Unrealized Expectations
July 16, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Millions of Americans spend their lives searching for happiness. Some look for happiness in love and marriage, others say they will be happy when they have a child, achieve a certain weight or make a million dollars. They’re convinced that they deserve this happiness, however they define it, and, if it doesn’t happen, they feel [...]
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Answers to Prayer are Up to God
July 15, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Sometimes it’s hard to understand how prayer works. We think that if we get our prayer exactly right, God will do as we request. There’s an assumption that if we have enough faith or get enough people praying with us, God will do whatever we ask. But we need to remember that answers to prayer [...]
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Nothing Seems Real
July 14, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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My wife and I are very close and I find myself talking to her about virtually everything that goes on in my life: the big decisions, as well as the daily trivia. It’s part of our daily routine. I often say to her, “Nothing seems real to me until I talk to you about it.” [...]
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Striking Out
July 13, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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I have a little note in my desk drawer that says, “Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times.” It’s a reminder to me that striking out is not a disqualification for coming back to the plate. When the apostle James was writing about teaching, he said, “We all stumble in many ways.” If everyone who made [...]
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Fight!
July 12, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Fight!!! In every persons life, from the second that you started living to the last second of your life, satan wanted you & still wants you to go hell & get away from GOD. If your starting to follow Christ or already following Christ, satan wants to take that away from you, he brings you [...]
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Teaching to Please God
July 12, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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In the society of first century Palestine, teachers held a position of great honor. Teachers had followers like the “groupies” who follow rock stars today. With such great honor attached to the profession, you can see why many wanted to become teachers at that time. James, the brother of Jesus, was concerned about Christians who [...]
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Seventy Times Seven
July 9, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Forgiveness is not something that comes easily to most of us. Peter, one of Jesus’ disciples, asked him one day, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?” Trying to appear magnanimous he added, “Up to seven times?” Peter seemed to have a gift for saying outlandish things, but [...]
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One More Chance
July 8, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Jesus told the story of a man who found no fruit on one of his fig trees. He told his gardener, “This tree hasn’t born fruit for three years. It’s useless. Cut it down!” The gardener replied, “Leave it alone, sir, one more year and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears [...]
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What Do You Think This is Worth?
July 7, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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There’s much debate in America about the value of life. Issues such as capital punishment, abortion and euthanasia arouse great emotion. As the world’s population grows, many consider life to be not very valuable at all. But that’s completely contrary to the way Jesus viewed people. Jesus considered every individual to be valuable. Whenever Jesus [...]
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The Value of Life
July 6, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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There’s much debate in America about the value of life. Issues such as capital punishment, abortion and euthanasia arouse great emotion. As the world’s population grows, many consider life to be not very valuable at all. But that’s completely contrary to the way Jesus viewed people. Jesus considered every individual to be valuable. Whenever Jesus [...]
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Unfulfilled Dreams
July 5, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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Dreams are an important part of the human experience. Dreams give us hope. Dreams help us to anticipate the way we want things to become. It is our way of visualizing ourselves in a preferred tomorrow. But sometimes our dreams are unfulfilled and we wonder why. Do you have an unfulfilled dream? In the past [...]
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The Battle of Tawara
July 2, 2010 by Lecrae.net
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During WWII, fifteen American soldiers prayed with their chaplain the night before the Battle of Tawara. He later reported that they all prayed pretty much the same prayer: “Lord, tomorrow we are going to storm the beaches of Tawara. We’ve been told that this is going to be a bloody battle and many of us [...]