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Answering the Call for Our Lives

 

Call of God

Answering the call

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27

Ring ring!

Hello?

Hi, it’s me.

I’m sorry, who is this?

It’s me.

But who are you? Why do you have my number?

Because child, you’re mine.

I’m your child? But who ARE YOU?

That’s for you to discover.

We’ve all heard our phone ring, and we look to see if we recognize the caller. If we know them, their name and number will be in our contact list. There are times when our phone will ring, and it shows up as ‘unknown caller.’ When we do not know the caller, we’re hesitant to answer.

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Tell Your Heart to Beat Again

Let your heart beat again

Let your heart beat again

My Pastor’s wife recently sang to our congregation the song “Tell Your Heart to Beat Again”. The words of this song are so powerful, and so beautiful, with a depth behind them that you cannot ignore.

 

Life invariably will knock you upside the head, or even knock you right down; it is not what happened that is nearly as important as what we do when we are knocked down. There are times when circumstances in life may get so overwhelming it feels suffocating, the weight is so heavy it is crushing. In those moments we can choose to be crushed, to withdraw, to let our hearts begin to fail. However if we make the decision to never give up, to keep on keeping on, even when life is coming at you, it is in those moments that we are telling our heart to beat again, and even if it had begun to fail, the decision has already been made to live.

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Blessed Assurance

pray until you find peace

Pray until you find peace

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6-7 KJV)

A great friend I have been blessed with once made this statement during a message he preached, “Pray until you feel peace.”

It reminded me of times in my prayer life, when I was at a loss for direction, or in need of a restoration in particular circumstances of life.

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Why I Don’t Want to Hear God’s Voice

Hearing or listening?

Hearing or listening?

In 1 Samuel chapter three we find an interesting account of a young man who is hearing the voice of God for the very first time in his life. The passage records Samuel lying down in the temple. No doubt, he was trying to get some sleep in preparation for the early morning duties that he was responsible for in the temple. So often, our plans and God’s tend to run contrary to each other and in the midst of Samuel’s peaceful slumber he was jolted as someone called out his name. Almost instinctively, Samuel runs to Eli, the priest of the temple, and the man of God in his life.

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The Art of Self Examination

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John Wesley

 

In 1729, while John Wesley was a student at Oxford, he started a club with his brother, Charles. It was soon mockingly dubbed “The Holy Club” by some of his fellow collegians.

The club members rigorously self-examined themselves everyday by asking the following 22 questions:

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Soul Selfies

We’ve all seen it and perhaps posted a few ourselves; the smiling face of the camera owner, and perhaps a friend, taking their own picture and posting it for feedback. The ‘selfie,’ a 21st century phenomena. Selfies really went viral in 2010 with the introduction of the front facing camera Read more…

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