There is something most important to keep in your heart and mind when you are working with someone: God loves us when we are in body just as much as when we are not in body. To God, it doesn’t matter if we are alive or dead. Either way, we are with him. And he is with us. God put us here on Earth for a reason. One day we may all figure out exactly what that reason is. But, until then, we are here. When the time comes, we die....
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The Faithfulness of God I will be the same until your old age, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will bear and reassure you. (Isaiah 46:4) Life is long and hard. Especially when you are aligned with God. For Jesus, his “life” was only about three years long. The life of his ministry. The life of his walking God into the world. There were no gray hairs on his head the...
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And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9a) I always thought that were I ever to encounter romantic love—in myself for another, in another for me—even if it meant turning my back on God and all his being, I would choose love. Love over God. I am spiritually gifted. Magnificently so. And I live on Earth. Where other’s rejection of me because of this...
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Listening is a critical skill that needs to be learned over time, and with much practice. You must learn to listen to the person you are serving. This means that you have to learn to still your mind, and control yourself from entering into a conversation with the pray-ee as though this were a counseling session. It’s not. It’s a session of listening. So the pray-ee first. Then you must learn to listen to your own...
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The Big Future Hope is that smoothness that helps to ease your thoughts into the future. It might come to us unbidden. A chance thought that catches our attention. If only…. Or, Perhaps…. It will be there when I get there. Or, maybe he will be there. Or, even, I might get to do it. All possibilities. That open the door in our mind that allows us enter the world that hasn’t been yet. A world of dreams that come to life in our...
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