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Week 9, Weekend Pam Brewer Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. Psalm 55:22 Driving down the road several years ago, feeling overwhelmed with all the pressures of life, I cried out, “God, this is too much! I can’t go on trying to control this!”…

Week 9, Friday Pam Brewer And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 Having the courage to discover who you are in Christ is the beginning of great change. Look closely at these three areas of your life: Your sin and God’s forgiveness: When you accept…

Week 9, Thursday Pam Brewer But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 The verse above is special to our family, because we chose it for our daughter. And this…

Week 9, Wednesday Pam Brewer She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.” 2 Kings 4:22 This story of faith and courage is captivating! The story of the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings 4 tells any…

Week 9, Tuesday Pam Brewer For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 Now that we have discovered the blueprint for courage, how do we apply it to our circumstances? Verse 8 of Joshua 1 tells us exactly how. We apply…

Week 9, Monday Pam Brewer Be strong and courageous. . . . Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of…

Week 8, Weekend Charlotte Akin Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:18 (nkjv) In May 2010 I saw up close and personal the power of this verse for those who have seldom known peace when Danny and I went to southern Sudan on a mission trip. While…

Week 8, Friday Charlotte Akin But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. James 3:17 (nkjv) This verse shows the contrast between wisdom from above and false earthly wisdom. The word pure means clean and it knows…

Week 8, Thursday Charlotte Akin For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. James 3:16 (nkjv) Our self-seeking ambition comes from earthly wisdom. This is a false wisdom that is not from God. James mades a pretty strong statement when he said that wherever there is envy and self-seeking there will…

Week 8, Wednesday Charlotte Akin This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. James 3:15 (nkjv) When our boys were young we would go to Forest Park, Georgia, and stay with my husband Danny’s parents every Christmas. We would stay for almost two weeks because Danny was a professor and he and…