Advent Devotional: Waiting on the Ripening
Waiting on God is hard. But we trust God that things will ripen when the time is right. Waiting is part of our practical faith journey.
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cecil2748
- Nov 29
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Finding Your Voice
As we find our voice, we can take risks for Christ. Here's a story of how a young teen found her voice and put faith into practice.
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cecil2748
- Nov 15
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Getting off of our backs and onto our feet
We trust God to discipline us when needed. We need the right attitude when we are disciplined, as it will eventually lead to righteousness.
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cecil2748
- Nov 8
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Modeling Right Behavior
Titus 2: 7 A few days after I started first grade, my teacher sent me to the principal's office. I was terrified; I had no idea what I...
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cecil2748
- Nov 1
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: United as Jesus Intended
If we better trusted in Jesus, we would follow his vision of loving unity of all believers. Here's a heartwarming story of how that looks.
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cecil2748
- Oct 25
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: When Something Dies
It can be hard to move on from something that has died to something new, even when the new is desirable. We're glad to have Jesus with us.
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cecil2748
- Oct 18
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Through the Fiery Furnace
Daniel 3: 24-27 Like a whirlwind arriving upon her, Jennifer went through enough grief for one life. In short order, she lost her husband...
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cecil2748
- Oct 4
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Calm the Storm or Calm the Child
God can calm the storm or calm the child. Either way, in our practical faith, we trust God to bring peace and calm to our stormy lives.
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cecil2748
- Sep 27
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Jesus Sits with You in the Hard Times
We can trust God to sit and weep with us in our grief, fear, uncertainty, and anger, because we saw Jesus do it in the Bible.
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cecil2748
- Sep 20
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: God's Direct and Indirect Love
Cecil dreamed of the multiple ways that God loves us. We trust God to find a way, directly or indirectly, to show His love.
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cecil2748
- Sep 13
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Giving Our Consent to God
To live a practical faith, we must first trust God so that we open our hearts from the inside, giving our consent for Him to live within us.
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cecil2748
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Jesus > Death
Inspired by a cathedral clock in France, Cecil describes how we trust Jesus to have victory over death as we live our 7-day practical faith.
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cecil2748
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Tuning our Hearts
We need to tune our hearts to align with God. Cecil uses the analogy of the harp to show how to tune our hearts to sing His praise.
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cecil2748
- Aug 23
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Faith while in the Clouds
We live by the instrument of faith, not by sight. We trust in God and faith instruments as we experience our 7-day practical faith walk.
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cecil2748
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Cultivating Friendships
Ecclesiastes 4: 10 I live in a large metropolitan area that experienced severe flooding over the last few days. Fortunately for our...
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cecil2748
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Free Light Shows - and More!
Ephesians 2: 8-9 We were sleeping in our tent in an isolated section of a state park. In the middle of the night, my preschool son needed...
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cecil2748
- Jul 26
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: If Not Now, When?
God's kingdom is ready for your participation now. Bible study reveals an urgent Jesus asking followers to join Him now. When will you join?
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cecil2748
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Start Praying and Stop Worrying
We say we trust God, but when we pray, we carry our requests away and keep worrying. Bible study shows if we leave those, we'll feel peace.
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cecil2748
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: I Won't Drop You
We trust in God in difficult times, to help us through. Jesus is our Superman. He saves us from fiery death and sets us on solid ground.
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cecil2748
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Wednesday Devotional: Look Up Instead of Down
In our practical faith journey, our focus can get off track. We can caught up in the negative instead of the positive, like a beautiful tree
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