We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps. Proverbs 16:9 NLT Resolutions, especially New Year resolutions are extremely popular, and have been for many years. People resolve to do things like lose weight or get organized or even get financially secure, my personal resolution this year. Like many things that are popular though, we need to make sure it’s…
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Patience: Struggling with the Fruits of the Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 Patience. Something I have always struggled with. Something I struggled with as recently as today. Writing this post has been a test of my patience. I’ve been trying to write it for over a week, and life kept getting in the…
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Kindness: A Command Not a Choice
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 2 Timothy 2:24 ESV The greatest commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind, as it says in Matthew 22:37. The second greatest commandment in Matthew 22:39 says that you shall love your neighbor as yourself. To love someone…
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Influence: Letting God Impact Every Area of Your Life
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2…
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Proverbs 31:27-31~ Success and Fearing the Lord
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have…
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