Perseverance is recognized as a beneficial trait that we should all attain. Society celebrates it in sports, business, entertainment and in life. While determination or grit is universally accepted as a good thing, do we know how it is developed? Why does it seem to be absent in some people? Why does it operate in

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Billions in unclaimed cash! Sounds like a late night infomercial and it probably is. Despite the “to good to be true” nature of that statement, it is a fact. Every state has a website in which you can search a database to see if your long lost uncle left you a multi-million dollar inheritance. You

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When I was five years old my family moved from Missouri to the Rowan family farm in West Virginia. My Granny and Grandpa Rowan built a small home just up the hill from the farmhouse that we would now be living in. Over the many years of living at the “big” house they had cultivated

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The length of a dream can be as short as a few seconds or up to as long as 20-30 minutes. A lot can be said during that relatively short amount of time especially when it is the words of God that we are receiving. Instant revelation is nice, but that is often not the

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Developing your dream essentially means developing yourself. God has entrusted you with this dream. While you may not know every detail of how it will come to pass, the dream itself does not really need to be worked on. Once you awakened to the dream, the real work will be done inside of you. You

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Once there was a confident young man who had dreams that were filled with the promise of a bright future. He was so moved by these dreams that he had to share them with others. The boy went to those closest to him, his family, and shared the exciting things that were in his heart.

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Not being able to remember a dream is a fairly common occurrence for many people. In fact, before I started paying attention to dreams I rarely, if ever, actually remembered my dreams. There’s your first tip: what you make room for you experience more of.  Set it in your mind that you want to remember

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Before an idea is birthed into reality, most people go about life without knowing what they are missing. In 1900 moving pictures and sound were not on the radar of 99% of the earth’s population. Neither was the radar. So if this was written in that time frame I would say “not on the horizon.”

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In the early 1990s as a young high school student I thought I was going to pursue a career in computer science. Understand that there was no Google for me to find out more about this subject as the Internet was in it’s infancy. Also, I had never actually had any experience with computer science

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A few years ago I was visiting my parent’s sheep farm with my family. While we standing on the back deck of the house, I attempted to point out the sheep grazing in field to my son Josiah. “Do you see them?” “No.” “They’re the little white dots on the green grass. You don’t see

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(This was the letter I sent to friends and family when I was raising funds to take a trip to Israel. Yesterday 4/5/20, was my 43rd birthday and God showed me some additional things that relate to this trip and time in my life. The post has been set to the original date of writing

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I was born April 5, 1977. That means this year, 2017, I turned 40 years old. For some that signifies the beginning of the end … over the hill, middle age, mid-life crisis, etc. Generally speaking, society portrays it as a negative experience. But I have been filled with expectancy and excitement. Since the beginning of

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