Category: Faith
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3 Lessons in the Waiting
The waiting season can be difficult, but it is now without purpose. Here are 3 lessons to learn while you wait.
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God Was Silent
A few months ago, I was feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things I wanted to do. I had too many projects going and not enough time or energy to do all of them at once. I kept asking God what He wanted me to focus on: Show me the…
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God of Miracles
God led the Israelites to the Red Sea without any boats in sight. Unlike them, we have the privilege of hindsight; we know how the story ends. But imagine the fear of the Israelites: fleeing an angry pharaoh, Egypt in chaos, being delivered from centuries of slavery, not knowing where…
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Faithful Expectation
I’m convinced God’s favorite thing to do in our personal relationship is tell me to wait. And that is exactly what He did recently when I asked for an answer. He had been silent on a particular prayer for a while, and I was begging Him to just tell me…
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The Doubter
“I think [Thomas] doubted because he wanted so much to believe.” -Angie Smith This quote in my Bible study changed the way I think about doubt. I had to really think about it: doubt coming from a place of pure desire and immeasurable need. I feel a little bad for…
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Something Better
After elementary school, I always did my homework at the kitchen table. One day, after settling at my usual seat and opening my pink L.L. Bean backpack with a big blue butterfly on the front, my parents suggested that I do my homework in my room. I looked up at…
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Facing Temptation
A Bible study I’m going through pointed out a new detail I hadn’t noticed in Matthew 4. The first 11 verses of this chapter are about Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness and His temptation by the devil. Verse 2-3 says “After he had fasted forty days and forty nights,…
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Silenced Prayers
Mark 10: 46-52 tells a story of a blind man that receives sight after calling out to Jesus for healing. If you know the story and power of Jesus already, it can be a story you skim right over. Just a handful of verses, no intricate parable to ponder. I…
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Breath of Life
I saw a post a few months ago that I can’t stop thinking about. The Hebrew name of God “Yahweh” means ‘to be’ and originally doesn’t have any vowels: Yhwh. This post pointed out that this name of God is like our very breath. Inhale: Yh Exhale: Wh Go ahead,…
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Where is Your Focus?
Remember when you were a child and you would spin in a circle as fast as you could, for as long as you could, until you fell over? There were many techniques to this. You had to consider where to look: you could pick a focal point right in front…
Always Emily 