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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Was there a better way?
- Whenever, we have a task or project to carry out don't we always look for the most capable person to lead us? And if the task were supposed to follow a set pattern, don't we like to stick to time-tested methods that worked all the time?But sometimes events happen so quickly that it takes our breath away. When things do not go as we planned, tempers flare up, moods become dampened, and we so...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Just do it!
- "It's a big challenge. It's a journey into the unknown. There were so many obstacles that could prevent me from fulfilling my commitment. Am I able to allocate the extra time required from my busy schedule? It's so worrying"All these thoughts raced through my mind as I signed up for the formation retreat for facilitators. The challenge - to become a facilitator for the coming bible study pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Who has the greatest job in the world?
- I have, in my opinion, the world's perfect job. Just look at the evidence. I love people and I love God. I love talking to people about God and I love talking to God about people.Therefore, if you put these two together, I am doing what I love doing: the greatest job in the world.I must confess, however, this was not always the case. When I wore a younger man's suit, I had different ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of the holy spirit
- Hello, My name is Mellody Davis and here is my True Testimony:The Power of the Holy SpiritThe wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. John 3:8. The Holy Spirit is so powerful it states in 1Corinthians 2:4 My message and preaching were not with wise and persuasive words...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Fool for god
- The following article is an exploration of the Spring holiday season and its spiritual implications. In it will be a unique perspective with a special emphasis on the importance of owning our dualities for the purpose of transcending them. The duality of Spring is that while it is a time for thorough "house cleaning" it also requests of us our lightness of being and simple trust.W...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Allowing joy
- "Ask and it shall be given" is a phrase we have all heard. I believe instead, "Ask and find yourself worthy of receiving."If you're like most of us, you've experienced joy, at least a little. But have you found your way to experiencing the everyday, easy flow of joy that fills the body from the inside?Christianity and Buddhism both teach the principle that joy is ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Conquer your fears
- I cringed lower into the seat of my grey metal desk, yearning for the faded yellow floor to swallow me into oblivion. A crimson heat spread from my forehead to my neck; my legs trembled uncontrollably. I struggled to bring my lurching stomach under control - vomiting all over my classmates was about the only thing that could worsen this nightmare.My panic attack was provoked by my fifth gra...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Unforgiving servant - why would you hurt yourself like this?
- Everybody knows that if you stick your hand in a fire you're going to be burned. This is a fact that was branded in our minds since childhood, therefore we usually take special precautions when dealing with fire. You wouldn't intentionally burn yourself because you are aware of the pain and discomfort it will cause you.But what if I told you that you could be causing yourself and even more ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Solitons and wavelets
- Everything in the entire universe, big and small, visible and invisible, is composed of energy.Quarks and quasars, gluons and galaxies, protons and persons, molecules and minds, sunsets and sensations, electrons and ebooks, anything and everything, are all composed of energy. All matter and all anti-matter is composed of energy. There is even a formula describing it. E= mc2. In order to pro...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - God is waiting to bless me
- In the year 2000, I went on a mission trip to Guatemala with Wycliffe Bible Translators. It was a weeklong trip where we were able to see the results of the Bible translation work in Guatemala. Before going, my friends were telling me I was going to become a missionary. I kept telling them, "No, I'm not. I'm just going to go on mission trips during the summers when school's out and I don't ha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Echos transition
- Echo was a flea-bitten gray horse, with brown speckles everywhere, and crystal clear hairs in her mane and tail. We met in October, 1976, when she was a broodmare on an Arabian farm in New York State. A beginner at riding doesn't usually start out with a novice horse, but I fell in love at first sight of her. Somehow, over the years, we learned how to have great times and not get in trouble. We en...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Will the angels abandon us?
- If we don't behave according to a specific church's doctrine, will our guardian angels turn their backs on us? If we are struggling with our overall belief in God or we're questioning the validity of the holy books, will the angels abandon us? What if we believe in God and in the Bible, but we just feel like screwing off for awhile? Will they desert us? Do we have to be good and pure and perfect i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Be still
- Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God;I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth." (NIV)Before my wife, Melinda, gave birth to a baby girl eight months ago, I thought I had God all figured out. Having lived with a severe physical disability all my life, I discovered many unique spiritual truths along the way and pass them on t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Talk about purpose
- What better example than Jesus' life to explain about having a life's purpose? No other example I can think of, can you?From the moment he was born--wait, hold up?BEFORE he was born, His purpose was already established. And so was yours.Jesus was born to the exact parents He needed to be born to, in order for him to fulfill his life's purpose, and so were you.Mary was a virgin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - We fall down -- but we get up
- When I first heard Donnie McClurkin's song, "We Fall Down (But We Get Up), I got goosebumps. The second time I heard it I loved it even more. There is a Gospel House remix of the song that is simply off the hook.The reason I felt that this song was so powerful is because the lyrics are so right on time that it's ridiculous.Just think about this for a moment:We Fall Down....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Drifting like a summer breeze
- He knew it was going to happen. He wasn't really surprised. Yeah, if he had to be honest with himself, it hit him kind of hard because he had been with them for so long. But to be honest, they never really showed any real interest in him or his work.Now that he's thinking about it, he was the obvious choice. Brian was their "golden boy." And Lisa, well, if you look as good as she ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ask and it shall be given you
- This statement sounds incredible. ASK and it shall be given. It sounds amazing, doesn't it? It sounds almost unbelievable right? Imagine if all you had to do to get anything you wanted out of life is ASK. It sounds a little farfetched doesn't it?But the Bible tells us to ASK and it shall be given you.No matter how farfetched it may sound, it is so true. If it weren't true, the Bible ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Surrounded by his glory
- As communion was being passed this morning, I listened to the song "I Can Only Imagine" by Mercy Me. I fought to keep the tears in my eyes. I didn't want break down sobbing during that incredible song like normal. Being in a wheelchair and physically disabled, the chorus brings fantastic, breathtaking images to my mind: "Surrounded by Your glory,What will my heart feel? ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Resting in the son
- "Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure..." Psalm 16:9, NIVMy dog Shadrach has the laying down in the sun part down pretty good. As the weather warms into early spring here in NM, he is spending more and more time out in the sun basking in the pleasant warmth of this time of year. I look out at him as I go about my daily chores and it was in watchin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The success of servanthood
- "Who being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant." Philippians 2: 6-7, NIVSince the Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols incident (amazing how God works!), I've been thinking about what servanthood really means. There have been several situations arise in my life over the last week also tha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Saints or charlatans
- What's the difference? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the real healers and those who are selling snake oil? It's a big seller to claim that your work is divinely inspired. Even better, tell them you've gazed into the eyes of God and come back to tell the tales. Tell them that in Ireland the wee folk are still spotted on occasion. It's far off and exotic. They'll believe you. Oh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stress strategy: flex your spiritual muscles
- In his book, Stress Without Distress, Dr. Selye suggests that a person's interpretation of stress is not dependent solely on an external event, but also depends upon the perception of the event and the meaning he or she assigns it. So, how you look at a situation determines if you will respond to it as threatening or challenging.It has been discovered that the mind is responsible for the pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Hard times can be your best time
- Do you have a dream, but are waiting for "just the right time" to start working toward fulfilling it? Will you feel comfortable pursuing your dream only when everything in your life is working? Consider this:The apostle Paul did his best work while he was a prisoner.Buckminster Fuller was bankrupt and suicidal when he envisioned the design for the geodesic dome.Victor Frankl d...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you need an answer about life?
- I was originally brought up Catholic, at the insistence of my parents. I quickly lost interest after going through my confirmation and began doing my own thing. After many years of drinking and partying, I got very bored and thought, "Is this ALL there is to life?!?!" I thought, "If there really IS any truth to a 'life after death', I should at least TRY to find the answer." I ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accessing your spiritual guidance
- For the last 35 years, I have been working with individuals, couples and families, as well as business relationships. I have 8 published books on relationships and healing, some of them best-sellers. In the first half of my career, I worked as a traditional psychotherapist, and was not happy with the results. In the last 18 years I have worked with a process called Inner Bonding, which is a powerf...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Quick! throw me a line!
- I was reminiscing with a friend recently about his 'dark night of the soul' that he'd just experienced. During his pain, he turned his back on God. Raised in a traditional Catholic family he found himself very angry at God and at the church during an especially ugly divorce and custody battle. As he's coming back into himself, we've been talking and processing together through a lot of what happen...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pioneering insanity
- "They're crazy!" That's what they're saying about us. The majority of the people in America at this time in history do not channel spirits, do not converse with angels or aliens, do not astral project, do not know about any kind of higher vibration, and do not talk about Starseeds, Indigo Children, nor Lightworkers. They don't know anything about ancient secrets being coded into crystals...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is america losing its religion?
- Has America known its finest hour? Are we losing our religion and sanity as well? What is wrong with our society anyway? These are baffling questions that are frequently being asked by more and more people, even the media.From environmental pollution to spiritual pollution, from artificial food to artificial joy - these are the side effects of the pursuit of materialism (a by-product of the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Love vs. fear - volume 18
- Breaking with tradition, today's article comes from the 9-23-04 edition of Sojomail. Sojomail is produced by Sojourners; an evangelical journal, and calls itself a 'weekly email-zine of spirituality, politics and culture.' I personally object to their use of the term spirituality, because they are decidedly Christian oriented. For them to replace the word 'spirituality' with the word 'Christianity...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A tale of three essences
- Water of Enlightenment, Angel of Peace and Harmony for Nature are a trio of remarkable vibrational essences. They teach, raise our awareness and question what we know by their very existence. These three essences are even more remarkable because they are channelled essences. "Oh boy, this is a hard one to swallow" I hear you say. Just have an open mind and read on.The Essences came about be...