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And old couple was riding down a road in their 1970 Chevy Pickup - the wife sitting on the bench seat against the passenger door quietly looking out the window. They met another pickup on the road driven by a younger man, and a young woman was riding in the middle of the truck saddled up next to the young man.   The old man's wife looked across the cab at the old fella and remarked "Remember when we used to ride like that?"   The old fella looked down at the bench seat and the distance between his wife and himself and replied "I haven't moved."   That's how it is with our relationship with God when we feel distant from Him.  We shout out "God! Where are you? I don't feel you!"   He replies "I haven't moved!"   If there is distance in our relationship with God, it is because we have made a choice to move after something that is apart from Him.    "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw...

 Have you ever felt like you were under attack and began praying, but it didn't seem like the attack was stopping? The last several weeks have been a whirlwind for our family with 3 family members being taken to ER by ambulance. We prayed, we cried, we prayed, we called, we drove to the ER, called prayer warrior friends. It was emotionally, mentally, and physically tiring. In the midst of all this and a hectic workload with work, God jogged my memory. In 2 Kings chapter 20, we read the story of Hezekiah. Hezekiah was sick and near death. The prophet Isaiah comes to visit him and give him the kind of encouragement that only a prophet could deliver. Isaiah say to Hezekiah, "Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live." The Bible says Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed "Remember now, O  Lord, I pray, how I have walked before You in the truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight." and then he wept bitterly. We...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer Society teaches us to pursue all sorts of things for happiness - BMWs, Mercedes, Ferraris,  that bigger house, that infinity swimming pool, that vacation home in the mountains, that Key West home, that new set of TaylorMade golf clubs, that Italian shotgun, those Christian Louboutin red sole shoes, that Giorgio Armani purse. The list goes on and on. But what I have found is all of those things are temporary and the happiness they bring is fleeting. This is what Jesus was talking about when He said  "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19 Now I'm not saying we can't have nice things, and that we should live in a state of poverty. Not at all. But wh...

 

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