Author Archives: heartcalm7

Cleaning House

Posted on December 10, 2018 by heartcalm7

Judah’s King Josiah ordered the Temple, long neglected and run-down, to be repaired.  In the process, the High Priest Hilkiah found the Book of the Law, also badly neglected and ignored.  Scribe Shaphan read from the book aloud to the … Continue reading →

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Spectrum of God’s Gifts

Posted on December 6, 2018 by heartcalm7

I am awestruck at certain times of the day when, to my delight, the sun’s rays burst into a rainbow of colors passing through borders of beveled glass in decorative windows in our house.  It moves me to worship. Visible … Continue reading →

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Our Invisible Harvest

Posted on December 4, 2018 by heartcalm7

Jesus sent seventy of His disciples out ahead of Him, to where He Himself would subsequently go.  They were to speak good news to those they met there, “that the kingdom of God has come near.”  They were to bring … Continue reading →

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Contentment

Posted on November 30, 2018 by heartcalm7

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;   Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.                 … Continue reading →

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Building up one another

Posted on November 27, 2018 by heartcalm7

O God, give me Your tender heart for the multitudes around me.  You looked at them “and had compassion on them, for they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd.”  (Matthew 9:36)  You prayed over Jerusalem with a … Continue reading →

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Burn your bridges to sin.

Posted on November 21, 2018 by heartcalm7

[Jotham] did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high … Continue reading →

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Enabled to do His will

Posted on November 12, 2018 by heartcalm7

“Wretched man that I am!  Who will set me free from the body of this death?” Paul says in Romans 7:24, grieving over his inability to perform in life in the way he feels that God intended for him.  For … Continue reading →

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Listening to God’s Voice Takes Prayer and Practice

Posted on November 1, 2018 by heartcalm7

By our own choice, we too often live in spiritual poverty, ignoring God’s wonderful offer of help: “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be … Continue reading →

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Frustrated with yourself?

Posted on October 19, 2018 by heartcalm7

“For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. . . . For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that … Continue reading →

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Watch carefully for your rescue!

Posted on October 16, 2018 by heartcalm7

Picture the scene of a man lost at sea in a little boat filling with water.  Hopefully, he is not so busy bailing out his boat that he does not see the search airplane passing overhead and miss his opportunity … Continue reading →

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