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Grace and the Good Girl

Renee Ronika 03.06.2015 Behavior, Belief, Encouragement, Grace, Identity 0
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“What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.” –A.W. Tozer   Legalism Strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit; the doctrine that salvation is gained through good works; the judging of conduct in terms of adherence to precise law (dictionary.com).     When the woman caught in adultery met Jesus, she must have felt more exposed than she already was. She stood before God incarnate, knowing she had sinned. She assumed her fate was sealed: her last sight would be of stones careening toward her; her last sensation would...

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The Lord, Our Only Salvation

Rachel Oludiji 27.05.2015 Belief, Encouragement, Expectancy, Faith, Hope, Overcome 0
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  The last year of my life has been quite a huge stepping-stone and journey. In 12 months, I have learned more about my spiritual gifts than ever, especially about being equipped and stepping out in more faith and authority to walk in them daily. Hearing from the Lord more clearly for others and myself has been on my radar, as well.   At Overcome, I had to stop and ask the Lord what things I needed breakthrough in or a shift in perspective.   One challenge He highlighted to me was the feeling of personal responsibility to be a form of salvation to others....

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Enough is Enough

Brianna VanderWeide 20.05.2015 Belief, Belong, Encouragement, Faith, Hope, Overcome 1
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You know what happens when you Google everything like I do? You find out some pretty simple definitions of things that actually blow your mind. I Googled “enough is enough” and the definition was this: no more will be tolerated. That’s it. Plain and simple and yet, bam, right to the core of my heart.   NO MORE WILL BE TOLERATED.   At the recent Prism :: Overcome gathering, we were asked to write a word on a rock that would counter a lie we have believed, or be a reminder to us of what God is overcoming in our lives. The Lord revealed...

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You Are Free to Do Nothing

Nicole Cottrell 07.05.2015 Encouragement, Faith, Hope 4
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In many Christian circles, we are only as good as the last conference or retreat we attended, class we took, or book we read.   Our “goodness” and “Christ-likeness” are measured against our levels of involvement in church activities. We are often pressured to “do more,” “serve more,” and “give more.” We enter into the exhausting pursuit of "being a Christian."   But pursuing Jesus is something altogether different. Pursuing Christ is actually a counter-intuitive, often uncomfortable, reversal of church life busyness.   At the Prism :: Overcome event two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to talk and pray with a beautiful woman about her...

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This Is How We Overcome

Renee Ronika 29.04.2015 Community, Encouragement, Event, Expectancy, Overcome 5
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“Behold, now is the favorable time.” -2 Corinthians 6:2   PRISM :: OVERCOME: On Saturday, April 25, at New City Church in downtown Phoenix, nearly one hundred women of all ages gathered under the leadership of Christ, where event speakers—brokenhearted yet wholehearted—risked sharing vulnerable testimonies to reveal how Jesus can rewrite anyone’s story.   Just as women began to break the ice in early morning conversation, Prism’s spoken word poet Kayla Koehn approached us: “Can you hear the chains breaking?” she asked. We looked around and remembered the word God had spoken over the women that morning: they had brought with them a spirit of...

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The Shackles of Expectancy

Rachel Oludiji 15.04.2015 Encouragement, Expectancy, Faith, Hope 2
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I’ve always struggled with the idea of “expectancy.” It’s an idea/phrase/state of mind that has never really been an easy thing for me to grasp. Honestly, I think I’ve been failing at it for a while now.   In itself, being expectant is not a bad thing. It’s actually quite necessary to please the Lord as stated in Hebrews 11:6. However, I’ve found myself in trouble or increasingly in doubt when certain blessings have been delayed, like experiencing things supernaturally, seeing healings, being launched into worship ministry, getting married, or finding the right job. There was never a selfish intent to enhance...

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The Dangerous Pursuit of Hope

Nicole Cottrell 08.04.2015 Encouragement, Faith, Hope 0
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all— -Emily Dickinson   Last year was one of the hardest years I have ever experienced. I achingly crawled through the year. Everything became hard—facing the day was hard, serving the Lord was hard, believing God was hard.   I felt as if I was being forced into a corner where my past hurts, my daily physical pain, and my fragile emotional state were coming to a head. It was relentless. I remember saying to God at one point, “Can you please stop? I need to come...

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