Posts with the tag “trust”

Praying In The Waiting
by Curt Dodd on December 16th, 2024
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! – Psalm 27:14Sometimes, we don’t learn how to pray until we learn how to wait. Waiting has a way of stripping us of control and forcing us to depend fully on God. It’s not easy, and it often feels uncomfortable. But it’s in the waiting that God shapes our faith and prepares us for His perfect answer.Isaac knew this k...  Read More
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Getting To The End Of Yourself
by Curt Dodd on November 25th, 2024
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. – Hebrews 11:1Manley Beasley was an evangelist who made an incredible impact for the kingdom of God. He had several health problems throughout his life, including kidney disease that required frequent dialysis and eventually took his life. But even in the midst of his suffering, Manley’s faith never wavered.I love M...  Read More
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The Power Of Practicing Prayer
by Curt Dodd on November 11th, 2024
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. – Hebrews 13:15We love to talk about prayer, but do we actually spend time doing it? Prayer is powerful, and it's where the real impact happens. When we take time to consistently pray, we invite God to move in our lives and in the lives of those around us.Big things happe...  Read More
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The Danger of Addiction 
by Curt Dodd on October 22nd, 2024
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5)    When we think about addiction, we typically think of being addicted to things like drugs, alcohol, or pornography. While these are dangerous addictions, we need to realize that there are plenty of other things we can become addicted to if we are...  Read More
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You Must Repent
by Curt Dodd on October 9th, 2024
“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,” (Acts 3:19) We can learn to trust someone again by offering them forgiveness. You might find yourself on the other side of the equation. What if you are the one who has hurt someone or who has caused someone you care about to lose their trust in you? If this is true for you, please...  Read More
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Learning From Your Failure
by Curt Dodd on June 30th, 2024
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” - Ephesians 3:20Have you thought that the gateway to your greatest success will come through failure? Don't be afraid of failure. It is God's greatest teacher in your life. Don’t think for a moment that if you fail, that makes you a failure for life. You are not a failure. ...  Read More
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Committing Others To Christ
by Curt Dodd on April 3rd, 2024
From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. – Acts 14:26-27  As I was praying this morning, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the people who have kids or family m...  Read More
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Committing Others To Christ
by Curt Dodd on January 14th, 2024
From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. – Acts 14:26-27As I was praying this morning, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the people who have kids or family mem...  Read More
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Hope Through God
by Curt Dodd on December 16th, 2023
Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.   (Psalm 55:22)  It has been said, “A person can live a few days without water, a few minutes without air, but not a moment without hope.” Beyond the circumstances, crises and burdens of life, some people believe there is something better just ahead. Hope is something nearly everyone relies on to push t...  Read More
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Perseverance
by Curt Dodd on September 21st, 2023
Somehow we “persevere” through failed relationships, snarled traffic, long lines at the grocery store and even repeated losing seasons by our favorite college football team. Sure we can hire a new coach, play games on our phones to pass time, honk our horns in frustration, get divorced and remarry. These are examples of problems we all face every day and our general, human attempt to solve them. B...  Read More
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Fully Trusting God
by Curt Dodd on August 12th, 2023
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received…There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:1,4-6)   I have seen many Christians struggle with trust over the years. We often find it ...  Read More
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Trust God’s Plan
by Curt Dodd on May 2nd, 2023
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)   ...  Read More
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Patient Endurance 
by Curt Dodd on April 26th, 2023
This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)    In other words, don't give up, walk on, and trust God and His timing. All of “God's saints need to be patiently enduring.” As believers, we are called to trust God, even when we don't understand it. Do you see God doing things that you don’t understand? Does i...  Read More
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Focus on the Future
by Curt Dodd on April 24th, 2023
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:18-19)  For many of us, when we go through problems, we look back and say, “I can't change yesterday, but it would really help if I could.” If you could just go back and change the past or make dif...  Read More
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Trusting Your Spouse
by Curt Dodd on February 11th, 2023
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)Ernest Hemingway once said, “The best way to find out if ...  Read More
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The Danger of Addiction
by Curt Dodd on October 22nd, 2022
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5) When we think about addiction, we typically think of being addicted to things like drugs, alcohol, or pornography. While these are dangerous addictions, we need to realize that there are plenty of other things we can become addicted to if we are no...  Read More
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Saved by Grace
by Curt Dodd on October 3rd, 2022
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God --  not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)This verse literally implies that we are messed up. The only way we can get fixed up is when we have an encounter with Christ. In Ephesians Chapter Two, Paul lists multiple things. He describes what it means to be saved, what i...  Read More
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Trust over Worry
by Curt Dodd on May 6th, 2022
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your l...  Read More
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