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Cast Your Cares On Him

March 7, 2020 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30 Have you ever felt so much…

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Can You Come Down From the Mountain?

January 4, 2020 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

By Oswald Chambers, adapted by Sarah Counts “While you have the light, believe in the light…” —John 12:36 We all have moments when we feel better than we ever have before, and we say, “I feel ready for anything; if only I could always be like this!” We are not meant to be! Those moments…

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Come Near to God

December 28, 2019 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

“7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” James 4:7-8 Most of us live in a world that is dominated by people that do not…

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1 Timothy 2: 8-10

July 7, 2018 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

1 Timothy 2: 8-10 –  “Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing. 9 I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.”…

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1st John 5:1

June 24, 2017 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

1 John 5:1 “5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves His child as well.” It isn’t easy to love others. Not the way God loves us. That is why John spent so much time on this topic. So, what does that look…

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1st John 3: 7-8

February 4, 2017 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

“7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”  – 1st John 3: 7-8 The beginning of verse 7 in the ancient Greek is so clear: agapetoi agapomen, means…

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1st John 2: 1-2

January 21, 2017 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.  2  He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” – 1st John 2: 1-2…

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1st John 1:7

January 14, 2017 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” – 1st John 1:7   What does it mean to walk in the light? The 1 st important thing to recognize is that it IS…

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Isaiah 54:10

May 13, 2016 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

Isaiah 54:10 “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”   Ah, the mountain-top experience. What we feel here, we wish we could remain in this moment and…

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Ephesians 2: 8-10

May 13, 2016 by Sarah Counts Leave a Comment

Ephesians 2: 8-10 “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for…

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