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Ari: Waiting on the Lord

-By Ari In December of 2024, my husband Chad and I received an unexpected and miraculous call from God to move to Hamburg, Germany (that’s a whole story of its own, ask us about it if you haven’t heard it yet!). The only other thing we were able to discern was that this was not meant to be an Abraham calling (get out of your father’s house and go to a land I’ll show you), but a Noah calling (build the boat, I’ll bring the rain). We started building the boat as best we knew how by spiritually, socially, and physically preparing to move internationally. In the meantime, God was moving around us. Soon after the call, He upended my company’s leadership to promote me to director of software, about five years ahead of schedule - exactly the promotion I needed to qualify for an EU visa type that would allow me to bring my spouse with me to Germany. This, combined with the fact that both Chad’s and my last jobs were provided to us supernaturally, led us to suspect God was going to provide the ...
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Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: Book Review

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’   Matthew 7:21-23
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Chad: Persisting through Disappointment

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. -Proverbs 25:2 ...incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; -Proverbs 2:2-6
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3 Thoughts About Devotional Time

  Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!    1  Chronicles 16:11
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The biggest hurdle in my life lately has been my job situation, or lack of one.

-By Kewee Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us: there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under  the heavens. Before I was laid off in mid-October, I went through a long stretch of stress at my previous  workplace—multiple managers, shifting expectations, and a lot of unfulfilled promises. I wanted  to leave, but I felt stuck. I couldn’t seem to pass interviews elsewhere, so I stayed and tried to  learn and grow through whatever God had placed in front of me. I’ve always tried to be different at work—unafraid to live out my Christian values. But working  in the Bay Area can be very political, where things like credit, promotions, and influence don’t  always align with integrity. I think God was teaching me how to still be a light in that kind of  environment, even when it was uncomfortable, and how to trust Him when outcomes don’t  match effort. When I got laid off, I honestly saw it as a blessing in disguise. I had been feeling ready t...
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April Is Poetry Month: Weapon of Mass Creation

-Not by BonbonLemon For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.    Ephesians 6:12
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Wives, Submit! (And Pass the Ketchup)

-By BonbonLemon Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.    Ephesians 5:22-24
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