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The Painful Road to Greater Results - #6024
Before the fruit, comes the pruning. I imagine if a vine could talk, he'd say to the pruner, "You're killing me, man!" And the gardener would say, "I know it hurts, but I'm actually removing things you don't really need so you can explode with greater fruit." That may be exactly what's happening in your life right now. It doesn't feel good, but it is good. God is lovingly removing things you think you need.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-painful-road...
Flying High, Falling Flat - #5997
Every time God does something good in your life, the devil is there with some cheap shot he wants to use to rob you of the joy of what God has done. Don't fall for it. It's like you've just won the Super Bowl, you're walking off the field, and your defeated opponent says, "I'll make you pay for this." And he gives you a bloody nose. Yes, he hurt you a little, but he can't change the outcome. You still won, and nothing he can do can change the victory.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/flying-high-fall...
When You've Fallen and You Can't Get Up - #5992
At the end, it's your enemy who's covered with shame because you have shaken off his shackles of shame, and you've realized you can't change you but the Lord can. You have refused to stay down. You're defiantly determining to make the devil pay for what he deceived you into doing. You're going to do some serious damage to the kingdom of the one who had tried to do some serious damage to you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-you-ve-fallen-and-you-can-t-...
Strange Words For a New Mom - #5991
So you've had your Christmases, you've celebrated Jesus' coming. Have you ever had your Good Friday where you stand at the foot of that cross and say the two words that are the difference between heaven and hell, "For me. Jesus, what You did here was for me. And I'm giving me to You." That is the only way you can receive the gift of eternal life that He died to give you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/strange-words-fo...
Hope in Five Words - #5984
When Jesus starts moving, He's on a rescue mission. In fact, the name God told Mary and Joseph to give Him that first Christmas, Jesus, literally means "Jehovah rescues." Every time we say "Jesus," we're saying why He came - to rescue.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/hope-in-five-wor...
The Only Impression That Matters - #5982
There's something very wrong if you're using Jesus to make a name for yourself or to impress other people with you. You are actually hijacking His glory. And there's something wrong if you're not telling people about Jesus because of something about you. It's not who's doing the telling that's the issue; it's who you're telling about - the One who offers the greatest love in the world.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-only-impression-that-matters-...
No Meaningless Games - #5975
Something very exciting, very enlarging happens to your life when you realize that what you do every day does not have to be "everyday stuff." It's relationships and opportunities to point someone where you are to life in Christ. So nothing you do is meaningless, not when you do it to help someone who's spiritually dying.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/no-meaningless-games-5975
How to Banish the Darkness - #5949
When it's the darkest, when it's the hardest to praise Him, that is when you need to praise Him the most, because praise is that blinding light from heaven that dispels the darkness and banishes your enemy.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/how-to-banish-th...
Beauty From Brokenness - #5948
They can see through your wounds the amazing beauty of a joy and a hope that only a Savior like Jesus can give. If you'll turn away from your despair, and maybe bitterness, anger, and self-pity, and give your brokenness to Him, He can do that miracle for you. The songwriter was right when he said, "All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife. But He made something beautiful of my life."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/beauty-from-brok...
One "Unloseable" Hope - #5944
That unloseable relationship with God comes only one way, because we're away from the God we need so much; away by our choice, not His. We've repeatedly chosen our way instead of His way and we've built an eternal wall between us and God. A wall that God Himself acted to tear down by sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for all our sins when He died on the cross.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/one-unloseable-h...