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What it Means to Surrender Your Life and Will to the Lord
To totally surrender to the Lord means to surrender your entire self, including your thoughts, desires, and actions, to God by recognizing and acknowledging His sovereignty and trusting in His plan for your life. It involves letting go of control and submitting …
Repentance or Remorse, Heaven or Hell
Last Sunday in church we celebrated the Lord’s Supper and focused on the need we have for self-examination. I know what you’re thinking, self-examination and the Lord’s Supper don’t seem to go together— at least not in my prior church experience. I remember all my …
Giving All of You to Receive So Much More
This morning, after a time of confession and prayer, the Lord led me to an entry in My Utmost for His Highest on March 8th. That’s right, an entry from 117 day ago. And it was exactly what I needed to cement what God showed me in my time of prayer. It deals with …
Day One: Learning to Hear His Voice… Daily
Today is the first day of a 40-day adventure. No, this adventure is not about a mission trip to Haiti or a hike down the Appalachian Trail. This 40-day adventure is a time set aside to discover more about the Lord and to learn, specifically, how to listen when He …
The Global Threat of Putin’s Deterioration
Jesus said that war and rumors of war would mark the time before His return. Skeptics point out that there have always been both. Jesus clearly meant that end-time wars and messages about them would somehow be more extreme. With the use of atomic weapons, war changed …
We are Children. Heirs. What are the Implications?
On Sunday, we discussed the preaching of Jesus regarding the kingdom of God and how our understanding of our position in His kingdom, as both a child of God and an heir (Rom. 8:17), can bring much comfort, confidence, and boldness to our lives in these dark times. In …