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    How Do I Know When God Speaks?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    How Do I Know When God Speaks?

    I have been asked this question more than any other question. Too many believe that conversation with an invisible God means a one-way conv
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    Praying Our Questions
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Feb 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Praying Our Questions

    Nothing brings us to God more quickly than our questions. And we have them. They tumble out of hidden places in our hearts. They loom ...
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    Listen More; Talk Less
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Feb 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    Listen More; Talk Less

    The biggest disconnect in our prayer and the most common reason we don’t experience change through prayer is because we talk more than we...
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    Pray Honestly
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Feb 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    Pray Honestly

    It was a Bible study on the story of David that opened a door for the most important lesson about prayer I think I have learned. I had c...
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    Four Prayers that Bring Change
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jan 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    Four Prayers that Bring Change

    Transformation is a change so deep and formative that what it brings is literally all new. New is God’s best work. He uses His unlimited...
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    What's Missing?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jan 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    What's Missing?

    How long can you go without speaking to someone you live with or someone you care about? Probably not very long. We find ways to talk wi...
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    When Mercy Cries
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    When Mercy Cries

    Come with me to the edge of Jericho where Jesus had attracted a large crowd again. Most don’t see the furrowed brows of Jesus. He is ju...
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    Need Prayer!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Need Prayer!

    The tension was beginning to build for Jesus. The Pharisees followed his every move, waiting to pounce in public. Jesus was becoming too...
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    Glory!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 24, 2018
    • 2 min

    Glory!

    When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, and I mean put our heart and mind in every word and phrase, when we obey the instructions in ways that tr...
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    Where God Delivers
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Where God Delivers

    If we don’t pray for God to lead us, how can we pray for Him to deliver us? Evil snakes its way through our lives, our family’s lives, an...
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    Where God Will Never Lead
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    Where God Will Never Lead

    Lead me not into temptation. Lead me is a simple prayer asking for God’s leadership. These two words cover a lot of unexplored territory...
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    As We Forgive
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Oct 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    As We Forgive

    Forgive us . . . as we forgive. Last week's prayer for forgiveness is not a stand alone prayer. It comes as a duet. We pray for forgive...
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    Will You Forgive Me?
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    Will You Forgive Me?

    Lisa looked at me with her big, sad eyes, lips quivering, face down, and asked, “Will you forgive me?” I melted. I don’t even remember wh...
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    No Day-old Bread
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Sep 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    No Day-old Bread

    Give us this day our daily bread. Is there anything more tantalizing that a slice of fresh baked bread slathered with butter? What the s...
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    Dessert not Vegetables!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    Dessert not Vegetables!

    Have you ever struggled to accept God’s will? Have you ever treated it as something imposed upon you that you knew you should want, but ...
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    No Line-drawing Allowed!
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 21, 2018
    • 2 min

    No Line-drawing Allowed!

    We are territorial people. We don’t like it when someone throws trash into our yard, parks where our car belongs, sits at our desk, or f...
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    Handling God's Name
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 14, 2018
    • 3 min

    Handling God's Name

    I keep my mother’s china in a special place away from my everyday dishes. When I want to use it, I carefully remove one or two pieces at...
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    Praying the Lord's Prayer
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Aug 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Praying the Lord's Prayer

    I can’t remember when I memorized the Lord’s Prayer or how it came about. The words roll out of my mouth without even thinking about the...
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    What I Don't Believe about Prayer
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jul 18, 2018
    • 3 min

    What I Don't Believe about Prayer

    I’ve told you what I believe about prayer; now let’s look at the flip side. Here are four things I don’t believe prayer is. 1. I don’t ...
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    What I Believe about Prayer
    Debbie Salter Goodwin
    • Jul 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    What I Believe about Prayer

    If prayer is only ritual or recitation, my best ideas rolled into a request, or depends on the right words to get the right result; I am ...
    136 views0 comments
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