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Hariette Petersen

When We Are Wrongly Accused

Do you know someone who is being wrongly accused? If so, you know the heartache that goes with those accusations. People lose family, careers, and reputations. Some are even prosecuted. I have a friend who discovered her supervisor was defrauding the non-profit organization she worked for. My friend tried to report the situation, knowing full well she could lose her job. She did. It [...]

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Are You A Reliable Messenger?

4 March by Hariette Petersen

Ever leave an important message for someone on their voice mail? Ever entrust a vital message to one person to carry to another? Ever been given a message to share?
As Christians, we’ve been given a message–the message of saving grace. We are the transporters, the witnesses of what God accomplished through His only begotten Son. We [...]

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The Lord Will Heal My Faithlessness and Restore Me

24 February by Hariette Petersen

Ever falter? You have a problem and you don’t turn to God for answers, you turn to others. You have financial difficulty and spend hours planning ways you can borrow the money to meet your needs. Your car breaks down, and you worry and fret until you make arrangements to fix your situation. There is faithlessness in [...]

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When I Am Lonely, I Am Reminded of God’s Presence

16 February by Hariette Petersen

Ever feel lonely? No matter how many people who surround you on a Sunday morning? You feel left out of something–something intangible. You aren’t unhappy; you just feel lonely and alone. If you try to describe what you are going through, no one understands. When my husband resigned his church in Kentucky and we moved to [...]

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When I Call Upon God

11 February by Hariette Petersen

Life throws us into mires of difficulty. Are these times meant to break us? Hurt us? Or are these times to test our faith and challenge our trust in God? When we find ourselves in situations without provision, position, job or savings, it can feel more crushing than challenging. When we have been doing all [...]

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I Need God’s Wisdom

8 February by Hariette Petersen

Sometimes I want to know more. I want to be able to make the right decisions for my life. I don’t want to go outside of the will of God and find myself flailing about in the midst of consequences I actually bring upon myself. I want more than anything to stay within the pathway [...]

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I Rest In the Work of God

29 January by Hariette Petersen

I made some yeast rolls a while back and they were terrible. I was so disappointed with them. The yeast must have expired because they barely rose to the top of the muffin pans. I put them in the oven anyway, but they really didn’t taste all that great. Heavy. From now on I will make sure the yeast has [...]

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When Life Falls Apart, Jesus Holds It Together

26 January by Hariette Petersen

Do you sometimes feel like the world is falling apart? In any given day almost anyone we talk to can share a shattering experience that rips through their life and pierces the peace they take for granted. Even in the most dire of circumstances, things can get worse. We know that. We sometimes fail to [...]

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When I Fear God, I Abstain from Evil

22 January by Hariette Petersen

Ever pray for God to fit His will into your whim–to bless your ideas, the decisions you’ve made, the plans you’ve carried out? I have. Invariably and eventually, God in His mercy, shows me how wrong I am in proceeding to do things I want to please myself or others.
“There was a man in the [...]

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God Brings Us Out of Our Distresses

17 January by Hariette Petersen

Every day brings another difficulty. Systems that always worked before, fail. People we could depend upon in life, abandon us. All the good we’ve done for others is forgotten. Our very integrity is on the line. We’ve made promises we cannot fulfill. Obligations demand our attention, but we are weary. We cannot see any end [...]

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