yourself with others who support your relationship with God,