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Start Your Engine

By Linda Tancs

If you’re familiar with professional auto racing, then you know that popular refrain, “Drivers, start your engines.” If you’re a driver on that track, then you know you better be ready when the call comes. It’s a lot like that for all of us, actually, professional driver or not. Only God is the announcer (John 15:16). And you don’t have to worry about losing the race. When you follow His call, you’re always a winner (Philippians 3:14).

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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Do You Think You Can?

By Linda Tancs

The signature line in the classic story The Little Engine That Could is “I think I can.” Thinking is good, but knowing is better. Someone once said that miracles come in cans. Dreams do, too. Believe that you can do all things through Christ Who strengthens you (Philippians 4:13).

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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Swallowed Up

By Linda Tancs

Do you sometimes feel like life has swallowed you up? Are you burdened by parenting, work, elder care, family disputes? Imagine how Jonah felt in the belly of the whale (Book of Jonah), all swallowed up with no place to go. The good thing is that he could do nothing but rest during that period. Sometimes, rest is exactly what you need to refresh your perspective. Thankfully, we don’t need a whale’s belly for that; we can enter into God’s rest (Hebrews 4:10).

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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Pardon Our Appearance

By Linda Tancs

When a building is under renovation, a sign usually reads, “pardon our appearance.” That’s basically the Spirit’s attitude toward those in whom He dwells. He pardons our appearance as He undergoes the work of renovation in our lives. He knows we’re not perfect. Allow Him to do His work (Philippians 2:13).

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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You Gotta Call Somebody

By Linda Tancs

Do you rely on others to do what you could do yourself? Chipped paint on a frame. Gotta call somebody. Bad cable wiring on the television. Gotta call somebody. Low air pressure on the tires. Gotta call somebody. Somebody is very busy, indeed. How much money could you save if you performed simple fixes yourself? As someone once said, it’s never crowded along the extra mile (Matthew 5:41). Enjoy the walk.

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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To Tell the Truth

By Linda Tancs

Author Flannery O’Connor once said, “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” So it is with biblical Truth. Its precepts are the same whether viewed through the prism of yesterday, today or forever (John 17:17). Some lessons may be hard, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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The Soundtrack of Your Life

By Linda Tancs

We’re exhorted to give thanks in all circumstances (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). That command doesn’t exclude the annoying things in life, like slow traffic or a slow drain! The next time an irritating circumstance challenges your ability to be thankful and encourages complaint, imagine all of those complaints forming the soundtrack of your life for eternity. Would you want to spend forever listening to a recording of every complaint you made over the trifling matters of life? Probably not!

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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The Right Kind of Never

By Linda Tancs

One of the enemy’s favorite words is “never.” You’ll never get that job. You’ll never be well. You’ll never have any friends. You’ll never win. There’s a better kind of never; it’s God’s version. You will never go hungry nor will you thirst (John 6:35). You will never be left nor forsaken (Hebrews 13:5). You will never die (John 11:25-26). You will never be put to shame (Romans 10:11). Follow God’s kind of never, the right kind.

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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The End From the Beginning

By Linda Tancs

God knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). In the psalms, we’re reminded that every day of ours is recorded in His book even before we were born (Psalms 139:16). That means that God has experienced each of our days before they even get to us! Nothing is a surprise to Him. Ponder that the next time you’re tempted to feel that God is absent from your life.

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Follow us on Twitter @moveonfaith and join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.

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A Place You Do Not Know

By Linda Tancs

God commanded Abram (Abraham) to leave his familiar surroundings and go to a place he did not know (Genesis 12:1-2). Imagine leaving everything you know (and have) behind and going to an unfamiliar place, like many immigrants do. Other transfers aren’t necessarily that dramatic but nevertheless significant—things like a new job, a new house, a new relationship and even the advent of a new year. None of us knows what a new year will bring, but may you experience great blessings in whatever place you have yet to know.

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As part of FOOT FORWARD MINISTRIES (a teaching and speaking ministry), Go Forward in Faith represents faith-based meditations for personal and professional growth. Follow us on Twitter @moveonfaith and join the Facebook group @goforwardinfaith.