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Christmas Without Jesus Christmas without Jesus – What does it all really mean? What impact does it have for me, My life, my hopes and my dreams? Christmas without Jesus, Means more than an empty manger, Or a wasted trip for wise men, On a road of untold danger. Christmas without Jesus, Means more than a tree with no gifts; More than no holiday fixings, Or no extra-overtime shifts. Christmas without Jesus Means my sin debt, by me, still is borne. It still has never been paid for, For His body had never been torn. Christmas without Jesus Means Heaven cannot be attained; We’ve allRead More →

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Encouraging My Faith Always a good reminder! Feeling the need to strenghten my faith by reading God`s working in other Christians` lives, I decided to re-read the biography of George Mueller (1805-1898). This man`s life of faith as he began orphanages in England is truly amazing. He never asked for any money, but simply told people what he knew God was leading him to do. As he did so, God always blessed with what was needed. Many times, God sent money from individuals who said it was to be used for a specific purpose that Mueller had told no one about yet. On one occasion,Read More →

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Failed Expectations A few years ago, during some very tumultuous times for our family, I found it rather easy to rely on the Lord and believe that He was working all things out for our good. Daily, I would beg Him to show me what He wanted me to learn from all we were going through. I can honestly say I never felt closer to Him than during those times. However, once the greater part of the burden wad lifted, and at first it looked like our family could get the spiritual help to heal from what we’d been through, that didn’t happen and IRead More →

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Conquering the Pain of Betrayal I started working on this devotional over a year ago, but found myself unable to complete it. I really didn’t know how to proceed as our family has been through so much betrayal over the last few years, and I was still grappling with dealing with it. I knew the Lord wanted me to get the victory over it, so I was hoping that by studying the issue, the healing that only the Lord can bring would finally bring peace. Yet, as it often is with the Lord, the answer was very simple. Most of the peace I so desperatelyRead More →

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And All the Plenty Shall Be Forgotten Context: Genexis 41 & 47 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous. Genesis 41:29-31 It is amazing how we can read portions of the word of God over an over, yet all of a sudden see something we’ve never seenRead More →

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Chocolate Surrender  Chocolate Surrender??? Yes, you read right. Several years back, God used chocolate to teach me, again, the concept of surrender. I’m going to subtitle this lesson as: Whatever It Takes! A few years ago, I was totally addicted to chocolate. It was really bad! I HAD to have a dark chocolate bar every day or I got really cranky!!!! I was getting really cranky too as I knew this was getting expensive and it just needed to stop! I finally couldn’t take it anymore and went to the Lord sincerely in prayer, “Lord, whatever it takes, take the desire for chocolate away!” IRead More →

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Change Where It Is Needed  I’ve heard over and over that we are either entering into, in the midst of, or coming out of tribulations and troubles, and the Scriptures concur: When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: Isaiah 43:2-3a Yes, we are going to go through hard times. God said, “When”, not “If”. So this being the case, thereRead More →

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Our Prayer Answering God Yesterday, it became obvious that our home sewing business needed a secondary industrial, straight-stitch, walking foot sewing machine (similar to JUKI LU-1508N). I had been struggling with this for about a year, but really didn’t want to shell out the money for it. However, with the increase in volume of work that specifically needs an industrial machine, I could not keep up by myself. Neither could I take time away from the one industrial to let one of our girls practice to get good at it to be able to help and then sew at the same time. Hence the needRead More →

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A Tale of Seven Braces – Part IV Here we go again. Three weeks to the day Lowell got the brace back, a rivet broke in the ankle pivot point on the foot orthosis. This orthosis is a huge walking help for him as he is not able to raise his toes, and this orthosis keeps his toes slightly elevated so he doesn’t catch his toes and trip as he walks. The ridiculous part of this, is that when he last sent the brace in with the snapped knee hinge, they were also supposed to replace the rivets as they were loose. However, rather thanRead More →

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A Tale of Seven Braces – Part III   So here we are working with brace #7 still. It has been sent back twice for repairs… This last time, he actually snapped a knee hinge in half. It only took them about 3 weeks to get it back this time, versus the 6 on the first fix. He was able to wear his “boat anchor”, but it was modified to make it lighter. It is still heavier than the new one, but works not too bad. We were hoping the manufacturer would swap out the hinges for better ones, but not so. Oh well, afterRead More →