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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

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Trauma and truth-seeking: Desperation, spirit, life

  • Post published:March 8, 2023
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

You pursue truth differently when you're desperate, when your life hinges on what you find – and your spirit is released to resonate with the Spirit of God.

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Living by the Spirit

  • Post published:July 30, 2022
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:January 13, 2025

A person can be a Christian, yet not live by the Spirit. Ah, but that's not what our Lord intends.

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He restores my soul: Resting in God’s unforced rhythms

  • Post published:September 29, 2021
  • Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
  • Post last modified:March 14, 2024

As we come to him, our Lord shows us: “Rest? It restores.” He teaches us a new rhythm that calms our life down and turns it around – an unforced rhythm that brings our soul back from the exhaustion where frenzy and fear rule.

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Praying for God

  • Post published:April 10, 2021
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 29, 2024

Jesus taught us to pray for God. He taught us: In order to pray powerfully and effectively for people, pray first for the Father to rise up in his own behalf.

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Humble your soul, release your spirit

  • Post published:October 9, 2020
  • Post category:My Story/Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:May 11, 2025

God saw my stifled spirit. He saw my confused soul. He’s teaching me to act on my spirit's yes even when my soul is screaming no. For then his life can flow.

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Our Spirit-to-spirit birthright

  • Post published:September 12, 2018
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:January 13, 2025

More than a century ago, Andrew Murray explored the difference - and the conflict - between our spirit and our soul. He showed from Scripture the Spirit-to-spirit dynamic God has designed.

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Throw away the copy key

  • Post published:June 17, 2014
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Did you ever try to use a key that should work, but didn’t? That often happens with a copy of the original. To the eye, it seems a match. But…

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Countdown to The Esther Blessing: 9

  • Post published:February 14, 2013
  • Post category:From: The Esther Blessing
  • Post last modified:March 14, 2024

Mini-post: The counterfeit of reigning in life. Quote from The Esther Blessing: Grace to Reign in Life.

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The blessing of an undivided heart

  • Post published:October 4, 2012
  • Post category:My Story
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

One weekend in March 2012, I met with a small group eager to seek what God wanted to show us through Elijah’s life and times. None of us has been…

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Mastering the language in which God speaks

  • Post published:September 19, 2012
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing/Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:May 20, 2024

Today, let’s consider the impossible – and utterly delightful – challenge of mastering the language in which God speaks. It’s a challenge crucial to living by the Spirit. (And also…

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