Psalm 61:4 (NIV) I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings. One of the most insecure times in my life was when I was out of work for over a year. This was also a time that I became close to God. In a strange way it was the worst and
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Psalm 36:7(NIV) How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. Yesterday as I left the office on my way to lunch I saw this young straggly looking guy on the sidewalk with a confused look on his face, I asked if he needed help. Then he asked me if I could
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Psalm 17:8-9(NIV) Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings from the wicked who are out to destroy me, from my mortal enemies who surround me. When I was a child I learned in school near the beginning of kindergarten about a program called the blue star program. Sitting crossed legged on
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1 Peter 4:10 (NIV) Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. The other day I was working on some sprinkler lines in the yard and I needed a particular shovel from the garage. I have four shovels hanging in my garage each designed for
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Ephesians 6:12 (NIV) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. There are so many things in this world that fall under the category of struggle. We struggle to raise children well, we struggle
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Ephesians 3:2 (NIV) Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, The Bible tells us that we receive many things when we place our trust in Jesus and begin a relationship with Him. Scripture tells us we have fellowship with other believers, we also have the Holy Spirit living in us
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1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (NIV) Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is
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Romans 6:6-7 (NIV) For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Sometimes when I read this verse I wonder to myself about certain sins that
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Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. One of the songs I remember singing as a kid growing up in church had a couple lines in the middle that went something like, “Prone to wander Lord I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love.” In my simple faith I
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Romans 1:20 (NIV) For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. I remember once seeing an incredible display of the Northern Lights. At the time we had lived in northern Minnesota and seeing the Aurora Borealis was
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