Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials. James 1:2 NASB95 Commanding joy, not just hoping for happiness. The word in the Greek is translated consider in the NASB95 or invaluable opportunity in the TPT or count in the ESV. That’s… Consider it all joy or See it as an invaluable opportunity or […]
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 ESV Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power. James 4:16 ESV A mentor once told me, “A
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Dedicate your children to God and point them in the way that they should go, and the values they’ve learned from you will be with them for life. Proverbs 22:6 From years of observation, I’ve observed four disciplines of great parents – great grandparents, too! First: Cheerful Generosity We follow the example of our Father
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Jesus said, “If anyone drinks the living water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the water I give you, it becomes a gushing fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with endless life!” John 4:14 Happiness isn’t about God’s Spirit directed toward you. It isn’t about you as a
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I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:17 It is easy to question the goodness of God. I don’t understand why God allows pain – does God exist? Someone I know died – God allowed this;
I’ve been thinking of not writing Interruptions on Saturday. Let’s pause for a collective gasp from the readers. I know you are thinking, “Does Pastor Grant have COVID? Is this a sign of the end-times? Has he fallen away from the faith?” I can say confidently none of the above. I enjoy writing Interruptions. I get
Isn’t it obvious that all runners on the racetrack keep on running to win, but only one receives the victor’s prize? Yet each one of you must run the race to be victorious. A true athlete will be disciplined in every respect, practicing constant self-control in order to win a laurel wreath that quickly withers. But
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Terrie Kennington is a member of Fellowship Church in Springfield, Ohio. She is on the weekend message team. I kept hearing about this amazing message that Terrie shared recently. I asked her to write an Interruption overviewing her thoughts. She mentioned to me the difficulty of distilling an entire message into about 400 words –
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For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established. Romans 1:11 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 1 Corinthians 12:7 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He
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Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. Acts 4:13 Peter and John, uneducated fishermen from Galilee, confounded the PhDs and Nobel Prize winners of their day. Realizing this, those considered learned in their culture were
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