How can you tell if God is opening a door for you and if it’s from God or only you trying to kick the door open?
1. The Open Door Points to God’s Glory
No door that God opens will ever contradict Scripture. For example, a man who thought … ➡
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💡👑 How To Overcome Prejudice
The first thing to understand in this discussion is that there is only one race—the human race. Caucasians, Africans, Asians, Indians, Arabs, and Jews are not different races. Rather, they are different ethnicities of the human race. All human beings have the same physical characteristics (with minor variations, of … ➡
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💡👑 How Do We Know The Creator Is The God Of The Bible?
You can believe fallible man’s ideas that there is no God, or trust the perfect Word of God, the 66 books of the Bible, that says there is. The issue is simple; it is a matter of faith—God exists or God doesn’t exist. The exciting thing about being a … ➡
👑🙏🏽 Prayer: Receiving What You’ve Asked For Or Not Knowing What To Ask For?
We no longer confuse “this present evil age” (Gal. 1:4) with the kingdom which our Lord proclaimed and in connection with which He said: “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (Matt. 21:22). Under the present circumstances it is a good thing that … ➡
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💡👑 How To Be Saved
In His infinite love, God provided a plan of salvation based on the precious shed blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. Please bear in mind that God will not accept your good works, church membership, baptism, or confirmation. If these things could save us, then Christ died in vain. … ➡
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🙏🏽 Prayer to Restore Our Focus On the LORD
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to You through prayer. Lord, I ask that You restore my focus to You and the promises in Your Words of life. Bless us and protect us, smile on us and be gracious to us, show us Your favor and … ➡
💍👑 The Most Important Issue In Marriage
If you don’t know anything about marriage, I want you to understand this one thing: The most important issue in marriage is a personal relationship with God. Your life and your marriage will be more impacted by your relationship with Jesus than anything else.
All men and women … ➡
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🙏🏽 Prayer To Overcome Hate
Heavenly Father,
Today I lift up my heart to You, because it has become filled with hatred. Lord, I plead with You to intervene in my life and help me overcome this hatred, and anger, and resentment. Help me to reason … to discern … and to make the … ➡
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💍👑 Who Completes You? Knowing The Original Design For Relationships
I don’t believe we were designed to complete each other. I also feel that when we espouse this belief system, we set ourselves up for relational strife. In the Bible, it is instructed that we are to be completed in Him … not in other people. When we’re completed … ➡
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🙏🏽 Prayer To Forgive
Heavenly Father,
I need Your wisdom and Your guidance. By reading the Scriptures, I have gained a better understanding of forgiving others and with Your help, I willfully choose to extend forgiveness from my heart. I confess my sin of unforgiveness and the damage it has done to my … ➡
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👑 Freedom From Pornography
Years ago I was struggling with pornography. I would fall into it and hate myself for it. I felt an incredible amount of shame and condemnation. As a result I was not pursuing God. I hated this sin but was powerless to overcome it in my own strength. I … ➡
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🙏🏽 A Confession To Women
God has continually opened my eyes to the pain of the dishonored and shamed women in our world and as a result, my spirit and conscious has become immensely overwhelmed by the weight of these transgressions and dishonor that men have shown women for generations. I cannot speak on … ➡
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👑 A Strong And Focused Sense Of Future
“The way we conceive the future sculpts the present, gives contour and tone to nearly every action and thought through the day. If our sense of future is weak, we live listlessly.
The Christian faith has always been characterized by a strong and focused sense of future, with belief … ➡
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💡👑 Are We Stuck With Our Past?
All of us have a history and all of us have our respective futures. We cannot change the past but we have the innate ability to create our futures. For most of us, our past contains some good memories and some painful memories. We have made some wise choices … ➡
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💡👑 Are We Blessed Because We Are Fruitful?
One of my favorite Scripture verses occurs in the opening chapter of the Bible: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.'” – Genesis 1:28
Does God want us to be fruitful? Absolutely. Does God bless people because … ➡
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💡👑 Why Does God Seem To Wait?
Why does God seem to wait when we so desperately are begging Him to “do something?” When we think of God’s timing, it can be common to lapse into a mindset that God’s clock is unintelligible, wound by a Deity who is distant and aloof to our desires. The … ➡
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👑 Finding Peace In The Battle
Imagine you’re in a battle, surrounded by hatred, violence and every type of evil imaginable. You’ve been in this battle for years, you’re in it now and there’s no end in site. All the sudden (in the middle of the battlefield), 20′ tall angels appear to surround you along … ➡
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👑 Serving When Called
When my kids were small, they were enamored with Siberian huskies because … well, they’re sled dogs and they’re cool! They wanted a husky more than anything and mentioned it often (by often, I mean often). After caving in to my daughter (a common occurrence), we found a beautiful … ➡
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💍🙏🏽 Prayer To Restore Our Marriage
Heavenly Father,
I praise You that You are always in control and I pray that You will show us the power of prayer. Father please breathe hope into our marriage, showing us and speaking to us that You can heal, restore and rebuild our covenant before You. Lord, we … ➡
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👑 Living And Loving Without Fear
Fearless love means that your heart is hidden and sacred. Acquiring and sustaining a love for God and wrapping yourself in His mercy is a deeply profound feeling … one which encompasses you and encourages you on a daily basis to displace self-righteousness with unwavering humility.
Love is being … ➡
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