Category Archives: Encouragement

There’s nothing like running to the “happy place.”

March 18, 2014   No comments

For I will [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I will replenish every languishing and sorrowful person. – Jeremiah 31:25, Amplified Bible (AMP) Sometimes we get exhausted, and all of our energy is spent. The causes of such exhaustion are

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Patiently serve while you are waiting for the “whys.”

March 13, 2014   No comments

…and cast their crowns before the throne… – Revelation 4:10, KJV A seventeen year old young man, whom I will call Dale, was fighting AIDS. In the hospital, undergoing treatment to prolong his life, there were no doubt times when

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Never forget to ask the Great Physician for healing.

March 6, 2014   No comments

But when Jesus heard it, He replied, Those who are strong and well (healthy) have no need of a physician, but those who are weak and sick. – Matthew 9:12, Amplified Bible (AMP) Take a moment to read the following

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When you get discouraged, how long does it take you to get back on your feet?

March 5, 2014   No comments

Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. – Joshua 1:9, Amplified Bible (AMP) Sometimes we strive for a goal,

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Half-hearted worship = miserable Christianity.

March 4, 2014   No comments

And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze [attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze], he lived. –

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Don’t underestimate the value of $66.

March 3, 2014   No comments

And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19, Amplified Bible (AMP) What can $66 buy you? Depending on where you dine, it can buy

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Moses said, “I’m a failure. Just kill me.”

February 28, 2014   No comments

And if this is the way You deal with me, kill me, I pray You, at once, and be granting me a favor and let me not see my wretchedness [in the failure of all my efforts]. – Numbers 11:15,

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I have met my enemy, and he is too much for me.

February 25, 2014   No comments

He took off his royal robes and prophesied before Samuel and lay down stripped thus all that day and night. So they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? – 1 Samuel 19:24, Amplified Bible (AMP) For the first seven

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There is purpose wrapped within the pain.

February 24, 2014   No comments

Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done… – Isaiah 46:10, Amplified Bible (AMP) In September 1931, Amy Carmichael, known affectionately as Amma (mother) by the Indian children

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Facing the lions may be the best thing you can do for others.

February 19, 2014   No comments

Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting… – Daniel 6:18, Amplified Bible, (AMP) The door of the lions’ den was shut, and then the wait began. The nighttime hours brought great trial and tribulation of

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