And when thinking about it more deeply one day, it occurred to me that verse 10 is one of several verses that supports the fact that we have free will. Let Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
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His plans are not our plans and His timing is not our timing.
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What do we do with our 'not enough'? I don't think it would be easy to thank God for 'not enough'. To thank him for what appears to be a very obvious lack seems illogical.
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And when you get 7 minutes to listen to the whole thing, close your eyes as you listen to the bridge. Picture in your mind what the lyrics describe - this is when we truly come home.
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He was the first baby. Ever! And he turned out to be a murderer. And I thought, how sad. And how incredibly typical of sin, and the human nature. It could only ever be downhill from there. Or was it?…
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Never be afraid to be a broken thing
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We all desire purpose in our lives. It is the time we have in the now which needs to be lived. Grasp this moment, act now, for our "times are truly in His Hands".
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Will God ever reject us? Check out the logic of God's word to Jeremiah.
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There seems to be an emphasis on repeating too much, and the words being empty or meaningless. And it’s how people pray who don’t know God…
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The pre-schooler took her hand and was all of a sudden able to face the task. He moved quicker, was more sure of himself and was willing to keep going and walking that dog.
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Death is swallowed up in victory.
O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?
I saw these little children not only as the future builders in His kingdom but I also saw them as already now kingdom builders as little as they are.
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Whatever it is you might be 'running from', the story of Jonah in the boat tells us that when he came to realise he was trying to run from God, and when he finally stopped running, the storms - the raging... stopped.
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If these poetic lines tell us anything, it's that David realised that he could not survive without God.
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I guess I find this sort of encouraging. Even when I feel like a failure, it's ok. God is still there. It happens to us all and God knows and understands…
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Nothing makes the promise of never leaving us. Or at least nothing can make the promise - AND KEEP IT.
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One of my favourite pictures of Jesus, is that of Him riding on a donkey. Why did He ride on a donkey? He made a particular point of asking His disciples to go and find the particular colt (a donkey’s foal) for the job. And not only that, but this colt and its mother were known by Jesus to already be in a nearby village waiting. They were there by heavenly design for the moment when the King of kings would require them.
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There are six facts about Jesus' death and resurrection that are agreed on by almost all scholars. It doesn't matter whether the scholar believe in God or not, they can all agree on the historical reliability of these 6 facts…
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Perhaps I will stop calling January the dead month, and start calling it the alive month. The living month! As God restores life and energy where it had before been dwindling…
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Church is a banquet, a smorgasbord of God's word. We feast together spiritually on a Sunday morning and have access to much much more during the week if we seek it…
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