Posts by Doug Mitts
Struggle and Pressing On
“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:14 NAS95) I cannot put into words what I experience right now in my life with God. Part of it touches prayer. Part of it touches obedience. Most of it touches love but being rooted and…
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GIVE LIFE!
“But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” (Romans 8:11 NAS95) God has brought this verse to mind repeatedly in recent days. I think Easter…
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Friendship with God
“but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15 NAS95) I’ve spent the last 15 years taking a daily, slow, repeated, awarenessful walk through the Gospels. I say awarenessful (odd word, right?) because my desire focused on paying attention to…
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Great and Foremost
And He said to him, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.” This is the great and foremost commandment.” (Matthew 22:37-38 NAS95) My love muscle needs a lot of exercise. I must work at it more than I would like. In that…
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A Disciple
If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. (Luke 14:26 NAS95) I experienced the words of this verse as harsh and demanding. Yes, I placed my confidence in Jesus many moons ago.…
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Growth in What?
When I entered the Kingdom at Jesus’ invitation to trust Him, His way of life, and His sacrificial self-giving through crucifixion on my (our) behalf, I thought simply in terms of morality and behavior. Externals. God has revolutionized this into something that I would never have imagined in my early years of walking with Jesus.…
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Blossoming
“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5 NAS95) I have enjoyed a disciplined life with God. I don’t say spiritual disciplines because God has led me to understand He permeates everything…
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Empowered Speech
by Doug Mitts Key Verse: “Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.” – Colossians 4:6, NAS95 I wish I could do this better than I do now. I have noticed, though, the Spirit rearranging my words as I speak…
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Seeing the Unseen
by Doug Mitts Key Verse: I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.…In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. – John 14:18, 20, NAS95 Jesus speaks truth, but often those truths come from outside my normal frame of…
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A Life of Prayer
by Doug Mitts Key Verse: “It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”” – Luke 11:1 NAS95 When it comes to prayer, I need help. Jesus, on the other hand,…
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