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2012-10-11T13:17:15-05:00

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Focus Hocus-Pocus

Last updated on: October 11, 2012 at 1:17 pm By Susan Cottrell

“What gets your focus gets you.” Mike Wells http://abidinglife.com/2009/ Mike Wells, a beautiful servant of Christ, died one year ago today. Mike taught me what it means to abide in Christ. He illuminated Colossians 1:27: “Christ in you, the hope of glory!” He lived his ministry tagline: “There’s nothing the nearness of Christ cannot overcome.” Mike taught me so much in the twelve years I knew him, directly and in his books and teachings. “Focus on sin increases sin.” “Christian... Read more

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2012-10-10T10:07:36-05:00

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Psycho

Last updated on: October 10, 2012 at 10:07 am By Susan Cottrell

When Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho came out, it was a shocker! I was in college the first time I saw it, and I screamed! Anthony Perkins appears as his dead mother, “carrying out her wishes” to please her. But it was all in his head. What kind of a sicko—or psycho—is this? Well, that is the point. He is a psycho. He’s “responding” to the wishes and desires of someone who’s long since dead. We are shocked because we see it... Read more

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the law it our tutor

2012-10-08T21:09:55-05:00

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Follow Freedhearts Ministries on Facebook & Twitter

Last updated on: October 8, 2012 at 9:09 pm By Robert Cottrell

Freedhearts Ministries is on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/TcONFs) and Twitter (http://bit.ly/SZMCVQ) now. Be sure to Like & Follow us! Read more

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2012-10-05T09:42:42-05:00

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Dance the Night Away

Last updated on: October 5, 2012 at 9:42 am By Susan Cottrell

Robbie and I have been dancing. I say this because we never dance. I never did learned to dance well, and in Rob’s early years, he was always in the band instead of on the dance floor. But we are having a little time away, just the two of us, and we have been dancing. Oh! Something inside of me has been set free on the dance floor. So sweet. Sometimes I am far too analytical for my own good.... Read more

2012-10-02T09:31:37-05:00

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An Empty Bag

Last updated on: October 2, 2012 at 9:31 am By Susan Cottrell

Nothing animates me more than to teach the abiding life of Christ—I love speaking and I love interacting and watching lights go on. But the first time I spoke took me by surprise! It was at the women’s group at Grace Bible Church in College Station, Texas, to about seventy-five women. It was a new and exciting chapter in my life, and I had a wild idea: I prayed for God to keep me humble. It was a pure prayer... Read more

2012-09-28T10:57:48-05:00

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Unachievable Love

Last updated on: September 28, 2012 at 10:57 am By Susan Cottrell

Love. God’s love. To love another without condition of receiving anything in return. OH. MY. GOSH. I so do not love this way… even though I sometimes, kind of, maybe think I do. To love without requiring anything in return. To be love waiting to happen. That’s God. God is love waiting to happen. To want nothing in return. Gosh, who does that? I always want something. I want to be liked, admired, well thought of, included, known. I want... Read more

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2012-09-26T11:14:52-05:00

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Prayer, prayer, prayer

Last updated on: September 26, 2012 at 11:14 am By Susan Cottrell

“We must go forward on our knees.” Hudson Taylor, on bringing China the good news of Jesus Christ Prayer. The journey of discovery continues. And I’m discovering that I have severely undervalued prayer. As if I’m living on a oilfield and I just use little buckets of oil here and there. I completely underestimate how much my life and my loved one’s lives would change if I tapped into its full potential. I talk about prayer — and I actually... Read more

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2012-09-20T12:11:45-05:00

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Specificity with God

Last updated on: September 20, 2012 at 12:11 pm By Susan Cottrell

My family knows me for my prayer life — talking to God in the kitchen or walking through the house. I enjoy the ongoing relationship I have with Him that way. But recently God pulled the floor out from under me: He said, Pray specifically. My habit has been to praise Him, thank Him for what’s going on in my day, ask for His guidance in my family. But He told me that when I get specific with Him, it... Read more

2012-09-18T08:59:18-05:00

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Got a Date!

Last updated on: September 18, 2012 at 8:59 am By Susan Cottrell

I’ve got a date. Bible study starts this morning, and I was having a little crisis-of-confidence about attending. Should I? Shouldn’t I? Usually love it, not sure I’m feeling it. Love to learn something new, see friends. Don’t love missing a morning with so much work to do. Looked at the choices. Prayed. Is this a good one? Maybe this? Sure I want to commit when I’m so — bluh about it? Not sure. Then I saw it. Jesus whispered,... Read more

2012-09-14T02:40:05-05:00

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The Holy Spirit Lives Here

Last updated on: September 14, 2012 at 2:40 am By Susan Cottrell

My precious friend called from Phoenix today to share something that had happened at her church. (I share with her permission.) The praise team was playing soft music, and people were in quiet reflection. “As I sat there,” my friend said, “the Lord gave me profound insight into a wound I’d had from my father since before I left home. God revealed a lie I had believed about how I thought my dad viewed me, and He told me the... Read more

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