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The Importance of Prayer
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Somehow, our culture has created this misnomer that prayer is a last result. There are people that will hear about some challenge and when every humanly option has been exhausted, they’ll say, “Well, we could always pray about it.” This is the complete opposite of what God wants in our lives. God wants prayer…
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By One Man’s Obedience
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Romans 5:19: “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.” Let’s break this verse down: One man’s disobedience caused many to be made sinners. This is talking about Adam and his disobedience to God’s command in the Garden of Eden to eat…
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Sanctified By The Truth
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Jesus says in John 17:17, “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” If you look up the meaning of the word “sanctify” in a Vine’s dictionary, it says this: “The separation of the believer from the world in his behavior — by the Father through the Word.” We are separated from the…
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Putting God First In Our Lives
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Our God is a God of order. When He created the Ten Commandments and gave the Law to the Israelites, His first commandment was meaningful: “You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Exodus 20:3 (NKJV) This wasn’t a suggestion, but a guide as to how we need to live our lives: By putting…
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Relying on God Not Ourselves
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Colossians 2:8 (NLT) says, “Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ.” I wonder how many blessings and ministries get derailed because we suffocate them with our own plans, our own regulations, our own…
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How To Handle Teacher Burnout Biblically
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As a junior at Eastern Kentucky University, I was majoring in special education with an emphasis on behavioral disorders. I always had such a passion for children that would beat you, curse at you, and openly defy you and that’s what drove me to become a special education teacher. As I was continuing along…
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Faith and Works: Working Together to Share Christ
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14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then…