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What I Learned From Starting Over in March
For years, January was strong and March was where I quietly gave up. Here is what finally broke that pattern for me, and what I think God was actually teaching me the whole time.
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Find your way back to a steady walk with God
You have started before. Maybe more than once. If it fell apart by March, that was not a sign that you are not built for this. Come read one devotional today, take one small step, and let tomorrow take care of itself.
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Today’s devotional
Isaac Planted in the Year of Famine
July 21 · Genesis 26:12 (NIV)
Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. If you have felt like this season is too dry to plant anything, I want to sit with you in that for a minute before we go further.
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Show up as you are
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Read one devotional
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03
Take one small step
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