How long can we stay at a hostile place? For Jacob, he endured 20 years. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Genesis 31:41 (KJV) Jacob lived 147 years (Genesis […]
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I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Find Your Why is finding our purpose to focus our energy and live in alignment with what we believe matters. When I read about Abraham’s servant in Genesis 24, he seemed to live by Find Your Who when he carried out the task given
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Sometimes we think we have to be perfect, or at least try to be. Other times we have a nagging thought that because we have not been kind, gracious or generous enough, that perhaps God is pointing his finger at us. Reading about Sarah, particularly how she handled Hagar, makes me ponder how gracious God
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What three words do you remember most? For the first few years of my Christian life, Remember Lot’s Wife was on my mind all the time! Remember Lot’s wife. Luke 17:32 (KJV) Jesus said this when he was explaining about the coming of the kingdom, and that it would come suddenly – just as the
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Being in the waiting room in the hospital is scary. Even if the risk of surgery going wrong is not high for your loved one, seeing all the other families waiting for theirs is gut-wrenching. Life has its own waiting room of sorts. We may be waiting for our health to improve, waiting for a
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