From Your Head to Your Heart
You would think that “being highly favored” would mean that everything would go well with Mary, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It was one trial after another. You can read in the Gospel of Luke the account of all that Mary went through before and during the birth of Jesus. So it is with each of us,…
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God always defies human logic. He never reacts the way we think our actions would warrant, and He uses the most unlikely candidate to speak to, a teenage GIRL! God ended four hundred years of hopelessness with a divine visitation in the form of a greeting to a young girl by sending the angel Gabriel to her and saying, “Greetings,…
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In Leviticus 6:8-13 we find a recipe for the priests to come before the Lord for no other reason than to have alone time with God. This offering was for pure worship and intimacy, and the recipe explained the proper way to come into His presence. The burnt offering was different from any other offering or priestly duty. Every other…
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Isn’t the reason God brings us out of the slavery to this world so that He can bring us into a new land? Yet we come back with fruit our hands, like the Israelites, and fear in our hearts. Fear so enveloped us that we are sure God is setting us up to fail. We acknowledge the fruit is huge…
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One day while preparing to speak at a Women’s Conference at Brooklyn Tabernacle, I heard God ask me a question that changed my life. The Holy Spirit asked me, “Maria, do you believe that I really love you?” I thought about it for a quick second and started to weep profusely. Oh, I believed He loved others, but me? I…
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“New wine calls for new wineskins” (Mark 2:22, NLV). The word “new” as in “new wine” is the Greek word “neos” which means brand new. The wine God pours out from heaven is brand new. There is no man made substitution. The word “new” as in “new wineskins” is the word “kainos” which means renewed, refreshed, revived. When people were…
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