Spiritual Practice of Awe

I think awe is an exercise, both a doing and a being. It is a spiritual muscle of our humanity that we can only keep from atrophying if we exercise it habitually.


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Put Your Sword Down

Over the last year, and especially the last days, I have witnessed the church and particularly her leaders, my brothers and sisters on both sides of an American aisle that doesn’t exist in heaven, go to war with one another on behalf of their devotion ‘for or against’ a politician.
The politician Donald Trump isn’t a Savior or a Satan;

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His Love

“HIS LOVE”
The very name I use to address you—Beloved—proclaims how dearly I love you. I showed you the full extent of My Love by enduring humiliation, torture, and death for you. No greater love than this is possible, or even conceivable.

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Seek Me

Seek Me

Do not feel guilty about taking time to seek My Face; you are simply responding to the tugs of divinity within you. I made you in My image, and I hid heaven in your heart.

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You Can’t Afford to Not to Give

‘Bring to the storehouse a full tenth of what you earn so there will be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the LORD All-Powerful. ‘I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need’” (Malachi 3:10 NCV).

If you want God to bless your finances, put him first in your finances. This is called the spiritual discipline of giving.

God is specific about this habit of giving the first part of your income back to him: “‘Bring to the storehouse a full tenth of what you earn so there will be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord All-Powerful. ‘I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need’” (Malachi 3:10 NCV).

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Papers & Boxes

Was it a night like this when you were born
The sky painted dark, but the stars so clear
While you were sharing with the animals their room
Did they smile and look at you
Like they do in the coloring books, and cartoons,
And I wish that I could’ve held you

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A Beautiful Death in Fall

The ruckus of autumn’s glory gives way to the silence of winter. Just in time for me to notice how many leaves there are and how beautiful each is, they’re going. The colors fade, and the leaves fall.


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Heaven

Heaven. Everybody wants to go there but not everyone knows how to get there.

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Battle of the Mind

“I have made up my mind to obey your laws forever, no matter what” (Psalm 119:112 CEV). The reason why most people are ineffective in life is that they’ve never learned how to fight the battle of the mind.


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God Finds Joy in You

 

God Finds Joy in You

“I’m a mess. I’m nothing and have nothing; make something of me. You [God] can do it; you’ve got what it takes” (Psalm 40:17 The Message).

A lot of people are afraid to trust Jesus with their lives because they think that means he will narrow it. He’ll cramp their style and make their life smaller with a lot of rules and restrictions.

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