Category: growth
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Building Character: One step at a time
Last week, I painted a coaster for a friend. At first I didn’t know what to paint on it. I looked at some flowers that I know she loves and started to draw some inspiration from them. I started with one layer at a time and as I build on each layer, the flower started…
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Silencing the lies that steals your peace
Who is controlling your thoughts? These past 7 weeks, my husband and I attended a marriage course. We didn’t enroll because we thought our marriage was lacking. Instead, after spending weeks apart last year and earlier this year, we recognised that our relationship needed care. Maintaining Relationships Sometimes relationships need maintenance. Just as we take…
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Navigating Life’s Uncharted Waters: A Call to Courage
Doing unfamiliar things takes a lot of courage. Change can feel exhilarating and daunting at the same time. How do we deal with the new, unexplored areas that we are called to? During these past few months I’ve been constantly reminded about the time when Peter got out of the boat and walked on the…
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Embracing Change: Trusting God Through Trials
Change can be terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. In both the Old and New Testaments people had to adjust to changes happening in their circumstances. Their degree of willingness to embrace the change lead to either: prosperity because they trusted in God, or being stuck in discontentment because of complaining instead of appreciating…
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A Fresh Start: Unburdened, free & renewed
Part 1: Declutter “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:31 – 32 KJV You just have to search on the…
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In the garden: Living in total submission
Part 2: Godly character in the garden How do we live a life of submission even when we are accused? In this post we are going to continue learning from Jesus while he was in the garden of Gethsemane. Matthew 26:46 KJV, “Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray…
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In the garden: Living in total submission
Part 1: Praying in the garden Matthew 26:36 KJV “Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.” The garden of Gethsemane was a site on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives which overlooked the temple. It was thought to be near…
