"...It's the only thing that there's just too little of!” A great idea! But I don't think we, as the human race, have fully grasped the concept of Love – especially not Agape' - which is the Greek word for supernatural, God engendered LOVE – the kind...
G-d said that the Nation of Israel is to be the Light to the Nations (through the seed of Messiah - who came as the Living Torah, to uphold and fulfill Torah)! It has become apparent to me that we sit, stand and work in darkness because we have shut off...
I have always been somewhat sensitive to the temporary tenor of life on the planet. Perhaps that is due to being one of the younger of five siblings, meaning that our parents were older, more fragile, and our grandparents, and aunts and uncles had already...
Some thoughts to ponder as we face another year of His Grace: 1. Yesterday is history. It is not to be dismissed or forgotten or overly grieved, but learned from, gleaned from. The things that need to be grieved, let them be respectfully grieved and then...
It has occurred to me that the difficulties most folks have in their "faith walk", even the recurring difficulty which I experience in trusting God, and watch others go through constantly, may be generated from an underlying sense of what is now known...
"...Likewisereckon (consider) yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God ." (Romans 6:9-11) I talk a lot about the concept of "dying to the flesh" - "Death to the Tyrant!" - I have written tomes on ignoring it, subjugating it, putting it down,...
Shakepeare's famous assertion, that "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", does not logically apply to all of life - especially the spiritual life. That assertion begins with the question, "What's in a name?" Implying, of course, that "names"...
Pure Religion? What a concept! The Scripture does talk of something called "Pure Religion" (please see "James" - which should actually be entitled "Jacob" - 1:26-28, for a definition); however, after having had my gut-full of multiplied years of what...
On Being a Mom ~ A Tribute to Motherhood by Sandra Carlton Duncan ~ (A Mom of seven, who is still working through the last stages of that glorious, but swiftly fading, career.) Part One: A tribute of a grateful daughter.... As I am writing this, it is...
Part Two of : The Hidden Blessings and Open Challenges of the World's Finest Art On Being a Mom ~ A Tribute to Motherhood by Sandra Carlton Duncan Oy! What a mixed bag motherhood is! It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows! It is a roller-coaster...
Part Three of the Motherhood Saga - The Hidden Blessings and Open Challenges of the World's Finest Art ~ A Tribute (thesis?) ~ by Sandra Carlton Duncan ~ As I have already suggested, pregnancy, despite its frequent challenges, was actually one of the...
...A Prayerful Discovery First of all, Dearest Lord; I hear the urgent invitation for us to come to You. For us to come humbly seeking, receiving Your help, knowing that it is not our own rightness that gets us this audience, but Your compassion. It is...
In a spiritual journey, that is real and not merely a virtual experience, one must first establish a relationship with the real and living God. And somehow to avoid getting side-tracked or waylaid by our own ideas, our own virtual - man-made substitutions,...
It is difficult to live in the strength of the Lord when one has lost ones joy! The struggle each day becomes keeping a positive attitude in the midst of the inherent strife of daily living with other humans! How is it possible? Our focus must be on the...
We love LIGHT... because we know that only light can expose the threatening shadows of the unknown. And yet, it is not so commonly known, as Brother Oswald has pointed out (in today's excellent devotional segment of My Utmost for His Highest - August...
I am up entirely too early this morning due to an alarm that went off in my spirit. The alarm was to this effect - "Get up and begin to pray and fast that there will be no destruction on 9/11!" The II Chronicles 7:14 alert is going off big time in the...
"... not carnal (fleshly, contrived or created or utilized by the lower nature), but are of divine power, able to pull down and destroy spiritual strongholds." To that I must say, "Ten-Four, good buddy!" That is what the truckers used to say when they...
Today, in addition to praying for the Peace of Jerusalem, I am praying fervently for the Peace of DC, for the Peace of America. I am praying for the safety of those who ride for our rights. This is one instance in which the Hogs are totally Kosher! These...
We get all flustered and bothered about many things, as did the sister whose name was Martha in the New Testiment story. We enter into this relationship with God at first out of a sense of wonder, a drawing of our soul toward something vital, as King...
...what it is, and what it isn't. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...." Thus begins the most well known Biblical treatise on the subject of that spiritual condition known as "Faith", found in Hebrews 11:1. The...
(Inspired by “My Utmost for His Highest” for November the 26th) “The feebleness of the church is being criticized today, and the criticism is justified. One reason for the feebleness is that there has not been this focus on the true center of spiritual...
How I'm feeling? Don't ask! Though you ask from true caring; I'll be tempted to list stuff I shouldn't be sharing! To rehearse all the aches and pains, I'm sadly inclined, instead of just quoting the Word, I might whine! I'm overcoming some symptoms,...
Where the Battle is Won or Lost “ If you will return, O Israel,’ says the Lord . . . — Jeremiah 4:1 Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and...
Finding Peace in the midst of a raging storm, in the cold dark night, His Love so warm, His Spirit shields us from all harm, His Grace is all we need! Fighting, warring, to walk in Faith, struggling to find that Secret Place, striving to seek His loving...
I once heard Rev. Hagan say that the “Walk of Faith requires two legs!”. What are those two “Legs” which are required to “Walk in Faith”? Trust and Obedience, also called “faith and works”! Works without faith, which is simply trust in the One being worked...
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