2013-12-16T06:00:05-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/plans/ http://faithgateway.com/spiritual-new-year-resolutions/ 2013-12-16T06:00:05-05:00 Every January, millions of people begin their year with New Year’s resolutions. Losing weight, getting organized, exercising more, eating healthier, and managing finances better are some of the most common resolutions. But what about making spiritual New Year’s resolutions? We make commitments and tell our friends and family on January 1st, only to give it […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/living-between-trapezes-6791 2013-01-21T10:32:22-05:00 If you're in between trapezes right now, remember, this is a terrible place to lose your concentration. Bloom where you're planted. Be all you can be right where you are. Actually that's the best way to get safely to the destination that you want so much. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/the-tapestry-of-your-life-6206 2010-10-25T12:33:03-05:00 You can trust the weaver who's at that heavenly loom. He knows exactly what He's doing. Trust the plan, even though you can't see it. He is making your life into something very beautiful and very valuable. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/god-s-strange-but-wonderful-recipes-6197 2010-10-12T09:40:10-05:00 With God, there is always something bigger going on than what you can see. The ways of God include a wide variety of people and tools that ultimately bring about His loving plan for you. His divine recipe for you includes some breakthroughs and some battles; some trials and some triumphs; some victories and some defeats; and a few things that seem unbearable or unexplainable. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/that-life-changing-limp-6194 2010-10-07T09:13:56-05:00 If God has given you a painful reminder of the futility of self-reliance, the price of sin, and the glory of His work in your life, then thank Him for it. Let the "limp" that God gave you when you wrestled with Him make you strong for the rest of your life! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/moving-with-the-quake-6162 2010-08-24T10:51:53-05:00 The Golden Gate Bridge, while flexible, is not made out of Play-Doh. It has solid structure and so should your life and your days. This is no excuse for laziness or lack of planning. But it is an encouragement to folks who like control to loosen up a little bit and make room for God to do His very dynamic thing. It's the ones who are flexible that survive the shaking. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-know-where-you-are-going-when-you-cannot-see-5942 2009-10-20T09:15:36-05:00 Through His forever-trustworthy words, God will keep for you His promise for the days when you can't see where you're going. You can stake everything on this promise: Isaiah 42:16 - "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/tuned-to-the-dispatcher-2899 2009-09-25T14:04:30-05:00 God is constantly planning heavenly convergences or divine bump-ins, or divine appointments. That's you converging with a person you need or who needs you, or with the resource you've been looking for, or with some Kingdom assignment God has for you. You're job is to be Spirit-moveable - responsive to those calls from Headquarters. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/hitting-pause-5881 2009-09-11T11:01:06-05:00 It's possible that God's been trying to say some very important things to you, things that would bring sense to your swirling world, but you can't hear Him because you're running so fast. Whatever the reason for your non-stop pace, I know there has to be someone listening right now to whom God is saying, "It's time to hit 'pause.'" Don't ignore His call to "be still and know that He is God." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/responding-to-the-dispatcher-5797 2009-09-10T11:33:03-05:00 God may prompt you to make a call, write a letter, send an email, stop to pray, go somewhere, pray with someone else. Stay tuned for those Spirit-promptings. He may have an unscheduled life for you to touch or to be touched by. He may direct you somewhere to get an answer to your prayer or to be the answer to someone else's prayer.