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  • How to Attain Perfect Peace
    Posted on Monday, May 28th, 2018 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: anxious for nothing, Carol McClain, giving all to God, God, How to attain perfect peace, Is. 26:3, Jesus, peace, Phil 4:6-7, Prov. 3: 5-6, The Poison We Drink, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain   carol_mcclain “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” Phil. 4: 6-7. A strange thing happened this last week. As most of you …[ read more ]

  • Prayer’s Priority: Worship
    Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: answer to prayers, Carol McClain, God, Jesus, prayer, prayer's priority, Psalms, worship

    By Carol McClain I don’t know about you, but somewhere during the many years I’ve been a Christian, I’ve taught myself God is a piggy bank that gives interest. Insert prayer. Wait a day or two, and pop out more than I put in.     Then things don’t go according to plan. I don’t …[ read more ]

  • Prayer–When It Doesn’t Work
    Posted on Monday, September 4th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 John 5:14, Carol McClain, convictions, free will, God, prayer, prayer--when it doesn't work

    By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain   I’ve been praying like a fury–for good things, things according to God’s desires. I hang onto the verse: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” 1 John 5:14. Then what is needed, what I prayed for according to God’s will, …[ read more ]

  • The Root of Our Issues–Us
    Posted on Monday, January 30th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Christ, Christ died for us, God, Jesus, Romans 5:8, sin, The root of our issues, the root of sin, we're to blame

    “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain The root of our issue: We’re unclean. My first marriage fell apart. I’d married a man with issues–totally unaware that he’d married a woman with issues. Our fights became furious. I’d become the …[ read more ]

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    • Ten Ways to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

        @carol_mcclain "Don't be drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit!" 1 Cor.5:18 According to John Piper, how do we get drunk with wine? We drink it. Lots of it. So how do we get drunk with the Holy Spirit? Immerse yourself in God. Drink in lots of Him. Read your Scriptures. Pray. Sing Psalms and hymns and contemporary Christian music. Listen to edifying Christian stations. Avoid our entertainment that celebrates sinful behavior--alcohol, sex, foul language. Hang out with practicing, like-minded Christians. Go to church. Take notes on the sermon. Look around this world and see the glory God… ...[ full story ]

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