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The Missing Piece of the Puzzle of our Hearts

October 7, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 0 Comment

You’re addicted to thrills? What an empty life! The pursuit of pleasure is never satisfied. (Proverbs 21:17, MSG) “There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart” says Blaise Pascal. Viktor Frankl talks about “existential vacuum”. According to him meaninglessness in our lives is a hole, an emptiness, in our lives. Whenever there is a vacuum we rush to fill it with things. We keep on trying one thing after another -shopping, money, work, sex, drugs, entertainment, relationships, hobbies- but nothing fills…

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A Clean Sweep – Healing from the Inside Out

October 5, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 4 comments

I know many of us are in great need of physical healing (Right now I have several people on my prayer list). But let’s not forget the even greater need for spiritual healing. Because through spiritual healing we are not given just life in this world but also life after death. If we don’t have spiritual cleansing from inside out it does not matter how healthy we otherwise are. Because then we are walking in the land of death. We…

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Let’s Not Waste Our Lives!

September 28, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 1 comment

I posted this Eugene H. Peterson quote yesterday on the Flowing Faith Facebook page and have not been able to forget it ever since: “What a waste it would be to take these short, precious, eternity-charged years that we are given and squander them in cocktail chatter when we can be, like Jeremiah, vehemently human and passionate with God.” I think all human beings are afraid of wasting their lives. We crave for meaning and purpose for our lives. It’d…

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Unfailing Love

July 12, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 0 Comment

It’s Melodic Monday! Today’s song is Unfailing Love by Chris Tomlin. I thought it is a perfect day to celebrate unfailing love and the Giver of unfailing love! Praise the Lord, baby! Listen & be blessed! You have my heartAnd I am Yours foreverYou are my strengthGod of grace and power And everything You hold in Your handStill You make time for meI can’t understandPraise You God of Earth and skyHow beautiful is Your unfailing loveUnfailing love And You never…

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Until the Whole World Hears

May 31, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 2 comments

It’s Melodic Monday! Today’s song is Casting Crown’s Until the Whole World Hears (written by Mark Hall, Bernie Herms, Jason McArthur & Roger Glidewell). A wonderful song to set our hearts on fire for God & to set our minds on reaching out to the world! Listen & be blessed & get on with your mission! Lord I want to feel with Your heartAnd see the world through Your eyesI want to be Your hands and feetI want to live…

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Counting the Internet Blessings – The Best of This Week

May 8, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 0 Comment

On Saturdays I share some of the links on the Internet that I have found interesting or that have blessed me during the week. This is my way to count my Internet blessings and pass on to you the good I’ve encountered. I will be doing this every Saturday if this is something that readers will find useful. So, please, let me know if this is worth of doing (or not!). Here are the best of this week: You Know…

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Live Wisely – Pray About Everything (Quest for God’s Will, part 3/4)

April 29, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 2 comments

As we learn to live in God’s will it is important to learn to let go of our worries and let God transform our lives as he pleases. That might sound scary but it really works. We can either worry or pray. There is not room for both of them in a Christian. This is easier said than done but praying without ceasing is one of the most important survival skills for Christians. If you have a lot on your…

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Live Well – From the Shadows to the Substance (Quest for God’s Will, part 2/4)

April 28, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 2 comments

In essence, following God, being a disciple of Jesus Christ & living in the Holy Spirit is what leads us to find God’s will. It’s not more complicated than that and at the same time it is very confusing. It takes time to learn to live in God’s grace. It takes trust to wait on God’s timing. But there is not some mystical formula we need to figure out. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to…

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Blessed Is the (Wo)Man – Psalm 1

April 18, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 0 Comment

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked!They are like chaffthat…

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Counting Internet Blessings – The Best of This Week

April 17, 2010 Mari-Anna Stålnacke @flowingfaith Comments 2 comments

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