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God’s Loving Promises
Part 1
Harry-Mouse Durgin God’s Loving Promises We—God’s children, those whose Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ—“can joyfully live in the present in the light of the future, having learned from the past. Eternity is forever, and our problems are, in comparison, fleeting moments. The clearer we can imagine our promised future, the smaller our problems appear,…
Read MoreGet Me Outta Here
Lord! No More! Get me outta here! Have you ever prayed that? Me, too. Sometimes it’s appropriate. Sometimes there is something better to pray. Instead of focusing on escaping, how about: Lord, help me honor You in this situation. Lord, help me be patient. Lord, help me be wise. Lord, I know You’ve given me…
Read MoreTP Wars
TP Wars Ok, really now…do you think TP should go over the roll or under the roll? Is this an issue in your household? I’ve read that the “TP Over or Under Roll” is a battleground in many marriages. Even divorce. REALLY? How in the world? I’m sure this isn’t a problem among the readers…
Read MoreGod Won’t Write You Off
Have you just fallen into the same sin for the 49th time? I’ve been there. Here’s a joke: When I sinned the same way the 49th time, my Lord said: “Great! She’ll get it the next time.” Actually, of course, God isn’t remote, looking down to see what we’ll do. Rather, we are in Christ, the Holy…
Read MorePraise the Ever-Present God
The previous post in the Praise series, Praise the Omniscient, focused on the eternal truth that Almighty God knows everything about everything and everybody all the time. Today, let’s praise the God who is everywhere, all the time, forever. He is always with us. We can never escape Him. He is Ever-Present, Omnipresent. “Am I a God…
Read MoreGrieve or Please
God’s Love God’s love for His children, those who trust in His Son, and have received Christ as Lord and Savior, is unchanging and eternal. God is for us (Romans 8:31). Christ Jesus intercedes for us (Romans 8:34). NOTHING can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans…
Read MoreDon’t Think About It!
Don’t Think About It! Have you ever been told not to think about something? Or, maybe, you’ve told yourself to stop thinking about something. You may have done this exercise as a party game or in corporate training. “Picture an elephant.” ………… “Now stop thinking about the elephant.” How did that work for you? Probably…
Read MoreNothing to Forgive
Uh-Oh. Someone is on the wrong side! When someone asks for forgiveness, I’ve sometimes said: “There is nothing to forgive.” And a friend recently said that to me for something I felt bad about. I wonder if that is right. For some reason the person and I asked for forgiveness. It could be a mis-directed…
Read MorePraise the Omniscient
facebook.com/harry-mouse+durgin God knows everything. He is omniscient. OLord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on…
Read MoreHow to Pray for What You Already Have
Too often I will pray for something God has already given me. My problem isn’t that I lack God’s resources but that I don’t apply His provision in my life. Don’t Pray to Receive What You Already Have If I pray for strength to cope with something, or the ability to do what He told…
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