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Today's Devotional by ### at ###, Inc. Enjoy! I pray that this will lift and inspire ALL standers! ### DO YOU HAVE A BURDEN? “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit–fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.†John 15:16-17 As I was working in my office, I was listening to a radio program. The speaker was asking if you have a burden that God has given you. If your answer was yes, then you can never run from that burden. If the Lord has touched you with a burden for teens, you can surrender willingly or postpone the call, or fight the Lord from doing what He has planned for your whole life, dragging your feet in...

"The peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."***** Lord, one by one by one...let them come to know of this peace within, for which the world community cannot give. To struggle with the outward shall leave a restlessness within. Let them go away from any disturbance of heart and mind...for then shall be awarded a peace within. Of ones own self...shall be held accountable for doubt or weakness when in contempt of the Divine Spirit.

```html (Genesis 43: 22-23) “We have also brought down other money in our hand to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks." He said, "Be at ease, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks; I had your money." Learn to praise God in the storm and ask Him to open your eyes to the hidden treasure in your trial. The story of Joseph and his brothers is a wonderful story and an example of God’s unconditional love and forgiveness in face of bitterness and resentment. Joseph endured much heartache in being rejected by his brothers who were full of jealousy. They wanted to kill him; they threw him in a pit and sold him into slavery. He was accused wrongly and thrown into prison...

(I Samuel 23:16) “And Saul’s son, Jonathan went to help David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God.†David was being chased by Saul and his men and he left Keilah and traveled from place to place. He came to the Desert of Ziph and made camp at Horesh. He had been going from place to place with the enemy on his tail. He had a promise but at that time I am sure he felt tired both physically and emotionally. Have you ever been there? You have had a promise from the Lord but trials overwhelm you and you long for rest; rest from the burdens that you carry and slap you in the face on daily basis. You just need rest and sometimes you just feel like crawling up in a corner and crying. I am sure David felt this way. Satan wants...

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This one sure needs to be said! Hallelujah! I'm back and still standing...for God's glory! Scroggymommy5 ARE YOU MARRIED FOR LIFE? The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.…” But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and...

'Two that see'...

I remember the day my baby girl was born. What a feeling I had when I held her in my arms the first time. I felt immediate love and attachment for this helpless little package God had given me. She needed constant care which I was glad to give. As she grew I remember coming home from work exhausted but longing to see my little girl. It seemed to make me forget all other problems. When I saw her she would crawl up in my lap and put her little head on my shoulder and fall asleep, it gave me such a feeling of joy. As she got a little older, I would come home and she literally would jump into my arms and hug me and tell me I love you daddy and squeeze me so hard and kiss my cheek. There was no feeling could compare to that. She wanted to...

For woe be it, for they have memorized or read all the 'letters'...but yet cannot pass on life or spiritual growth to you. For of only 'words' heard, as spoken of the Holy Spirit, shall give life. For when the Divine Spirit communicates to a man, there is access to every experience, every sight and sound, every word, thought, and every feeling that man has had in their life...for also of the Spirit is aware of man's language, dialect, and understanding of vocabulary. The Spirit speaks to man in precisely understandable language with inflections of love, kindness, and firmness are but a few. For it is not to be mistaken between reading the letters', however wonderful they are...and 'hearing' the infinite wisdom of God expressed of a...

```html Bless the Lord, for He is wise and He is just. He wants the absolute best for us. Some times the things we desire are His will for us, but not in the way that we want them. Those desires that consume us, that fill our mind and hearts night and day, taking His place, have become an idol. The Lord wants to bless us lavishly, but He doesn't want us to be destroyed. The blessing will destroy us if we want it so badly that we allow it to become an idol, and therefore sin, because sin leads to death. Yet, the anguish, the missing, the tearing heart, the mourning, the tears, the lack of sleep, the lack of eating all has its purpose. The beautiful prayers of travail, the deep depths of pain from inner longing can become fervent...