Author Archives: Dr. Matthew Lee Smith

Don’t Fool Yourself!

It happens every day … mostly because we are so generous and loving. We choose to believe someone because of what they say. Then, a few days, weeks, or months later we are bitten by that same person. Their lifestyle … Continue reading

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Will We Ever Learn?

  Have you noticed how many times you have witnessed a divided church, a divided family, a divided workplace? Jesus tells us that there are only TWO bleak futures for such a group … “However, knowing what they were thinking, … Continue reading

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1 Vital Necessity to a Receiving Faith!

Faith Receives After Faith Obeys “So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, … Continue reading

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5 Character Traits Building A Confident Faith!

Trusting the God Who Promises the Practical “Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great … Continue reading

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Hope For Today – So That It Will Go Well For You!

Stubbornness. You might not be, but you can see the face of someone in your family that is, right? And what happens when we are stubborn? That’s right … we often hit one of life’s immovable barriers … causing us … Continue reading

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Join Us In Praying for Texas and the Gulf Coast!

Please join the Eagles In Leadership staff as we pray for Texas and the Gulf Coast in anticipation of Hurricane Harvey’s imminent arrival. Thank you! For more information check here.    

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3 Results When We Live By Faith!

Faith Receives After Faith Obeys “They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God … Continue reading

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Hope For Today – God Wants to Show You Amazing Things!

  There are times when we feel like we are at the end of our rope! Nothing seems to be working and everything seems to be going wrong. Do you know what I mean? Maybe you are there right now. … Continue reading

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2 Different Directions That Reveal Our Faith, Or the Lack Of It!

Faith Doesn’t Use Age As An Excuse “After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” (Genesis 5:32, ESV) “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the … Continue reading

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When Our Stubbornness Requires a Price!

Being independent is an American attribute. However, when God calls us to depend upon Him, many of us move into “refusal mode.”  We think we have a better plan, a better idea, a better way.  And that is where things … Continue reading

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