Category Archives: Our walk with Him

Following Jesus: Learning Patience

Following Jesus: Learning Patience
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there will My servant be also. John 12:26 Sometimes I find myself in a hurry. There’s never enough time to accomplish what’s on my list (and there never will be.) Our culture tends to reward that kind of attitude. Keep moving, go faster. After all, you…
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Patience

Patience
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 Patience is characterized by the ability to tolerate hardships and delays. Sometimes it is exhibited by refraining from moving forward until the proper time. Sometimes it is evident inwardly by remaining at peace while awaiting things that are beyond…
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Thoughts of God’s Thoughts

Thoughts of God’s Thoughts
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!    How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. Psalm 139:17-18 The thoughts of God are yakar – precious, weighty, valuable. That is established throughout scripture. But as I’ve read this particular verse in several translations, I notice two different…
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Lean Not: My Fallible Understanding

Lean Not: My Fallible Understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 Sometimes the right path ahead is simple to see, but I find more often that life is complex. God isn’t asking me to figure it out – He says, “trust Me.” Submitting to this can be difficult, yet it can also…
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