Devotions

Consider The Source

• By Lysa TerKeurst
• Confidence, God's Perspective, Identity in Christ
• April 4, 2013
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"But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:44 (NIV)

Do you want to make Jesus smile today? I do.

I want to untangle the thoughts of me and mine and what I have going on and think of someone else. A ...

Sitting At Home, Alone

• By Lysa TerKeurst
• Confidence, Identity in Christ
• February 21, 2013
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"For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority." Colossians 2:9-10 (NIV 1984)

They were laughing in their matching neon pink t-shirts with the words "Bethany's Birthday ...

Collateral Damage

• By Suzie Eller
• Forgiveness, Identity in Christ
• February 15, 2013
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"He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." Psalm 147:3 (ESV)

My house has a crack. Just over the doorframe, creeping to the ceiling. It catches my eye every time I sit on my couch in my living rom. My house isn't that old, so when I ...

Remind Me Who I am

• By Glynnis Whitwer
• Identity in Christ
• February 6, 2013
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"One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him." John 13:23 (NIV)

As a freshman in high school, a boy gave me the nickname "hips." Although I was thin, my shape wasn't popular like the models of that time. And from that point on ...

Love Rest

• By Amy Carroll
• God's Perspective, Identity in Christ
• December 7, 2012
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"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love." John 15:9 (NIV)

I read books about it. I listened to sermons about it. I wrote about it. I sang about it. I thought about it. I was completely immersed. So why couldn ...

People Pleasing

• By Lysa TerKeurst
• Identity in Christ, Overcoming
• September 6, 2012
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"Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10 (NIV)

Hello, my name is Lysa and I want people ...

Mistaken Identity

• By Karen Ehman
• Identity in Christ
• July 26, 2012
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"He who belongs to God hears what God says." John 8:47a (NIV 1984)

I poured a cup of coffee and logged on to my laptop to peek at a friend's Facebook page.

When I tried hopping over to see her latest pictures, I couldn't get her name ...

Letting God Fill My Empty Places

• By Renee Swope
• Confidence, Identity in Christ
• May 9, 2012
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"You God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water." Psalm 63:1, NIV

It was a source she'd come to depend on. A place she went to get ...

Waging Kana

• Balance, Confidence, God's Perspective, Identity in Christ, Perseverance, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Warfare, Trusting God, Uncategorized, Overcoming, Walking in Faith
• March 29, 2011
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"And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, 'Why could we not cast it out' So He said to them, 'This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.'" Mark 9:28-29 (NKJV)

How Did I Get To This Place?

• Identity in Christ, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, Time with God, Uncategorized, Overcoming, Walking in Faith
• March 28, 2011
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by Melanie Chitwood

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8, 9 (NAS)

One of the things I love to do is to ...