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It has been a little while. We have been enjoying our summer and doing camp. I have been trying to rest my voice, with not much success. I would really appreciate prayer for this. I am a singer and of course a teacher and have been dealing with hoarseness (chronic) for the past year and a half. I was without insurance for a while so couldn't get any medical help. We now have insurance and I'm seeing a doctor, who has put me a good bit of meds. He says I have nodules on my vocal cords. It is very hard, because I just LOVE to sing to the Lord. It is my passion! I am standing on the word for my complete healing, especially before August 7th when we start back to doing school, because I also love to read aloud to my boys. I do know that I will sing and read aloud again. God is FAITHFUL and is true to His promises and I know , beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it IS His will that I sing praises to HIs name. I also know that in the silence He is speaking! Thank you for your agreement with me that healing will manifest very soon.

If anyone else has dealt with this I would love to hear your story!

In Christ,

Julie

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this wonderful passage from God's word:

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged¼ And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:1–2, 7.

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What is the purpose of filters? This was the question asked at Bible study last night. Well....filters do exactly that, they filter out the unwanted. In the case of an air filter, it filters out the things you don't want your family breathing. A coffee filter filters out the grounds so you can enjoy your coffee without the bitter taste. What would happen if you didn't change your filter all week?

In life when certain things happen to us we put filters in place. For example, maybe we were hurt by a spouse or someone we are close to, we put up a filter....which is necessary at that moment, but what happens if even after the filter is no longer needed? We continue to filter things that happen to us through the same filter.

We might not trust so an so (whomever it may be) all because this other person  hurt us many years ago. Then we are filtering what's going on now through past experiences.

We may even filter the voice of God through past beliefs or religious ideas. Like Peter in Acts when he was hungry and fell in the trance and the Lord showed him certain meats(that he previously belived were unclean) and told him to kill and eat. At first he told God no, not so, these meats are unclean! He was filtering the voice of God through his religious way of thinking. God had to show it to Peter three times before he finally removed the filter that he was using. It's a good thing he did too, because Peter would be used to minister to the Gentiles. God told him,"Don't call unclean what I have called clean". God was really talking about an even more important issue than food.

So even though some filters are good for us for a time and protect us,

there comes a time when we need to check our filter to see if it needs to be changed out. Although Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, God wants to do a new thing in our lives.

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I frequent Freshfire ministries' articles and the one I read this morning is well worth the reading. There is also some good info about eagles tucked in there. Go check it out! Here is the link: http://www.freshfire.ca/teaching_details.php?=137#  click on Home and then click on Latest teaching. (sorry about the link, I just couldn't get it to work)

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VERSE:
   This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we
ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know
that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we
asked of him.
    -- 1 John 5:14-15

Wow, we can have confidence in approaching GOD Almighty! I know alot of times I don't feel like I can have that confidence, but we can't go by how we feel or we will already be defeated. The fact is that God's word is final authority.

Just know that when we pray according to His will He does hear and we can have what we ask.

Have a wonderful day!

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Well.....I am sitting here meditating on the events of the weekend. I know my weekend could have been worse, but it just seemed like we had one thing after another. The reason I titled this God is good is well.....HE IS! I am ever learning to lean and rely on Him. I just feel like praising Him right now and just focusing my thoughts on Him and His faithfulness, my security in his arms!

Lord, I praise you, thank you for your unending, unfailing, unquenchable love for me and for all! I praise you in the midst of the congregation, in the midst of your people. Blessed be your name, 4-ever!