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The Daily Memo | November 12, 2021 | You're Not Alone in the Waiting Room
When you’re waiting on God, remember that you’re in good company. Millions of saints before you have sat in God’s waiting room. You’re not alone. In fact, if you’re in the waiting room right now — maybe you’re waiting on a job, on an answer, or on a prayer — there are a lot of other people around you who are in that same situation. Hebrews 11:2 says, “People who lived in the past became famous because of faith” )…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Practicing His Presence, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/12/2021
The Daily Memo | November 11, 2021 | Lay Down Your Expectations
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us.” - Exodus 32:1 400 years. That’s how long the Israelites waited for God to deliver them from slavery. But after they left Egypt, God didn’t take them directly to Canaan. Instead, they camped at the base of a mountain while God instructed Moses. But after 40 days, the…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/11/2021
The Daily Memo | November 10, 2021 | A New Calling
Teenage gang leader Casey and his followers broke into homes and cars, robbed convenience stores, and fought other gangs. Eventually, Casey was arrested and sentenced. In prison, he became a “shot caller,” someone who handed out homemade knives during riots. Sometime later, he was placed in solitary confinement. While daydreaming in his cell, Casey experienced a “movie” of sorts replaying key events of his life—and of Jesus being led to and…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, The Hope of Healing | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/10/2021
The Daily Memo | November 9, 2021 | Living Above Your Circumstances
God is in complete control over every circumstance; even in our trials, He’s working all things to accomplish His good purpose in our life. When we’re going through hard times, it’s comforting to know that nothing can touch a believer’s life unless the Lord allows it. He has complete control even in our most difficult and painful circumstances. Through it all, we’re being held firmly in our Father’s loving hand, and His good purpose is…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Restored in Him, Knowing & Being Known, Our Purpose | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/09/2021
The Daily Memo | November 8, 2021 | Talk, Trust, Feel
“Don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel was the law we lived by,” says Frederick Buechner in his powerful memoir Telling Secrets, “and woe to the one who broke it.” Buechner is describing his experience of what he calls the “unwritten law of families who for one reason or another have gone out of whack.” In his own family, that “law” meant Buechner was not allowed to talk about or grieve his father’s,…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/08/2021
The Daily Memo | November 5, 2021 | A Call For Change
One of the strangest quirks of life here on this planet is the fact that the one face we hardly ever see is the one closest to us: our own. As we move about in the world every day, our face is always right before us and always just beyond us. Somebody could write a fairy tale about that. It would be an allegory for how rarely we see ourselves, who we truly are, the good and the bad. But in unexpected moments we get a sideways glance, as when passing by a plate glass window,…
Categories: What We Were Created For, The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/05/2021
The Daily Memo | November 4, 2021 | Patience in the Wait
We may think our theology and attitude about the Lord are revealed by what we claim to believe. But when our prayers go unanswered and circumstances remain unchanged, the way we wait speaks volumes about our true beliefs. Job was a God-fearing man who endured the loss of his children, health, and possessions. Yet he remained faithful to the Lord throughout his ordeal, despite a desperate need to know why he was so afflicted. In the midst of his suffering, Job cried out, &ldquo,…
Categories: Walking With God, The Daily Memo, Understanding Love | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/04/2021
The Daily Memo | November 3, 2021 | What God Sees In You
Your sin has been dealt with. Your Father has removed it from you "as far as the east is from the west" (Ps. 103:12). Your sins have been washed away (1 Cor. 6:11). When God looks at you he does not see your sin. He has not one condemning thought toward you (Rom. 8:1). But that's not all. You have a new heart. That's the promise of the new covenant: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Identity Security, Wounded Healer, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/03/2021
The Daily Memo | November 2, 2021 | God is Never Late
Seven years have passed and the predicted famine is here just as Joseph said. This drought wasn’t localized to Egypt, other nations in the region were suffering as well. Word got out Egypt had grain, so everyone was clamoring to buy from them. Back in the land of Canaan, Jacob and his sons are hungry and getting desperate. Most likely their crops had suffered as well. Jacob tells his sons to go buy some food from the Egyptians before it’s too late. The…
Categories: The Daily Memo, Understanding Love, The Hope of Healing, Knowing & Being Known | Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/02/2021
48. Unfinished We Are Podcast
Every Believer is a work in progress. Uniquely ordained to be in relationship with God and loving others as He commands. Our enemy seeks to sideline us in the journey. Don't let discouragement, driven by the wounds of your past, give him a foothold in your life. We are all unfinished works of art that God desires to complete before he returns or you stand in His presence. In this Podcast, Steve tells his story of redemption and reclamation chronicled in a new book to…
Authored by: sparrowwebsites | Posted: 11/01/2021