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Top Ten Reasons Why I Cannot Live Without Prayer

Top Ten Reasons Why I Cannot Live Without Prayer

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Today, I am honored to be guest-blogging at Janet Harllee’s wonderful blog Just a Closer Stumble with Thee. Thanks for this opportunity, Janet! God bless you! I can’t live without prayer. I know some people rarely pray. They might even intellectually believe in the power of prayer but they don’t really practice it. Or they go through the motions of prayer but they don’t really believe in the power of prayer anyway. Somehow they can live without prayer just fine….

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Who Would Have Thought? Who Would Have Guessed?

Who Would Have Thought? Who Would Have Guessed?

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I was running some errands the other day when a couple of questions popped up in my mind. Who would have thought that God would become a man? Who would have thought the whole salvation history? Who would have thought all of it? I laughed out loud when I came across this C.S. Lewis quote: “Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you…

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What Is True Freedom?

What Is True Freedom?

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Do you live in fraudulent freedom? Or are you truly free? Some people insists they can do whatever they want and call that freedom. Yet they are miserable. Fraudulent freedom produces just that: pure misery. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All…

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Invitation to Zealous Prayer Life

Invitation to Zealous Prayer Life

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We are called to zealous prayer life! Prayer is a tremendous gift from God. Just think about having a direct prayer line to God Almighty! Pretty awesome!! “Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” (Romans 12:12, NIV) God wants to participate in our lives. Through prayer we are able to connect with God in a very special way. We are his children. He is…

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Apart from God We Are Lost

Apart from God We Are Lost

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Apart from God we are nothing. Even if we’d like to think otherwise. Apart from God we don’t even know who we really are. Apart from God we are completely and utterly lost. Blaise Pascal has said: “Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.” You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going. Now you’re named and kept for good…

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God Does Not Play Games

God Does Not Play Games

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God does not play hide and seek, he wants to be found. God does not play any games. But it does not mean that he would not have a terrific sense of humor. For example, my friends were praying that God would give them a car. Few days later there was a raffle with a chance to win a red sports car. They bought a ticket….and they did get a car….a real beauty but it was only 2 inches long….

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An Essential Element in the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

An Essential Element in the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

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We all want to learn to live in grace, to embrace the unforced rhythms of grace and to live freely and lightly in Jesus. (Matt.11: 28-30, MSG) Why then we so often run ourselves out of breath? Why then we so often allow ourselves to go without adequate rest? Why then we so often try to live on our own without consulting the Breath of Life? If God really became a man and died on the cross and rose on…

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What Does It Mean to Follow Jesus?

What Does It Mean to Follow Jesus?

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How are you implementing faith into your life? How are you practicing resurrection? How is Jesus part of your everyday life? How do you exercise daily in God? What does it mean to follow Jesus? Important questions and I would love to hear your responses. Before starting this discussion I am sharing few Bible quotes and Eugene H. Peterson quotes from The Jesus Way to fuel our conversation and hopefully encouraging you on your pilgrimage. Stay clear of silly stories…

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How Big Is Your Heart?

How Big Is Your Heart?

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Peter stated it very clear: “Salvation comes no other way; no other name has been or will be given to us by which we can be saved, only this one [Jesus].” (Acts 4:12, MSG) When we have come to know the saving knowledge of Jesus and when we believe it by grace we have been set free. But what do we do with this knowledge, this joy, this freedom? How big is our heart? We are called to accept Jesus…

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An Ability to Marshal & Direct Our Energies Wisely (Re-post)

An Ability to Marshal & Direct Our Energies Wisely (Re-post)

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Self-control has always been the spiritual fruit that has intimated me. Somehow it has felt like a court order, a requirement that I could never meet. Then I read about the nine spiritual fruits in the Message and I had a revelation that has changed my approach to self-control, the ninth spiritual fruit found in Galatians 5:22-24. But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an…

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