Broken Relationships – #FirstSundays Prayer Call

Tonight (Sunday, October 5th) at 9pm CST/10pm EST, we will have the first of the First Sundays prayer calls. It’s scheduled to be a 20 minute call with a brief testimony on a specific topic followed by prayer over those struggling in the area addressed. Tonight’s testimony and prayer topic is BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS. The dial-in information is on the flyer above, but I will also type it below. If you can’t make the prayer call in time, know that it will be recorded and playback/replay information is below, as well. I hope you can make it on and share the information with others who would be blessed!

DIAL: (605) 562-0020

ID # : 667-470-577

PLAYBACK # : (605) 562-0029

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Gratitude Challenge Day 7: God Chases

 

 

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 7:

1. God chased me.
2. God caught me.
3. God keeps me.

Chased. Caught. Kept. I’m His! The pictured quote, “Love  is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart” just rings so true to me. That is the love that chases us, the love we show when we chase others in kind. Love chased your filthy heart and chases mine. A.W. Tozer said, “God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.” I mean with every fiber of my being that I owe a debt of love I never can repay. I’m grateful to have such a God and that He has me. Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 6: God Changes

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 6:

1. God changes NOT. {yesterday, today, and forever}
2. God changes circumstances. {Fix it, Jesus.}
3. God changes ME. {Wash me, Lord.}

Oswald Chambers said, “Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person’s inner nature.” The more I pray, the more I concede that prayer changes me much more than my circumstances. I’m grateful, today, for an unchanging God who ever changes me. Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 5: Wisdom

 

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 5:

1. That God knows ALL things…
2. That God withholds SOME things…
3. That God reveals ANYTHING…

Consider the following Langston Hughes poem:

God in His infinite wisdom ● Did not make me very wise.

So when my actions are stupid ● They hardly take God by surprise.

I’m so grateful I don’t have to know all things; I know the God who knows all things. Further, He said that if any of us lack wisdom, He’ll give it to us liberally, without reproach, meaning we can come again, and again, and He’ll never tire of making us wise (James 1:5). I don’t know who I am that God is mindful of me and would share ANYTHING with me, but I’m grateful! Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 4: Good News

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 4:

1. God hears.
2. God sees.
3. God moves.

Exodus 3:8 and Acts 7:34 say the following: I have seen the oppression of my people…I have heard their cries…I am aware of their suffering…and I have come to set them free. That’s music to my ears, my friends, what precious and good news – God hears, God sees, God moves! Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 3: Sweetness and Suffering

 

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 3:

1. God’s voice — sweet
2. God’s choice — sovereign
3. God’s noise –suffering 

C.S. Lewis said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures…but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” God’s voice can be so sweet, so gentle. Yet, when needed, He uses noise — suffering — to steer us in the right direction. I’m grateful for the sweetness of His voice and the sovereignty of HIS choice to use the noise. Any which way He has to, He has me. Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 2: Faithful When I’m Not

3 Things I’m grateful for — Day 2:

1. God keeps promises I didn’t ask Him to make.
2. God answers prayers I didn’t have sense to pray.
3. God speaks words I didn’t have faith to say.

Romans 3:3-4 says, “What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar…” God is crazy faithful, y’all! Faithful when I’m not, when I don’t even know how to be faithful or that He’s calling me to more, He just shows up with more — more of His grace, more of His love, more of His steadfast faithfulness. I’m grateful. Join me in this challenge; feel free to tag or link me! Post 3 things per day for 7 days.

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Gratitude Challenge Day 1: Jesus Wept

“Jesus wept.” ~John 11:35

3 things I’m grateful for –Day 1:

1. God cares.

2. God’s tears.

3. God’s here.

Charles Spurgeon said, “A Jesus who never wept could never wipe my tears.” I get it. God’s been where I’ve been and won where I’ll win. The bible tells us God cares about the grass, how much more will He care about us? He’s moved with compassion for us, and He’s promised to be with us always. God (the Son), shed tears, cares about your tears, and is right here with you, through it all. I don’t usually post such short blurbs, but felt impressed to share this gratitude challenge on here. I challenge each of you to do the same and feel free to tag me (I was challenged a while ago to post 3 things per day for 7 days).

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God Restores: Video Testimony

I will restore the years… ~Joel 2:25

Today I’m sharing a videoed testimony of God’s all-encompassing grace throughout my life (begins after a 3-minute intro). When I didn’t care to live, God was determined to save. In my hatred and rejection, He pursued, and in my open rebellion, He forgave. He continues to prove to me, over and over, that He is able to bring such beauty from such pain and bring such glory to His name. God is still redeeming, still delivering, still restoring. Even in the ugliest circumstances of your life and even with the worst choices you can make, know that God Restores!

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God Restores!

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Convicted to Confront

Reblogging post on confrontation with a 3-minute video on setting boundaries. Rabbits don’t like when you put up a fence to keep them out of your garden, but producing fruit requires setting boundaries. “I’m a fan of mercy, and I’m a fan of grace, but that does not nullify the boundaries of God.” Love shows restraint; it doesn’t just do whatever it wants whenever it wants. Love both sets and keeps boundaries.

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I’ve been hit left and right these last few days with the reality that I need to engage in some loving confrontation to move forward in a healthy way. I was relatively clear on this notion on Monday, but by Wednesday (yesterday), I’d talked myself down from fully walking out in faith. I’d told myself, “Well, maybe I just need to be strong enough to address this issue should it come up again.” But, the reality is, God doesn’t want us to take a passive stance on confrontation. I thank Pastor Roger Hernandez for his obedience to blog about this. His Spirit-led tweets talked me out of the corner of fearing confrontations that need to be had.

In Matthew 18:15-20, the Word tells us to go to those who’ve harmed us, not to wait, but to be proactive and go to them. The whole purpose is to “gain…

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