A 2 Chronicles Christmas Lesson

A 2 Chronicles Christmas Lesson

As this year draws to a close, consider how you’ve lived it. Is it possible that you started this year well by faithfully reading your bible, praying, and relying upon the Lord, but as the Christmas season has drawn closer you have found yourself slacking off in those areas? Learn the lessons from 2 Chronicles and finish well.

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Praying Through Your Calendar: For Prayer Times that Engage, Edify, and Exalt the Lord

Praying Through Your Calendar: For Prayer Times that Engage, Edify, and Exalt the Lord

One of the easiest prayer prompts I use to enliven my prayer time involves the alphabet and a calendar. The goal in coming up with these ideas is not to make things complicated, but to make my time with the Lord a welcome treat, so that prayer is relished.

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When Chocolate Chip Cookies Aren't Enough

When Chocolate Chip Cookies Aren't Enough

We can rationalize about our choices—“Oh but chocolate chip cookies really are satisfying!” yet at the end of a day feasting on chocolate chip cookies alone we feel empty and sick inside. God wants us to understand that settling for "chocolate chip cookies" to nourish our hungry souls is a poor food choice at best and folly at its worst. Jesus was getting to the same core issue with the woman at the well in John 4 when He asked her to get Him some water to drink and then turned to conversation to the living water that would satisfy her thirsty soul. He explained, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life (John 4:13-14).”

What well are you drinking from to replenish your thirsty soul? Why are you willing to settle for something that won’t truly satisfy you, even when you know better?

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From Lisa to Elisabeth--Another Year of Grace

From Lisa to Elisabeth--Another Year of Grace

I was…am a dictionary reader. Dictionaries are splendid things and we had a marvelously fat one when I was little. It was huge, probably 5 or 6 inches thick, and contained all sorts of extra tidbits of knowledge, but the part I liked best was the section on names and their meanings. Eagerly I looked up “Lisa” and discovered my name was taken from “Elisabeth,” meaning “consecrated to God.” Well, I had to look that word up and discovered “consecrated” meant “dedicated or set aside for God.” I hoped that one day my life would belong to God and I would truly become “Elisabeth.”

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