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Consecrate
Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.” (Joshua 3:5) I remember visiting a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) base in Harpenden, England when I was a university student, sometime in the years 1998-2000. I don’t remember the exact date but it was a special weekend around…
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Hovering over the deep
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (Genesis 1:1-2) How many times have we, as Christians, read this famous opening to Genesis, the first book of the…
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Keeping with the prophecies
But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9) I am seeking God’s wisdom on how to be freed from some credit card debt at the moment and the best ways to be financially savvy for when retirement officially happens in 20 years. I am a complete novice at it (quite…
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What is your ‘appointment’?
There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. (John 1:6-8) I work near-voluntarily as a devotional blog writer and, separately,…
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Insulin Pump
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines…
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Time, Distance, Space!
“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. (Revelation 22:12) Yesterday, I was on a beach in hot weather for one of my children’s birthdays. At one point, I was sitting on a wall by myself whilst many teenagers ran…
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Noticing the thing that is in front of you
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet…
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Jesus alone gives dignity
Then Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the Lord; in the Lord my horn[ is lifted high.My mouth boasts over my enemies, for I delight in your deliverance. “There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.…
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Golgotha – the place of the skull
Here the pained dove is fluttering. He appears, panicking.As He rolls on the tip. Below the horizon of a crimson sky.Crying into the wider shadows. Overcome by weeping. A Roman’s boot. A splash of mud. A noise of baleful joy.Death entices the carnival crowd. “Roll up! Embrace decay.”Soldiers march, keeping time. Ignorant of ancient prophecy.…
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Warning
“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6) This morning I watched one of my daughters excited with her friends in the school…
