Tag Archives: spiritual growth

No Room for Nostalgia

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Steve Simms

There’s no room for nostalgia when every day is thrilling, healing, and joy revealing. How can you live every day like that? Recognize Christ in You (Jesus Himself) You can know many thingsThat Jesus said and didBut knowing about themIsn’t … Continue reading →

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Food Can’t Bring Inner Peace

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Steve Simms

You can’t eat your way to inner peace. The only way to truly find it is to step out from behind all your disguises. God sees through all my disguises. He knows who I really am. Yet He loves me … Continue reading →

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Less Sermon-Hearing / More of God’s Presence

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Steve Simms

Sermon-hearing is a very poor substitute for God’s presence. No one can preach you into inner peace. It only comes from surrendering to God’s presence. Accept no substitute for the actual presence of the living God. Peace is the fruit … Continue reading →

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I Want the Hope That Empowers Me to Wait with Joy

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Steve Simms

I want the hope that empowers me to wait with joyful anticipation! I want to be a cheerful waiter, not a grumpy one. To continually focus on and surrender to the presence of Jesus is to wait well! In the … Continue reading →

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Be An ICU (Intensive Care Unit)

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Steve Simms

When I see you and all people with tenderness and compassion my heart becomes an intensive care unit. (ICU) Dare to care intensively! See people with your heart not just with your eyes. Let God the Holy Spirit continually tenderize … Continue reading →

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The Time of My Life Is To Enjoy Jesus and His Inner Rivers

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Steve Simms

The fear of losing respectability keeps Christians focused on burying and embalming the dead Jesus (John 19:38-41) instead of on surrendering to and radically obeying the inner rivers of the Jesus who lives within them. (Colossians 1:27) Let me tell … Continue reading →

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Lukewarm Instincts Aren’t Cool

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Steve Simms

I trust my best and most noble instincts. I try to keep them stirred up so that they become and stay red-hot within me. I reject and resist my worst instincts and do my best to freeze them out of … Continue reading →

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Being Pulled in Opposite Directions

Posted on October 26, 2025 by Steve Simms

Life is a battle. It frequently pulls us in opposite directions. We live in an inner tug of war between right and wrong. Conscience pulls one way; temptation another. People need to beware! (Luke 12:1) It’s easy to think you … Continue reading →

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“Absorborize!”

Posted on September 20, 2025 by Steve Simms

The best way to experience and enjoy music, beauty, food, and the other good things in life is to absorborize them. The analytical approach pays attention to detail but often misses the joy of a heart that has been deeply … Continue reading →

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The Best Food and Wine Are Free

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Steve Simms

The best food and wine are free. “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.” (Isaiah 55:1) “Oh, … Continue reading →

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