Love
Comfort for the Contrite
And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.” For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrit…
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Prayers
Holy Spirit: The Living Water Jesus Promised
Have you been feeling down lately? Anxious? Is your prayer life where it needs to be? God has a solution: utilizing the Holy Spirit! The Spirit is the river of living water that flows within each Christian, according to John 7:38-39 . In John 4 , Jesus promises the woman at the well water that will allow you to never go thirsty. He was speaking of the Spirit …
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Testimony
Thankfulness for Weakness
My wife and I have been going through a lot in the past 3 months (not arguing, but life challenges). Most of it revolves around the trauma I endured from sexual abuse as a child. It causes me to be unsure of myself, depressed at times, scared like I'm a little kid again, and just generally in an extremely vulnerable place emotionally. It gets to the point wh…
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Gifts
The Gift of Tongues: God-given or "evil?"
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me. Rejoice and be glad , for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you. - Matthew 5:11-12 The tongues that are against God's will are tongues that are hateful. Those who say that the spiritual …
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Gifts
Creation is a Gift (James 1:17 reference)
Creation was a perfect gift from above. God wants us to help shape the world. What’s the Biblical proof of this? It’s in the Parable of the Talents, but it’s even in Genesis. In Genesis 1:28, God tells human beings to subdue the Earth. Subduing, according to the original Hebrew, is an action of shaping and molding. In the original language, the word used for “s…
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