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‘This is Us’ Actress Chrissy Metz Reveals ‘Prayer’ & ‘Relationship With God’ Sustained Her

by Christel Berns March 1, 2023

“This is Us” actress Chrissy Metz reveals that prayer and her relationship with God sustainer her through difficult times since she was a child.

Prayer & Relationship With God Sustains Chrissy Metz

In an interview with The Christian Post, Chrissy Metz shared how prayer and her relationship with God strengthened her through difficult times growing up. Apparently, she learned to pray and talk to God as a child when her grandmother took her to church.

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“I had a pretty interesting relationship with my stepfather that was very difficult,” she recalled. “And I would pray all the time about that and to understand him. But also go, ‘Why do I have to be in this situation?'”

The young Chrissy had questions, and prayers immensely helped her sustain in life. Furthermore, she revealed that her conversations with God guided her as an actress. She starred on the hit NBC show “This is Us,” which ended last May 2022, and in the Christian movie “Breakthrough” in 2019.

Coming to Los Angeles

Chrissy also shared that she was 20 years old when she arrived in Los Angeles alone to pursue her dreams. And God made it possible for her to navigate well in an uncertain place.

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“There was no way in the world that I was going to be able to navigate Los Angeles without a foundation,” she said. “Without prayer, and without God, my Higher Power helping me in navigating it because it is really scary and it is uncertain.”

The actress added, “I would constantly say, ‘Please, God help me; you know better than I do. Thy will and not mine be done. Just give me the best next right action; what do I need to do for You and not for me?'”

The 42-year-old further shared that she wanted to appear on “the most successful television show.” But now her desire had changed. She wanted “to be on a show that touches people’s hearts and minds.”

“So prayer has been a constant for as long as I can remember,” she remarked.

Reference | The Christian Post

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March 1, 2023 0 comment

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Giving Your Everything To God

by Lauren Koch July 13, 2022

written by Lauren Koch

Giving your everything to God may feel abstract in thought. What does it actually mean? Maybe you have heard the phrase while listening to a worship set or in a sermon or devotional. Ask yourself: are there any parts of my life that I want to avoid giving God access to?

God knows everything about you…

and He is well pleased. There are no mistakes, thoughts, or decisions beyond His knowledge of you. There is also nothing too big for His mercy to cover. Because you are completely known by God, He desires that you come to Him in all aspects of your life. With your heart, your troubles, concerns, joy, and celebrations. Giving your everything to God is really giving yourself in relationship with Him. If you’re married, consider you and your spouse’s connection. They know you intimately, yet it takes effort on your end to maintain your relationship with one another.

Giving your everything starts with the unseen

It is in the daily, present moments of intentional connection that your relationship is strengthened. It is where your satisfaction in and with one another flourishes. This is God’s design for relationships, including with Him. Involving God in every part of your life matters in the unseen moments together. When you choose to praise Him for who He is, when you come to Him, casting your worries and cares, and when you obey His direction for your life. The decisions that only you and the Lord could know about, when you bring Him close, strengthen your relationship. Take a moment to reflect today: are there any elements of my life that I do not regularly seek God’s guidance in? Ask the Holy Spirit to help you surrender all that you are.

1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxieties on Him, for He cares for you”

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Actress Danica McKellar Reveals Newfound Faith In Jesus Christ After Candace Bure Gave Her A Bible

by Rhoda Gayle May 11, 2022

written by Rhoda Gayle

Actress Danica McKellar revealed her newfound faith in Jesus Christ. It happened after her friend, Candace Cameron Bure, gifted her a Holy Bible.

Danica McKellar

Danica has been known for her role in the television series “The Wonder Years” as Winnie Cooper. She had been skeptical and had biases against Christianity despite having a Christian father. As a child, she would constantly attend church services but she hasn’t built a relationship with God.

“In my life, starting in childhood, I had been made aware of all the hypocrisy in the various religions of Christianity, it being used for evil, power, and control throughout history, and that had definitely biased me,” she said.

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Candace Cameron Bure

Today, in an Instagram post, she revealed that she’s finally started a relationship with Jesus Christ. It all started after her friend Candace Cameron Bure, an outspoken Christian actress, gave her a Bible as a gift.

“It all started one evening when I was struggling with the idea of forgiveness and DM’d my good friend @candacecbure about a passage from the Bible she had [wrote] on her insta-stories, and then she sent me a Bible and invited me to church,” she recalled.

Relationship with God

Now, at the age of 47, she finally experienced the love and joy that comes from an intimate relationship with God. Her misconceptions and questions about the Holy Spirit and Christianity are being answered as she reads more of the Bible.

“I have been going to church and finding a lot of amazing love and peace and purpose, and it’s blowing my mind,” she noted. “I always had this other preconceived notion of what that was when people talked about Jesus and the Lord, I just didn’t quite get it, I feel a lot of joy in my heart and I always like to share that when I can with you guys.”

“Omnipresent love is there for you whenever you want it, whenever you’re ready.”

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HGTV Host Page Turner Opens Up About Finding Relationship With God

by Christel Berns April 13, 2022

written by Christel Berns

HGTV host Page Turner opens up about her journey in finding Jesus and having a relationship with God, which she considers the most important in her life.

HGTV Host Page Turner

Page Turner moved from Los Angeles to Nashville twenty years ago with her three daughters. Then in 2018, she landed an opportunity on the show “Flip or Flop Nashville,” where she was a co-host and gained popularity. And today, the host is debuting her solo “Fix My Flip,” a show she created to help struggling house-flippers in her hometown in California.

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In an interview with Faithwire, the HGTV host opened up about how Jesus came into her life.

Page didn’t grow up in a Christian home. In fact, her family was agnostic. Her mom merely believed in “a higher power” and tried Hinduism yet never found the one true God.

Moreover, Page’s mom sent her to an all-girls Catholic high school to be disciplined. That’s when she first learned about God, the Bible, and Jesus. However, religion kept her from having an authentic relationship with God.

“It took me many years to find that relationship with the Lord outside of religion and the confines of religion,” the TV personality said. “Which I sort of got jarred in and stuck in.”

Relationship With God

Page admits it took her many years to finally understand the heart of God deeper because she didn’t grow up in a Christian home. But today, she attests her relationship with Jesus is “growing and getting stronger.”

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Further, the HGTV host shared how her show teaches her many things about who God is. Page explained how some people decline her help—money, and expertise.

“You know, you can call on God for help, He sends help. And then that pride and ego comes in,” she said. “And it’s like, ‘I just gave you what to do and you’re not gonna believe me. Either by doubt or fear or whatever it is that is keeping you from accepting the help?'”

With that said, Page is encouraging believers to seek God first and be humble before Him in prayer.

“That’s when He hears our call and our cries,” the host said. “And it’s like, ‘OK, when are you going to get tired of going through what you’re going through?’ That’s the ultimate humility, you know, saying, ‘OK, I’m done with this because it’s not working my way.'”

As a result of such realization, Page began to spend more time in prayer every day. She calls it an “all-day conversation that I have externally and internally with God.”

“Every day, I need to have some form of communication with God,” she stressed. “Especially when I feel like, ‘OK, I’m off track a little bit. It’s real easy to praise God when everything is going good, but what I’ve learned is if you praise Him every day while everything is going good and you seek Him every day while everything is going good, when that challenging time comes, you won’t feel so disconnected from Him — because He’s never disconnected from us.”

“You have to keep that connection daily so that, when dips happen, it’s like, ‘OK, let me just go talk to God. I’ll be right back.'”

'It Took Me Many Years': HGTV Host Page Turner Found Jesus After Growing Up in Agnostic Home

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Reference | Faithwire

April 13, 2022 0 comment

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God Is Talking, But Are You Listening?

by Navigator Jo April 6, 2022

written by Navigator Jo

In our lives with Jesus, there comes a point where we need to start spending more time hearing the Holy Spirit. It’s best to do both. Position yourself to sense Holy Spirit within you. He is the one who can bring revelation and perception to what you know and have read and, more importantly, will lead you into the experience and reality of those things. God is yearning that all of his children might learn to recognize His voice. It’s not just for those with title, status, training, influence, anointing and leadership qualities – it is for everyone! Are you listening?

“Leaders please stop creating and facilitating people becoming dependent on you and encourage and empower them to go to God for themselves.”

Focus On Your Faith

It’s distracting trying to work out if other people are “hearing” from God. It’s not about them it’s about you!
Are you facilitating God communicating with you? Do you trust yourself to ‘listen’? Do you believe that you are led by Holy Spirit (who resides in your spirit)? Being guided by God requires listening to Holy Spirit within you. Don’t just fall back on your head knowledge; pay attention, with your spiritual senses, to what the Lord is revealing and doing inside you.

Verses About Holy Spirit

“My own sheep will hear my voice and I know each one, and they will follow me.” (John 10: 27)

“The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of Holy Spirit.” (Romans 8: 14)

“Each believer is given continuous revelation by Holy Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12: 7)

“As you yield freely and fully to the dynamic life and power of Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life.” (Galatians 5: 16)

Final Words: Are You Listening?

Simply speak what Holy Spirit gives you at that very moment. Realize that it’s not you speaking but Holy Spirit repeatedly speaking through you. Now, united with Jesus, we have equal and direct access in the realm of the Holy Spirit to come to the Father. God unveils profound realities to us by the Spirit. Yes, He has revealed to us His innermost heart and deepest mysteries through Holy Spirit who constantly explores all things.

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April 6, 2022 0 comment

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Why Having A Relationship With God Is Important

by Christel Berns May 29, 2021

written by Christel Berns

People value relationships a lot, whether it be a lover, friends, or family. But nothing can replace your relationship with God. It’s the relationship often neglected by some, but every person needs to cultivate it.

In GOD TV’s the New Believers Series, Ben and Jodie Hughes of Pour it Out Ministries shares the powerful truth of the importance of having a relationship with God. They shared practical keys that are helpful to people seeking God.

Having A Relationship With God

First is, “We are created to have a relationship with God.”

Ben highlighted the book of Genesis, where God walked with Adam and Eve and just had a relationship with them.

“We were created to have that relationship as well,” he said. Then Ben pointed that one of the very important keys to building a relationship with God is reading the Bible.

“The Bible is not like any other book. It’s the Word of God. It’s God-breathed. And as we read it, God will speak to us, not just from what’s on the page,” he stressed. Then he urged viewers to start reading the Bible in the book of John.

Meanwhile, Jodie added about the power prayer can bring in one’s life.

“Let’s overcomplicate it. Prayer is a conversation with the very real God,” she said. “God is a personal God. He talks, He loves you. He knows you. And as you make time for Him and talk to Him, you are going to know more and more about Him.”

Just like how we build a relationship with people, that is how we know God more and more as well.

Further, Ben pointed out that being in a relationship with Him is not a religious exercise. It’s all about simply being real to God.

Another way to building a relationship with Him is through worship, singing praises to Him.

“When we begin to worship Him, He shows up. His tangible Presence shows up,” Ben remarked.

Watch the entire message, and grow deeper in your relationship with our Father!

The Importance of Relationship with God with Ben and Jodie Hughes

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May 29, 2021 0 comment

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Relationship With God, The Fruit Of Your Life!

by Alexxa Lowery March 11, 2021

written by Alexxa Lowery

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)

Relationship with God is personal.

As a new Christian, it was challenging figuring out how to talk to God. Though, I knew of Jesus and I gave my life to Him, I still felt as if I didn’t know Him. I thought relationship with Jesus had to look a certain way and it was preventing me from making it my own.

Relationship With God

Obviously, as you grow in faith and in relationship with God, you realize who your favorite leaders are and go to prophets of today are. You can’t help but admire God’s voice in their life and the fruit of their ministries. The pressure of yearning for your life to look something similar seems impossible and unattainable. Truth is, I didn’t realize that I wasn’t yearning to bear the fruit of their life. I was yearning for relationship with God so that I could bear the fruit of my own life.

YOUR Relationship

Furthermore, they always say, “Be careful who’s mantle you ask for. You have no idea what they had to go through to get there.” This is true! Additionally, if you’re going to go through trials, let it be YOUR trials with God. If you’re going to walk through difficult times, let it be YOUR difficult times with God. If you’re going to see your dreams come true, let it be YOUR dreams from and with God. There’s something really special about your own personal relationship with Jesus. Again, you get to make it your own.

Get Personal

For example, I love Heidi Baker. But, my relationship with God has to be my relationship with God. Though, I admire her as a leader and her relationship with God, I have different dreams. I have different experiences. People have different callings. We have different personalities. I have different gifts. You have a different sense of humor. You have a different face. Different hair. Do you see what I’m getting at? Equally important, don’t get caught up in the depth of admiration. Not to mention, you are perfectly you and God yearns to know that person. He wants to use you as you are, with growth along the way of course.

One Goal, Same Goal

In conclusion, relationship with Jesus is personal. God has plans for you. It’s okay if your fruit looks different. Rest in the assurance that there is all something we can have in common and it’s simply Jesus. Sitting at His feet one day is the ultimate goal.

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March 11, 2021 0 comment

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Are You In Relationship With God?

by Alexxa Lowery January 6, 2021

written by Alexxa Lowery

As humans, we long for connection. We long to be loved and valued for who we are. Relationship is the core of our foundation in Christ. It’s how we’re able to identify ourselves not only for our own benefit but as well as for the people around us. Relationship with God is how we’re able to truly live relationally with people. We love because He first loved us. The key to this concept is first knowing how He loves us, so we’re able to love others the same.

Freedom

Someone once told me that relationship with God has a lot of freedom but had no idea how to comprehend it. Growing up, I perceived God through a religious lens that prevented me from truly knowing Him. I was almost afraid of knowing Him because of previously conceived ideas I had assumed about Him. But, those ideas didn’t seem to be true at all. Trust me, seeking God for who He really is instead of believing what people say is so much easier and will help you long term.

I started to know him for myself. I started making my own opinions based on my own personal encounters with Him. He isn’t scary at all. He’s all-loving, caring, and compassionate. I learned that He is a God of second chances, and even third and fourth chances to say the least. Through relationship with God, I learned that He values connection just as much as we do.

Presence

It takes two to have a relationship. God and you. Two people equally committed to knowing each other, and fulfilling each other’s needs. I’ll leave you with something that changed how I saw relationship with God completely. “What kind of relationship would it be if only one person got what they wanted?” God cares about our needs just as much as we care for His. The greatest thing is both can be fulfilled just by showing up! To know God is to know His heart. To know His heart is to know how to treat His sons and daughters. Relationship with God is the key to overflow around us.

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Winks From God

by Pietze Duffield December 30, 2020

written by Pietze Duffield

⁣I get these little winks from God, Like the “hey, I see you, I got you girl!”
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⁣I talked last week about the purse I found that was a little wink.⁣
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⁣Well this week we escaped to the mountains and I sat by this stream outside our cabin spending time with God.⁣
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⁣I was meditating on Psalm 42: 1-2⁣
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⁣As a deer pants for flowing streams,⁣
⁣ so pants my soul for you, O God.⁣
⁣My soul thirsts for God,⁣
⁣ for the living God.⁣
⁣When shall I come and appear before God?⁣
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⁣When all of a sudden maybe 10 feet next to me a friend shows up. Swipe left to see ☝????. ⁣
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⁣I could feel Gods presence so strong, it brought tears to my eyes. ⁣
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⁣I sat there watching as the deer drank from and then lay beside this peaceful stream! ⁣
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⁣What a wink from God! ⁣
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⁣He is the God who is easy to discover. ⁣
⁣Who brings us to the river of life. ⁣
⁣Satisfies our souls. ⁣
⁣And leads us besides peaceful streams. ⁣
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⁣Living life in God is the best! Seriously, He is the beauty of life. He is the Good thing in life! He is worthy of it all!

Pietze Duffield: Messy life, messy feed. I make things look pretty and talk about deep and funny things. Wife. Mom. Life consultant. Speaker. Follower of Jesus.

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December 30, 2020 0 comment

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Rush Limbaugh Focuses On ‘Personal Relationship With God’ Amidst Lung Cancer Diagnosis

by Christel Berns February 6, 2020

written by Christel Berns

American radio personality Rush Limbaugh revealed on Monday during his show that he was diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.” Also that he’s totally relying on his personal relationship with God during this hard time.

Grandpa Battling Cancer Wishes To Be Baptized Before He Dies

Rush disclosed that “two medical institutions” confirmed his lung cancer diagnosis on Jan 20. He also shared that it was on his birthday, Jan. 12, when he first experienced sudden shortness of breath. He knew then that there was something wrong with his health. But he assumed it was only asthma or possibly a heart problem.

“My heart’s in great shape, ticking away fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not that. It was a pulmonary problem involving malignancy,” he said. “So I’m gonna be gone the next couple days as we figure out the treatment course of action and have further testing done. But, as I said, I’m gonna be here as often as I can.”

The Deep Faith Of Rush Limbaugh

Moreover, the 69-year-old shed light of the importance of his deep faith in God in this moment of his life.

Rush Limbaugh Says He Has Advanced Lung Cancer, Will Miss Shows for Treatment

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“I’ve had so much support from family and friends during this that it’s just been tremendous. I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about. But I do, and I have been working that relationship tremendously,” Rush said, laughing. “Which I do regularly anyway, but I’ve been focused on it intensely for the past couple of weeks. I know there are many of you in this audience who have experienced this. Who are going through it yourselves at the same time.”

The Support Of His Audience

Rush considered keeping his condition private, however, he knew he couldn’t keep it secret for long since he would be missing for days. Besides, he said he considers his audience a part of his family.

“It is a family-type relationship to me, and I’ve mentioned to you that this program and this job is what has provided me the greatest satisfaction and happiness that I’ve ever experienced, more than I ever thought that I would experience,” the conservative radio host said. “[Over] the years, a lot of people have been very nice telling me how much this program has meant to them. But whatever that is, it pales in comparison to what you all have meant to me.”

Then he added that he has a “great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled.”

“We’re at full-speed ahead on this, and it’s just now a matter of implementing what we are gonna be told later this week,” Rush said. “So, I’ll be back here. I hope I’ll be back Thursday. If not, it will be as soon as I can – and know that every day I’m not here, I’ll be thinking about you and missing you.”

Let us join together in praying for Rush’s complete healing in the mighty Name of Jesus!

Source: Christian Headlines

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