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Day 15: The Humbled Heart
If your current situation is not yet in a place of milk and honey, then look at our own spiritual gages of obedience, surrender, and spiritual relationship building.
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Day 14 I Shall Not Want
Look at family photos and count your blessings. Find past photos of your church family and learn from our past. What are some of the hopes and dreams that you once had? Are they still attainable? Will you work to their fulfillment? Have new and better dreams come to fulfillment in their place?
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Day 13 Levites are Hosts of Grace
Identify someone you could extend grace and forgiveness toward and go do it. Reach out in the tradition of the Levites and call others to join you in repentance and healing. You will be giving one of the greatest gifts you could possibly share.
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Day 12 Entering with No Reservations
Make a reservation with a friend to share your list and listen to their feedback. Break bread as you are able and enjoy the fellowship with the People of God and a little milk and honey!
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Lent: Day 11 What Have the Children Seen Us Doing?
Read: Numbers 14.33 (NRSV) God expresses frustration over the Hebrews lack of faith in the wilderness. God pronounces a taste of their own words and actions. The punishment given by God is that none of the first generation that left Egypt would enter the Promised Land. Their children would be shepherded in the dessert to…
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Romans 4:13-25 “Keeping Promises”
The modern views of God as a made-up creation of a human’s need for meaning and a way to explain what has not yet been otherwise explained. The implied nature of that God is that we can shape God to answer anything or nothing. In that vacuum, others will say they have the greater promise…
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Lent: 2nd Sun. Sabbath Rest – A Jubilee
Read: Leviticus 25.8 (NRSV) The year of Jubilee is the year after seven sets of seven years. It is a celebration of grace and forgiveness. Today we lift this aspect of Sabbath as we prepare for a time of Jubilee at Easter. Think of the books, tools, and serving dishes you have been meaning to…
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Day 7 Time in the Mountains
We are called to be resting in the arms and heart of God. When we sing, study, serve, forgive, and celebrate the God-with-us in the Spirit we are usually more active; it is not a day for sleeping.
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Day 10 Spies Like Us
Read: Numbers 13:25 (NRSV) Moses sends a reconnaissance party to spy on those who are living in the Promised Land. Most likely the Hebrews assumed that the land flowing with milk and honey would be uninhabited and ready for them to walk into without effort. This is not the case. We see the fruit of…
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Day 9 How Fast is Fasting?
Spiritual fasting becomes a spiritual discipline, not just from depriving the body but when we also shift our attention to the time and energy needed to grow in God.
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