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We’re manipulators. . We want it our way, and th

We’re manipulators. .
We want it our way, and that’s how we pray for it. God change this, heal it, but do it this way. We ask for all the hard answers, but we don’t want to answer that one hard question.
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-Did you commit to serve God... or not?
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Sometimes the biggest questions have the easiest answers, it’s the call to act that’s so difficult.
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God is so ready to love us, but we’re so much slower to just obey. Just trust. Just surrender.
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What if He really does have the perfect plan? What if He really is a God of details, the one that knows all of those awful, painful things and He’s already prepared a way for it all. What if the Bible were real?
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It would mean that this piece of scripture for Ephesians is to be taken literally.
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It would be that we need to lay aside all bitterness, the feelings they’re sorry they caused, and the ones they aren’t. It would mean to set aside what we feel is deserved or warranted, to set aside those “feelings”, the loud noises, distractions, the gossip- the stuff that’s true and the stuff that isn’t- and PUT IT ALL AWAY. A verb, take ACTION. .
And instead be kind, have good character, and be gentle; be forgiving. Forgive; not forgive IF; but most of all be sacrificial, as God IN Christ forgave you... because even if they don’t deserve it.. neither did you.
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Taping this to my bathroom mirror, and my heart. God did not give us all of His reasons, but He has laid out clearly His expectation for response.
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The question is not ‘why, God’ or ‘when, God?’ But Do you trust Him?

Our mistakes are Christ’s victories. The more we

Our mistakes are Christ’s victories. The more we learn to stand in those, the more opportunity He has to grow the kingdom.
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We need remind ourselves that He came to heal the sick, not exploit the well. No one wins when they’re only pretending.
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“And they triumphed over him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimonies; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death” Revelations 12:11

If I could challenge you with anything faith relat

If I could challenge you with anything faith related it would be this: Let the Bible be real for you.
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John 1:1 tells us that in the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God. .
Pick it up. Devotionals are great, but scripture, it’s Christ. Don’t be so quick to feed off of what God has to say to your favorite author, and instead touch His Word, touch Him, and see what He has for you, just You. .
All of this, He sees you. .
Quit doodling scripture in your planners or on something cute for your walls and write it on your heart. .
If you believe God is for you, He will be.
If you believe God is only good, He will be.
If you believe the Bible is real, It will be.
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Because it is, because He is.
In this season, God has not been silent; your Bible has just been closed.

2019 was a year of opportunity. Sometimes I captur

2019 was a year of opportunity. Sometimes I captured all God had for me and sometimes I let myself down.
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I can sum up my greatest take aways over the last three years with Christ... .
Not for people, for Me; I don’t care who did what, be Me; Mean it.
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I want to blur the lines sometimes, make things that are clearly black and white and shake them up to say ‘when it’s fair’ .
Fair is not biblical.
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Reality is there are two kinds of people, saved sinners and sinner sinners. The second reality is God loves both kinds infinitely and mercifully, and not when it’s fair. Actually, His love is poured out to us only when it’s not. .
What if God only loved fairly, only when we deserved it? .
This year’s word is ‘anyway’
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I want to love anyway; forgive anyway; grow anyway; trust anyway; pray anyway; try again anyway.
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All those difficult things, the things that I can’t make sense of, the things I’ve failed at... I want to strive to do them anyway, to be who He’s called me to be anyway.
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2019 was a painful year for me, 2020 will refurbish those things for His plan and purpose. .
What’s your 2020 word?!

“You will come through, you always do. I’m tru

“You will come through, you always do. I’m trusting you with greater things” -Greater Things Mack Brock

“It’s never a decision about hard or not hard.

“It’s never a decision about hard or not hard. It’s a decision to trust God, or not to.” #messandmercy #trust #faith #jeremiah #faithful #faithfirst #trusttheprocess #messandmercyministries #biblejournaling #bibleverse #biblestudy

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