Daily Reading
March 1, 2020
One night, in desperation and hope, I gave up trying to fix my life and collapsed into the waiting arms of Jesus, responding to his invitation, “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn ...
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February 1, 2020
Let me say this again. Let suffering be the door you walk through that draws you to deeper intimacy with Jesus. Let it play its sanctifying role.Because though God doesn’t cause all the trials in our lives, he does use them. He does work all things f...
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January 17, 2020
A basic tool for recognizing if you are under spiritual attack or dealing with foul spirits is to judge the fruit: “By their fruit you will recognize them” (Matt 7:16). Is misunderstanding coming against your friendships? Pray against that. I bring t...
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December 28, 2019
Mary was frantic: “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him” (John 20:2). She saw a man, assumed he was the gardener, and asked him if he had taken the body. And then Jesus revealed himself to her simply by ...
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December 11, 2019
The only way is love. Paul says love “keeps no record of wrongs” (1 Cor. 13:5). In loving relationships, we want to throw away the list in our heads of wrongs done to us and ignore them when they raise their indictments yet again. Too often we keep t...
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September 29, 2019
God will use painful trials...to hone us, but he doesn’t cause all of them. Some of my readers will need some help with this because they’ve been taught a theology that God causes all things. So they have had to swallow hard and accept the view that ...
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December 22, 2018
And there was the baby, lying in the manger. (Luke 2:16 NLT)Much of the famous artwork depicting Jesus is beautiful, but the artists also make it difficult to remember that Jesus was human. The incarnation is one of the greatest treasures of your fai...
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November 13, 2017
Wild at Heart is a ministry of hope. One of the ways we regularly offer that hope is through weekly podcast conversations where John, Stasi and the team discuss our hopes, questions, struggles, and breakthroughs with God. For today's Daily Reading, w...