Tag: In His Presence
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Keep becoming
You are a work in progress. You need to keep moving towards perfection, because you must realize your full potential to become all you were created for. You must finish your race. God has declared the end of your life. He knows who you are meant to be. And who you are meant to become…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Changing unhelpful habits (2)
Focus on changing one specific habit or behavior at a time. Trying to change multiple habits at once is setting yourself up for failure. Successful habit change involves focusing on something highly specific and measurable that can be done and repeated over a period.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Changing unhelpful habits (1)
There are perhaps two main reasons why changing a habit is difficult for many of us. Firstly, we do not truly see why we need to change. Secondly, we do not know how to change. The process of going about that change is ambiguous or unclear.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Can God count on you?
Three young men stood in the moment of truth; bow down to the king’s golden image or be thrown into a fiery furnace. It would have been so easy to bow, after all it was just a small compromise to make life easier for them in the foreign land. It did not necessarily mean they…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: From who do you seek validation?
‘Do not judge a book by its cover’, is a common phrase, which portrays the fact that the quality of an object cannot be determined by what it looks like. I have on several occasions, cracked open an egg which looked good on the outside, only to discover that it was rotten inside.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Navigating life’s transitions
Transition is the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. Nature abhors vacuum because life is a lively process of becoming. Change is therefore one thing you should expect if you are alive. So, in life, we are always going through one transition or the other.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: A new beginning
The Bible says in Luke 5:36-38 that “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise, the new makes a tear, and the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Live a full life
I listened to an interview of the late music legend, Tina Turner by Media Mogul, Oprah Winfrey. Oprah asked Tina how she felt being 73years old. Tina responded by saying she had lived a full life and was very fulfilled. She said she not afraid to leave this earth when her time came because, she…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Do you know who you are?
The story is told of a little eagle who found himself amongst chicken and became a part of them. He grew up walking and behaving like them, thinking he was a chicken. One day he looked up and saw an eagle flying high up in the sky. He wandered what that was and said to…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Enter the ark
I recall having a conversation with a lady some time ago about the insecurities of the times. As we mused about the current difficulties, she said that her husband had told them that as a family they were all inside Noah’s ark. I laughed, but as I recalled our conversation moments later, I couldn’t help…