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Memories of God's goodness give us a sense of being loved

We tend to spend a lot of energy focusing on resolving traumas in the hope that we will be free from the pain trauma brings. What we often miss or overlook is the power of building memories of God’s goodness that give us a sense of being loved. Noticing God’s goodness and appreciating His gifts can be viewed as depositing money in our “Immanuel” savings accounts, whereas focusing on painful evens in life can be like withdrawing money!…

The sun's special help did not come

It occurred to me this was the ideal time for the Sun to send his special help, and whenever his pattern in the bedroom altered suddenly, or when he burst our in the sky following an overcast spell, I’d watch with particular keenness. But though he continued unfailingly to send his normal nourishment, his special help didn’t come. Klara the AF wonders that the Sun, her source of life, has not brought healing to her sick friend Josie when her health begins to fail.…

Your kingdom come

What does it mean to pray, “[let] your Kingdom come?” These famous words, couched in the most repeated prayer in history, come from Jesus' answer to his disciples' request, “Teach us to pray.” Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation. One of the central requests Jesus taught his disciples to pray is “your Kingdom come.…

After this(1) there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate(2) a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids–blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years(3). When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?…

On the next day their (1) rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead–by him this man is standing before you well.…