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joyinjess

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joyinjess
2012-07-10T13:39:37

Feelings

Feelings are like spoiled children: the more you indulge them the more they will control you. You shouldn’t suppress your feelings or deny them, but you must not be led by them. -B. Gass.

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joyinjess
2012-07-10T13:35:53

Promises

My Lord never fails to honor his promises; and when we bring them to his throne, he never sends them back unanswered.

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joyinjess
2012-07-10T13:14:11

You Are First

Upon awakening, first give praise to God and, having asked His intercession, begin your most important work, that is, to pray in the heart, purely and without distraction...We are commanded to bring...

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joyinjess
2012-07-10T12:57:02

Fleeing For Refuge

No calamity can be to us an unmixed evil if we carry it in direct and fervent prayer to God, for even as one in taking shelter from the rain beneath a tree may find on its branches fruit which he...

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joyinjess
joyinjess
2012-07-10T12:44:33

Prayer

The proper objective of prayer is not to enlarge my borders, build my empire, or expand my wallet but to further the kingdom of God. The point is not to elevate my name but to hallow God’s name.

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joyinjess
joyinjess
2012-07-10T12:39:54

Total Dependence

He calls us to launch further and deeper, to places where we cannot depend on our own experience and abilities. He puts us in places where we must depend entirely on Him. -Chris Tiegreen.

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joyinjess
2012-07-10T12:38:20

Healing

If God’s aim is to grant perfect health to all his children, he has failed, because no one enjoys perfect health, and everyone dies.

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joyinjess
joyinjess
2012-05-28T15:59:35

Contentment

“Christian contentment…is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at his disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with...

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joyinjess
2012-05-28T14:56:48

Successful Prayer

Successful prayer isn’t about getting what you want from God—it’s about cementing His glory and honor into their proper, primary place, and submitting your desires and affections to Him.

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joyinjess
joyinjess
2012-05-26T14:51:17

Where Are You, God?

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him.

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joyinjess
joyinjess
2012-04-10T16:57:51

Kind Words

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid..

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