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Just a thought by coppi
Written today 4/16/22 Faith Step: Today, if you’re tempted to say something to impress someone else, practice not saying it and remind yourself of God’s enduring love. It was difficult for me to accept myself and my choices as I was a people pleaser. I had a hard time weeding out all the opinions of others to…
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Just a thought by coppi
What a challenge it is, Lord, for me to let you take over. I read this today and thought “yes, that is a true statement for me”. I remember as a child reading about the little train plugging along to climb a very steep hill – “I can do it, I can do it”, it kept repeating…
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Just a thought by coppi
Laying hold of God’s willingness not his reluctance ….written in year 2014 Something happened to me this month, I lost my car keys. It wasn’t an ordinary key but one that electronically does everything & to replace it would cost lots of dollars. I lost it at the scene of an accident. I was there helping a friend,…
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Just a thought by coppi
written in 2015………….. Ps 34:4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me & delivered me from all my fears Confidence is a word that alludes me. My life growing up was lacking self confidence. I stuttered & shook if I had to say anything in front of people. School was not a good time in my life.…
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(Written in 2015……………) Romans 18:1: (Abraham) Under utterly hopeless circumstances he hopefully believed, so that he might become the forefather of many nations….. Yes, I would say, Abraham was under the circumstances. God told him he & Sarah, his wife, were going to have a baby. One would be excited over that news but they were very old…
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Just a thought by coppi
I read the following today by Roberta Rogers – as I read I thought of a friend who lost her son tragically & will be buried today: “But in the losses & worries, we began to find treasures…..the greatest of them were people, both known & unknown to us, who would pray us all the…
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Just a thought by coppi
Unclogging The Shofar…. “The most uniquely Biblical musical instrument was the shofar, the Hebrew trumpet from a ram’s horn. The word shofar comes from a word that means clear. To make a sound you have to be clear. You can’t blow through something that’s all clogged up. You’re called to be the Lord’s shofar-a vessel of God, an instrument…
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“Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the…
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II Kings 6:17: And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. ” To the servant there was need of a more manifest vision, and for this Elisha prays,…
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Just a thought by coppi
When we come home to God it is not a leap into darkness. It is a magnificent leap into light – the light of God is for us! Jesus said “I am the light of the world: he that follow me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life” – John 8:12 God…
Just a thought by coppi 