Familiar Spirits

   Like most people, I'm sure you've probably heard the term "familiar spirit" at some point in your life. Perhaps it was during a sermon at church or while reading a spooky book. Maybe it was referenced in a television program or a documentary that had something to do with witches or Halloween. Recently a [...]

Devote Yourselves To Prayer

      "Be earnest and unwearied and steadfast in your prayer [life], being [both] alert and intent in [your praying] with thanksgiving". Colossians 4:2 (AMP) "All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer". Acts 2:42-47 (NLT) "Pray in the [...]

Never Stop Praying For Your Spouse

If there is one thing I have learned over the past twenty-one years of marriage it's this…never stop praying. I know that my marriage…which went through five years of separation and near divorce…is whole and thriving today because of prayer. When my husband first called me after three years of nearly no contact and wanted [...]

Pray First, React Later

How is it that a perfectly fine day can suddenly erode into a mess of chaos and stress? Seriously. Blue sky, sunshine, and all is supposedly right with the world.  Until you get a phone call  or the caution light goes on in the car. Somebody cuts you off in traffic or you discover an [...]

Voices Raised in Unity

  "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent [...]

The Day the World Changed

I can remember getting up very early as a child and going to church before sunrise on the day we celebrate Jesus victory over death. Living in Michigan it could be rather cold. Some times there would even be snow still on the ground, but it didn't matter. We would stand there in the shadow [...]

He Already Knew Us

I was reading in the gospel of John this morning. There is one particular part which always sticks out to me. Jesus is with His disciples after the passover meal, basically teaching them for the last time before He's arrested, and He is praying for the disciples. Asking the Father to protect them and help [...]

Oh The Irony

I'm sitting here in my bedroom looking out the window at a beautiful view. The sky is blue, the sun is shining and the temperature is warm enough to step outside my door without a coat.     And for the last day of Winter in Michigan that's saying something.      We've had amazing weather [...]

Faith Foundation

As I mentioned yesterday I'm attending an online seminar for women this week called GET REVIVED sponsored by A Woman Inspired. I wrote one blog inspired by a session taught by Mary Snyder and here is the other. Building our foundation on faith in Jesus Christ.  Obviously for a Christian this really should be a no-brainer right? [...]

Impossible Faith

My husband and I watched a movie about a man of incredible faith yesterday. Actually, it was the second time we watched it. My husband needed a test DVD for his new Blue-Ray player to convince me it would actually play the DVD's we already own, so I picked Faith Like Potatoes. After all, if [...]

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