Posts in God's sovereignty
Loosed for Jesus' Use

When Jesus needed a donkey for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He loosed what was needed for the Father's kingdom plan. Perhaps He is doing the same today, using His disciples, just like He did then, entrusting and enlisting them to loose and bring to Him what He has need of, because that's the way He has chosen to accomplish His purposes and plans. Back then it was a donkey. Maybe today it's a person. It could even be us!

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When Making Our Own Way Gets Painful (but Believing Brings Blessing)

Mary didn't kick against the goads when God told her the impossible, and she was blessed! We can learn so much from her about believing when God tells us the unbelievable. I learned this lesson recently after an extremely frustrating day taking things into my own hands and kicking against the goads. Curious yet what goads are?

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Why Am I Never Satisfied?

Do you, like me, find yourself at least sometimes seeking temporary happiness from things that bring no lasting satisfaction? Jesus is the only one who can satisfy our soul needs for salvation, assurance, peace, security, significance, purpose, perfect love, perfect acceptance, perfect dependability, perfect trustworthiness, eternal presence, deep, abiding joy, unshakable hope, steady mercy, steady grace, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, discernment and so on. But don't we all find ourselves attempting to draw from the wells of the world to quench spiritual thirst? And when we do, the thirst remains or returns? Come with me as we visit Jacob's well with Jesus and the Samaritan woman and discover that Jesus will meet us at our exact place of need to reveal Himself as exactly what we need.

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