There’s many verses from God’s Word on prayer, but perhaps you’re wondering, “How often should I pray?” We never seem to question how often we should nourish our body with food. For me, it’s around three times per day, but there’s times we may miss breakfast or another meal. We definitely feel the hunger pains if we skip eating for very long. One way or the other, as you can see it’s a continual process of nourishing ourselves. Another question to consider is how often do we talk with our friends? Those with whom we have the best relationships — there’s often a frequent communication pattern involved. We know Daniel…
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Do We Have Enough? Is It Sufficient?
Guest post by Mary Sparks, Pastor’s wife, Hope Baptist Church, Joplin, MO Sufficient? While pondering on the phrase “God’s grace is sufficient” my mind kept wondering …is it really? What is sufficient? Is it “just enough” to meet your need? Is it a “little more” to meet your need and have some left over? Does it lack slightly below the “filling mark”? Think on these things: When your car is near the empty mark and the yellow light is on and the fuel light is on, and you are perhaps 30 miles from any station (you are guessing ‘cause you really don’t know how far it is). Would one gallon…
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Gain Greatly by Turning Grumbling to Gratitude
*Updated! Originally posted in January of 2010. Have you ever had one of those days that absolutely nothing went right and you thought to yourself, “I should have just stayed in bed?” Perhaps you muddled on through the day responding to others with the shortest answers possible because you just knew the day wasn’t going to get any better — and you couldn’t muster up any more strength to interact in any deep conversations. It’s true that we all have bad days, but we miss the opportunity to be a blessing to others when we sulk about our own circumstances. I believe we also miss the opportunity to be thanking…
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50 Reasons Why God is So Wonderful
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your problems? I know I do at times. Sadly, I have to admit that there are even occasions when I allow Satan to feed me his contaminating lies, and I start to feel hopeless of muddling through life. Gloom and doom are Satan’s dirty lies that he enjoys feeding us. Here’s the thing you and I need to do… Climb out of bed. Praise God for all that He’s done in taking care of you over the years. Pray. Pour out your heart to the Lord, casting all your cares upon Him, because He really does care and love you. (I Peter 5:7) Feed…
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New Words Will Be Spoken Today…. How Will You Use Them?
Each day is, in fact, a new gift…it’s another day that the Lord has mercifully let us wake up to see. With our new day comes new opportunities. New words will be spoken. The important question is, will our words be acceptable in the sight of the Lord? If He were sitting right next to us, would we still say it? Our tongue is such a powerful tool. We have the ability to encourage others… or the ability to hurt and discourage others. We have the ability to glorify God with our words…or let Satan use our words as a poisonous weapon. And just a little poison can be quite…
