Next step devotional
7 Myths That Keep You Stuck
& The Promises of God That Set You Free
Terrible, Awful, No Good, Really Bad News
Ever gotten some terrible, awful news? We’d lived in our hundred-year-old farmhouse about nine months when we discovered the termite damage. Every single stud on the east side had…
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Our Response Matters
As usual, I was in a rush. I seem to have two speeds: asleep and hurry. I was late getting home, and in my flurry to get out of…
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Does God Hear Our Prayers?
Mr. 4-Ever and I traveled to the beautiful Camp Gitche Gumee on the shores of Lake Superior for a retreat I was speaking at this weekend. All around us is…
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Bigger Picture Moments
Who else is competitive by nature? Anyone? Besides me? I compete all the time…and it’s especially apparent at the grocery store. to get a great parking spot save money collect…
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Giants Will Fall
When someone asks you to share your testimony, what you do you tell them? I love to hear the story of when you first said yes to Jesus, but…
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That’s Your Cue
Have you ever been to a dance recital? Once, Mr. 4-Ever and I (along with hundreds of others) sat in a hot, crowded auditorium for hours to watch a…
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God is Speaking
A widow in deep sorrow sat alone at the park. Months earlier, her husband of many years had been killed in a car accident. “God, I’m so lonely and…
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Have you forgiven yourself?
After an event where I was speaking, Elisa approached me with a simple request for prayer to feel God’s love again. She had gotten into something she wasn’t proud of,…
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Safe Landing
When I married Adventure Boy (Craig), he came with an airplane, a motorcycle, and a riding lawn mower. “Babe-a-licious,” he said to me one day (that’s what he called me),…
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“White-Knuckle” Listening
A man in the back row of the church came forward for prayer. The pastor asked him what he wanted to be prayed for. “I need prayer about my hearing,”…
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