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Thoughts By Max Lucado

2024-07-03

A Prayer to Stay on God’s Path

Abba, thank you for sending a helper to direct my steps.  You know everything and will guide me in your will.

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2024-06-30

Don’t Get Lost in Your Troubles

Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then rejoice in the Lord’s Sovereignty. I dare you. I double-dog dare you--to expose your worries to an hour of worship. Your concerns will melt like ice on an August sidewalk!

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2024-06-24

God Cares about You

Let me pose a few question. If God is able to place the stars in their sockets and suspend the sky like a curtain, do you think it is remotely possible that he is able to guide your life? 

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2024-06-18

Reasons for Joy

Are you so focused on what you don’t have that you’re blind to what you do? 

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2024-06-15

Patient People

God is being patient with you (2 Peter 3:9). And if God is being patient with you, can’t you pass on some patience to others? Of course you can! Because before love is anything else—love is patient!

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2024-06-10

Learning to Listen

If you want to be just like Jesus, let God have you. Spend time listening for him until you receive your lesson for the day—then apply it.

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2024-05-29

Contentment

What if God’s only gift to you were his grace to save you? Would you be content?

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2024-05-26

Loving as God Loves

Our friends need a flood of tears. Our children need to be covered in the oil of our love. But if we haven’t received these things ourselves,

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2024-05-14

Son Reflectors

What would happen if we accepted our place as Son reflectors? How can we be bumped off self-center?

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2024-05-07

When Your Heart Needs a Father

You may be willing to stop being God's child. But God is not willing to stop being your Father.

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2024-04-29

On the Anvil

On the solid anvil, the smoldering iron is remolded. We are remolded by God, if we let him. Are you letting him?

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2024-04-23

Choices

We are free either to love God or not. He invites us to love Him.  He urges us to love Him.  He came that we might love Him. 

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2024-04-19

Confession

Confession!  It’s a word that conjures up many images—some not so positive.

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2024-04-12

Patience Freely Offered

God does more than demand patience from us; He offers it to us. Patience is a fruit of His Spirit. It hangs from the tree of Galatians 5:22: “The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

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2024-04-03

When You Face a Wall of Fear

Perhaps standing before you is a wall of fear.  Brick upon brick of anxiety and dread. Haunting you are the kings of confusion.  “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. ” (1 John 4:17).

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2024-03-29

Father, Forgive Them

The dialogue that Friday morning was bitter. From the religious leaders, “He saved others but he can’t save himself.”

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2024-03-26

Changed from the Inside Out

The stumbles of a toddler do not invalidate the act of birth. And the stumbles of a Christian do not annul his spiritual birth.

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2024-03-19

Give Us This Day our Daily Bread

There are times when we literally push ourselves back from the table. Then there are those days when we have to eat our broccoli.

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2024-03-16

God Gets into Our Lives

What the hand is to the glove, the Holy Spirit is to the Christian . . . God gets into us.  At times, imperceptibly.  Other times, disruptively. 

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2024-03-09

Love Covers a Multitude of Sins

One thing is sure. They love you! No makeup. No power tie. No status jewelry. No layers of images. Just unkempt honesty.

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2024-03-05

Worry is Optional

Some of us have postgraduate degrees from the University of Anxiety. We go to sleep worried that we won’t wake up.

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2024-03-02

What Makes Heaven Heavenly

Heaven is a perfect place of perfected people with our perfect Lord. You’ll love it! Never weary, selfish, or defeated.

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2024-02-20

God Has a Plan

Has God permitted a time of darkness in your world? But be assured, God has a pattern. He has a plan. He is not finished.

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2024-02-17

The Dynamics of Mercy

Jesus says the merciful are shown mercy.  Forgiving others allows us to see how God has forgiven us.

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