The Great Poet of Grace
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by Caroline Green
2d ago
Listen to Today's Devotion No one had more reason to feel the burden of guilt than did the apostle Paul. He was an ancient version of a terrorist, taking believers into custody and then spilling their blood. In addition, he was a legalist to the core. Before he knew Christ, Paul had spent a lifetime trying to save himself. But then came the Damascus road moment – Jesus appeared! Once Paul saw Jesus, he couldn’t see value in his résumé anymore. And he couldn’t see any option except to spend the rest of his life talking less about himself and more about Jesus. He became the great poet of grace ..read more
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Selective Listening
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by Caroline Green
2d ago
Listen to Today's Devotion Two types of thoughts continuously vie for your attention. One says, “Yes, you can.” The other says, “No, you can’t.” One says, “God will help you.” The other lies, “God has left you.” One proclaims God’s strengths; the other lists your failures. Here’s the great news: you select the voice you hear. Why give ear to pea-brains and scoffers when you can, with the same ear, listen to the voice of God? Turn a deaf ear to the old voices. Open a wide eye to the new choices. The scripture says, “God’s power is very great for us who believe. That power is the same as the gre ..read more
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Nevertheless
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by Caroline Green
4d ago
Listen to Today's Devotion “If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things” (1 John 3:20 NKJV). When you feel unforgiven, evict the feelings. Emotions don’t get a vote. God’s Word holds rank over self-criticism and self-doubt. Satan loves to dump buckets of diminishment and discouragement on us.  He taunts us with the lie that we’ll never overcome our bad habits and our addictions. He specializes in telling us what we’ll never do. But then God comes along, offering freedom with an even more powerful word: nevertheless. “Didn’t read the Bible until retirement ..read more
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Abiding in Him
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by Caroline Green
6d ago
Listen to Today's Devotion How do we disarm anxiety? Stockpile our minds with God thoughts. How might you do this? A friend described to me her ninety-minute commute. She smiled. “I turn my commute into a chapel.” And she described how she fills the hour and a half with worship and sermons. She listens to entire books of the Bible. She recites prayers. Is there a block of time you can claim for God? Perhaps you could turn off the network news and open your Bible. Or set the alarm fifteen minutes earlier. Jesus said, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the tr ..read more
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God’s Waiting Room
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by Caroline Green
1w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion Are you in God’s waiting room? Perhaps you are between jobs or in search of health, help, a house, or a spouse. If so, here is what you need to know: while you wait, God works. God never twiddles his thumbs. He never stops. He takes no vacations. “Be still and know that I am God” reads the sign on God’s waiting room wall. You can be glad because God is good. You can be still because he is active. You can rest because he is busy. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, fret, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting inactivity. Waiting is ..read more
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Is God Always Good?
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by Caroline Green
1w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion Is God only good when the outcome is? When the illness is in remission, we say “God is good.” Do we say the same in the cemetery as well as the nursery? In the unemployment line as well as the grocery line? Is God good when the outcome is not? Do you want to know heaven’s clearest answer to the question of suffering? Well look at Jesus. He pressed fingers into the sore of the leper. He wept at the death of a friend. He doesn’t recoil, run, or retreat at the sight of pain. Just the opposite. Trivial irritations of family life? Jesus felt them. A seemingly senseless de ..read more
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Remember God’s Blessings
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by Caroline Green
1w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion Jesus performed two bread-multiplying miracles: in one he fed 5,000 people, in the other 4,000. Still his disciples, who witnessed both feasts, worried about empty pantries. A frustrated Jesus rebuked them. “Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? You have eyes—can’t you see? You have ears—can’t you hear? Don’t you remember anything at all?” (Mark 8:17-18 NLT). Short memories harden the heart. Make careful note of God’s blessings. Declare with David: “[I will] daily add praise to praise. I’ll write the book on your righteousness ..read more
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Trust Him
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by Caroline Green
2w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion “We plan the way we want to live, but only God makes us able to live it” (Proverbs 16:9 MSG). Many years ago I spent a week visiting the interior of Brazil with an experienced missionary pilot. He flew a circuit of remote towns in a four-seat plane that threatened to come undone at the slightest gust of wind. I could not get comfortable. I kept thinking the plane was going to crash in some Brazilian jungle. I kept shifting around, looking down, gripping my seat (as if that would help). Finally, the pilot had enough of my squirming. He looked over at me and shouted ov ..read more
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Relinquish Control
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by Caroline Green
2w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion The formula is simple: perceived control creates calm; lack of control gives birth to fear. So what do we do? Control everything? If only we could. Yet, certainty is a cruel impostor. A person can accumulate millions of dollars and still lose it in a recession. A health fanatic can eat only nuts and veggies and still battle cancer. The only certainty is the lack thereof. That’s why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. We can’t take control because control is not ours to take. The Bible has a better idea. Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it. Y ..read more
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Know God’s Voice
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by Caroline Green
2w ago
Listen to Today's Devotion We waste so much nervous energy trying to make decisions. We can stress less when we remember three things: Gather the facts. What are the odds that the thing you are worrying about will ever occur? Control what you can control. Weather? You can’t control it, but you can watch the forecast. Don’t second-guess yourself. Make the best decision you can with the facts at hand. Pray, and take the next step. When you can’t sleep, don’t count sheep – read Scripture. Distinguish between God’s voice and the voice of fear. Worry takes a look at catastrophes and groans, “I ..read more
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