As you read this I will be on my way up north. The boys look forward with great anticipation to our yearly bass fishing trip. I am not much for slimy worms and hooks, but I love the great outdoors. The eagles are breath taking and I enjoy listening to the sounds of Loons. I [...]
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The temperatures are heating up and kids are filled with summer fever. Summer time is a great season for reading good books. Whether I am by the pool, visiting the beach, or staying inside my air conditioned home you can usually find me curled up with a book. As a book reviewer you can imagine [...]
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Lori Kasbeer with Max Lucado Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.” I am excited to share with you that I am a contributing author in a new book titled, Pearl Girls: Encountering [...]
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Martin Luther said, “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” Spring is the beginning of all things new. By receiving His resurrection from death we enjoy a new life. John 11:5 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he [...]
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As we enter the month of March thoughts of spring begin to dance in our head. We begin to see green everywhere as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but many of us are longing for the green grass and green trees. I promise it is right around the corner! While waiting for spring let me [...]
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Oswald Chambers said, “The springs of love are in God, not in us. It is absurd to look for the love of God in our hearts naturally; it is only there when it has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” This month the focus is on love; we can love [...]
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-10
Do you ever feel like you are in a season when the winds and rains of trouble and difficulty are hitting you from all sides? Times where it seems that every time the winds die down, you find that it is not the end, but only the eye of the storm? Stormy seasons will come. But we have a treasure, a great and mighty treasure ~ the all-surpassing power of God. During difficult seasons, this power gives us the ability to say, “I am not crushed; I am not in despair; I am not abandoned or destroyed!”
Thank you my sweet Jesus! You are my treasure. May your life be revealed in me!
Grateful even in storms,
Nicole
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