July 3, 2008 Surviving the Toss Tracie Miles Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?" Matthew 14:31 (NIV) Devotion: Poor little earthworm. One minute he was squirming around in his grassy home, but when the storm hit, the strong rains tossed him out of his comfortable environment onto the hard, hot road. Have you ever noticed how many earthworms are scattered across roads after a storm? They never live long afterwa...
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July 2, 2008 Answer Envy Karen Ehman "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) Devotion: "How wonderful!!!" I exclaimed! "I am so happy for you!" This was my response to the breaking news that friends of ours from North Carolina had sold their house after it had been on the market for twenty days. To them it had been a long twenty days. Houses are normally snatched up quickly in their neck of the woods. In...
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July 1, 2007 The Power of Words
Melissa Taylor Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be." James 3:10 (NIV) Devotion: My heart is broken today. Yesterday afternoon my son, Dylan, came home from school feeling so down and discouraged. Someone at school hurt his feelings with something they said. With just a few words, Dylan's day was ruined.

Dylan has a scar on his head from a surgery he had as a baby. He usually doesn't think...
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God's thoughts on lawns

GOD:
Frank, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on
the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago?
I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long-lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honeybees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of c...
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June 30, 2008 Secret Places By Lisa Whittle, She Speaks! Graduate "He searches the sources of the rivers and brings hidden things to light." Job 28:11 Devotion: Have you ever noticed how often Satan uses secret things to trip us up on our journey...those secret places that reside deep within our soul that we keep hidden from others and even try to hide from God? Think about it... pornography is usually done in secret. Excessive shopping can be done over the Internet, with no one w...
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