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Train Them Thursday – Attitude’s Key to Discipleship!
“And Mary said: “My soul exalts the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. For He has had regard for the humble state of His slave girl; For behold, from this time on all generations will count … Continue reading
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Willing Worker Wednesday – When God’s Ability and Spirit-Filling Meet!
“Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied: Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and provided redemption for His people.” (Luke 1:67–68, HCSB) Then his father Zechariah was filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
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Turn-Around Tuesday – When God Releases Us!
“Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you … So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
Tagged adrenaline, Ark, choice, choose, choosing, confinement, connection, daughter, emotion, enemies, expectancy, experience, faith, free, God, growth, life, Noah, plan, produce, release, Son, Trust, wife
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Faith Filled Friday – Faith Obeys Immediately!
“Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had … Continue reading
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Willing Worker Wednesday – Learning Our Lessons In the Silence!
“So they motioned to his father to find out what he wanted him to be called. He asked for a writing tablet and wrote: HIS NAME IS JOHN. And they were all amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened and his … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Willing Worker Wednesdays
Tagged ability, abundance, amazed, amazement, distrust, doubt, empathize, faith, frustration, God, heart, intensify, joy, leader, life, lives, path, path of life, peace, praise, presence, priorities, questioning, regret, rekindle, reorder, rewire, seclusion, silence, soul, stepping, titure, Trust, will, willing, willingness
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Hope For Today – Don’t Give Up!
I’m Dr. Matthew Lee Smith and I want to share some Hope For Today to encourage you: Don’t Give Up because God speaks Hope For Today when he says in 2 Chronicles 15.7, (CSB) from the distress of His people in … Continue reading
Posted in Hope For Today, Transformed
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Faith Filled Friday – Faith Embraces God’s Declared Will!
“And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, answer, Bible, child, common sense, compassion, covenant, doubt, everlasting, experiment, fail, faith, forgive, forgiveness, fulfillment, glory, God, guilt, heart, Inventory, Isaac, Ishmael, issue, life, logic, mind, plan, power, prayer, promise, reasoning, Sarah, sin, spiritual, surrogacy, surrogate, Trust, understanding, Vision, wedding, Word of God
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Turn-Around Tuesday – When God Remembers Us!
“But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. The fountains of the deep and the … Continue reading
Posted in 2 - Turn-Around Tuesdays (trials and troubles), Suffering
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Faith Filled Friday – Faith Stretches Reality!
“And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, achieve, belief, believe, birth, centenarian, childbirth, choice, dead, demon-possessed, doubt, dream, faith, God, help, hope, Impossible, impotent, Jesus, laugh, pain, possible, Post-menopausal, problems, promise, Sarah, Son, surrogate parenting, Vision
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Faith Filled Friday – When God Shows Up!
“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.” (Genesis 17:4, ESV) Behold, my covenant is with you. You’ve been faithful. You’ve endured years of trouble and difficulty. You’ve kept your eyes … Continue reading