Tag: Lord

• Calling, Commitment, and Cambodia

  

  LOOKING AT THE FIELDS Working alongside her father in the Kansas wheatfields was a daily chore for my wife, Carmen, during her childhood. When she was 13, riding in the family work truck and gazing at the crops, it seemed like another summer’s day as her mind shifted toward the upcoming months and the necessary…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Neighbors, September 2022

  Asia, Asian Food, Assemblies of God, At-risk Children, Attention on the next generation of missionaries, Bangkok, Becoming a missionary, Calling, Cambodia, Cambodia Bible Institute, Carmen Lovelace, College, Crops, Discouragement as a missionary, Divine Plan, Encounter, Evangel University, Faith, Geography Class, Harvest, Intercultural Studies program, Jesus, Josh Lovelace, Kansas, Leaning on the Lord through grief, Lord, Lord provides, Miscarriage, Missionaries, Next steps after graduation, Philippines, Phnom Penh, Plans, Reading about the lost, Send someone else, Serve according to the calling, Short-term trip, Siem Reap, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Stories, Students, Taking the Gospel to unreached people groups, Thailand, Unreached People Groups, What does faith in Christ look like, What to talk about on first date, Wheatfields

• Lessons & Plans

  

  “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,’” (Jeremiah 29:11). Ever since I can remember, I knew the plan the Lord had for me. He had clearly revealed to me I was called to…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, September 2022, Storytellers

  3rd grade, 417, 417 Magazine, achiever, achievment, Anxiety, Central Bank of the Ozarks, children, Church, Council, counciling, Counseling, discovery of self, Educator, Educator of the Year, Frustration, healing, Identity, Jeffries Elementary, Jermiah 29:11, Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas City Chief's, Kansas City Chiefs, Kids MInistry, Lord, Lord's plan, Mathematics, ministry, Missouri, mycounselor.online, Perfectionism, Plan, Rookie, Sadness, school, self-discovery, sharing, Springfield, Springfield Public Schools, State of Missouri, struggle, Student, surrender, surrender at 20, surrender control, surrender to god, teach, Teacher, Truth & Counsel

• Repurposed

  

  Isaiah 55:11 promises God’s Word does not go out without a purposeful return in all He means to accomplish. I have witnessed this spiritual principle many times. All around, we have opportunities in how we carry His Word and how we listen to it ourselves. words + photographs MELISSA SWEARENGIN I once heard a funny…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Faith, September 2022

  2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Author, Bethel Worship, Bethel worship songs, Bible Study Fellowship, Blessed are the Feet, Branson, Clay Pot, Dante Bowe, Dante Bowe songs, Dog, Gideon, Gideon bible, Gideon meaning, God, Hannah McClure, Hannah McClure songs, Isaiah 55:11, Judges 6, Letters of Hope, listen to god, Lord, Missouri, Scripture, Springfield, Voices in the Valley, Weathered, who to listen to

• Leap of Faith

  

  I currently have a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree as a family nurse practitioner. I work as fulltime faculty for Herzing University in the online family nurse practitioner program. words + photographs AMBER ENNIS Looking back over my life, I can see God’s hand guiding me to where I am today, but I never would…

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  August 4, 2022

  August 2022, Lead Outta Love

  aggressive, Army, associates, bachelor, Bible, Breast Cancer, degree, diagnosed, Doctor, Finding Nemo, four-year program, God, god guide my path, graduated, Grief, heart, Herzing University, herzing university jobs, husband, instructor, Italy, Kansas University, Lord, microbiology, minor, Missouri, Mom, Nurse, nurse practitoner, nurse practitoner program, Nursing, Nursing School, oncology, online program, practice, Praying, responsibility, science, semester, special needs children, treatments

• My Life, Used

  

  Years of putting my faith into money, men, alcohol, drugs, the occult. My life was a disaster. But I can testify that’s when God can show up, and shine His light. words + photographs JODEE DORROUGH After many years, everything I learned, desired, strived for, everything I had sown in the darkness, the life I…

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  August 4, 2022

  2022, August 2022, Storytellers

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