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Guest Post :: Meeting Jesus by Mary DeMuth

Guest 15.07.2015 Faith 2
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[caption id="attachment_20347" align="alignleft" width="150"] Mary DeMuth[/caption] Editor's Note: Prism Women is honored to be hosting prolific author Mary DeMuth on this week's post. Mary's newest book The Day I Met Jesus, co-authored with Frank Viola, chronicles the women who encountered Christ and were irrevocably changed by him. May Mary's words and prayer stay with you as you venture out into the great wonder and seek to encounter him in the pursuit.              [dropcaps type='circle' color='' background_color='' border_color='']W[/dropcaps]hen I co-wrote The Day I Met Jesus, I had no idea just how much I would relate to these women. They are not characters in a story; they...

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Hope Deferred and the Art of a Good Story  

Renee Ronika 08.07.2015 Dreams, Encouragement, Expectancy, Faith, Hope, Identity, Maturity, Overcome, Story 0
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  [dropcaps type='circle' color='' background_color='' border_color='']P[/dropcaps]racticed readers know that a story is as good as its first chapter, sometimes its first paragraph. To understand our story within the arc of God’s narrative, the concept doesn’t change: we look to the beginning of the story to understand its end.   In the first book of the Bible, we meet a seventeen-year-old Joseph who has just revealed two dreams he received from the Lord, which prophesy of his unique calling. This news rouses his older brothers’ jealousy. They, in turn, sell him into slavery, which is the means by which Joseph fulfills his prophetic dream and...

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Training in Progress

Brianna VanderWeide 24.06.2015 Faith, Maturity, Training, Trust 0
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"Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowd. After He had dismissed them, He went up on a mountainside by Himself to pray. Later that night, He was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw Him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus...

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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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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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Making Me Believe. Again.

Brianna VanderWeide 21.03.2015 Faith 0
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Sometimes we need to be broken. Broken and bent in order to be made right again. To believe again. To be stronger in our faith in Jesus than before.   If you, like me, have ever had a crisis of faith, you know what I am talking about.   Those moments when the typical Christian phrases of, “Jesus loves you,” and “This is obviously what is best for you,” and “He has a perfect plan for your life,” just don’t satisfy. And you may even start to ask yourself, “Do I really believe this anymore?”   And through all of it, you still do. Oh sure,...

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