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Creating a Vibe
What are we (me and my spouse) doing when we get in unity about our yard looking nice with some flowers by the door and some worship music playing on the back patio? WE ARE GETTING OUR VIBE GOING! Families can have weak vibes and families can have strong vibes. I hope at our house, when our sons come in the door, that we have a friendly and welcoming and loving vibe. One thing is certain, love vibes permeate. They leave a lasting influence. As our family grows, we want our sons’ wives to feel the same thing we’ve tried to give our own kids. We want them to feel…
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Captivated or a Captive? Pt.2
Are you captivated or a captive? Nothing should be exalted above God. That’s captivation with Him. We see that He is our All and All. God gives us the power to take captive big or small things that exalt themselves above Him, however isn’t it much easier to do that when they start rather than wait until they are so big, we feel we can’t capture them?! If we bad mouth something God is trying to do and bent on not going His way, we are giving freedom to the wrong thing. We are essentially giving flight to and empowering and letting it free to do damage in our life…
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Captivated or a Captive? Pt.1
Are you captivated or are you a captive? Those that feel like a captive to the enemy, in an area of your life or like you’ve been taken captive by some thing, and you want God to captivate you… you want God to have control of your thoughts and actions… you want to be disciplined in Godly ways so that you can love your life, live the life you believe in, and live the life you are meant for!! -Those in need of prayers for being able to take captive what the enemy is trying to take you captive with, maybe alcohol, food, thoughts, emotional chaos, etc. Hey!! Don’t stay…
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Faith Living
What’s at the top of your dream list? Do you have a saying that you repeat to yourself in order to keep the hope alive for it? I have many! One of them is a more recent declaration and is concerning this title. I open my arms as wide as they can go with my hands spread out, and I say: “I receive the Bigger Things. Lord, I am open to You.” I say this over and over in my prayer time and within myself and even under my breath throughout the day wherever I am. I’m not going to doubt it. I’m going to believe it. Faith Living is…
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Changing your faith
Are you living the life you love, the life you believe in, and the life you are meant for? If you’re not living the life you love, the life you believe in, and the life you are meant for and a lot has to change for you to answer “yes” to these three things… I’m here to tell you this: Changing your faith can change your life! To those who can say yes to that three point question… Are you interested in somebody else’s life being changed today? It would be real easy for me to not get up at all when I’m motioned to go to the platform and…
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The Preceding & Succeeding Spirit
Anytime I read the red letters of Jesus, I realize there is a timeless message in every red lettered sentence. Each time I look at my life through what His Spirit is trying to say to me from His Word, I especially recognize the red parts as intense passion and love. His preceding and succeeding Spirit knows what it takes to win in the struggles I’m having. He is an unfailing Spirit that provides this unfailing love! He is the beginning and the end. The Holy Spirit of God has covered all my ground, showing up before me and following me all my days. Some people in my life may…
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Clothed Powerfully
Have you witnessed someone who appears to be dressed in bitterness, unhappiness, or meanness? When a person is not yet interested in being clothed in godliness, it is difficult for God to invest in them the way He wants to. The level that He desires to “clothe” us is top notch. Nothing missing. (Luke 24:49) These “power” clothes are our attire. Our cover. Our supply. We are dressed and endued with a more confident, stronger authority and freedom than we ever had on our own. We can be done with our old clothes! We can get rid of our old patterns. If we start to get dressed in the old…
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Blanket of Peace
Each part of love is like a piece of yarn that makes a blanket. Underneath that blanket, we are warm, we are comforted. We are held secure. The God of Love is with us as we do OUR PART to create a pattern of love that keeps out strife. Which piece does your string represent?” When I shared this message with my church, we had pieces of different colored yarn on all the chairs in the sanctuary. I told them “you have a piece because you are a piece of the fabric that’s being made! -Of the love pattern.” I felt strongly that God told me to tell them they…
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Pattern of Love
Let me ask you something. Could your family use some positivity? When strife springs up in your mind, inside your heart, or within your life, in your spirit, emotions, inside “here” where you live your life… at the work place. In family. In the life of your marriage- More negativity is not going to be the answer. A new pattern is needed to be put in place. The next time strife tries to weave its pattern through your family, I want you to do something that’s been proven. I want you to do 1 Cor. 13. YOU BECOME one of the pieces of love during every point of dissension. If…
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Defeating Strife
Do you want to experience the glory of God’s goodness? So many of us do, but strife comes in and it tries to override what we’re really wanting in life. It keeps popping up. It relentlessly continues to wear you down and eat away at your family. The devil will not tell you he plans on taking your peace by stirring up all kinds of strife- And working in a pattern of strife into the seams and fabrics of your personal life. But strife is a DIRECT threat to our peace. Spiritual peace is stolen by strife!! In talking with people in community who’ve got financial burdens and marital unrest……