Tag: perspective
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Don’t Hold the Salt!
13You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.–Leviticus 2 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer…
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Hope for the Hider With Secrets! [1-minute read]
20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 21would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.–Psalm 44 I used to be an addict and I would hide my addiction from others. I had excuses and rationalizations for my sin, but…
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Use This Psalm When Depressed!
11Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.-Psalm 42 The word for ‘downcast’ was one that shepherds used to describe sheep that become flipped over. If I understand the biology correctly, much like turtles,…
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Don’t Hide God’s Faithfulness! [1-minute read]
10I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.–Psalm 40 I oversee Celebrate Recovery at my church and regularly teach on the recovery principles. And as part of my journey, I do…
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Praying David’s Prayer
As we read Psalm 38, let’s pray a prayer of repentance like David did. The Scripture will be in italics and my words will be in bold. 1O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,nor discipline me in your wrath!2For your arrows have sunk into me,and your hand has come down on me. 3There is no…
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Simple Questions to Help Anxiety [1-minute read]
6do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,…
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Keep Pressing On!
…But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.–Philippians 3 Paul was in prison and once again pondering the scope of his life. He gave a rubric that we can use…
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An Attitude Like Jesus
3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality…
Joel M Bradshaw 