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Neglected

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  We were hosting a time of praise and prayer at our home and there was a possibility one of the guests would want to play our piano.  True confession, it had been 12 years since I'd had our piano tuned.  Recognizing the need, I was hesitant to call the piano tuner knowing we had neglected this care for so long.   My husband and I tend to do the same thing with medical check ups.  One time visiting the eye doctor, whom I adore, she said, "Hmm. It looks like you haven't been here in 3 years." Yikes, so much for yearly check ups.  Mr. Opperknockety (my husband's name for the piano tuner, saying "Opperknockety only tunes once"..haha) graciously squeezed me in.  Y'all the top of the piano wouldn't even open. He tugged a little harder and up it came.  I slithered out of the room to let him work.  An hour later he told me he was finished.  After he left I sat down to play.  Here's the worst part.  The piano was dusty and the keys were filthy.  They

The Receivers

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The smile says it all and in his on field interview he gave God the glory! Mason led the Titans to a win over the Patriots on Sunday. Hallelujah! While a QB can run the ball himself, the majority of the time it's another player who receives the ball, either through a pass or a hand off.   In parenting and grand parenting the children in our care need to receive a lot of care. Bathing, changing, dressing, feeding, and training. Train up a child in the way he should go;  even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 When it comes to all that we have received from God, it's difficult for our minds to grasp the outpouring. We are blessed to receive God's love.                                                                                John 4:7–12 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made mani

Simply Sit and Sing to the Lord

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Simply take 16 minutes today to sing to Jesus and get things in perspective. Nothing compares to Jesus. The Songs What a Beautiful Name - Mix - Lauren Daigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gyMcvLDD4

This Side of Heaven

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 Y'all, of course the sweetest fellowship we have is with Jesus, but God also knew in our humanness we'd need some encouragement that has flesh on it. . ..that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ . 1 John 1:3  Recently I was speaking with a woman who was visiting our church. I had a point I wanted to make, but in this climate I didn't want to be offensive, so I  began by saying, "Are you really into Jesus?"  From our initial conversation I was 80% certain she was. " There is no joy like the joy of knowing one another in the Lord Jesus Christ.... Fellowship means, “to hold things in common”; those of us who have experienced the saving grace of God have much in common. We have become partakers of the divine nature; not only do we have fellowship with God, but we must also have fellowship with one another. We have the same new nature,

Let There Be Light

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Women gathered at Shiloh for prayer and praise with the harp. A precious woman in my church connect group has just been diagnosed with colon cancer.  She came to the house for a time of praise and prayer and walked up to me with enthusiasm and said, "I have a verse!"  A verse God had given her to cling to!  " Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,  ' I am the light of the world. Whoever   follows me will not   walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'” John 8:12 Cancer is certainly a darkness, but God's Word tells us in John 1:5 that the Jesus, the light of the world has overcome the dark and continues to do so. The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness had never put it out. In the beginning God said,   “Let there be light.” Genesis 1:3 He tells his people... And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level g

Are You Stuck?

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  My husband came home from work and found me on the bedroom floor. He quickly said, "Are you stuck?"  Laughingly, I said, "No, I'm doing stretches for the sciatica I'm dealing with, but that phrase has me stopping to pray for people today who are feeling spiritually stuck." Have you ever said, "Hello, God, are you there?" How do you clear the clutter that keeps you from hearing God? We can lose our focus when we put our faith in caring for material things...either taking care of them or caring that we might have more. Get alone, put on praise music, open your Bible and be still and quiet.  Can you speak in agreement with these verses which help us become unstuck spiritually. But I have calmed and quieted my soul , like a weaned child with its mother.  Psalm 131:2 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you , because he trusts in you.    Isaiah 26:3 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation . Psalm 62:1 For

Moving Mountains Session 6 Chapters 13-14

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  You can never convince me that God's Word is not true, nor that there is a spiritual battle taking place around us.  While reading in the chapter on Warfare Prayer in Moving Mountains , our group has seen the devil darts flying in a barrage of different ways. So we have on our armor and are hitting our knees. The victory belongs to the Lord. Eldredge says this section of his book turns to "the form of prayer that often brings the most dramatic and immediate results- prayer that banishes the enemy...notice God doesn't always take away the attack: rather, he gives us the authority we need to overcome it....The demons know your authority in Jesus; they know that if you banish them, they have to obey." God rescued us from the dark power of Satan and brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son,   who forgives our sins and sets us free.  Colossians 1:13-14 There is power in the name of Jesus.  Let's pray like we believe this. Scripture is the greatest teaching tool to