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  1. When Your Church Fails You

    I'm forced to follow my parents to whatever church they want to go. For the past ten or so years that church has been the one pastored by my uncle. The church is a disaster. Everything there falls apart. The leadership is impossible. My uncle's family is a wreck and he continually ruins...
  2. Relationship Anxiety, I don't believe in taking breaks

    Hello everyone, I am courting a guy who our Lord has sent me through suddenly transpiring events that He told me about before hand in us meeting and for a specific purpose of marriage. A and I both experience anxiety, so we have an understanding when it comes to that. I have OCD and an anxiety...
  3. Relationship Anxiety, I don't believe in taking breaks

    Hello everyone, I am courting a guy who our Lord has sent me through suddenly transpiring events that He told me about before hand in us meeting and for a specific purpose of marriage. A and I both experience anxiety, so we have an understanding when it comes to that. I have OCD and an anxiety...
  4. Confident Assurance

    Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom...
  5. Cause for Much Praise!

    To those of us who are strangers on this earth, whose citizenship is in heaven through faith in Jesus Christ, who were chosen by God before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless before him, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit in our hearts, to obedience to Jesus Christ: May grace...
  6. Don't Shrink Back

    Hebrews 10:19-22 NASB Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere...
  7. His Song Is With Me

    An Original Work / September 9, 2018 Based off Psalm 42 Why downcast? Why downcast is My soul within me? Put your hope in God. For I will yet praise Him, My Savior and my God. My soul thirsts for God. Where can I meet Him? Why downcast? Why downcast is My soul within me? Put your hope in...
  8. The Difference He Makes

    Colossians 1:13-14 NASB For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He Rescued Us The whole purpose of our salvation, the reason Jesus went to that cross to die for our sins, is that...
  9. When We Don't Understand

    John 14:25-26 NASB “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” The Holy Spirit Jesus, prior to his arrest, trial and...
  10. Struggling With Hope and Daily Joy

    Hey all! I hope the Lord is good to you this fine day! I consider myself to be a steady Christian. I've struggled with assurance in the past, but I have no fear of hell or death, as I am convinced of where I'm going once I pass on. But lately I've been struggling with experiencing joy here on...
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    Being loving

    This is what Jesus has taught me about walking the Narrow Path. Being Loving Being loving to others is being patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and looking past other’s faults. Being loving is not being jealous or envious of others, but happy for other’s success. Being loving is not having...
  12. Earnestly Seek Him

    Isaiah 26:1-6 ESV In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you...
  13. The Lord, My Stronghold

    Psalm 94:1-7 ESV O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They...
  14. We Wait Patiently

    Romans 8:24-25 ESV For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Recap The hope in which we were saved is described for us in Romans 6:1-23 and in Romans 8:1-23. Jesus...
  15. Hope Deferred

    Psalm 42:1-2 ESV As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? I understand this. It is a deep longing of the soul, not just for God, but for alone time with God. It is a deep...
  16. Sad To See

    An Original Work / August 8, 2018 Sad to see so many lost, So many so afraid. Sad to see the circumstance When Christians fail to pray. Sad to see the Bibles closed, Now sitting on a shelf. Sad to see the church engaged In entertaining self. Sad to see the gospel told To satisfy the flesh...
  17. Losing hope, feeling bereft

    Although my husband is not a believer, I became 'quiverfull' convicted around the year 2000. I had 4 children plus 7 miscarriages. I am 47 now so, although having more children remains my deepest heart desire, it does not seem likely that I will be blessed. what did I do wrong? Why do my...
  18. When At First You Don't Succeed...

    "Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him." James 1:12 Do you ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending cycle of the same kinds of suffering and challenges? I...
  19. Things Not Seen

    Hebrews 11:1-2 NASB Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. Things Hoped For What do you hope for? Yes, as believers in Jesus Christ, we have the hope (the promise) of eternal life with God, and heaven as our...
  20. The Prayers Of Paul: A Compilation Of All Prayers

    The prayers of Paul are not meant to just be studied; they are meant to be prayed for and appropriated into our spiritual lives so that we can bear worthy fruits like the Apostle did. In 1 Corinthians 11:1 Paul the apostle enjoined that we should be followers of him even as he is a follower of...