Please bear patience with me as I share a quick summary of the early years of David. Today, I’m driving a SIMPLE TRUTH to share with you… It takes time and patience to let GOD do His work in our lives. It’s our human nature to want everything worked out RIGHT this minute! Although we’d prefer things to be fixed immediately, it often takes TIME as GOD is working and preparing in your life and mine to give us an expected end. (Jeremiah 29:11 kjv) God told Samuel that He had rejected Saul from reigning over Israel. Samuel was instructed to go choose one of Jesse’s sons to be king.…
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What David Learned About Fear
I would say one of my faulty weaknesses is FEAR. David often spoke in Psalms about FEAR and being afraid. (In the past, I have referred to Psalms as sort of being David’s journal.) David certainly had a reason to be afraid when Saul and his huge army set out to kill him. He says… “For I have heard the slander of many: FEAR was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.” – Psalm 31:13 kjv Sometimes I’m surprised at David’s FEAR, since he courageously brought down Goliath, the giant. Could not the same God that helped him destroy the…
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3 Simple Ways You Can Offer Praises to God
Admit it! You really like to hear praise after you do something for someone else. It may not be your motive for helping, but it’s nice to know they are grateful and thankful for your help. It seems that it’s in our human nature to crave praise. Because God has made us in His image (Genesis 1:27), I can imagine how very pleasing it is for God to hear our praises given to Him. Here’s 3 simple ways you can offer praises to God: 1. Share your own testimony of what God has done for you. Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing…
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15 Bible Verses About Hope
Today, I thought I’d share some simple, but good Bible verses about HOPE that you can write in your journal or memorize… God wanted us to have HOPE, and the word is mentioned at least 133 times in the KJV Bible. Furthermore, there are hundreds of additional Bible verses that give significant meaning of adding HOPE to our Christian life and walk with the Lord. First, let’s look at the definition of HOPE…. HOPE noun a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Similar words: aspiration, desire, wish, expectation, ambition, aim, plan, longing, yearning a feeling of trust. verb want something to happen or be the…
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What’s Stopping You From Reaching Your Full Potential for God?
As Christians we often harbor blockades in our life that keep us from reaching our full potential for God. If we were to be honest, most of these hindrances could be removed if we would but yield fully to the Holy Spirit’s convictions. Sometimes we stubbornly cling to doing our own thing for various reasons. Just a few of those things that keep us “stuck in the muck”… We enjoy the pleasure of our sin. We want to participate in what’s popular to do. We hate conflict and don’t want to take a bold stand contrariwise. Our pride causes us to refuse to change. We let ourselves remain as baby…
