Returning. “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 Continue reading
Author Archives: awellplacedheart
Alive
Within. “I will put My Spirit within you, and you shall live” Ezekiel 37:14 Continue reading
One Thing
Sometimes. What a difficult week I’ve chosen. You’d think that this lesson would already be behind me by now. But yet I wrestle. Seeking & seeing. Hearing…and sometimes doing. I guess I just discovered the problem. Sometimes. Sometimes my doing can get side-tracked – by incomplete hearing, by personal tendencies slipping up, or simply by … Continue reading
Signposts
“Set up signposts, make landmarks; set your heart toward the highway.” Jeremiah 31:21 Continue reading
Moving
We live. “For in Him we live and move and have our being” Acts 17:28 Continue reading
Pure
Seeing. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8 Continue reading
From the bench
Broken. My heart is broken this morning. It’s a good place, because there are some things on my heart that simply need Your removal. You are so faithful. Even a simple truth is too much for me to bear all at once – so You deliver it slowly… You’ve already revealed that I have spent … Continue reading
Revival
The Backdrop. A heart that sees, hears & obeys. These are the things that You brought out to me as I tried to make sense out of the ‘details’ of Christian living…particularly the one about denying myself. In the same way that You were able to sum up the whole law into one or two … Continue reading
Diligent
Life. “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23 Continue reading
Tendencies
Theology? Denying oneself is a complex idea and theology. It’s even more complex when it’s personal! Deny myself. I have seen some of its fruit to know that it is something I need more of, but what is it exactly? ‘Exactly’ in me – when I’m working, shopping, driving, chatting and just trying to figure … Continue reading
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