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When is the Right Time to Awaken Your Heart?

For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:2 NLT During a pause between beats in the rhythm of a winter’s afternoon, I stand at the kitchen sink washing dishes, grateful…

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Seek God in the Big and Little

“Then you will call upon me and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” {JEREMIAH 29:12} In the middle of a triple-digit heat wave, the back-to-school hustle had left me panting for breath. The humidity was stifling. I had been…

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Wandering Heart

O to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above. ROBERT ROBINSON, 1758…

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Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. {Proverbs 4:23} The other day I wrote about being refreshed by God’s unfailing love, and in that post I decided to focus on doing ten things this week that bring me joy. So I posed the question to my friends…

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Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. {Psalm 42} Life is lived in practicalities. Each day we must go about our daily work dealing with matters of life. It makes one thirsty for tender moments of worship when the Lord’s presence is…

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