Truth:
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you,all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation)
Thought:
When we were in New Zealand, everyone was so laid-back compared with what we were used to in North America. When you signaled to change lanes on a busy motorway, people would actually [...]
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I had the vision of dancing with Jesus. I heard the voice of God tell me he had given me time to write. I was quickly closing in on
my word count goal for my novel and we were wondering what God had in store.
The kids should be able to adapt to New Zealand, right? A [...]
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Wynne Lewis was coming to Auckland to visit his son. I hadn’t seen Wynne since the 2002 FCA International Convention I helped organize. We’d exchanged email fairly regularly since. It was only 500 and some km from Palmerston North, so I thought we’d go up for the weekend.
Problem is: they don’t believe in straight roads [...]
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Finding a decent home to rent in Palmerston North had been a difficult task to accomplish. Most of the homes we had checked out were damp, moldy and very stinky. Finally we found one. Needless to say we had down graded from our huge four bedroom 4-level-split in Edmonton to a small three bedroom bungalow [...]
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It wasn’t that we woke up one day and decided to move to the other side of the world. Before we were married God told us independently that we would be outside Canada.
We didn’t know the where, when, why, or how but knew God would reveal it in time and we were to simply do [...]
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These words were once common in marriage vows, and they need to be common in our relationship with the Lover of our souls. The enemy can come with signs and wonders, what separates us as children of God is that we need to love, honor and obey what the Spirit says. Maybe this explains it [...]
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When we realize part of the Great Commission - to teach “everything I’ve commanded you” – includes His command to “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons and raise the dead”, it can be a little intimidating. This is especially true when we haven’t really seen the miraculous or have been taught that [...]
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