Wisdom & Insight

This is two characteristics that are a part of my prayers very often. I need wisdom and insight on a daily basis. I’m not sure how many decisions that I make every day or so, but I need the wisdom of God in all of them. Some decisions appear really simple or “clear cut”, but…

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A Prayer For Favor

I don’t remember being the “teacher’s pet”, but I do remember some teachers who have liked me over the years. I like to be liked. I try hard not to be a jerk or an arrogant person. The Lord really changed my heart and I’ve learned to see others as He sees them. He created…

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Praise The Lord Anyway

There are times when I’m tired and irritable and don’t “feel” like praising the Lord. I believe I should praise even when I don’t “feel” like. I’ve learned many times over the years that my feelings are quite fickle. My “feelings” can “turn on a dime” – in other words – they can go from…

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Soul Singing

I grew up listening to music. There has been music in my family for as long as I can remember. My grandmother (Essie Hicks) used to entertain the fellow residents of the nursing home where she spent the last few years of her life. She would play and sing “Wildwood Flower”, “Wabash Cannonball”, “Red Wing”…

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Immemorial

I learned a new word this morning. I thought I had found a typo in the Bible. I had to look it up on dictionary.com. This word means: “extending back beyond memory, record or knowledge”. The Psalmist uses this word to describe the Lord’s Presence and Power in the world. For as far back as…

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Perspective of a Prayer

I grew up learning to say my prayers at bedtime and at meal time. I had these little rehearsed prayers that I recited at the appropriate times. When I grew up and begin to “grow out” of those rehearsed prayers, I began to realize the place that prayer had in my life. I wasn’t just…

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