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         <title>Praise at All Times</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[David found the most unusual times to praise the Lord. Psalm 34 was written regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech. This was probably not the happiest time in his life. David “was afraid…so he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard” (1 Samuel 21:12-13). Yet David wrote in verse 1, “I will praise the Lord at all times.”

This morning I read verse 2 of this Psalm  in several versions:
NLT I will boast in the Lord; all who are...]]></description>
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         <title>Come, Refining Fire!</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[God's visitations in the Bible were frequently symbolized by fire. His visitations still often come as fire--a purifying fire. I am longing for such a visitation.

Will you join me in praying for God to come as a refiner's fire? "Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple ... But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner's fire" (Malachi 3:1-2).

God will come in response to our many prayers. E. M. Bounds wrote in...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Love and a Pure Heart</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[This week I am reading comments in Great Holiness Classics, Volume 1 on 1 Timothy 1:5: “Now the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart." Here are a few thoughts that I am feasting on: 

God does not require of us great skill or great ability; it is only love that He asks from us. And where there is love, God is more delighted in our loving than in all the knowledge and wisdom that any man upon earth can ever express in his best work. But where there is no love, all wisdom, all...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The Call</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; A few months ago my husband and I attended a funeral of a Jesuit priest. The funeral was on a Tuesday morning in St. Louis about five hours from our home, so we drove over on Monday evening. On Tuesday morning while in the hotel a friend called saying she had just read a prayer written by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1491 that she wanted to read to me. 
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&#160; She began reading the “Take, Lord, Prayer.”
“Take, Lord, and receive 
all my liberty, 
my memory,...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Intimate Communion</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In the Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy saw the lion Aslan and began to follow him. The others could not see him at first, but the longer they followed, the more visible Aslan became to them. Similarly, the more we seek to focus on, delight in, and seek the guidance of the Spirit within, the more His presence becomes real to us. If we have received the Holy Spirit, He is perpetually within whether we sense His presence or not. He promises to be with us always. As we cultivate an awareness of His...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>God Loves You This Minute!</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Occasionally God's love is amazingly evident. Recently Jana, a physician who trained under my husband, told him the following account. About seven years ago she and her husband adopted a baby, knowing he had cerebral palsy and would be crippled. One Christmas evening, she read to him about Jesus healing a crippled boy. Then she left his room to rejoin a party in another part of the house.
Soon she saw her little boy come walking into the room! He had never walked before! For an hour and a half...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Love Expressions</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[“I love You! I love You!” my heart exclaimed at church one Sunday morning as we sang songs of worship. The night before my heart had cried an “I love You” refrain when a group of us had met for fellowship, prayer, and Scripture.
The following Monday my husband and I studied the themes of love and life in John, and I again longed for a more adequate way to express my love for the Lord. I found my answer from a line in Westcott’s book on the epistle of John: “….love for Christ finds practical...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Needless Pain</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[My husband Daniel was worried about a scientific paper he had co-authored with another physician. He learned that a part of their findings had earlier been reported by someone else and the writer had not given credit to the earlier source.

We were on our way to a meeting where he would see the other writer and he was afraid he would object to citing the earlier researchers. As we walked through the Miami airport, Daniel simply told the Lord about it, asked Him to handle it and then said in...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The First Step</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Before God parted the Jordan so the Israelites could walk across on dry land, the priests had to step into the water. That step was an act of faith. I wonder if it was difficult for them to take that first step. It is often only the first step that is difficult. 

Stepping into the waters is choosing to do what we would do if the waters were already parted. The first step may seem to be done in our own strength. We choose to be loving and gracious trusting that we are doing what is pleasing to...]]></description>
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         <title>A Mother's Prayer</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[My friend Marge told me about her praying mother. “Mother wasn’t an eloquent pray-er. In fact, I don’t remember ever hearing her pray in church, but Mother’s walk-in closet was her sacred place. “My older brother had gone away from the Lord, and we’d hear her crying, ‘Oh, Lord save my boy.’ “She fasted so much that the doctor told her, ‘You’ll have to stop fasting or you’ll die. You’re losing too much weight.’ “If that’s what it takes to get my boy saved, then I’ll die,’ she said. “During...]]></description>
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