Right Where You Are

It’s easy to be discouraged. You don’t make enough money. You’re not happy with where you work or live. Or your health or that of a loved one is not good. This world can really get us down. However, there is hope.

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Treating God Like a Genie in a Bottle

I feel like I deserve the usual things…you know…a home on the Big Island of Hawaii, a beach home in Southern California, and a mountain home in Colorado. Oh, and also an RV loaded to the max. Please, Lord, I pray these things for you to bless me with…Amen! Isn’t that how we often pray?

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Alexander is a place to read devotions, book reviews, and other material with an emphasis on Christian authors and writers…some well known, some not-so well known.

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Love That Always Protects

Lucado: Six Hours One Friday

Asking For Wings

Failure is Part of the Deal

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written…” – Mark 14:27

Sometimes, I cry out for God’s plan for me. I do OK with the short term stuff…like I know He wants me to show up to work today and do my best. But, it’s the long term stuff I wish I had a “heads up” on.

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Just Barely Holding On

This from Barry Minkow….yes, of ZZZZ Best carpet fraud fame!

Four dollars per gallon at the pump…foreclosure crisis…the tightening of the credit policies…the strain on business… If we are honest about ourselves, even without considering these current issues, chances are many of us are just barely holding on in one or two areas of our life…

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Seeking Uninterrupted Awareness

Do this. Change your definition of prayer. Think of prayer less as an activity for God and more as an awareness of God. Seek to live in uninterrupted awareness. – Max Lucado

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