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“Leave the irreparable past in His hands, and step out into the irresistible future with Him.” – Oswald Chambers. 18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams…
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“He knew from the beginning of time we would develop hundreds of ways to run ourselves ragged, as my grandmother used to say about folks never stopping to enjoy their blessings”. In his book The Promised Land, the Scottish minister John MacDuff made this profound statement: “when you can’t trace God’s hand, trust his heart”. Let us…
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The most prominent scripture regarding leaving the past behind is found in Isaiah 43:18, which says, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”. Dwelling…
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“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ”My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers’”…
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“I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’” – Rosamund and Benjamin Zander “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to…
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak,…
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“A man does not grow old because he plays; he grows old because he stops playing.” – GK My husband suffers much with back pain, arm pain, and a knee problem. But he also knows he must keep doing or he will grow old. He enjoys the game of golf, so he plays as often as he…
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Luke 24:13-35New International Version On the Road to Emmaus 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but…
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has…
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“Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.” Isaiah 60:20 Second chances I need in my life, and I feel as though I have been given a few. I am very grateful I had them. Change…
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