Faithful

There are times it’s hard to be faithful. I get tired and weary. I get lazy. I get self-centered. It’s during these times that I struggle with being faithful. When I read God’s Word, I realize the tremendous value in simply being faithful. I want to be faithful to the Lord. I want to be…

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Be NOT Do

I grew up thinking that if I went to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night that I would be a good Christian. Then I heard a guy say that “going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger”! I had to reexamine what…

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Prompted

This word means to assist or encourage to do something. I have been prompted many times in my life to do something and I didn’t realize at the time that it was the Lord. I believe He prompts me in the smallest situations and it the live altering decisions that I might face. I believe…

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Drift

This word describes several seasons in my life. When things are good, I drift. When things are bad, I drift. Drift is something that happen very slowly and maybe even sneaky.  It’s like I wake up one day and notice that I’ve drifted so far. My spiritual journey has mostly steady the past several years.…

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Encouraged By God

I love encouragers. In fact, I try to be an encourager of others. It takes thought and it often takes a bit of a shift in mindset to become an encourager. I can look for good in everyone. My Mom used to remind me that everyone is a child of God and there is good…

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Valuable

There are parts of this life that are considerably more valuable than others. There are wealthy people who would trade their wealth for their healthy. There are poor people who would trade anything to be wealthy. I believe wealth to be a relative term.  If I give a dollar figure to wealth, I am leaving…

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