Devotionals

Yesterday’s Challenges Prepare Us For Today’s Victories

Yesterday’s Challenges Prepare Us For Today’s Victories

By Mark Henslee / March 7, 2025 / Comments Off on Yesterday’s Challenges Prepare Us For Today’s Victories

All of us face challenges in life.  Some are big, some small, others are ginormous.  As we face today’s challenges it is helpful to remember what the Lord has done to bring us through in the past. In 1 Samuel 17, we read the famous story about David facing Goliath.  Much is made about David’s…

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boat with waves

Stability in the Sea of Change

By Dallas Henslee / February 14, 2025 / Comments Off on Stability in the Sea of Change

A few years ago, we sold our house and moved full-time into the ministry’s fifth wheel travel trailer.  Since then we have stayed in the trailer at more than 53 locations across 20 states; Mark stopped counting at some point.  Yet, with all of the movement and variation of where the trailer was parked, we…

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Yes Lord, In Your Strength

Yes Lord, In Your Strength

By Mark Henslee / January 23, 2025 / Comments Off on Yes Lord, In Your Strength

A New Year has come, and for many, that means making resolutions for things that we intend to do this year.  Some want to lose weight, or improve their health in some way.  Resolutions are generally goals that we believe will improve our life.  These are good things. Yet, how many actually make it to…

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Investing in the Training Ground and Victory Property of the Wilderness

By Dallas Henslee / December 6, 2024 / Comments Off on Investing in the Training Ground and Victory Property of the Wilderness

The wilderness.  We read about it in the Bible; Mark’s preached and written on it before; and we’ve experienced our own wildernesses; individually and as a couple.  Today, I saw not one but two thoughts on the wilderness.  I’ve come to learn that anytime something is repeatedly highlighted, it may be God trying to get…

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neighbor fence

False Evidence Appearing Real

By Dallas Henslee / November 15, 2024 /

“Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14, NIV Come Quick! “Mark!?!  Mark!?!”  I could hear the panic in her voice even though she was trying to keep herself under control.  I opened the door to find our slightly frantic neighbor from across…

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My Hope Is Not In The Ballot Box

My Hope Is Not In The Ballot Box

By Mark Henslee / November 1, 2024 /

I voted today.  It wasn’t a passionate process like some times in the past.  In fact, there was only one candidate that I really wanted to vote for, and ironically, that was in a non-contested race for a local position.  Most of the people I voted for were either based on best guess or while…

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McGuire Minute October 2024

By Jarrod McGuire / October 11, 2024 /

Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT) – “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”   I was reminded of self-examination in my readings today.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and with that…

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Filled Full for Purpose

Filled Full For Purpose

By Mark Henslee / December 8, 2023 /

We were at a hotel some time ago, and after checking in I grabbed a luggage cart and rolled it out to the car.  It rolled just fine.  I loaded our bags on the cart and then started to roll it into the hotel to our room.  It didn’t roll nearly as well.  In fact,…

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Created for Purpose

Created and Surrendered For Purpose

By Mark Henslee / November 17, 2023 /

The couple had consulted specialists and decided that humanly there was no hope for them to bear a child of their own.  But the desire was deep; a longing for something that they couldn’t have.  So they petitioned the Lord.  Pleading for a long time, until one day, they received the answer.  The desire of…

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To Do List Relationship

To-Do List Relationship

By Mark Henslee / September 22, 2023 /

I function best when I work from a to-do list.  Generally, I have an ongoing to-do list that I’m adding things to the bottom of while crossing off completed tasks.  It gets rewritten every couple of weeks when the paper is filled or enough things have been crossed off that it’s time to start afresh. …

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