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Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges
Verdant Valley ҉ Faith Challenges is the title of the first section of Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace. This is a sampling from the section.
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God’s abundance is never more than we can bear…
"Yet even in the discomfort of transformation, my Good Father gave me clues as to what He was getting me ready for. Even as the remnants of my old life lay in shreds at my feet, the glory of my new life was illuminated before my eyes."
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What do I want to remember?
A couple of months ago I was recruited to organize a celebration for a colleague’s 35th Anniversary with the company. A few weeks before her milestone anniversary, she learned that her older brother had died. I read her sad news in an email she sent to my boss explaining why she had been non-responsive on email that week. My heart went out to her. When she returned to the office I cried as I hugged her and shared a prayer for her and her family. Fast forward a few weeks and she’s at a milestone anniversary that many people don’t get in any area of life – 35 years with the same company. But she wasn’t interested in celebrating. She didn’t want the attention…
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When a Preacher Is Downcast
By Charles H. Spurgeon “Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.”—II Sam. 21:15. “In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?”—II Cor. 11:27–29. As it is recorded that David, in the heat of battle, waxed faint, so may it be written of all servants of the Lord.…
