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walkthroughtheword · 6 months

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Dear Lord, help me to not be afraid. Make me strong against worry and fear and bring peace. Lord, I don't want to be a worrier, I want to be a warrior for you. Thank you for fighting for me when I struggle to do it myself. I pray this all in Jesus' powerful name. Amen!

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slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ · 4 months

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The unseen God is at work in the darkness, in the doubts, in the disappointments, and in the delays.

-Alistair Begg

#Alistair Begg #christianblog #christian blog #christianity #christians #christianquotes #quotes

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cotl-uk · 8 months

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The Holy Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Athens. A beautiful Orthodox Church. Took some time to pray before leaving this wonderful place of Christian Architecture.

#christianblog #christian living #christianity #jesussaves #Orthodox Church #orthodox #Christian architecture #theology #christian thoughts #orthodox architecture

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reallove-truelove · 2 months

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" God plans big things, big things that make the stars dance and sing. Big things that make the planets twirl in awe. Big things that make all of creation roar with praise before him (their king). What are these plans that make the cosmos sing and radiate with glistening light before him?! God has plans, many plans and all are glorious and deep within his splendor and magnificence. May we all rejoice in awe to the plans of God and the work of his hands." "“But as it is written, what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9.

"For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope."

-Jeremiah 29:11.

"Many plans are in a man’s heart, But the counsel of the Lord will stand."

-Proverbs 19:21

Faith Ferguson

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godslove · 4 months

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¹⁶ “In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do. Live so that they will praise your Father in heaven.”

—Matthew 5:16

#Matthew #God #bible verse #godslove #light #love and light #spirituality #spiritual #spiritual community #flowers #pink flowers #typography #catholic #christian #jesus christ #faith #christianblog #christian blog #christian faith

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walkswithmyfather · 2 years

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“But everyone my Father has given to me, they will come. And all who come to me, I will embrace and will never turn them away.“ —John 6:37 (TPT

#john 6:37 #bible #christian blog #god #belief in god #faith in god #christianity #belief in jesus #faith in jesus #christianblog #christian life #christians #bible verses #bible truths #keep the faith #make him known

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willows-at-the-well · 7 months

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How much more does God have to show you for you to realise the Bible is the TRUTH?

🇮🇱People in Israel need to repent and give their lives to Christ.

🇵🇸People in Palestine need to repent and give their lives to Christ.

🌏People globally need to repent and give their lives to Christ.

I don’t care about theories or your opinions.. This is REAL LIFE. What you were raised to believe, what education you have and your life experiences don't matter right now.. None of that stops this from happening!! None of that stops scripture from coming true over and over and over again.

How many more times are you going to deny Jesus, before Jesus denies you?

TODAY is the day of salvation (2nd Corinthians 6:2)

#prayforisrael #prayforpalestine #repent #jesus is coming #end times prophecy #bible prophecy #jesusisgod #faithblogger #christianblog #the middle east #you need jesus #jesus is the only way

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barkingtigers · 1 month

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petes · 9 days

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(via I Thirst - Psalms 42)

Today, I want to bring you along on a journey into one of the most comforting and relatable passages for me in the Bible: Psalm 42.

#faith #Christianity #biblestudy #devotional #spiritual journey #psalms42 #encouragement #hope #inspiration #christianblog #Prayer #Godslove #reflection

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thewritingsonmyheart · 1 month

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M&M

https://thewritingsonmyheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MM.mp3 Wanna know the two biggest stressors in my life? Money and a man. A man and money. I should have mastered a long time ago, the art of trusting God with any and all areas of my life. I ain’t there yet, though. If you can imagine my life being broken up in rooms, the “man room” and “money room” would be taped off, even to God.…

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#bible #Christianblog #encouragement #faith #Fear #freedom #God #Holy Spirit #Jesus #momdiaries #purpose #strength #struggle #trust #truth #worship

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walkthroughtheword · 7 days

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Dear God, help us to not be afraid to share the Good News of Jesus Christ wherever we go. We know how easy it is to give into those concerns about what someone might say. Instead, give us the courage and boldness to speak with authority and confidence about your love. We pray this in Jesus’ mighty name! Amen!

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slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ · 4 months

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Never did a saint reach heaven with any tale but this: I was washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

-J.C. Ryle

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sassyspiritualsavvy · 2 months

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New Year, Embracing the New You!

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19 KJV Hello, Sassy family! Happy New Year! Sorry for checking in so late in the New Year. I hope everyone’s year is off to a great start. This is my first post of 2024 and I’m so glad to be back. I’m not sure if anyone can relate, but…

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#bloggerlife #christianblog #dailysoulfood #happynewyear #inspiration #newbeginnings #newmindset #newyou

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trustandobedience · 1 year

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Trust & Obey – Thoughts from January 1, 2023.

As we enter the new year, I’m reflecting on the weight those two words have had on me since September. Trust and Obey – they seem like simple things on the face of it, something every “good” Christian will tell you is a part of life. However, when faced with actual challenges in life, I’ve found that trust and obedience are harder than the words imply. As is often the case with following Jesus, things do not always go the way we would have them go, especially with regards to our future plans and the things we want for ourselves. His plan doesn’t always line up with ours, and that’s hard to come to terms with.

If you’re anything like me, you love having a plan for literally any situation that comes your way. You’ve got that Type A, practical personality that means your every move is well thought out and considered before being made. And, if you’re like me, then you are absolutely devastated when things don’t follow the established plan. Whether it’s missing the plane you were meant to be on or something as simple as waking up an hour later than you’d planned, you just can’t handle the uncertainty and anxiety that comes with deviance from the plan.

And that’s an okay way to be! The world needs thinkers like us to hold it together and keep it spinning on time. Although we often get a bad rap for not being as easygoing or agreeable as the “free thinkers,” the world’s creative types, we are needed at the end of the day to make sure that the dog gets fed on time and the clocks keep ticking in tandem. We are important; valued for combating the very things that often cause us distress. That bring the order and stability that we are uniquely and unquestionably able to bring to a chaotic world. We show God’s orderliness, His plan and pattern through the way we establish our own structure in our day to day lives. We are living evidence of a Creator who refuses to leave things up to chance, who establishes order in keeping with His character.

However, sometimes it just feels like we’re getting in our own way, doesn’t it? I mean, life would be so much easier if I could just go with the flow, let things like disrupted plans roll off my shoulders, shrug it off and keep moving. But I can’t. I haven’t ever been able to, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. So, how do we navigate our lives in a way that glorifies God when it feels like the things we plan won’t come to fruition?

We have to trust His plan. I know, I know – it’s trite, and even I’m tired of hearing it on my bad days. Trust me, I would rather manipulate a situation until no semblance of the original plan remains than move forward without one. Giving my plans over to Jesus and trusting that He will do infinitely more with them than I ever could is HARD. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, and it’s made harder by the fact that it isn’t a one-time deal. We have to give up our own sense of control, our ideas for what we want or deserve out of life, and we have to keep doing that time and time again until the end of our days. As Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “‘My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” There will never be a time when His plans are not better than ours. There will never be a day where what we think we want is better than what God wants for us. If our wants and desires are not aligned with His plan for us, then we will continue to be disappointed, and we will end up disillusioned with Him if we aren’t careful.

If you grew up in the church, or have attended church for any stretch of time longer than, like, three weeks, there are several verses on this topic that you’ve probably heard multiple times and memorized at one point in your life. We can start off with Jeremiah 29:11 - “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” We don’t even have to look past the very words of this verse to get confirmation that He not only has plans for us, but that they are plans for our good, to give us hope. Psalm 33:11 confirms this once again, saying that “the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations,” and Psalm 32:8 tells us that He will “instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; [counseling] you with my loving eye on you.”

Of course, the “poster child” (or poster verse, if you will) of trusting in the Lord is Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.” This verse is about as clear as it gets! We are not meant to trust our own thoughts and opinions over the Lord’s, no matter how wise we think we are or how much we know about a situation. When the Lord calls us out of a situation we want to be in, there is always something else going on that He knows about and we cannot see. Since we know that His ways are higher than our ways, His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, He has plans for us, and that those plans work for our benefit even when we can’t fathom how, we can rest in Him and give Him our trust, our thoughts, and our plans for the future.

Indeed, we can even see implications in scripture of where a lack of trust in the Lord caused Him to delay the enactment of His plans (Matthew 13:58, “And He did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.”). This does not mean that the Lord’s plan is in any way derailed or misplaced, but rather that the Lord wishes to partner with us in the fulfillment of His plans for us. He wants our trust and obedience before He gives us the good things He has in store.

So, since we can see clearly at multiple points in Scripture that the Lord has good plans for us, how then should we live? How can we live out the trust we are meant to have in His plans and provision? Well, that’s where obedience comes into play. No matter what the Lord says, no matter where He wants us to go, what He wants us to give up, or who He wants us to forgive, we are called, as His people, to obey Him in all things. A point in the Bible where this idea is made clear that has stood out to me is the story of Jonathan and his armor-bearer from 1 Samuel 15. At this point in Israel’s history, Saul is king and the Philistines have dominated the Israelites completely, making God’s nation subservient to them in more than one respect. Jonathan, Saul’s son, decides to attack a Philistine outpost without informing his father and taking only his armor-bearer, a personal assistant of sorts, with him. Jonathan shows tremendous faith and trust in what the Lord would have him do, and obedience to what God said, by taking a step back and asking for His guidance before going through with what he wanted to do (verse 10). The Enduring Word Commentary on this chapter names Jonathan as having a “Romans 8:31 heart: ‘If God can be for us, who can be against us?’”

Jonathan showed wisdom and complete trust in the Lord in this instance. He knew that his heart might be wrong, that his human emotions and thoughts were fallible and might be leading him astray, and so sought the Lord’s guidance before making a move. Enduring Word makes the important distinction that he did not doubt a word from God, as had other figures earlier in 1 Samuel (cough cough, Saul), but rather doubted his own heart and mind. Jonathan was content in knowing his part of the plan without demanding to hear the whole one, taking one step at a time and trusting that the Lord knew everything that was to come. He showed an obedience fueled by his trust when he attacked the more than twenty Philistines stationed there with only his armor-bearer by his side.

We can take Jonathan’s example for how we should respond to our own thoughts, emotions, and plans, and take a step back to evaluate them next to what the Lord says to make sure they are sound before moving forward. When we realize that His plans work together for our good (Romans 8:28), that His plans will come to pass regardless of how much planning and strategizing we do for ourselves (Proverbs 16:9), and that He is working in His own time to keep the promises He has made to His people so that all may come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9), we really have no choice but to give Him the reins and see where He takes us.

Well, I say we have no choice, but what I really mean is that we have no logical choice but to obey Him. We can fight, and push back, and rage against His plans, but at the end of the day, we are only hurting ourselves. When it feels like all we’re doing is getting in our own way by trying to be in control, that’s because we are. Things will run so much more smoothly with Him in control, since He knows not only the future, but our hearts and the hearts of those around us. When we can fully trust in His ability to work things together for our good, the only choice that makes sense is to obey Him when He speaks to us and believe Him when He says that He will see us through to the end.

#trustandobey #trustinggod #christian #christianthoughts #happynewyear #2023 #scripture #bibleapp #1 samuel #jonathan #trust #obedience #christianblog #christianliving #christianity #faith #planner

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reallove-truelove · 2 months

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Dream- Boat Analogue

"Last night I had this dream, in my dream Jesus was explaining to me this boat analogue.

God woke me up out of my sleep to give this prophetic word.

When a boat is without its captain and steering off course, someone has to come and take control of the ship.

Now taking control of an out-of-control ship is not pretty from the inside view.

This person not only has the weight of the ship when turning the wheel but the massive ropes to pull to keep the sails up and everything running smoothly.

In this analogue, this was being done by one man.

In life we can get in a bad situation, where we let people lead us off course or we get us distracted, and our ship goes off course.

We may even lose sight of the horizon but when we start walking back in the direction of the course Jesus Christ has given us and instructed us with, the weight of our mistake may feel heavy and hard, the storm around us may feel too big, it can even leave us feeling burdened and weary. But when all of this is going on; this is when we need Jesus Christ the most, because when we rely on Jesus Christ, his strength, and not our own, no matter how far we have staid or gone off course,

Jesus Christ comes in like that man and he takes control of our,

out of control ship.

The weight and the mess we have made may take him a while to sort out and it isn't always pretty the process of getting back on track but when it is back on track to were God needs it to be, what a beautiful sight a ship that is sailing with ease and softness in the water.

While the storms are raging, and God is holding the ship together and stable it may not look pretty to an outsider's view or even stable to the person who is watching cynically but God is looking after his ship.

Even sometimes when the ship looks perfectly held together; you don't always see the hard process of what Jesus Christ is doing.

And it may seem like the ship is not being tended to, but God is always working, and he never sleeps.

No matter what it looks like Jesus Christ is good and when we give him our lives and surrender our ship to him, he helps us in ways we couldn't, he leads us, heals us and guilds us even fixing our mistakes.

Jesus Christ is the best captain! Jesus Christ is our Saviour! No matter the storm; God has it. All we need to do is listen to Jesus Christ and find rest in him."

Faith Ferguson

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walkswithmyfather · 2 years

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“Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” —John 15:4‭-‬5 (NIV)

PRAYER: “Jesus, I need you to stand by me because without you, I cannot stand alone. You are the reason why I am still breathing. Without you, I am nothing. Amen.”

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