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My Favorite Writer's Resources

Today, I wanted to share some of my favorite writer’s resources. As a self-published author and writer, I have to wear many hats including research, writing, editing, marketing, graphics, etc. Depending on your budget, you can outsources of the things you don’t like to do or aren’t good at. Fiverr and Upwork are great resources for outsourcing everything from cover design to social media…

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I’m excited! I found these Abide Bible journals by @nelsonbibles in collaboration with @biblegateway for $1.99 each on @faithgateway and I can’t wait to start using them. 😁 #abidebible #thomasnelsonbibles #biblegateway #faithgateway #abidebiblejournals #biblejournaling #biblejournal #journalingbible #philipians #ephesians #galatians #hebrews #proverbs #abide #abideinchrist https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCX6yRpGKu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[targuman]

Review: Evangelical Study Bible

As a member of the Bible Gateway Blogger Grid, I was offered the opportunity to review a free copy of The Evangelical Study Bible (Thomas Nelson Bibles, 2023; evangelicalstudybible.com). It is available for purchase from the FaithGateway Store and Amazon. TLDR “Too Long Didn’t Read,” as the kids say: The ESB does what it says on the cover. This is a study Bible written by and for Evangelicals.…

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[rjhamster]

Seasonal Bible Studies – FaithGateway Store

Shop our seasonal Bible studies, featuring studies relating to Christmas and Easter. — Read on faithgateway.com/collections/seasonal-bible-studies

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[jdgo51]

Outserve Each Other Today's inspiration comes from: Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage by Jodie Berndt Editor’s Note: We’re huge fans of Jodie Berndt’s books here at FaithGateway (and we know you are too), which is why we’re sooooo excited that it’s launch day for her newest book, Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage! Enjoy this exclusive excerpt and don’t miss our deals on the paperback and the beautifully designed hardcover, which makes a great wedding or anniversary gift for any couple you know! "'Married life is waking up early to preheat your spouse’s car in the winter (and then taking ten dollars out of their wallet as a tip for your services). “Be ready to do whatever is good.” “Use whatever gift you have received to serve others.” “Serve one another humbly in love.”1 Our contemporary culture holds a dim view of service — we’d rather be served than serve — but at some gut-instinct level, we know that putting our spouse’s needs ahead of our own makes for a healthy and enjoyable marriage. Paul’s counsel to husbands and wives to “submit to one another” sounds like the right thing to do.2 But knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it are two different things. Which is why, just a few verses earlier, Paul gives us the critical how-to: “Be filled with the Spirit.” Being filled with the Spirit allows us to love others in ways that don’t always come naturally. It empowers us to let go of our self-centered desires and live lives marked by things like patience, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.3 And it marks us with the same self-sacrificing humility that Jesus displayed, whether He was washing His disciples’ dirty feet or, as Philippians 2:8 puts it, humbling Himself and becoming “obedient to death — even death on a cross!” This Philippians passage, with its call to “have the same mindset as Christ Jesus” (2:5) — loving as He did, pursuing unity as He did, putting others first as He did — offers a template for our relationships.4 Early in our marriage, Robbie and I heard Dr. Tony Evans talk about what this pattern looked like in his own marriage. Having purposed to value each other’s interests ahead of their own, Evans and his wife began going out of their way to help each other. At some point, Evans said, it became a contest — one he found himself losing. “I couldn’t believe it,” Evans said with a laugh. “She was outserving me. I had to figure out how to catch up!” Evans’s message took hold in our hearts, and Robbie and I began looking for opportunities to honor each other. Robbie likes things tidy, and while I knew I couldn’t match his mother’s “get the dust off the top of the refrigerator” talent, the kids and I began playing “beat the buzzer” every night before he came home. I’d set the kitchen timer and we’d scramble to pick up toys and clean the counters. On my good days, I’d even rummage in my purse to find the lip gloss as Robbie’s car pulled into the driveway. (And if I just lost half of the women readers, I’m sorry. But never once did I feel like I was caught in some 1950s time warp. Instead, I saw these little acts of service — and my lips, on some days — as, to use our friend Davis’s word, “beautiful.”) For his part, Robbie began doing things like vacuuming my (dog-hair-and-Cheerios-infested) car or bringing me coffee — sometimes from an actual coffee shop, which he knows is my love language and counts double on the service scale, since a little part of him dies inside every time he pays for something we can get for free at home. Putting our spouse’s needs ahead of our own makes for a healthy and enjoyable marriage. Somewhere along the way — we can’t pinpoint when — something shifted inside us. We began to truly enjoy these tangible ways to show love and respect. It became, like our friend Lisa says, a “pleasure and a delight.” And although I don’t feel deserving of Robbie’s tenderness, the word he uses for the way he regards me is cherish, and when I noticed that a book by that title had been published, I grabbed it. “Millions of couples,” writes author Gary Thomas, “have pledged ‘to love and to cherish, till death do us part.’” Most of us understand the love part and the implied vow to serve and commit to one another, but it is the act of cherishing, Thomas says, that “turns marriage from an obligation into a delight. It lifts marriage above a commitment to a precious priority.”5 Serving your spouse — cherishing them as precious — looks different in every marriage. Bob took his children to garage sales on Saturday mornings, not because they needed more stuff, but because it gave his wife, Anne, a chance to have the house to herself at the start of the weekend. Whit turns the bed down every night and puts his wife, Susan’s, iPad on her pillow, since he knows she loves to read. I stopped wearing ruffles (after having an umpteen hundred of them on my puffball of a wedding dress) when I learned (later) that they don’t appeal to Robbie. None of these things are “grand” gestures. They may go unmarked by everyone but our spouse. And yet in a social media age when everyone wants to be seen and noticed, it is exactly these little gifts of time, these self-sacrificing kindnesses, that kindle lasting love in a marriage. “Real romance,” writes Ann Voskamp, “isn’t measured by how viral any wedding proposal goes — and viral is closely associated with sickness — but it’s the moments of self-forgetfulness: Setting the table at the end of a long day and rustling up some hearty dish for those who have your heart, and then — without any cameras rolling or soundtracks playing — clearing the plates to make your own love perfectly clear — this is the way of robust romance.”6 Robust romance. Isn’t that what we all want? The way to get there isn’t through grasping; it is through yielding. Yielding our plans, our desires, our very self — and submitting out of reverence for the One who is Love Himself to the one whom we cherish. Remember Serve one another humbly in love. — Galatians 5:13 Reflect We love because God first loved us. The more we soak up this truth, the more our love will increase and overflow for our spouse. Think about your own awareness of God’s love for you. Do you sense His delight? Do you feel forgiven? Can you trace a link between your relationship with the Lord and your desire to serve and honor your spouse?"' Titus 3:1; 1 Peter 4:10; Galatians 5:13. Ephesians 5:18. These traits and the other fruit of the Spirit are listed in Galatians 5:22–23 (ESV). Philippians 2:5. Gary Thomas, Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017), 17. Ann Voskamp, Waymaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of (Nashville: W Publishing, 2022), 71. Excerpted with permission from Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage by Jodie & Robbie Berndt, copyright Jodie Berndt.

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From @annvoskamp "The triune God isn’t looking for you because He’s disappointed in you. He isn’t rebuking you, isn’t rejecting you. The triune God delights in you, smiles over you, seeks to be with you, revives you with His kiss of grace, and can’t stop singing love songs because of you. Right from the beginning, God has ached over any space and distance between us. When we were looking for a way out, God’s woe over any distance between us drives Him to make a way to us. To be with us. The cross points to the Way with open arms: Because our fall was detachment from God, our restoration is only found in attachment to God. If our first sin was to turn from God, detach the fruit from the tree, and savor it, then our return to wholeness is to turn, attach to God, and savor Him. Though our fall broke our attachment to God, He makes a way to us, slips His arms around us, and whispers all will be well now because He is Immanuel, God with us. Our story can only know restoration if our attachment to God is restored. The very symbol of the faith, the intersection of the cross, expresses how God purposes us for connection. God has always been a WayMaker, making more than merely a way through. The WayMaker is making a way to you." - excerpt from the WayMaker Study Guide . . . Tomorrow we will begin a journey with a whole community of Wayfarers on the Way as we begin the WayMaker Online Bible Study, hosted by our friends at FaithGateway. Together, we will develop a S.A.C.R.E.D daily habit, a rule of life, that will reorient our souls in relation to God through Scripture, prayer and study. It’s the soul’s daily habitual turns that become the soul’s eventual destination, and it’s the SACRED spiritual disciplines that keep turning the heart to see, to arrive, in the arms of the WayMaker who keeps making the way, His way, to know and be one with Him, soul-safe. Today is the LAST DAY to register and not miss out on this FREE Online Bible Study to develop a SACRED Way of Life to change your life: https://bit.ly/3v1FYLo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgo-ANJOuuE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fightinglikeaman]

Quarantine = Time to seek the Lord 3/5

#bible verse #quarantine #5minutesserie #sheila walsh #faithgateway #myuplouds #myedit

[hopeistheanchorofthesoul]

Will you take God at His Word? - FaithGateway Today

What He says He will do, He does. What He promises, He makes come true. — Numbers 23:19 NCV

We need to learn to take God at His word.

Sounds easy enough, especially when it’s smooth sailing. But in the midst of a storm, even the disciples of Jesus needed a reminder. On one occasion He told them,

Let us go over to the other side. — Mark 4:35 NIV

They did. En route to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, however, their boat encountered “a furious squall” (Mark 4:37 NIV). The sky opened, and buckets of water fell, and waves threatened to upend the boat. The disciples turned to Jesus and found Him sound asleep! They screamed,

Don’t you care if we drown? — Mark 4:38 NIV

Jesus woke up, stood up, commanded the storm to shut up, and then said to the disciples,

Do you still have no faith? — Mark 4:40 NIV

What a stunning rebuke! The sea was raging; the water was churning. Why did Jesus scold them?

Simple. They didn’t take Him at His word. He said they were going to the other side. He didn’t say, “We are going to the middle of the lake to drown.” Jesus had declared the outcome. But when the storm came, the disciples heard the roar of the winds and forgot His word.

Storms are coming your way. Winds will howl, your boat will be tossed, and you will have a choice.

Will you hear Christ or the crisis?

Heed the promises of Scripture or the noise of the storm?

Will you take God at His word?

Excerpted with permission from God Is With You Every Day by Max Lucado, copyright Max Lucado.

#inspiracoes do espirito santo #deus #jesus cristo #amor #cristao #biblia #jesus christ #this #love #lembrar disso sempre!!!!! #daily reminder #remember that #reminder #nao é meu so copiei haha #faithgateway #email subscription

[beyboii]

It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning

Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. — James 5:19-20

God Himself is in the restoration business.

The Bible contains many accounts of men and women who got a second chance and, by God’s grace, used it well.

Moses, a murderer, but became the great emancipator of his people. took him forty years to take advantage of the second chance God gave him.

David, a great king, described as a “Man after God’s own heart.” and yet with a flaw but walk in repentance and restoration.

Second chance is possible for anyone.

Second chance is possible, but it is not automatic.

Judas didn’t get a second chance. Why? because he didn’t repent, so he didn’t received the opportunity to be restored.

it is reserved for people like Simon Peter, who dont merely feel remorse or try to reform, but who truly repent.

Sin can wreck hearts, homes, plans and people. but your sin can never keep God from loving you.

It is never too late for a new beginning.

who are battered and bruised and have been stuck in the back corners of life, having lost their beauty, and who are not being used for any real purpose.

Take the sinners and the broken people we know by the hand and bring them to the One who can make old things pass away and make all things become new.

When someone breaks a bone in his or her arm, a doctor sets it, realigning it and then putting a cast on it to keep it in place as it heals. Then during about six weeks, God does the actual healing. It’s never too late for a new beginning.

Let me be happy and joyful! You crush my bones, now let them celebrate. Turn your eyes from my sin and cover my guilt. Create pure thoughts in me and make me faithful again. Don’t chase me away from you or take your Holy Spirit away from me. Make me as happy as you did when you saved me; Make me want to obey. - Psalms 51:8-12 (CEV)

#red #devotion #faithgateway #206/206 #01/0108

[mikepolinske]

Reflecting God to the World (Nazareth) - Rock Road Rabbi - FaithGateway

Reflecting God to the World (Nazareth) – Rock Road Rabbi – FaithGateway

What assumptions have you had about God that were not based on Scripture? How has your study of God’s Word helped you correct misconceptions about Him and know Him better? Come learn more in this excerpt from Kathie Lee Gifford’s book The Rock, The Road, and The Rabbi.

God longs to show the world His goodness through the way we live. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Source: Reflecting God to the World…

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[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Build Your House Upon the Rock ~ Jesus Christ!

(via What Is the Purpose of Life? - FaithGateway)

#Sermon on the Mount #words of Christ #build your house upon the rock #rock #Jesus Christ #Matthew #wisdom

[walkswithmyfather]

I'd love to quote the whole thing, but I shouldn't, so here's the link. It's a great article! 🙂

"God’s turnaround power came in the form of His Son, who demonstrated once and for all that there is nothing God cannot turn around. No death, no curse, no enemy can hold back God’s turnaround power...We need to see with new eyes the possibilities that our turnaround God can create in the places where no one else sees potential. We must seek to be the ones who bring answers where others only see problems. We need to shake off the complacency that can so quickly enter our hearts, causing us to settle for less than His Word promises. There is so much more for your life to embrace, so many breakthroughs for you to play your part in. We need a greater revelation of Whose we are, and in that understanding, we can grow a greater confidence of what He has called us to do." "There is Nothing God Can’t Turn Around"—Charlotte Gambill

#Charlotte Gambill #there is nothing god can't turn around #faithgateway #turnaround power

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Excited to start the Jesus online bible study tomorrow with @maxlucado hosted by #studygateway @faithgateway ✝️ I just got my books in the mail, ready to go 😁 #jesusbymaxlucado #maxlucado #easterbiblestudy #onlinebiblestudy #faithgateway https://www.instagram.com/p/B9NQzAJJ0p2/?igshid=1ob5n55j4rksl

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. - Joshua 1:9 #FaithGateway

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[rjhamster]

Devotionals Daily Blog for Inspiration and Growth – FaithGateway Store

Blogs from FaithGateway featuring insights and advice from top authors. Discover inspiring messages and stories that will strengthen and grow your faith. — Read on faithgateway.com/blogs/christian-books/tagged/devotionals-daily

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[jdgo51]

Get Back Up

Today's inspiration comes from:

Live Your Dreams

Editor's Note: What is that thing you’ve always wanted to do? Travel the world? Write a book? Launch a business? lt's all too easy to let everyday life take priority and keep pushing your dreams aside. That's where today's featured book Live Your Dreams can help! This book is part devotional, part journal. Think of this as your starter dream journal, helping you set aside time each day to rediscover the dreams God has given you. As today's excerpt reiterates, we were not made to go through life knocked down, barely surviving, friends. God has good things planned for your life, so you can trust Him even when your dreams seem too far out of reach. ~FaithGateway Team

"Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. "— Isaiah 40:30-31

"'You might fall down, but you don’t have to stay down. If your hope is placed firmly in God, you will find the strength in Him to get back up. God doesn’t want you to live life beaten, demoralized, and hating yourself. He loves you, and He wants you to love yourself. He has faith in you and wants you to have faith in Him. He has good things planned for your life, so you can trust Him when you’re down.

Have you ever fallen flat on your face? Did it feel like things would never be good again? Maybe you’ve wondered if things were ever good to begin with. But those thoughts are not based in truth. God has blessed you… made previous dreams come true… brought the people you’ve needed into your life. He has always been working for you, always loving you.

Being knocked down hurts, so take the time you need to heal, but don’t stay down so long that you begin to believe that you belong there. You don’t. You belong out there in the world making a difference. Remind yourself of that, multiple times a day if you need to. It might help to create a mantra you can say to yourself when you need that reminder. Something like, “I’ve been down, but I’m never out with God.” Or “I learn every time I fall, and I get back up stronger than ever.” Use these examples to create a mantra that works for you. Write your mantra down so you can refer to it as needed.

All you have to do is ask Ask for Help

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word. — Psalm 119:147

When we mess up or fail, our natural inclination is to try to hide our mistakes and fix the issues ourselves. This is nothing new. From the time Adam and Eve hid from God in the Garden of Eden, we’ve been trying to hide our messes from God. But it wasn’t a good plan for Adam and Eve, and it isn’t a good plan now. Hiding a mess doesn’t make it go away, and shouldering a crushing burden alone will eventually crush you.

Make no mistake, God can clearly see that mess you’re trying to hide. You aren’t fooling Him. But in hiding and turning away from Him, you’re only hurting yourself more. God wants you to turn to Him for help when you need it (and even when you don’t). He’s ready to make things happen on your behalf, to provide comfort and healing, or to inspire you with new dreams. All you have to do is ask.

It isn’t just God that you hide from, though, is it? You try to hide your missteps from people too, even from your loved ones. Maybe you’ve closed yourself off from the people who love you most and want to help you because you’re embarrassed or ashamed. But don’t forget the truth that everyone fails. Those who sincerely love you will understand, and they will be ready to support you and help you however they can.

What are some problems you are facing right now? How can you ask for help from God and from those who love you?"'

Excerpted with permission from Live Your Dreams, copyright Thomas Nelson.