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What You Should Do When You Need Hope

You don’t realize how much you need hope until yours is gone. It’s like air in our lungs. We can’t live without it. Google’s [archaic] definition of hope is “a feeling of trust.” It’s true isn’t it? Hope is more than a feeling of expectation. It involves belief, faith . . . trust. Emily Dickinson wrote: Hope is the thing with feathers That …

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How to Survive Thanksgiving and Black Friday {Believer’s Bounty}

    My eyes sprung open. I looked at the clock to see 3:00 AM staring back at me. I groaned and turned over, re-positioned to ease the ache in my hip, and began to pray as I always do when I wake before 5:00. It’s not holiness that prompts my petitions. It’s a determination to frustrate the  enemy if …

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