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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...

Where is your faith? Luke 8:25 25 And He said to them, "Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?" This passage of scripture occurred during a storm at sea. Jesus had said to His disciples, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake." During the crossing, a storm came up. Jesus was asleep in the boat while His disciples were frantic with fear of drowning if the boat capsized. They "woke" Jesus up telling Him they were going to drown. Jesus awoke, rebuked the wind and waves, and suddenly the wind and waves calmed. Jesus then looked at His disciples and asked them "where is your faith?" He did not admonish them for...

"Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."—Matthew 17:19-21. The disciples could not cast out the demon and Jesus told them it was because of "their unbelief". He did not say they had no faith or a weak faith. The apostles had previously been casting out demons. Luke 10:17-18 17The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." 18And He said to...

Matthew 8:9-10 …9 "For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it." 10 Now when Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who were following, "Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel. Jesus commended this Roman Centurion's great faith and said He had not found its equal in Israel. The Pharisees who studied the scriptures more than anyone in Israel were never commended for their faith, either weak or strong. The Centurion knew what authority was about; he understood authority. He learned this about authority by rising through the military ranks of...

Unless we can be true to ourselves first, how can one be true to others... "To thine own self be true"...how profound. Perhaps to many struggle with this. Those that have given their life to another at the cost of losing who they are in the process will have a hard time being true to ones own self. Allowing someone or something else to define who we are, we may lose our ability to discover and grow spiritually, and no longer able to discern a truth from a lie or deception. To many have accepted untruths' and deception for so long, that learning what is true takes time and patience. Having done so, one will find difficulty in the journey to self-discovery. Truth...truth is a word that brings out such negative reactions to many. For is...

When you identify the need to set a boundary, do it clearly, preferably without anger, and in as few words as possible. Do not justify, apologize for, or rationalize the boundary you are setting. Do not argue! Just set the boundary calmly, firmly, clearly, and respectfully. You can't set a boundary and take care of someone else's feelings at the same time. You are not responsible for the other person's reaction to the boundary you are setting. You are only responsible for communicating the boundary in a respectful manner. If others get upset with you, that is their problem. If they no longer want your friendship, then you are probably better off without them. You do not need 'friends' who disrespect your boundaries. At first, you...

Do You Have Mountain Moving Faith? Romans 1:17 (KJV) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed, from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. From faith to faith means faith from start to finish. Every day we are given the opportunity to read or hear God's Word, but many of us fail to do so or we get slack for whatever reason. We also have an enemy who wants to distract us and keep us from the Word because he knows we would become victorious in faith and a major threat to him. In our daily living, we are responsible for maintaining our faith. Romans 10:17 says, So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The moment we take our eyes off Jesus and start...