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Pain with a Purpose

30 March by Dee Dee Wike

Pain. We all have it in one form or another. For you it might be a chronic physical illness such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, or some other disease that leaves you feeling lousy all the time. For others, it could be the emotional and financial loss suffered when your company has downsized or outsourced your position. [...]

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Pain with a Purpose

25 September by Dee Dee Wike

Pain. We all have it in one form or another. For you it might be a chronic physical illness such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, or some other disease that leaves you feeling lousy all the time. For others, it could be the emotional and financial loss suffered when your company has downsized or outsourced your position. [...]

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As God So Desires

3 January by Hariette Petersen
Potter Molding Brown Clay

Again and again I worked on writing assignments and nothing seemed to flow. Words seemed stilted, sentences contrived. Thoughts were disjointed and rewriting did nothing to create a work worthy of publishing. So I stopped. I deleted paragraphs and entire devotionals. My writing grew hollow; my thoughts dried up. I wondered. Is God shelving me? [...]

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Labor for the Lord

21 December by Chris Roberts
Unless the Lord builds the house devotion

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Psalm 127:1 There are at least three lessons in this text. First, no project can succeed unless it is the Lord’s will. God is working out his plan for his creation and it does not matter how hard we strive to go [...]

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Satisfaction In God

19 December by Chris Roberts
Satisfaction In God Devotion

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 The early church theologian Augustine once wrote, “Thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts are restless until we find [...]

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