Tag: heart
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Blame First, Forgive Next
This post is one piece of a great collaborative effort. Head over to Kelly Balarie’s post for encouraging excerpts and links to tons of bloggers’ fantastic testimonies on the Lord’s work in their lives. When I tell my husband about an incident and the way it hurt my heart, he listens. Patient as usual. My…
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In Peace We Trust
{The twelfth and final installment in the In ____We Trust Series} Each and every topic in this series has convicted me. They’ve all added up. Here’s what I’m finding as I wrap it up… Every “thing” I trust in besides God, I trust in with one goal in my heart. Obtaining peace. I want the…
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Word of the Week: Understanding
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” –Proverbs 3:5 The verse is easy to memorize, but it’s so hard to live. I often feel that I’m good at the trusting, and even the leaning. Where I fail most (and the trust and the leaning aren’t real) is…
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In ____ We Trust {Series}
As we detail our troubles, we intend for our hearts to trust. But we overshare our hopes while downplaying our fears. We try to back up our feelings of trust- a form of faith- with evidence and proof that it’s working. That things will get better “if.” Our trust is half-hearted. So our hearts only…
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not- The Word Works Series!
You know the friend who always answers “how are you?” honestly but non-intrusively? That’s how Jeanne writes. Her blog, Where Faith and Grace Hold Hands, bids you welcome, shares an experience, and then turns the “how are you” into “How God is.” Grateful to welcome her today! Since I was a girl, I’ve struggled with…
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Valentine’s and Trash?
On our first Valentine’s Day together, my now-husband gave me a box of trash. I’m not kidding. He walked around our college campus and picked up recycled items, newspaper clippings, old discarded pen caps, those cardboard slips you put around coffee cups, etc. He crammed it all in a box he found by a trash…
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Love With All Your…
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” –Luke 10:27 Really, Lord? Because we know our hearts, and they are deceitful above all things. Our souls are constantly warring with the flesh. Strength, to us, is less preferable than…
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How Many Guards Do You Need Around Your Heart?
The answer: 2. Here’s why: http://myfaithradio.com/2016/need-2-guard-stations-heart/
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The Battlefield of the Heart is the Lord’s
Photo from: Pixabay Oh, that her heart would change. That his heart would turn from bitterness to joy. Even that my own heart would be more patient. I try. We try. But we come to the battle with no weapons save our own will. Paul knows a thing or two about how effective a weapon…
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What Hope Can a Broken Heart offer?
How can our brokenness be useful to others? Offering our broken hearts to the Lord as a sacrifice and a praise is one thing. But, giving ourselves to others when we’re messy and vulnerable is another. Though we shouldn’t recklessly hand over the reins to our heart or carelessly welcome anyone’s influence into to our…