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  • When He is Near

    Posted August 18, 2016 by Dion Todd

    19 Comments 20 Likes 10,042 Views

    Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will free Read More...

  • Wasting Away

    Posted August 17, 2016 by Dion Todd

    19 Comments 21 Likes 10,115 Views

    When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my Read More...

  • The Outcasts

    Posted August 16, 2016 by Dion Todd

    27 Comments 16 Likes 10,075 Views

    Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth. Zephaniah 3:17'19 ESVMy brother and I we Read More...

  • Fasting - A Lost Art of The Church

    Posted August 15, 2016 by Dion Todd

    12 Comments 6 Likes 5,450 Views

    Fasting - A Lost Art of The Church   Fasting - A Lost Art of The Church from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo. This is the recording from Refreshing Hope - Live, 08.15.2016. Here are the notes: Do you want se Read More...

  • Skeletons in The Closet

    Posted August 15, 2016 by Dion Todd

    19 Comments 18 Likes 10,518 Views

    The man said, 'They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.' ' Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against h Read More...

  • Lay It Down

    Posted August 14, 2016 by Dion Todd

    20 Comments 20 Likes 11,503 Views

    Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the Read More...

  • The Repetition Competition

    Posted August 13, 2016 by Dion Todd

    28 Comments 15 Likes 9,782 Views

    For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart. Psalms 51:16 WEBWhe Read More...

  • The Grocery Buggy

    Posted August 12, 2016 by Dion Todd

    21 Comments 18 Likes 10,127 Views

    Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31 NIVAfter coming out of the grocery store, I found that I had parked way out in the parking lot and did not really feel like taking the buggy all the way back to th Read More...

  • Teach a Man to Fish

    Posted August 11, 2016 by Dion Todd

    23 Comments 14 Likes 10,013 Views

    Jesus said to them, 'Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.' Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. Mark 1:17-18 WEBWhile growing up, I spent a lot of time on the rivers near my home in Sou Read More...

  • Fly Like an Eagle

    Posted August 10, 2016 by Dion Todd

    53 Comments 24 Likes 11,580 Views

    As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers. Deuteronomy 32:11 WEBWhen an eagle has its young, it lines the inside of its nest Read More...

  • When The Praise Goes Up

    Posted August 9, 2016 by Dion Todd

    10 Comments 5 Likes 2,956 Views

    When the praise goes up, the Glory comes down. When The Praise Goes Up from Refreshing Hope Ministries on Vimeo.   This is a recording of the Refreshing Hope - Live meeting on 08.07.2016. Here are the notes: Read More...

  • Signs That Make You Wonder

    Posted August 9, 2016 by Dion Todd

    15 Comments 16 Likes 10,634 Views

    While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will. Heb. 2:4 ESVOnce while in a band, I was witnessing to several people who were outsi Read More...

  • The Master Carpenter

    Posted August 8, 2016 by Dion Todd

    21 Comments 21 Likes 10,483 Views

    See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! Psalms 133:1 WEBWood, I grew up around it. Often I was carrying it, sawing it, nailing it or pulling the splinters from my hands. My dad was a c Read More...

  • An Open Door

    Posted August 7, 2016 by Dion Todd

    29 Comments 18 Likes 11,578 Views

    Let's therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 WEBAccess to God was very limited before Jesus came. There was a thick c Read More...

  • The Redeemer

    Posted August 6, 2016 by Dion Todd

    19 Comments 18 Likes 11,462 Views

    Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: 'I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself; Isaiah 44:24 WEBIn the Bible when someone was Read More...

  • Scary Movies

    Posted August 5, 2016 by Dion Todd

    18 Comments 20 Likes 10,493 Views

    For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 2 Timmothy 1:6 WEBHav Read More...

  • Shout To The Lord

    Posted August 4, 2016 by Dion Todd

    29 Comments 23 Likes 10,695 Views

    Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. Psalms 96: Read More...

  • In God I Trust

    Posted August 3, 2016 by Dion Todd

    28 Comments 23 Likes 11,508 Views

    When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? Psalms 56:3 WEBTired and needing a rest, David had been on the run from Saul Read More...

  • A Bridge Over Troubled Water

    Posted August 2, 2016 by Dion Todd

    25 Comments 23 Likes 10,047 Views

    He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. Prov. 18:22 ESVOne morning I was praying in my room, my mind aimlessly drifting from one thing to another. I saw a picture of my wife and I walking Read More...

  • Dirty Laundry

    Posted August 1, 2016 by Dion Todd

    35 Comments 18 Likes 10,874 Views

    Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which tod Read More...