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The Failed, The Crashed, and The Broken

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  I’ve been in a season lately, where a lot of things seem to be malfunctioning. I bought a new computer back in February and the movie maker program crashes every few minutes when you use it. The DVD burning software I bought refused to burn or burned with glitches. My truck failed its emissions test twice, and the washing machine has been broken for three weeks.   Now these issues are certainly not life or death, but very inconvenient to say the least.   Well on Tuesday afternoon, my patient endurance hit its end, another DVD had failed me and I was running out of “grace period” days to fix my truck. After unloading my frustrations on the Lord, I went out in the garage to make another attempt on fixing my truck. I stood and watched out the open garage door as my dad pulled my vehicle up the driveway. I halfheartedly began to pray that the Lord would help us just fix my truck, but in the middle of that prayer I had a thought. It’s easy to trust the Lord and fol...

Do You Believe Your God?

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Written by: Betsy Peterson So the learning subject of the week is Faith. I have found that if the Lord tells me something that is not in the Bible, not in the sense it’s not truth, but something personal to me or my life. If that makes sense? My faith is weak, not always weak more like I am on a faith roller coaster, sometimes it is up and other times down. And it seems almost like I am fighting with myself, I know when the Lord is telling me something and when the enemy is trying to bait me as it says:   To Him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when He putteth forth his own sheep, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. ~John 10: 3-5 If this is true then why do we question our hearing? We trust our God, but to what point? Do we have a place w...