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Another Year of Grace: Through It All, God Has Been Faithful

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Another year of life. Another year of grace. Another opportunity to testify to the goodness and faithfulness of God. As I celebrate another birthday, my heart is filled with gratitude. Not because everything in my life is perfect, not because every prayer has been answered, and certainly not because the past year has been easy. Rather, I am grateful because, through every season, every challenge, every disappointment and every victory, God has remained faithful. “This is the day that the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad today!” Psalms 118:24 (NCV) The words of this verse beautifully express what is in my heart today. I choose to rejoice. I choose to celebrate life. And above all, I choose to give thanks to the One who has sustained me through it all. A year of loss, challenges and victories Looking back over the past year, I can truly say it has been a year of many seasons. A year of loss and grief. A year of unexpected challenges a...
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When It Rains, It Pours — But God Is Still My Shelter

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When it rains, it pours. I have heard that saying so many times, but there are seasons in life when you truly begin to understand what it means. Sometimes, one thing happens after another. Before you have had time to process one situation, something else comes. Before you have recovered from one blow, another arrives. You barely have time to catch your breath before life seems to knock the wind out of you again. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you find yourself asking: “Lord, how much more?” This has felt like one of those seasons for me. There have been beautiful moments — moments of joy, answered prayers and genuine reasons to give God thanks. There have been reminders of His goodness and evidence of His faithfulness. And yet, alongside those moments have come unexpected pain, difficult news, loss and circumstances I simply cannot make sense of. It is ...
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But God, I Trust You

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Sometimes things happen that you simply cannot wrap your head around. You cannot understand the why , and the world just seems so unfair. You have just come through one difficult season. You have fought, prayed, waited and finally overcome. You haven’t even had time to breathe, enjoy the moment or celebrate the victory before another challenge comes — another pain, another loss, another reason to ask: “God, why?” In moments like this, the only way I know how to cope is to go back to God. Who am I to you? As I poured out my heart to Him, one question was impressed upon my heart: “Who am I to you?” And my answer was simple: You are my Abba Father. My faithful God. My covenant-keeping God. I may not understand what You have allowed. I may have questions that remain unanswered. I may cry, lament and tell You that this hurts mo...
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When the Answer Comes, but You Still Have to Wait

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There are seasons of life that we understand only when we are looking back. While we are living through them, they can feel confusing, painful and uncertain. We ask questions. We wonder what God is doing. We pray for doors to open, circumstances to change and clarity to come. I recently walked through one of those seasons. It began with the ending of a chapter that had been part of my life for a long time. I won't go into the circumstances surrounding that season because the details are not really the important part of this story. What matters is what God taught me through it. “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Psalm 27:14 When life doesn't go the way you expected Sometimes an ending arrives differently from the way we imagined. And even when we know that it is time to move forward, there can still be emotions to process. I needed time. Time to think....
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The Faithful God: Finding His Strength in Difficult Seasons

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“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.” Deuteronomy 7:9 There are some truths about God that we know in our minds long before we fully understand them in our hearts. We know that God is good. We know that God loves us. We know that God is faithful. But sometimes it takes walking through a difficult season for those truths to move from something we simply know to something we have personally experienced . Deuteronomy 7:9 reminds us of one of the most reassuring truths in Scripture: God is faithful. He keeps His covenant. He keeps His promises. His steadfast love extends from generation to generation. Lately, this truth has become increasingly precious to me. His love is constant God’s love is faithful because it is constant. It does not...
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What Is Worth Pursuing?

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True fulfilment is found in a life centred on God and guided by His purpose. “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labour, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” Ecclesiastes 2:10–11 We live in a world that constantly encourages us to pursue more, more money, more possessions, more recognition, more pleasure and greater success. We are often made to believe that once we achieve these things, we will finally feel happy, secure and fulfilled. But Ecclesiastes 2:8–11 challenges this belief. In this passage, Solomon describes everything he accumulated and experienced. He had extraordinary wealth, success, entertainment and possessions. He denied himself nothing...
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Living for Eternity, Not Just Today

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Luke 16:1–13 There are some passages of Scripture that leave me scratching my head. Luke 16, the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, has always been one of them. At first glance, it almost sounds as though Jesus is praising dishonesty. But as I spent time reading and reflecting, I realised that wasn't His message at all. The manager knew his time was running out. He acted with urgency. He thought ahead. He made decisions based on what was coming next rather than simply living for the moment. Jesus wasn't commending his dishonesty—He was highlighting his foresight. That made me stop and ask myself a difficult question. Do I live with the same urgency and intentionality when it comes to eternity? Living as though tomorrow will always come It's so easy to believe there will always be another day. Another day to pray. Another day to read my Bible. Another day to call that person God has placed on my heart. Another day to encourage someone. Another day to serve....
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