Tag: a life in holiness
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #103
So. let’s talk about WHO I AM! 😫 There are many things in life we really be swearing we NEED. But we don’t even be needing em. We just want em cuz that’s how humans is built: to be wanty. You know how it goes—lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, pride of life. […]
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Sow Peace; Reap Righteousness
I sow peace. So I can reap peace. I’d rather apologize to someone who is wrong than win a fight. I’d rather give you what you want than fight for my own selfish gains. I’d rather watch, pray, and give you a WIDE BERTH and a LONG-HANDLED SPOON than try to get you to see […]
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This ain’t the time to turn back now.
One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder as I passed landmarks that I’d not seen […]
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Focus on His Promise, Not Your Problems
The nature of all human suffering is that we “need”–suggesting that we lack. Yet if we are IN God and God is IN us, does not the scripture say we have shalom? (Nothing missing, nothing broken OR no lack). PEACE, therefore, looks like this: “IN GOD THERE IS NO LACK; everything that I need? I […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 7: IMANI
True believers understand that salvation is a deed-less experience, that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That we find redemption in receiving the forgiveness purchased by the blood shed on the cross. But there IS another step thereafter. That same faith, when fully formed through the hearing of the word, produces […]
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 1: UMOJA
We have such misguided ideas about what unity is, what it looks like, how it works. Unity comes from the idea of a unit, and units have many moving parts—not the exact same parts, but many different equally important parts that allow a thing to work effectively. A successful civilization works because there are many […]
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Real Gs Move in Silence Like Lasagna (God’s Logistical Lefthand)
I was in the bathroom praying (as I often am), crying and irritated because there are spaces in my life that chafe. I have been standing at the precipice of leaving all and starting over for a few years now, pulled back from the edge by unseen forces gently reminding me of responsibilities that, while […]
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Kindness, Clarity, and Encouragement – #89
Every day God affirms for me that the only person I am in control of AND am responsible for is me. EVEN my kids I cannot control; I can only guide and support. This is the beginning of peace.
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Submission and Salvation
The word I heard in the spirit today is submission! Submission requires you to be obedient. It requires you to do things the way the leader would have them done. You cannot do what you wanna do if you are submitted. You literally ask: “what am I supposed to do?” because you fully trust the […]
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Popular with God or Man?
The biggest struggle I have seen in body of Christ today—and in my own life—is the constant push and pull of popularity. The tough part about holiness is the initial walking away from people to pursue God. That walking away encompasses all that we crave: money, fame, power, privilege…the literal DENYING of self and crucifying […]
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