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01.08.2025
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Every now and then it is important and imperative to have seasons
of intermissions in life where it is necessary to step away from
the norm.
Whether it be for spiritual renewal or needing to physically rest
or emergencies that happen. Attention must then be singulary
focused on critical matters.
Yesterday my husband had a medical emergency so I need to step
away for a brief period to just focus on him and be there around
the clock for "just-in-case" phone calls.
I know things will be okay and God is in this completely. We are
not out of the woods yet, but God is in the woods with us. I just
wanted to ask for your most valuable prayers and let you know I
will be away for a little while, but not too long. Perhaps a
couple of weeks or less depending on how things turn out.
Thank you so much for your love and prayers. I expect to see you
soon with good news that I am sure will be ours to proclaim.
"And we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose." Romans 8:28.
I have lived a long life now and can attest to the solid truth of
His promises. He has been the best Friend I have ever had.
"But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are
still His when they come over us; and again and again we have
proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more,
by His interposition, deliverance came. We were cast down, but
not destroyed."
- Amy Carmichael
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29.07.2025
30 Minuten
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Recently in devotions I came across some verses that stood out to
me. I could not get them out of my mind for days. It had to do
with the sabbatical rest of the land.
Out of the whole context of the portion of these verses were
these words regarding the land, "thou shalt let it rest and lie
still." Exodus 23:10-11.
There is a sabbath of rest God wants for His people and animals.
The one for the land spoke so much deeper than ever before. It is
one thing for man and animal to rest for one day.
But God did not want the land to only have one day. He wanted it
to have an entire year and there was a good reason why.
The seventh year the seeds were sown in more abundance knowing
that for an entire year it was not to be touched. It was during
that time, the land brought forth three times more than during
the seven years. See Leviticus chp. 25 for more details.
The poor of the land were then allowed to casually walk through
and take as much as they wanted. The animals were not driven like
out like ususal, but were allowed to partake in what the poor
left behind.
There was rest for the weary creation. There was no limit of
mercy.
There must come a time in our lives that we let our land "rest
and lie still," and do nothing, that we become refreshed. That in
so doing, we will yield more to others in refreshed abundance in
stead of working in the brick yards of Pharaoh's "iron smelting
furnace," for a handful of barely."
"Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh
strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long
run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less."
- Charles Spurgeon
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25.07.2025
41 Minuten
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Lately I have been noticing something widespread. That is, the
act of giving in a post-modern world. Hearts have become hardened
because the thought of giving most always lies in its
relationship to money.
But that is not always what giving is about most of the time. So
much is lost.
The foundation of giving is powerfully rooted deeply in God's
love. Love always gives because it cannot help but give. It does
not hesitate to give what a person needs in a moment. There is
freedom in giving when love is at it's source. It is naturally
spring-loaded.
Giving is not always in money, but in the act of doing something.
Something not forced or dutiful and discernment as its officer.
Giving is as beautiful and refreshing as a pure crystal clear
mountain stream passing through a barren, windswept wasteland in
the wilderness of people's lives.
Many times the giving of money is not always what God has in
mind. Because it takes the place of giving away of oneself and
great lessons of living-mercy are swept away. Only a cold hand to
hand loveless transaction.
There are great losses for the giver of money. Giving oneself
away in many day to day things, or in hard things others are
suffering is the way of the Lord. It is the well-trodden path of
the Master.
Giving is from God. When you are filled with His love, there is
no limit to what you can do through His eternal loving supply.
Whatever you give to others in offering to the Lord, He will
replace to give away more as long as it is done in the Spirit of
His love.
We become waterwheels of the Lord's open hand.
"The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ."
- Charles Spurgeon
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19.07.2025
36 Minuten
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There are many kinds of fears too many to list, but there is one
fear that stands alone. There is the fear of the Lord, but that
stands alone and is not anything like the fears in this life.
It is a distinct fear that comes when God calls you to do
something you do not feel you measure up to. Where you think you
will seriously blow it, do it wrong, be rejected. This is the
fear of humility.
The kind of fear that is enveloped in the fear of the Lord. When
you are afraid of disappointing Him. Afraid you are being
prideful or going ahead of Him, for example.
There is a certainty that it is from Him, and the praying begins,
as there is a kind of pressing by the Holy Spirit. The thing
being asked to do by the Lord only intensifies and no matter how
much it is questioned in prayer, God only increases it instead.
Finally there comes a time that acquiesence and acceptance comes,
yet the fear remains. Sometimes the Lord chooses not to give the
courage at first but later.
Having courage means you need to feel the fear and go for it
anyway. There is a spiritually powerful war-like method to it. If
we were to wait to feel fearless every time we are called into a
hard thing, then we would lose an edge God wants us to have. Our
faith would become empty and lifeless.
I love the words of Elisabeth Elliott who said, "Sometimes fear
does not subside, one must choose to do it afraid."
There is a great advantage to understanding and growth that can
come no other way. The outcome is always glorious and full of
victory.
Going afraid becomes a choice when you realize God is not going
to take it away. Then you choose to go being afraid because you
fear the Lord of Love much greater.
Then the fear departs in the going and you "mount up with wings
as eagles...you fly high above the earth."
"The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty, and so is the
Christian. The very nature of the calling precludes a life of
ease."
- William Gurnall
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17.07.2025
37 Minuten
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Have you ever felt moved by something you have seen or heard?
Something that has powerfully moved your heart like the trees in
the wind. Where you feel your heart throbbing because of it?
Did you notice that it goes even further than that where it grows
and intensifies? Then it gives birth to a potent message within
that must come out.
Many times this happens to me because of something I see or hear.
Something that moves me out of the shadows of the norm, and into
the bright sunlight of bravery and courage to arise and say the
message.
There is an other-worldly fearlessness that enters in. The
message is always alive bursting out of my heart where the King
sits enthroned. It is His message and it is from His own heart to
mine. It is what He sees and hears.
The word is a given word and it is spoken in a quickening,
fearless way with a sharpness "like the clear heat upon the
herbs."
As soon as the word is spoken there are many that do not like it.
They hate the spiritually bright sunlight power of the message
and quickly scorn it. They are like Michal King David's wife.
"When the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal
Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David
leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her
heart." 2 Samuel 6:16.
People will despise you in their hearts when you are full of the
power of the Holy Spirit and give messages from Jesus Christ.
King David's sword-like reply to her was that he would go on
doing it even more because God called Him to be the leader of
Israel.
She wound up being barren unto the day of her death.
There is a difference between stirred up hearts for the Lord and
those that are despisers in heart. One goes on living in the
power of the endless life, while the other lives on in deathly
barrenness.
"I implore you, be afraid of nothing so much as of this false
fear - this foolish, worldly wisdom that hesitates between God
and self, between vice and virtue, between gratitude and
ingratitude, between life and death."- Fenelon
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