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My Fortress

I need strength and protection. I’m needy that way. My own strength and ability to protect myself is restricted because of my humanity. Furthermore, my adversary, the Evil One, is not overcome by human effort anyway. Here’s where my Protector and Defender comes in. He will shield me. He will grant me the resilience to…

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Love Set Me Free

Love is the Great Liberator. It possesses the only power that can release anyone from the most difficult prison to escape: our own personal penitentiary. A facility constructed of raw material that we have acquired from life through emotions, actions, experiences. That material is refined into anger, bitterness, hate, prejudice, mistrust, selfishness, lies, etc. that…

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20/200

I have 2 pairs of eyes. The standard eyes that came with my body when I was born and the spiritual eyes that were opened when I was born again. The second pair do not depend on visual input. All the information they relay to me is initially invisible. Everything they see is based on…

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Falling

“Though I have fallen, I will arise. Though I sit in darkness,  the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8  If I’m walking through this life on a journey, the likelihood of taking a fall, is high. Not because I purposefully set it up, but due to all the factors that I will never be…

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Casting

This is probably one of the most cited Scriptures ever. After today, I will have posted it 3 times on Instagram. If you feel a little jaded, I understand.  Sometimes, I will see it, and it may or not land in my heart. At this point, I will say, look at it a little differently….

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Dear God…

…am here, looking and waiting. I’m not the only one. I wish I were better at loving You. I wish I conveyed to you in a more worthy way the love and worship You deserve. But,  sometimes, I just send You my sadness and hurts and my concerns and worries in prayer and neglect recognizing…

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Free To Love

Religion is not equal to faith. With religion comes a system, creeds, traditions, even the introduction of humanistic beliefs. But faith is free of all of that. Especially in regards to Jesus. “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent…

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My Misleading Heart

The heart is the absolute essence of who we are. Not even our mind, with reasoning, intelligence, knowledge, and memories can unseat that definition. It is where all love, faith, treasure, conviction, reside. The heart supercedes and dictates direction and decisions so much of the time but it is not unerring. It can’t be, since…