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

Guideposts

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PASTOR & BEST-SELLING AUTHOR 1 How can churches unify during these divisive times? We are currently the most divided faith group on earth. We have thousands of denominations and ministries, each believing their theology or methodology is superior. We

PEARL

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God is Life! He alone! All else is but a consequence of the motion which as such only comes into being through the pressure of the radiation of Life! ‘The man who in a really fervent prayer seeks help for something, obtains connection through his a

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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YEARS AGO, I WAS AT one of the lowest points of my life, weighed down by family and personal problems. Prayer support from friends kept me going, but I felt so useless, unfit for ministry—like I had nothing to offer anyone. During the three-hour driv

Guideposts

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It’s that time of year again—when people of all ages set up their window boxes and tramp out to their gardens. They turn the soil, poke a seed into the hole and cover it up. They water. They wait. They weed. All for the anticipated delight of a shoot

Los Angeles Times

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LAS VEGAS - Civic and faith leaders gathered before a bank of television cameras Monday night for a prayer vigil outside Las Vegas City Hall, the speakers standing on a podium with a banner that read #VegasStrong. In many ways, the gathering was as m

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

The Christian Science Monitor

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Strongly held convictions about immigration crises around the world can polarize and divide people. But prayer that seeks God’s answers brings less stridency and more listening, opens the door to wise and balanced solutions, and lifts thoughts from f

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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If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. JOHN 15:7 (ESV) THE MORE TIME you spend in prayer, reading the Bible and considering your purpose in life, the more blessings and benefits you will re

JOY Magazine

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As a parent, you may want to guide your child through a spiritual journey and strengthen their relationship with God. Teaching prayer to young kids can be difficult and complicated since they(re just forming their ideas of Hod. Muckily, you can show

60 Days of Prayer

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“I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” MARK 9:24 (NIV) WHEN YOU ARE worried and your faith is faltering, pray the above verse. Simply turn to Him in honest prayer and ask for help to overcome your doubt. You don’t have to be a powerhouse of f

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!

Guideposts

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The past few years have been filled with change for my wife and me. The sale of our longtime home. A move across the country. Settling into a new home in a new climate and community, along with new jobs and, of course, some pandemic-related adjustmen

Mornings with Jesus

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A FEW MONTHS AGO, SOME local people asked me to consider running for public office. I’m a teacher and a writer and have never had any political ambitions whatsoever. But after a lot of prayer, I said I’d give it a try. One of the coolest things that

Psychologies

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1 I practice the Power Pose whenever I prepare to go on stage to present. Getting into this stance frees up my energy and instantly makes me feel a sense of inner strength. Begin by getting into a strong stance with your legs shoulder-width apart and

60 Days of Prayer

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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort. 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 (NIV) TODAY MARKS THE twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. As we pray for all those affected

Mornings with Jesus

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THIS PRECIOUS GLIMPSE OF JESUS’S heartfelt cry is an important example for me. He longs for people to know Him and accept His salvation, and He hurts for those He loves who are blind to His grace. His tears give me permission to let my own tears flow

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

JOY Magazine

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Many celebrities, such as Kanye, come from families that are not Christian. Pray for their families to support them on this journey, and pray for God to work in their lives too. Pray that these celebrities remain steadfast in their faith, and that

The Guardian

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Its words are memorised by Christian children all over the world and repeated at almost every act of Christian worship: “Our Father, who art in heaven … ” Now Pope Francis has risked the wrath of traditionalists by approving a change to the wording o

Mornings with Jesus

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MY HUSBAND SCOTT’S FAMILY TREE can be traced back three generations to Southampton, England. His mom’s cousin sent him a newspaper clipping telling him about how his family members had paid for the stained glass windows in a chapel there. He has sinc

Mornings with Jesus

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THE SUBJECT LINE OF THE email grabbed my attention. “How do we pray about our chronic illness?” A reader had reached out to me for guidance. I know how to pray when there is a short-term need, and Jesus either provides the answer, guides in a tangibl

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

JOY Magazine

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Three times in recent weeks the Spirit of the Lord has directed me to pray against the spirit of suicide and depression. I saw this spirit rising up as a principality and releasing its foul stench in the nations. In particular it is targeting the you

Guideposts

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Thank you, Lord, for blessing my brother and his wife with the gift of pregnancy. They had been going through fertility treatments for years. —ARLINDA Praise God for an Al-Anon Zoom meeting yesterday! —MARI Thank you, God, for healing my turbulent re

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

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

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