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10 Short Devotions for Work Meetings to Encourage Your Team
10 Short Devotions for Work Meetings to Encourage Your Team Starting a work meeting with a short devotion can set a positive, faith-filled tone for your team. Whether you are leading a staff meeting, a team check-in, or a leadership huddle, a simple devotional thought reminds everyone that God is present in every part of
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Simply Obey
“But Naaman went away angry and said, ‘I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy’” (2 Kings 5:11-12). Naaman was an army general who needed healing from Leprosy. A
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The Value of Hard Places
“So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.” 2 Corinthians 4:12 Being forced into hard places gives us a whole new perspective on life. Things we once valued no longer hold the same value. Small things become big things, and what we once thought big no longer holds
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, today I want to teach you about intercession and warfare. Do yourecall the time when my son Moses had to confront the principalities over Egypt before the people could be freed? When I called him to the task, I told him I was going to perform miracles through his staff, the symbol of his
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Divine Setups
“Simon, Simon, satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” Luke 22:31-32 Have you ever perceived yourself to be at one place spiritually only to discover that you were actually far from this
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
My Son did not overcome the world for himself, but for you and all my children. When I call my sons and daughters to stand and sacrifice, it is for a redemption beyond your power to understand while you live on earth. My Son of sorrows identifies with your pain and is using it to
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Do You Need a Breakthrough?
“…while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. He instructed me and said to me, ‘Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding’” (Dan 9:21-22). There are times in our lives
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, you are learning some truths about my ways. They aren’t cookie cutter formulas, but fresh manna prepared just for you. I worked in my daughter Naomi in a way that few could understand. She lost everything that was dear to her. I remained silent for ten years of her journey. Sometimes the pain of
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Laying Down Our Life for the Bride
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father” (John 10:17,18).
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Martha’s Bad Rap
“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead” (James 2:26). Martha has been unfairly criticized in the history of the Church. Mary and Martha were entertaining Jesus in their home when Martha complained to Jesus about Mary simply sitting at the feet of Jesus rather than assisting her with
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Transforming Your Workplace
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…” (Matthew 6:9-10). What would your workplace look like if this prayer were answered today where you work? “Transformation” is a powerful word. Just hearing it, you
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, when I take you to the mountain to see and experience my glory, it is for your encouragement and inspiration, but you’ll not be able to remain there. However, you were made to live and establish your faith in the valley. It was said of my son Joseph that he endured hardship “til the
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Face to Face
“I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.” 2 John 12 It is easy to fire off a letter to someone in this age of electronic
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The Root of Bitterness
“See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.” Hebrews 12:15 The enemy of our souls has a very specific strategy to destroy relationships. Whether these relationships are in business, marriage, or friendships, the strategy is the same. A conflict
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Dear son, do you understand that the loss of comforts and privileges in this life can strengthen and enable you to become broken bread for others? Like my Son, you will experience tribulation in this lifetime, but I have given you my grace to overcome. You will not be given more than you can handle
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I can’t believe you think that!
“Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom” (James 3:13-14). “I can’t believe you think that,” I complained. “I was simply trying to explain that I don’t have the same feelings about that issue as you do.” The
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, when the adversary wants to deceive, he often counterfeits your own voice. He can speak your language so well that you will be certain you are hearing your own counsel. You will find yourself meditating on an issue and before you know it you become depressed and hopeless and may even blame me for
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God Is Not About YOUR Success
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life”
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An Audience of One
“Jesus answered, ‘If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow Me.’” John 21:22 For several weeks I awoke with heaviness over me. It seemed it did not matter how much I prayed or how much I read the Scriptures. Finally, one night I was reading
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The Queen of Heaven
“The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven” (Jer 7:18). If you want to change the spiritual climate of your city you must address the principalities that rule that city. Such was the case for the apostle Paul
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Worldly Planning
“Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say, ‘Yes, yes’ and ‘No, no’?” 2 Corinthians 1:17 The apostle Paul was discussing his plans to come to the church at Corinth. He was acknowledging the serious nature of his trip and informing the Corinthians that he
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, I desire for you to understand and steward the vision I have entrusted to you. You are not responsible for getting this vision on your own. I will birth it inside of you. If you come by it through any other means, you will sweat and toil to see it fulfilled and will fall
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Relating to Those Different From Us
“The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?’”(John 4:9). Do you find it difficult to relate to others who are different than you? Do you shy away from interacting with those who may have a different belief? Jesus interacted
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Listening To The Father’s Heart
Son, I want you to notice something about my Son’s prayer life. When confronted by evil in the life of a person, he did not recite long prayers. He simply exercised the authority I had given him over the demons he encountered. I have given you that same authority to destroy the works of darkness
