LifeWords Devotionals Archives – Hope 103.2

Thursday 19 Apr 2018 · Faith

Marry me

We are not passive robots who sit back and wait for God to do his stuff in order for good to come about. Naomi is thinking and planning. Ruth is willing to do something that might seem risky.

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Wednesday 18 Apr 2018 · Faith

The wings of refuge

Read Ruth 2:8-12 8 Boaz went over and said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don’t go to any other fields. Stay right behind the young women working in my field. 9 See which part of the field they are harvesting, and then follow them. I have […]

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Tuesday 17 Apr 2018 · Faith

Deserted by God

There is no point in sugar-coating our journey of faith. Amidst the wonderful times of answered prayer and warm fellowship and inspiring worship, there are the times when we shake our heads and wonder what on earth is going on.

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Monday 16 Apr 2018 · Faith

Companions on the journey

Our true friends stick with us through thick and thin. They may even forgo their own best interests to serve our best interests. There are not many such true friends around the place so we do well to discern them and value them. And even more crucially, seek to be such friends to others.

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Friday 13 Apr 2018 · Faith

Gratitude and hope

One Christian writer I respect very much, Lewis Smedes, said not long before his death that as he grew older his feelings about God tapered down to two things: gratitude and hope. Gratitude is the pleasure of hope come true. Hope is the pain of gratitude postponed.

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Thursday 12 Apr 2018 · Faith

The shape of love

Love comes in many forms. A kind word, a helpful act, warm affection, thoughtful gifts. Many of us hold on to various mementos of love: a letter, a photo, or perhaps just a fond memory. We all need to be loved and to know we are loved.

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Wednesday 11 Apr 2018 · Faith

On the nose

In many quarters, the church is on the nose. Rather ironic given our text tells us that we are to be like pleasant perfume! Might we not come across as offensive because of the gap between what we preach and what we practise?

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Tuesday 10 Apr 2018 · Faith

A hotline to God

Quite a few of us may have had the experience of fellow Christians telling us that God has told them a certain thing, or that God has revealed to them certain realities that are not known to others. I am not bound to automatically accept what a person says simply because he or she claims that God told them.

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Monday 9 Apr 2018 · Faith

Sweet seduction

Sometimes, temptation comes to us from the nicest sources, the people seeking to be most helpful to us. We might be set on a path of challenging obedience when some soothing words come to us that there might be an easier way.

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Friday 6 Apr 2018 · Faith

What really matters

We can get all hot and bothered about what people are saying about Jesus. Media commentators and academic theologians and devout Muslims all may have their ideas. And we may disagree with them. In the end, though, it is what we think of Jesus that matters.

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Thursday 5 Apr 2018 · Faith

The hard edge

We try to make our church gatherings as appealing as we can to those considering Jesus. But, as usual, Jesus has a different slant on all this.

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Wednesday 4 Apr 2018 · Faith

The desires of our hearts

One of the great puzzles of the Bible is that it repeatedly tells us that we get what we ask for in prayer. The puzzle is that it doesn’t always happen that way. So can’t the Bible be trusted?

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