#FMF – Build I’m joining the Five Minute Friday community today where we write for 5 minutes based on word prompt. My posts always take more time. “Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” Ps. 127:1 I never imagined in my wildest dreams that someday my husband and I would build our house — to buy…
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Day 7 — In Christ, I am chosen “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” Jn. 15:16 As I drove to the government office this morning — the truths…
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Day 6 — In Christ, I am treasured possession I used to think I was the only who struggled with self-rejection. I knew the right answer in my head — that God loved me enough to send His Son to die on the cross for my sins. And yet the way I lived my inner life — I struggled to…
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Day 5 of #Write28Days In case you missed it, part 1 of the story is here. No one knows your story like God and no one knows your heart like the Father. We can’t hide anything from Him. And even though He knows all that we’ve done and said, He says, come to Him. At the cross of Jesus, you…
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#Write28Days He came with an infection on his leg that had been there a while. The days and nights he’d spent in the dark, cold streets of Prague were beginning to show. He was only 22 but he seemed to have given up on life. We’d brought him to our home for Christmas in hopes that Ales* might know the…
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