(Formerly under the Devotions tab, originally published 9/24/21) Welcome! No judging. No shaming. No condemnation. Hope. Help. Support. Encouragement. This will be my first devotion on this forum. Thank you for checking in and giving us some of your time. Let me make one assumption and we will launch from it. I am assuming that […]
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Do you or have you ever felt like God is ignoring you? Do you feel you are being held behind bars with your pain and your problems? Come with me, let’s take a look at the story of Lazarus from John 11. 1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary
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The song “Gonna be Alright” by Ryan Ellis just literally stops me in my tracks. It is a reminder of the pain I have felt in my life YET … God has heard every cry and seen every tear from my childhood through today. Not a tear or heartache has been wasted because God has
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I recently heard an online message from Tony Evans describing that God is like a “Jack in the Box” for many of us. We let Him pop up when it suits our needs. Oh, I was good at church on Sundays. Sure, God anything you say. That lasted for a few hours, then I would
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2 Corinthians 12:7b-10 I am beginning to understand why God allowed the thorn in Paul’s side, let alone the thorn in my side. You see I have had a thorn in my side for as long as I can remember. I cannot say exactly how the thorn started but this I know. I hated my
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DO YOU HAVE A PORN ADDICTION??? Common symptoms indicating that casual porn use has risen to the level of addiction: Repeated porn use regardless of possible outcomes and/or pledges to stop The amount of time spent on porn use continues to increase Substantial intervals of time (hours or days) wasted looking for and viewing pornography
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From John 5:1-14a Jesus went to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish religious holidays. Once inside the city, near the Sheep Gate was the Bethesda Pool. It was well known for the sick (blind, lame, paralyzed, etc.) to lay around the pool on the platforms to wait for a certain movement of the water caused by
