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  • First Love Forever! Part 8

    First Love Forever! Part 8

    Let’s start with a riddle: “It” grew for almost 1,000 years, until “it” was more than 175 miles long. “It” created many temporary, and at least 4 large permanent lakes as “it” expanded. “It” took tons and tons of gun-powder, dynamite, and nitroglycerin, and roughly 3,000,000 man-hours to finally destroy “it”. WHAT WAS “IT”? If…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 7

    First Love Forever! Part 7

    I’m still here… awestruck… my heart being continually filled and flooded, day-after-day, week-after-week, with the unending flow of the Father’s amazing love. I pray that you’ll join me and invite others to come along as we all go higher, further, and deeper into His unending love. Romans 5:5 from The Passion Translation says: “We can…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 6

    First Love Forever! Part 6

    For the last several weeks, Holy Spirit has been teaching us about our first love. The phrase “first love” doesn’t refer to our love for God. It refers to God’s love for us. Our love for God is only a response to His love.(1 John 4:19) We will continue to experience the endless dimensions of…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 5

    I can’t, and I won’t! Holy Spirit brought me to these lush green pastures. I’ve eaten my fill. I’ve drunk deeply from the cool, crystal-clear spring waters flowing through this oasis. And I have enjoyed refreshing, soul-restoring rest. Why should I leave? I can’t and I won’t! Holy Spirit led me here and He’s not…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 4

    A tsunami of blueberries! That would describe the extraordinarily abundant harvest of blueberries from our small backyard garden this year. Not only were our berries plentiful, but they were deliciously flavorful… succulently sweet! That’s because Grace let them stay on the bushes until they reached their peak state of ripeness before she picked them. So…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 3

    In last week’s post, we learned to look at our love-relationship with the Father directly and correctly, through the lens of His heart. His love for us, and His wonderful purpose for our lives, preceded and predated our love for Him. Amazingly, His love for us actually existed even before creation itself! “Long before He…

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  • First Love Forever! Part 2

    In last week’s post, we heard Jesus expressing His heart’s longing for the church to return to Him, its “first love”. He told the Ephesian church (and this certainly can and does apply to believers in our day as well) of His concern for their downward trajectory. He pinpointed the problem as their being caught…

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  • First Love Forever!

    First Love Forever!

    Recently, Holy Spirit began directing my attention to the phrase “first love”. Who do you think of when you think of your “first love”? Do you think of that cute little girl or that handsome boy that sat next to you in the elementary school? You probably thought they were not only your first love,…

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  • Prayer for Our Nation

    Prayer for Our Nation

    As we joyfully celebrate the 249th birthday of America this weekend with family and friends, let’s thank God for the freedom He has so graciously given to us. But as intercessors, those whom God has called to be watchmen upon the wall, we must always remember that there are dark, evil, and violent forces seeking…

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  • Lighting the Fuse of Your Faith!

    Mark 1:40-42⁴⁰ Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him, and saying to Him, “If you’re willing, you can make me clean.” ⁴¹ Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” ⁴² As soon as He had spoken,…

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