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Fasting Tips For Before, During, And After A Biblical Fast

03/12/2018 By: Melissa Davisson2 Comments

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Practical Tips For Fasting Fasting is sowing a seed into our spiritual life. Just as a farmer has to prepare before he can begin planting we have to do the same before fasting. But being told we should fast isn’t all that helpful when we have no clue how to go about it. Here you […]

Biblical Fasting: The Types And Lengths

03/07/2018 By: Melissa Davisson4 Comments

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What Is Fasting And Why Should We Do It? No one wants to do without our pleasures, especially food. We have the meat cravers, the bread cravers, the sugar cravers…we all know what we want and we want it when we want it. How many times a day does thoughts of food zoom through your mind? […]

Our Firm Foundation For Fasting And Prayer

03/06/2018 By: Melissa Davisson4 Comments

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Part 1: Our Foundation For Fasting Fasting is not an easy or popular subject to talk about. So many of us live for food. We can’t wait for our next meal, we are planning the next meal or snack while we are eating the current one, the numerous grocery stores and fast food restaurants have […]

Are You Caught In The Trap Of Being A People-Pleaser?

02/26/2018 By: Melissa Davisson2 Comments

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“What do I need to do to be pleasing to God? It feels like whatever I do is never enough.” Have you ever had those kinds of thoughts? Most of us have. If you are currently in this cycle of thinking, this post is for you. You Are A Child Of God First of all, you […]

How To Trust God When Bad Things Happen

02/19/2018 By: Melissa Davisson10 Comments

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Life Happens The bills kept coming even when the money ran out. The cupboards were sparse but the hunger was ever-present. The walls were so thin frost covered them like paint. The baby was hospitalized again, this time with an undetermined illness. The deadline could not be met due to a blizzard so the homeowner […]

What Is Love According To The Bible?

02/12/2018 By: Melissa Davissoncomment

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I look forward to Valentine’s Day with its romance, bright colors, and an excuse to shower my love with indulgences. One whole day to show the ones you love how much they mean to you! It’s so exciting and fun! Love is in the air! February 14th is a double blessing in our house since […]

How To Have A Powerful Prayer Life

02/04/2018 By: Melissa Davisson4 Comments

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I use to be one of the people who believed God wanted to talk to everyone except me. I didn’t feel worthy or spiritual enough. If I needed prayer, I would go to someone else and hope that their faith was strong enough for both of us. I figured my messes were mine to clean […]

Baby Steps Of Faith For Spiritual Growth

01/29/2018 By: Melissa Davisson6 Comments

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It Is A Process. The other day I was looking through family photos and I found pictures of my youngest as he was learning to walk. As I was getting all misty-eyed, God brought to mind the similarities between a baby learning to walk in the physical world and us learning to take baby step […]

How To Study The Bible For New Believers

01/18/2018 By: Melissa Davissoncomment

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The Bible, our user manual As we learned in our previous post Should We Study The Bible, studying the word of God is a very important part of your life as a Christian. God uses his word to convict, uplift, and guide us. If we rely on our human nature to explain to us what […]

How To Live A Godly Life

01/15/2018 By: Melissa Davisson2 Comments

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What is a Godly Life? Godly living is not walking around fluffing up our angelic wings, righting our crooked halos, or even spending 10 hours in our Bibles and 5 hours on our knees daily. It is not an unattainable, pie-in-the-sky, unrealistic idea. It’s a lifestyle and a mindset God wants us to strive for […]

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Hi there! My name is Melissa. I am a wife, momma, empty-nester, avid reader, and born-again Christian (actually “I cling to Jesus for all I’m worth” might be a better description). I pray you will be blessed as we learn to apply God’s Word to our wonderful, crazy, messy, but oh so blessed lives!

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