Peace of Mind in Perilous Times

Pete Garcia   Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ~ Isaiah 5:20   It used to be, that people didn’t need to lock their doors at night, or worry about someone stealing a bike from their front yard. You didn’t use to need to worry about your kids walking to the store by themselves, or just being out all day playing until dinner time. You didn’t need to worry about whether your government was spying on you. You …

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Genesis 41:4 4 The ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the …

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Confidence in Times of Distress

When hardships discourage us and we want to escape, God offers us rest in His presence and power.   PSALM 46:1-11 1 God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.   2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;   3 Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.   4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.   5 God is …

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Secure in Our Salvation

Many people struggle with uncertainty about their salvation. They do not understand that once they have received God’s free gift of Eternal Life and have been born into the family of God, there is no way that they can return to the position of being a lost and guilty sinner in the eyes of God. The very nature of the spiritual life that has been received, ETERNAL, and the Divine Source and Agent of that life, GOD, forbid drawing the conclusion that a saved person can ever again be lost. “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never …

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When You’re Juggling Faith and Heartache~

It’s become more than apparent, that what faith appears to be to someone watching and what faith feels like to someone walking through it, can seem to be completely different and yet, in reality, be absolutely the same. In the wee morning of December 8th,2015, my heart stopped.   Getting my world started again, – no matter how many times the clock ticks, or how many days go by, or how many times I flip the page on the calendar over to a new month, is still an ongoing, don’t-know-how-to-do-it, battle every single moment of every single day. Only, it’s …

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