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Thank You from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo. Today I want to talk about the importance of being thankful. Jesus lived on Earth as our example, and He was so thankful and full of praise. No matter what you have been through, there are still some things that you can be thankful about. An imp... -
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. Psalms 32:8 NIVRecently when the Lord was ready to start something new in our life, He started closing out the old. Of course we panicked, tried giving more, praying more, fasting more, serving ...
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Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. James 3:10 WEBHot, ti...
Blood in the Water
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He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Psalms 147:3 WEB
When sharks sense blood in the water, they will go into a feeding frenzy where they attack the wounded and devour them, even if it is another shark. They get so caught up in this that they may even turn and attack each other. The water becomes cloudy, everything becomes blurred, and everyone around them becomes a target.
Church life can be messy. We are all imperfect people trying to represent a perfect God, and when we fail, people get wounded. Many are just victims of church abuse and it is not their fault at all. If you get deeply involved in a church, chances are that you are going to find things that you don't like about it. You can find yourself being one of the wounded.
Jesus reached out to the hurting, he touched the outcasts, he ate with the sinners, and He told us parables like the good Samaritan who stopped to help the wounded man. We are to help the wounded among us, not turn and destroy their lives, dash their hopes, and drive them away.
Today if you know someone that has been wounded, reach out to them. You might just be the only friend that they have on earth at a time when everyone else has turned their back on them. If you are one of the wounded, hang on to God and understand that God still loves you, but His followers can often fail to show it.
Prayer: Heavenly Father I thank You for today. Please forgive me of hurting others, as I forgive those that have hurt me. Help me to live a life of victory and make my enemies live at peace with me. Help me be slow to speak and to always think first. Use me to heal the hurting, rescue the lost, forgive the unforgiving, and bind up their wounds, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.
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Thank you Adoni Yeshua for teaching us how to love and forgive each other. Thank you for healing my broken heart and binding up my wounds.
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"Help me be slow to speak and to always think first"
words to live by.
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Amen. Find favor on us.
Truth and Amen
Prayer: Heavenly Father I thank You for today. Please forgive me of hurting others, as I forgive those that have hurt me. Help me to live a life of victory and make my enemies live at peace with me. Help me be slow to speak and to always think first. Use me to heal the hurting, rescue the lost, forgive the unforgiving, and bind up their wounds, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen Thank you
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Amen! We as Christians are supose to be the body of Christ. We are to become an army so to speak. I have often said that the church is the only army I am aware of who shoots it's own wounded. Where is the healing in that?
Beautiful message and prayer! Father let my thoughts, words and actions be pleasing to You, Amen.
Praise God
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Dear Father, I ask You to help me to give to those in need and to always remember Your words. Amen.
Thank you Pastor Dion for this message, it touched me.
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Help me to be slow to speak. (I'm working on this)
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Amen!! I continue to pray for those less fortunate than myself and to always remember how truly Blessed I am. Thank you God for all that I have been Blessed with. Amen
Heavenly Father I thank You for today. Please forgive me of hurting others, as I forgive those that have hurt me. Help me to live a life of victory and make my enemies live at peace with me. Help me be slow to speak and to always think first. Use me to heal the hurting, rescue the lost, forgive the unforgiving, and bind up their wounds, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen <3
Thank you Pastor Dion for todays devotion. :-)
Amen. Praise God! Thanks Pastor Todd! Heavenly Father I thank You for today. Please forgive me of hurting others, as I forgive those that have hurt me. Help me to live a life of victory and make my enemies live at peace with me. Help me be slow to speak and to always think first. Use me to heal the hurting, rescue the lost, forgive the unforgiving, and bind up their wounds, in the Name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
O Lord, my Lord, please continue to mold me and shape me, I'm so weak and I need Your strength, guidance and direction! Just like Paul said "The things I should do, I do not, and the things I shouldn't do I do" - that's me. Please don't give up on me, in Jesus name I ask and pray, Amen!!!