Tag: hurt
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When Love Rewrites Our Labels
We are experts at building walls out of things that were meant to protect us. In the first century, a man named Matthew built a wall out of coins. As a Jewish tax collector working for the Roman Empire, he traded his community, his religious standing, and his family for financial security. The outside world…
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Different Classrooms, Different Lessons: The Divine Syllabus
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is that not everyone is in the same class learning the same lesson. What God may be teaching you or showing you in the spirit is not for everyone. As it says in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose…
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Sometimes …
Sometimes, the pressure is too much to bear. Sometimes, the pain is too great. Yet, it’s in that time when we can’t move another inch, God shows it’s in His strength that we go on. When we bow, we bow in prayer, not to the adversity. We run to face adversity and not curl up…
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When the key becomes a weight
When I got my first car, I was in my mid-twenties. I didn’t understand how the key turned in an ignition made the car start, I just knew it did. And then I had my keychain, and with this keychain, I soon had more keys to add to it. The more keys I had, the…
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The Choice
Joshua 1:8 (ESV) “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.“ Psalms…
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Truly the forgotten
As I sit here in the safety of my home, I think back to the times that I haven’t always been in a place of safety. And we take so many things for granted. We live now in threat of constant turmoil locally and globally. So, it’s easy to focus on everything going on in…
The Anchor Point 