Life will always include a mix of good and bad. Whether we are happy or bothered depends entirely upon what we choose to focus on. Fixate on the good stuff! Find the beautiful. Rejoice in the lovely. It can always be found if you look for it!
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Are you an innie or an outie? Are you abiding in God’s peace, connecting to His Holy Spirit that lives in you? Or are you residing in the realm of the flesh, enslaved to worries and fear? Children of God, live in God’s light! God has called you by name… and that name is BELOVED. He WILL walk with you, WITHIN you, through every moment of your life. Set your mind on Him, grasp His outstretched hand, and experience LIFE!
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God can fashion a customized system of signs and symbols to speak just to YOU — a secret language between you and God. This past year, with me it has been deer. God has been using deer to give me messages. He often uses deer sightings in very obvious ways to give me encouragement and confirmations. Let me explain…
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There is someone that God has been speaking to. He has been telling you to do something that you don’t want to do. You KNOW what He is saying but you are scared to do whatever it is. You don’t think anyone will listen to you. You are afraid people will think you are crazy or get mad at you. If this is YOU, then you know it, so please read on. I want to give you some encouragement. (If it isn’t you, please say a quick prayer for whoever it is, thank you!)
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The Tower of Babel wasn’t just something that happened a long time ago. We humans are ALWAYS building our own Towers of Babel — piling up our bricks of pride and wickedness, attempting to push God aside and get to heaven ourselves.
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This is coach God — training us, encouraging us, directing us. Those of us following coach God aren’t disillusioned when the troubles come. We are trained up and prepared. We resolutely continue marching on.
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Depressed people often think happy people must have easy lives. Angry people think happy people are stupid. Bitter people think happy people are faking it. When people always excuse their own unhappiness, they never understand that the root, and solution, for their own unhappiness is within their own souls.
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The good news is that the ending of the battle has already been determined. Good won the battle when Jesus died on the cross and defeated death by returning to life. That part is finished. The battle is over and good has won the victory. Now WE just have to run out the clock, play our part in the physical timeline. But the good guy is not only fighting for us, He’s given us a helper, the Holy Spirit, who is always with us.
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Did Jesus have to die or not? Did He really rise from the dead? Or is there wiggle room here? A lot of us want to plant our feet in both camps to make everybody happy, to be nice, to be comfortable. But we either believe in Jesus or we don’t. Jesus IS offensive. We are either willing to stand with Him on the offensive side of the fence or we aren’t. I believe it is important that we examine our own hearts and figure out where we stand.
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My challenge to anyone reading this is to just try fifteen minutes of meditative prayer every day this year. If fifteen is too hard, try ten. Five is better than none. Meditative prayer has made all the difference in my own life. Connecting with God this way has healed me emotionally and spiritually. It has tapped me into a joy that I didn’t even know was possible. I have watched close friends heal from trauma and abuse after they began practicing meditative prayer. In my case, I have been completely healed from depression for over 23 years now. It works.
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