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The Blessed Life

“The blessed life does not begin with more money in your pocket.  It begins with more word in your heart.” (Pastor Jonathan Delturco, International Family Church). How true! How powerful! In Acts, Paul exhorted the Ephesian elders with these words: “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, […]

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You Are God’s Gift to the World

Do you need to be needed? I do. I would hate to be unnecessary. Irrelevant. An appendix in the body. Thank God, this is not the case for me. Nor for you. God would never do that to us.

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The Siege Is Over

What do you plan to do in 2014? If you refuse to give up, if you decide to walk by faith with God, to keep pressing forward in your relationship with Him, you will locate favor, you will step into abundance, you will march into victory, you will discover

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Rest and Receive God’s Best!

Are you “standing on the promises” of God as you await a breakthrough? That’s what I used to do. But as it is with standing physically, I discovered the manner in which I was “standing” on the promises could be exhausting. Standing for long periods of time wears you out! But I’ve found a better […]

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Receive Blessings, No Curses

What do you think of this statement, “Do good, God’s glad. Do bad, God’s mad?” If you believe this is a true statement and it is consistent with the New Testament, you are wrong. The truth is, God’s opinion of us in the New Covenant is not based on our performance, but on

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God’s Blessings Are Free

God’s blessings are not cheap, but they are always free. We can never earn them, and we could never buy them. We are not good enough to merit, or rich enough to purchase them. The only way, therefore, to receive things we can never earn or buy is to receive them freely. That’s the lesson […]

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Living the Blessed Life

The Bible says the fool has said in his heart there is no God. Indeed, such a person is a fool. But I believe there is an even greater fool. It is the one who believes in God, but proceeds to live his life as if God does not exist. The greatest fool in my […]

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Goodness and Mercy

Many people cannot enjoy life because they are constantly worried about what tomorrow might bring—will they be able to take care of themselves; will their spouse leave them; will they lose their job; will they come down with some incurable disease; suppose such and such happens, and on and on. But there is no reason […]

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True Love

I drew a line in the sand. “Enough is enough. Today, you have to choose between me and him.” And so at the ripe old age of fifteen I already felt I was entitled to the exclusive affection of the girl I was “in love” with. I would not tolerate any competition. Forced to choose, […]

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