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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Accidentally on Purpose - #4278
The only way most people meet the folks at the auto body shop is by accident. No accident, you don't ever feel the need. I got to thinking that God could hang out a sign like that - "We meet by accident." An "accident" - well, something in our life that goes wrong and we can't fix it. That, for many of us, is the only thing that really makes us ready to get serious about what God wants. We don't run to God until we've run into something!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Accidentally-on-Purpose-4278

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Sharp Edges - #4774
Maybe you get sharp and hurtful when you're tired, or when you're interrupted, or when something or someone messes up the way you had it planned. It could be that you become cutting and harsh when you're really stressed, or really frustrated, or when you don't get your way. I know where my buttons are that bring out my worst. I suspect you know where yours are, too. But for the sake of those we love, isn't it time we finally did something about the sharp edges that keep cutting them?
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Sharp-Edges-4774

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Mismatch Illusion - #4779
Maybe you're worried about the bad influences on your son or daughter and what they might become. Or about some strong opposition to a work you're trying to do for the Lord, or the financial odds against you. Maybe it's the pressure that has intimidated you into silence where you should be sharing Christ. Whatever it is, what stands in the way looks huge, doesn't it? But you need to look again at this battle, this time look at the forces of Jesus who committed to the battle on your behalf.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Mismatch-Illusion-4779

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - God's Strange Road to Power - #4793
before there can be the conquest of the Jericho that looms before you right now, there must be the conquest of you. God allows things into our life that will bring us to the end of ourselves where all your experience, and your talent, your wisdom, your connections, and your persuasion are useless in getting an answer. God has brought you to this moment of total helplessness, not so you would give up, but so you would give over the controls to Him totally, unconditionally.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/God-s-Strange-Road-to-Power-4793

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Winning the Fight Before it Begins - #4829
It's not what personality we book for the meeting, or the promotion, or the politics of having the right connections, or excellent planning, or a great program. There's no power in any of those by themselves. The power is in prayer - in God's people praying down the power and blessing of God as they boldly go into the Throne Room of the one who rules the galaxies.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Winning-the-Fight-Before-it-B...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - All the Good Stuff You're Missing - #4833
Imagine all the resources of God Himself downloadable by you - His wisdom for your questions, His power for your difficulties, His love for your lonely times, His peace for your troubled times. We don't have to live like these stressed out, strung out, weighed down people we often are! Dry bread crusts when we've got all the resources of God at our disposal!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/All-the-Good-Stuff-You-re-Mis...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Pace Car In Every Race - #4147
Now our word for today from the Word of God goes back to the dawn of all human relationships and the birth of the family, and it reveals who God considers the pace car in life's races. Genesis 3:6 - "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." Here, in this awful moment, sin and death enter the world as Adam and Eve trespass the clear boundaries of God.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Pace-Car-In-Every-Race-4147

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Illusion Of Control - #4155
For many of us, life is pretty much like driving one of those amusement park race cars. We hold onto the wheel tightly, trying to be in control, thinking we are in control. Refusing to relinquish control. News Flash: it's an illusion. See, we're little masses of protoplasm on this little dirt ball called earth in a sea of billions of galaxies. But we still hang on tightly to our little steering wheel, shouting, "I'm in control!" Until God allows one of those things into our life that shatters our illusion and exposes the truth.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Illusion-Of-Control-4155

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Moving to Higher Ground - #4860
Life's floods come in many forms; those major crises or disasters that carry away much of what we had been depending on. An illness maybe or a death can do that, a divorce can do it, a disaster, a broken relationship, the loss of your job. There are many upheavals that come rushing in and they change the landscape forever. And they make you think, maybe for the first time, about where is the best place to build the rest of your life.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Moving-to-Higher-Ground-4860

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Geography of Power - #4878
So are you praying like you are with an awesome, all-powerful God? Or are you, like too many of us, under-praying? And over-worrying, over-scheming, praying too often as a last resort or an afterthought, or praying for just man-sized things; praying these safe, small, predictable prayers. Listen, you have access to the power but you're trying to figure it out in your little office down the hall!
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/The-Geography-of-Power-4878