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The Key to a Happy Heart

    I've found something this week, and I want to share it with you. It's called submission, and it brings peace.      Up until now, I thought I was living in submission to Christ. However, I spent a lot of time worrying, fretting, and trying to figure out my own life. I don’t know about you, but I can worry about literally anything, without even trying hard. For instance, I can worry about the question, “Do I have enough faith for the Lord to fulfill His purposes in my life?” Sadly, worrying about that sort of thing seems to drain the faith right out o f my life!      This is exactly what happened to me last Saturday. I got upset, worried, and sad. I lost my peace. I started demanding things from God, and telling Him that if He didn't intervene, I would take matters into my own hands.      Thank the Lord, He did intervene! Through a wonderful book by Catherine Marshall, He showed me that I need to wait for Him. That godly waiting r...

Reality

   “And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me:” -Genesis 16:13     Hagar felt so alone. Her life was not going well. She ran away into the wilderness, and as the Bible says so beautifully, “the angel of the Lord found her.” (Genesis 16:7) It goes on to say that God, Himself, had heard her affliction. Now, Hagar knew that she was not alone! God saw her.  “For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer”  - 1 Peter 3:12      When was the last time you knew that God sees you? I mean, the last time you really felt it in your bones? So many of us in this world want to be seen. We crave attention. We long for someone to care enough to get to know us, on a deeper level. But God  does  see. God  does  care. The Bible is not giving us a mythical statement that means something really deep and hard to understand. The actual eyes of the Lord ARE on the righteous...