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  • 灵修:箴言书第四天

    金句:你要保守你心,胜过保守一切,因为一生的果效,是由心发出。箴言书4:23节灵修:这句经文是我最初蒙召的异象,是神第一次对我说话,也是我决定要全心走服侍道路的起点。最初这句经文给我的安慰是,让我的心从旷野干旱之地走向神所预备的丰沛之地。当我走出低谷之时,我一直不明这句经文在人生之后的道路上还有什么用处?很多次我思考,我都尚未明白。可最近几年发生的种种事情,让我再次对神对我说的话有了新的认识。人的心何等重要,人心中的意念也掌管着人的道路。当我心中摆上的时候,我的道路是摆上的道路;当我心中为自我的时候,我的道路也是为自我的道路。神说:“你要保守你心,胜过保守一切”。我的心在哪里,我的财宝就在那里。可如今我的心在哪里呢?在世界?在家庭?在物质?在手机?在金钱?在……,我的心在太多地方,唯独没有在神的面前。所以,我如今生活的果效并不理想,我的心杂乱无章,我的家庭也杂乱无章。因为我的心不坚定,我的妻子也跟着我焦虑,担忧,但其实我们不必为生活担忧太多,因为即使脱离现今的生活环境,神的恩典也够我们生活很久。可一旦脱离现今的服侍道路,再踏上这条道路就将变的万分艰难。神说:“你要保守你心,胜过保守一切”。是的,神啊,我的心若动摇,我的人生道路也岌岌可危。我一生所要追求的是什么呢?是财富吗?是尊荣吗?是权利吗?还是主耶稣呢?我越发感受到世界上万物所带给人的吸引力,我也越发感受到那颗单纯追求主耶稣的单纯的心的重要和可贵。祷告: 主啊!求你保守我心,因为我发现我难以保守自己的心思意念,我是一个心思意念并不坚定的人,我是一个容易受到诱惑的引诱的人,我是一个罪人。主啊,我何等愿意走这条侍奉的道路,可在这条路上的挑战越来越多。主啊,求你来保守我心,让我能继续前行。主啊!求你保守我心,让我不被世界吸引,而是被你的荣美吸引,被你的爱吸引。主啊!求你保守我心,让我能够胜过如今的挑战,胜过当下的难处。主啊!求你保守我心,因为我一生的果效,都在你的手中。阿们!

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  • A Short Bio About Me

    Hi and welcome! I use the name MaryFrancis when writing. Mary was my dad's mother's name and Francis was my mom's dad's name. I'm the youngest of seven. Five of those children are to the same parents. One sister is a stepsister, and the other sister is a half-sister. One...

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    My God Lives and He Has My Heart: The Faith of Sarah Edwards

    Sarah Edwards is known as the wife of famous pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards. To who knew her personally, Sarah was a woman who spoke life-giving words and provided comfort for not only her family but for the frequent guests in her home. George Whitfield, a one-time visitor to the Edwards’ home, said of Sarah Edwards, “She is a woman adorned with a meek and quiet spirit, talking feelingly and solidly of the Things of God” (Winslow, Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, 188). There is much to write

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    The City is in Resurrection with No Night

    In the New Jerusalem there will be no night, for “night shall be no more” (Rev. 22:5a). “Night shall not be there” (21:25b). In the new heaven and new earth there will still be the distinction betw…

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    Parenting: Embrace the Chaos

    “But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then He said to the disciple,...

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  • 灵修:箴言书第三天

    金句:你要专心仰赖耶和华,不可依靠自己的聪明,在你一切所行的事上,都要认定他,他必指引你的路。不要自以为有智慧,要敬畏耶和华,远离恶事。箴言书3:5-7节诗人所罗门是在神面前求得智慧的君王,他以智慧定天下,受到列邦列国的尊敬。他教导后人要专心仰赖耶和华,不可依靠自己的聪明。什么是自己的聪明?就是自以为是的解决办法,经验性的解决方案。这里不是否认这些,而是说神所给的胜过人自己所想到的。当人在思考问题的时候,通常习惯于以世界文化为自己思考的前提,这也就导致对问题的解决更加偏向去世界,按照世界的做事风格,却不知世界的风格乃是在罪中的思想。一个悔改并得救的基督徒,应操练自己不再按照世界的模式去思考,乃是以神的话语为自己思考的根基。神赐予人智慧,就是用来解决各样问题,以神话语为根基的思考,会更合神心意,蒙神喜悦。对于基督徒的提醒,就是不可依靠自己聪明,不要认为自己有智慧。即使是一件很小的事情,也应当时时刻刻抱着一颗谦卑受教的心寻求神的旨意。这并不是说让基督徒自卑,而是要明白神是带领者,我们应当把事情的主权交托在神的手中。认定神的人,神必指引你的路。今年,与我而言,最大最难的有两件事,一是岳母脑出血如今瘫痪在医院,二是儿子吃饭呕吐的问题。我曾想过该如何是好,可我发现无论我如何计划,这一切都不是我所能左右的,我能做的,就是认定所信靠的神,祂必开路,祂必指引我的脚步。这不是说我不思考了,不努力了,不管不顾了,而是说我顺服神对我的带领,我顺服神为我家庭所安排的道路。我也求神,在这苦难之中,给我有充足的智慧,好让我尽到做儿女,作父母的责任与本份。祷告: 主神,我感谢你,因为你是我的神,你是我的依靠者,你是我的磐石。我也曾独孤、惧怕、担忧,但因你的扶持,我始终站立得住。我的确有好几次,我感觉我失去了力量,失去了所有。但每一次,你都怜悯我,让我重新得力。主啊,我谢谢,有你真是美好,有你真是幸运。如今我所交托的,就是我的岳母和儿子,求你医治他们,在我的家庭中彰显你奇妙独特的作为与神迹。阿们!

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    Puzzling

    April has shared with me that she often will ask God, “Why did you make me the way you did?” Perhaps you have wondered the same thing about you. April finds tackling some subjects and i…

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  • A Place of Hope & Transformation

    Welcome to Faith & Freedom With Jenny: Overcoming Fear Through Faith in ChristIn 30 Daily Bible Bites, created in the Fall of 2023, I share how God transformed my life after enduring significant personal struggles, including stress, addiction, depression, and physical illness. I sought a way to help others find...

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    Podcast - Tolkien: The Ring

    Check out the So We Speak podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.After World War I, Tolkien was looking to find his footing. He looked for jobs and ached for another fellowship of friends like he'd had before. He found both in the 1920s when he landed a job at Oxford teaching English literature. It was during this great season of his life that his major works began. Soon, he would be working on his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.At Oxford, Tolkien was enlisted to help with the Oxford English D

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    Divorce Minister Blog Persists! - Divorce Minister

    God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. 4 He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. -2 Corinthians 1:3b-4, NLT As long as the church fails to take adultery seriously … Continue reading "Divorce Minister Blog Persists!"

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    MY CONVERSATION WITH PATRICIA KING ABOUT RECENT EXPOSURES

    Patricia King knew Todd Bentley when he first came to the Lord and saw the gifts of the Spirit emerge in his life as he would spend hours in prayer. She saw both the rise and fall of this minister-turned-predator and fills in a lot of gaps about his journey, as well as insight into the current exposures taking place elsewhere. Not only does she provide some missing details concerning abuse in the Church - she carries a clear charge to those now sounding the alarm.

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    The Other Side of Why

    My son, Steven, and I sat on the floor in his room playing a card game. The summer was proving to be the best ever. Our golden retriever, Ginger, had just delivered seven adorable puppies, Steven was enjoying his sixth summer of life, and after four years of negative pregnancy tests, God had surprised us with a new life growing inside my womb. Read more...

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  • 灵修:箴言书第二天

    金句:因为耶和华赐人智慧,知识和聪明都由他口而出。箴言书2:7节。灵修:经文1-9节,所罗门教导后人们要追求智慧,更要追求赐智慧的神。智慧乃是神对人的赏赐,是神赋予人的恩典之一。基督徒该如何寻求智慧呢?正如经文2-4节说:“侧耳听智慧,专心求聪明,呼求明哲,扬声求聪明。寻找它,如寻找银子,搜求它,如搜求隐藏的珍宝”。听,求,呼求,扬声求,这些都是用来形容在态度上对智慧的重视与应对的渴慕。要去听有关智慧的事,要去求有关聪明的事,如同寻找银子一般去寻找智慧,如同搜求珍宝一般去搜求智慧。智慧不仅仅能使人凡事得益处,智慧更能促使人亲近神,因为神乃是智慧的源头。经文12节说:“要救你脱离恶道”,16节说:“智慧要救你脱离淫妇”,20节说:“智慧必使你行善人的道,守义人的路。”这些都是智慧带给寻求它的人的益处。我曾在很多教会看到有一些基督徒,他们并不在智慧上寻求神,乃是凭着血气寻求神,这也导致了教会中纷争不断,与世俗世界并无两样。当然,每位基督徒也要反思自己,是否有在基督里渴慕追求呢?自己所追求的是什么呢?是自己的义?还是从神而来的智慧。那些寻求自己义的人,是陷入了另一个陷阱,是仍在罪中。只有寻求神智慧的人,才有属灵的能力和权柄,他们因着神所赐给他们的智慧,就更荣耀神在人群之中。所以,求神帮助我们,让我们在教会之中做一个真正寻求智慧的基督徒,也做一个能得着神所赐之智慧的基督徒。阿们!祷告: 亲爱的主耶稣,我是一个罪人,因为我常常寻求愚昧。因为愚昧,我走了很多错误的道路,我伤害了我的家人,我伤害了我的朋友,我伤害了我自己。求你来饶恕我,并赐下智慧在我的里面。求你的灵在我的心中,使我寻求智慧,渴慕你,从你的话语中得着更多的智慧,并把这一切的智慧带给身边的人,使他们因你就得着人生的满足。阿们!

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    Before The One: Episode One

    Welcome to the first installment for the ‘Before the One’ series with Josh Love Talks will tackle the topic of online dating and the single Christian. Josh is professionally a PMO analy…

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  • For the sake of those around you – Terry Nightingale

    Paul wrote these words to Timothy in his first letter to him: “Command and teach these things. Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:11-16)

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    Regarding death of dreams - Divorce Minister

    And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted…. -Genesis 37:35a, KJV Giving up the dreams regarding your marriage are tough. I had a dream of only being married once. My dream included only giving myself to one woman. I grew up in a Christian … Continue reading "Regarding death of dreams"

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    The Kingdom of Heaven is Real

    The Kingdom of Heaven is Real By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian Ministry App Click here to join our WhatsApp Prayer Group Matthew 3 vs 2 An…

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    Glory of God Illuminates New Jerusalem

    Revelation 21:23 says, “The [New Jerusalem] has no need of the sun nor of the moon that they should shine in it, for the glory of God illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.” In the millennium the…

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    Is Gather25 Leading Believers Astray?

    By Elizabeth Prata Jennie Allen, from her Instagram On February 28 to March 1st, 2025, there will be a global live streaming event called Gather25. It is the new version of the ten-year-old IF:Gath…

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    On Genesis 1–12

    This week I’m starting a new series on the opening chapters of Genesis at Riverview. I’ll break the content down into manageable chunks and share it with you here on this blog. There will also be p…

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    What do we do with 1st Timothy 4:1 People?

    Most of those who have left the church in recent years haven’t just departed quietly from church world and gone on with their lives. Most have left with guns blazing (metaphorically speaking). They…

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    10 Secrets Women Keep from Their Husbands (and Why) - Olubunmi Mabel

    I’ve heard older women say, ”A woman’s mind is a pit of secrets!” Well, for the purpose of this post, the secrets I’ll be writing about here are not huge, marriage-breaking betrayals or deep, dark double lives like a woman giving another man’s child to her husband and pretending it’s his. Those women are cruel, …

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    5 Reasons Some Women Are Happier After Divorce - Olubunmi Mabel

    No one walks into marriage thinking, “I can’t wait to get divorced someday.” Absolutely no one. Divorce sometimes is like a storm you never saw coming. Even though divorce is tough and painful, some women are happier after their divorce than they were in the marriage. While society might paint divorced women as sad or …

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    True god of some Cheaters - Divorce Minister

    21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. -Matthew 6:21, NIV 24 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and be enslaved to money. -Matthew 6:24, NLT “Mine, mine, mine!” cries … Continue reading "True god of some Cheaters"

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    The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

    The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. By Babatope Babalobi babalobi@yahoo.com +234 80 35 897435 Save the World Christian Ministry App Click here to join our WhatsApp Prayer Group Matthew 3 vs …

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    Parenting: Embrace the Chaos

    "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." -- Genesis 1:2 (KJV)My best piece of parenting advice is “embrace the chaos.” In Genesis, God creates the universe out of...

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    Horrors of infidelity abuse! - Divorce Minister

    “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.” -Hosea 2:2, NIV Horrors of Infidelity Abuse! Often times, the topic of divorce is taught from the pulpit as the ultimate horror house. This … Continue reading "Horrors of infidelity abuse!"

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    Steadfast & Loyal - A Nighttime Prayer

    “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”-- 1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)Please Pray:Lord Jesus, thank You for reminding me that love isn’t always big gestures and gifts. That love is also about being steady and loyal to the point of demonstrating 1 Corinthians 13:7. Thank...

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    Steadfast & Loyal

    “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”-- 1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)I write faith-based romance novels. If you read romance or even watch a romantic movie, then you know they follow a formula. The love interests, often called the hero and heroine, will meet for...

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    Buy Monopoly Go Dice At IGGM.com In 2025 - No Ban Risk

    If you're interested in buying Monopoly Go Dice safely and securely in 2025, consider the following details.Why Choose IGGM.com?Top Reputation: IGGM is known for its reliable service and positive customer feedback.Secure Transactions: They offer secure payment options to protect your financial information.Customer Support: IGGM provides excellent customer service to assist...

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    What Did Mummy Say?

    One thing I find difficult with Lydia sometimes is her questions. I’m not sure if she actually forgets that she has already asked the quest...

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    But Then There Were People

    Image generated via A.I. What do you think of people? Do you like them? Tolerate them? Or are they merely interruptions? I have said a few times I could do without them. I know. Shocking. If I had …

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    What Did Mummy Say?

    One thing I find difficult with Lydia sometimes is her questions. I’m not sure if she actually forgets that she has already asked the quest...

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    Jehovah Jireh – Jesus, Your Incredible Provider

    Jehovah Jireh: A Faith-Filled Graphic Novel for Teens and Young Readers! Discover the Good News of Jesus in full color on premium coated paper! This Christian graphic novel inspires teens, youth, and readers of all ages. Through illustrated stories that resonate with today’s audience, Jehovah Jireh weaves timeless Biblical lessons of faith, virtue, and character […]

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    What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself?

    “‘And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31In a culture that’s obsessed with self-care and self-love, it’s easy to misinterpret this verse to mean that you have to love yourself first before you can truly love others. But, this interpretation misses the deeper and more profound

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