Today's Devotional: God's Gardens
There are two especially famous gardens in the Bible: Eden and Gethsemane. The first is well...
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You Got Mail...For Thanksgiving - #6488
We're pretty good at thinking of things we don't like about someone. But something good happens in your heart when you make yourself sit down and you start writing about that person's strengths, and their contributions to your life, to others' lives. And something good happens in their life when they get your gratitude in a letter. You are indeed building them up.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/you-got-mail-for-thanksgiving-...
Pilgrims at Your Table
Thanksgiving seems like just the right time to look at what I have and say out loud, "Earth stuff. Just earth stuff." To say thank you to God for those blessings - while loosening my grip on them to let God do whatever He wants with them. To be willing to leave where I'm comfortable to go wherever He leads. Even if it's a little ship, a big ocean and an unknown destination.
http://hutchcraft.com/blogs/ron-hutchcrafts-blogs/pilgrims-at-your-table
Follow That Voice - #6448
"Jesus went to a solitary place at daybreak." And we know that there's where He got in touch with His Father. He got in touch with the tower to sort out His priorities for the day. That's where you have to go daily. You have to go there early, and you have to go there alone and let God lay on your heart His "musts."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/follow-that-voic...
Some Things Just Aren't Negotiable - #6407
It's time that we returned with humility to an open Bible and say, "God, how do You feel about it? And whatever You say, that's it! I'll do it." Now, we have to always speak with love and humility, but always with His authority. We, who love the Bible, are the only ones with the whole story; we've got God's truth. And those things? They just aren't negotiable.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/some-things-just-aren-t-negot...
Looking For Something Clean - #6400
Maybe you're short on credentials, but you hate the sin in you. You make a quick confession when you sin, and you try to run from tempting situations. Well, you know what? You're what God is looking for, because all He is looking for is something clean.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/looking-for-something-clean-6400
The Ultimate Magnet - #6382
Remember, your heart will follow your money. So, put your money into getting the Gospel to people who don't know Christ; whose eternity depends on that message getting to them. And, as you do that, your burden will grow and your heart will be right where God's heart is.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-ultimate-magnet-6382
Young Love, Young Letdown - #6357
for too many, Valentine's Day and anniversaries are just reminders of how disappointing human love has been. Even a great love fails to fill that gaping hole in our heart. It's just too big for any human to fill. The hole in our heart has Jesus' name on it. In the Bible's words we "were created by Him and for Him" (Colossians 1:16). And only He has the un-loseable love that will anchor us and complete us.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/young-love-young...
The "I Care" Overload - #6349
Do a Nehemiah. Get on your knees and say, "Go ahead, God, break my heart; break my heart for some cause that breaks Yours...maybe a couple of them." Let Him call you to give as He calls others to go. Don't give to personalities, or organizations, or the most desperate appeal. Give to support that for which God has broken your heart. Laser your giving on what He breaks your heart over.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-i-care-overload-6349
Very Away and Very Alone - #6348
Jesus Christ suffered the penalty you and I should pay: being cut off from God. That's what hell is. Everything good, pure, loving, and beautiful on earth is because of God. And hell is total "away-ness" from God with no party, no friends, no music, no money to drown that awful emptiness. Jesus was suffering all that hell for you and me on that cross.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/very-away-and-very-alone-6348
Oscars and Empty Houses - #6341
Think about these words, "Thirsty again." See, that's the problem with every "well" we go to for satisfaction in life - we inevitably end up "thirsty again." For this woman, every relationship - every guy - had been a well that left her empty inside. But then Jesus said, "Every one who drinks of the water I give him will have in him a well springing up to everlasting life" (John 4:13 ). Wow!
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/oscars-and-empty...