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Well said, well said. I have loved sharing this growth season in my life with you all. Thank you Zoey for being my constant visible partner. Your insights have touched my life and brought change to me. I loved your poem. I love how God moves through you. What a wonderful way to close our study. We allowed Him to lead, we…
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"when you gain the inner confidence of who you are in Jesus, where you are going because of Jesus and all that you can be though Jesus, you will be assured who you belong to for all eternity…that’s right…Jesus. I love this! To me, this equates to total focus on Jesus. I read this statement again and again. Our God is so…
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:love: Feeling so loved and so grateful for you and for all the ladies who have participated in our study. God had blessed my life with you all. Each of you has brought to me something of Him that I so needed. We have worked together to grow and learn and become. Truly, I have grown in this time and I thank you for sharing…
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Oh Nicolette, How my heart understands being trapped in self pity. Although, I don't usually throw pity parties, there have been specific hurts in my life that I used pity parties to soothe. As I began to experience healing in those areas, the Lord spoke this to my heart: SELF PITY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS MYSELF......I could…
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Oh My Zoey, As I read your post, I heard the Lord speaking to my heart. You quoted Joyce: "One thing that is very deceptive is thinking that we know everything. We instead should be EAGER to learn, deepen what knowledge we have, what God is teaching us." That word eager hit my heart. What am I eager for? Immediately, I saw…
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Ali, Ali, Ali, This is so good. So very good. I love how you allowed God to direct you to further study. Your study is blessing me. You are so right that God wants His truth to be in every aspect of our live. That is why He has given us the Spirit of Truth. John 16:13 (AMP) 13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the…
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Ali, I always feel encouraged when I read what you share. It seems like you share just what I need to hear, when I need to hear it. I love that you are putting your focus on letting people matter, instead of my tasks. As I look at this in greater depth, I see how self centered I can become as I focus on my task. I felt my…
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Dear Ali, How you are ministering to my heart as I read your post. You wrote, "Yes, life is hard. Yes, it is a struggle at times. BUT we can have an effect on how that difficulty impacts us." I really needed to be reminded of the power God has given me for each moment of my life this week. This week's hard situation was…
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My Zoey, I loved your devotion. In fact, it is the very portion our pastor read to us today. I know the Lord must have wanted me to read it and hear it. What is standing out in my heart is this: I have peace with God~ No more trying to do but instead, just being me, allowing His peace to bring me into fellowship with Him.…
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My Dear Generous Nicolette, Truly, God is gifting you with His vision. He always sees things from a place of knowing everything and having more than enough to provide for every thing. That is truly a wealthy way of seeing things. I love that you wrote "Blessing abound, just look around." Thank you for the reminder. :love:…
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Zoey, I loved this. Every part of this is awesome and needs to be read and thought on over and over. "God's wonder begins in darkness." This is so true in my own life. It is in my darkest moments that He shines the brightest. It is also in those moments I see Him the clearest. I loved "When you walk in the "eye of faith"…
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Dearest Ali, That part about Abraham's father hit my heart too. In fact I went in and studied it. What I found was God didn't direct Abraham to leave until Terah had died. Genesis 11:31-32(AMP) 31 And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they…
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Zoey, Again you are speaking life to me. This week you helped me break free of a perception prison that I didn't even realize I was in. Now you are encouraging me to prepare for action with my thoughts. My thoughts need to focus on God's ability and strength instead of being on my ability and strength. Which is it has. I…
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:love: Thank you so much for writing this. Some how I missed this post....or rather God's timing is perfect and wanted me to read this today. Thank you for confirming what my heart has been crying out for. I am so encouraged. With His help I intent to walk and run on His path. Thank you for inspiring me to do so. :heart:
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Dear Debbie, 'DON'T GIVE UP! GO THROUGH!" What a great mandate to focus my heart. Truly, as you said, God wants to go deeper with us. When I read this, I heard this, "I surrender to you Lord as I receive your heart for this situation. I will not give up seeking your face! I will not give up listening for your voice! " No…
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So today as I am giving further to mediation to this chapter I am finding so many more things that are wonderful. Depression runs very strong in my family line and is something that feels like it is always looking for a foothold in my life. This chapter on having the mind Christ deals with depression. I think it is very…
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Zoey, :love: Lovely! Absolutely Lovely! I love to see His creativeness at work in you. Thank you for sharing.
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Oh My Friend, Your words are truly powerful! Yes, they need to be heard. I am so proud of you for passing this test. For overcoming the enemy! For enduring in the midst of trial and actually learning. Every step you take, large or small, He is leading you. I love how your heart was open to the leading of the Lord. It just…
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My Dearest Ali, God's timing is always perfect in your life. I love how I see the peace of God growing in you. You are that bird at rest while all around you is storming. No matter what rages around you, it can not overcome His peace. His peace is always greater, fuller and larger then the storm you face. I am praying that…
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Matthew 7:1-2 1Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. 2 For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt…
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Zoey, You wrote, "Satan detours our thinking by getting us to focus on judgmental attitudes." Not only do I focus on it, I often feed it and nourish it in the name of righteousness. For, me I think judgmental is how I was born. It is my natural, unrenewed state. It grows each year, becoming a parasitic growth, that…
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Christine, Thank you so much for writing this. For helping me to remember to submit to the Lord and believe. This is my season to learn this. Your experience encourages me to focus on Him.....yes, He really does have a perfect plan for this time and this season in my life. It is just like you wrote, " The funny thing about…
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Zoey, Again, your words are just what I needed to hear. I love the questions you asked. "Why do we confine Jesus in our thoughts? Why do we restrict a Living God to time…when He created time? Why do we make allowances for other influences?" I am learning to approach situations with this thought, "God's perspective is…
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Awwww yes, I loved this! :love: Zoey, thank you for putting into words the voice of God for us ladies. "She was “filled with the Holy Spirit”…God spoke to the secret place of her heart that Jesus was in the room, here on earth and God was giving Elizabeth witness of this wonderful event. She spoke what the Holy Spirit bore…
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My Zoey, "Remember the power of the Holy Spirit to impress the secret places of our hearts." LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! This is such a great statement for me.....His Holy Spirit teaches me in the way I should go, including the thoughts I need to think, the words I need to say and the timing of it all. So, when I look at me, I see…
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Hello Friends, I have been giving much thought to what confusion looks like in my life. I have been asking the Lord what is the difference between not knowing and confusion. There are lots of things I don't know and don't understand that I don't feel confused about. What I am noticing is that confusion, for me, comes when…
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My Dear Friend Christine, :love: How can I be offended by you obeying God? Never! He is faithful to lead you in the way you should go. I trust Him to lead you and I trust you to hear. There is no conflict here. Be at peace. I understand and support you in seeking and obeying our Lord. You are always welcome on the boards…
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I Kings 3:1 "And Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt...." As I read this, this morning, I was struck. Solomon, the man known for wisdom, in the very first acts of establishing His kingdom, made an alliance with Egypt.This was before God asked him what he wanted and he asked for wisdom. Solomon made the…
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So, what have you been wondering about? For me, A good wondering is my meditation on this scripture: Phil. 3:14 KJV: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ABPE: And I run toward the goal to take the victory of the calling of God from on high in Yeshua The Messiah. DRB: I press…
