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I love the Bible verses on getting what you want like, [the Lord] will give you the desires of your heart, or ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. I also love the way the bible talks about my rewards with language like, rewarded a hundredfold, or opening the floodgates of heaven.
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“What do you want?” The gentle question flooded my mind.
What do I want? James says I don’t get answers when I ask with wrong motives. Jesus, David and others say, ask with the right motives, I’ll get whatever I ask. Ask well and I get an answer with the power of heaven behind it.
I opened my mouth to answer, but lost my voice. I nodded and quickly turned away, wiping at the rush of tears. When I saw their little faces and heard their singsong voices, that gift felt like the most significant accomplishment of my life. I was proud and ashamed at the same time.
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It blew my mind. God isn’t limited by success. I don’t have to get it right for him to get it right. He allows frustrations into my path so I can become the very person I hunger to be.
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Plastic ramps, funnels, and tubes were strewn across my front porch. Here and there, glass marbles glinted in the afternoon[…]
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