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Author Archives: Dr. Matthew Lee Smith
Turn-Around Tuesday – Dealing With The Inevitable!
“So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged abundance, Bible, change, character, child of God, children, choice, commands, consequences, curse, detriment, disobedience, God, good, growth, inevitable, judgment, justice, learning, life, loving, mercy, nature, New Testament, painful, parents, personality, problems, rules, siffering, sorrow, trials, troubles, verdict, wisdom, Word of God
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Help Is Already Here!
“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.”” (Genesis 2:18, CSB) A helper corresponding to him. When God makes two people into one, He blesses … Continue reading
Posted in Magnificent Marriage Mondays, Marriage
Tagged aid, assailed, assist, attacked, God, helper, husband, insulted, man, marriage, or assaulted, power, presence of God, protection, refuge, role, shield, strength, strengthen, trouble, Unity, wife, woman
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Hope For Today – Taking Care of Your Support Group
I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Todayto remind us that within our local church lies our greatest support group for life abundant! Hope For Today is a part of the ministry of Eagles … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
Tagged Christ, Christian, church, condemn, expose, family, follower, giving, gossip, heart, life, love, mind, miserable, one another, reach, selfish, struggling, Sunday School, support group, Ten Commandments
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Faith Filled Friday – Faith Does All God Commands!
“Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him … And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.” (Genesis 6:22; 7:5, ESV) Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. How many times have … Continue reading
Posted in faith, Faith-Filled Fridays
Tagged command, faith, faithful, frustrated, future, global, God, inattention to detail, incomplete, incompletion, instruction, insubordination, Jesus, martial, Noah, Noah's Ark, plan, purpose, supernatural, Timeline, transdimensional
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Train Them Thursday – Come As A Witness!
“There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Train Them Thursdays (discipleship)
Tagged authoritative, city, confident, Couch Potato, disciple, discipleship, energy, ethnicity, experience, God, inner city, insight, Jesus, John the Baptist, joy, Leadership, money, path, persuasive, product, rural, scars, service, time, witness
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Focus On Those Who Respond!
“He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him. But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged belief, childlike, children, compliment, effective, embrace, father, God, heaven, influence, Jesus, Leadership, live, love, negative, people, pray, relationship, respond, treatment, willing, worker
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Turn-Around Tuesday – Blaming Others Won’t Help!
“The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.” So the LordGod asked the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged aggravated, audacity, blame, cajoled, choice, consequences, decision, forgive, forgiveness, human, humility, mercy, mistake, problems, pushed, shameless, shoved, toddler, trials, triumph, troubles
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Magnificent Marriage Monday – Marriage Comes With the Blessing of God!
“God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”” (Genesis 1:28, CSB) God … Continue reading
