Posted in spiritual strength on Apr 26th, 2017
We’ve all heard many voices telling us we can’t succeed at this or at that.
Sometimes the voice we heard was our own.
Sadly, we’ve too quickly believed those voices without sincerely testing our abilities in the opportunity before us.
How many marriages fail because others said they can’t survive and hurting spouses rely on their own emotional […]
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Posted in spiritual strength on Sep 11th, 2015
Traumatic events such as the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 almost always produce feelings of loss and weakness.
But they also give us the opportunity to rebuild new hopes and gain new strength.
It’s true in the natural world and in the spiritual world.
Most every believer has experienced an extreme loss somewhere along the […]
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Posted in spiritual strength on Apr 30th, 2014
Go to the beach at night and you’ll likely see little points of light miles away out on the ocean.
It’s amazing when you think about it, this evidence of electricity flowing through these small, glass-encased filaments on bobbing vessels perhaps seven miles away.
A tiny light in a massive expanse of darkness, yet it is clearly […]
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Posted in spiritual strength on Apr 30th, 2013
There are boxing matches where both contestants are winners not because it’s ruled a draw but instead because both fought bravely and smartly and effectively.
And then there are matches where the weaker, less skilled contestant had his hand raised by the referee not because he fought a good fight but instead because the stronger, more […]
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Posted in spiritual strength on Sep 28th, 2012
Some might think that after more than 20 years as a full-time apostle used SO powerfully by God, the Apostle Paul should have developed enough spiritual wisdom, boldness and strength to could cut the apron strings loose from time to time regarding his moment-by-moment dependency upon God.
After all, isn’t every believer tempted to think they […]
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