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“But I want both pistachio and peanut doughnuts” “You can’t have both.” How many times have I heard those words in my life? What to choose, I often want both. My husband gets frustrated when we go to a dinner where they have a set menu...
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Three reasons people may fast 1. Health -Although sometimes viewed as unhealthy, depriving, or reserved for religious reasons, short-term fasting can offer excellent health benefits. It generally means it is the withholding of food or drink, though some people will do...
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I am no longer worthy of being called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his Father.“But while he was still a long way off, his Father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him, and...
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But whosoever shall deny me before men, he will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 10:33 The word deny is not a popular one in our 21st-century culture. In fact, we live in a world of gratification, wanting to be satisfied with our wants, needs,...
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Why explore a relationship with God? Pascal, the famous mathematician and philosopher, wrote in the 1600sThere is a God-shaped vacuum in each man’s heart, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus...
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Author Sallie Dawkins says ‘You can know the heart of God for your life’ P167, Driving along the interstate through Florida last summer, I stopped for coffee. Coffee might help me stay alert, I thought. So, I diligently searched the roadway signs to find...
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So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain,...
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What does it mean when someone says, take it easy? The definition of easy is to proceed in a calm and relaxed manner, with little effort, and to be at rest. I have constantly been personally challenged to take it easy. Taking it easy also means proceeding in a calm...
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A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty,but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier. proverbs 27:3 My husband has landscaped our large native garden with rocks and stones that he found on the side of roads. We would scour our area for rocks during the lockdowns...
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My dad, in the 1974 floods, needed to carry me. My brother was two weeks old, and I was two and a half; the rain was pelting down with such ferocity that it was hard to hear the other person speak, so mum told me. We lived in the Brisbane suburb of Chelmer, which had...
