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A Moment of Hope

David and Marilynn Chadwick with Jenn Houston

Begin your day with a "Moment of Hope." This podcast is a compliment to David and Marilynn"s weekday devotional - providing deeper insights and encouragement. Featuring Jenn Houston.

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04:25

How to Pray: Pray the Lord’s Prayer

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/23

by David Chadwick How do you pray? Jesus taught us principles in his Word and I want to share what I have learned from him with you. Keep a journal that reminds you of your history with God. Persist in prayer, even when it’s hard. Learn to wait and build your faith muscles. Today’s tip? Pray the Lord’s Prayer. This may sound simple, but Jesus gave us an outline in Matthew 6:6-12 for a reason. Because it works! He is the master teacher and he knows what we need to sustain us through this life. If he

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04:28

How to Pray: Learn to Wait

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/22

by David Chadwick How do we pray? So far we have learned about praying through journaling and about persistent prayer. I finished yesterday’s teaching on how to pray by saying this: I believe persistence allows your heart to keep believing as you learn to wait upon the Lord. What’s today’s tip? We learn to wait. Waiting. It’s not easy, but it strengthens the core of a person. It tests us. It challenges us. It strengthens us. Isaiah 40:31 actually says, “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew

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04:20

How to Pray: Persistence is Often a Reminder

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/21

by David Chadwick Prayer. It is such an important tool in our Christian walk. It’s a skill we must tend to and cultivate. Learn and develop. Jesus saw such high value in teaching people how to pray. In Matthew 6, he goes into great detail of when to pray, how to pray, principles of prayer and so forth. He even saw the wrong ways people could engage in prayer and warned people of the dangers of pride sneaking into your prayer life. So how do you pray? Yesterday, I taught you how to discipline

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04:37

How to Pray: Keep a Prayer Journal

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/20

by David Chadwick How to pray. It’s a topic Jesus cared deeply about. He knew that prayer was the only way to maintain communion with the Father and to remain dependent on him. Jesus also knew that prayer is how God chooses to involve his children in bringing heaven to earth. To see his kingdom come and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). This week, I want to help teach you how to pray. If it was important to Jesus, it must be important to us. I want to share specific tools

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05:06

My Ebenezer Box: Just Go!

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/17

by Marilynn Chadwick A small, worn bookmark in my box is another “Ebenezer Stone.” It tells the story of my very first mission trip to Africa. Yet another reminder of how we find joy when we step out in faith to answer God’s call. David and I had close friends who had been missionaries in Ethiopia, an African nation with a turbulent history. They approached us about coming to speak at a large conference they were planning through SIM, a well-known missions organization. This was the early 1990s and

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05:17

My Ebenezer Box: The Man in the Tattered Jeans (Part...

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/16

by Marilynn Chadwick Continued from yesterday... …The day of our mission trip finally arrived. We boarded the plane to the Himalayas and I settled in for what would be a forty-hour journey, including layovers. We then flew by helicopter to the remote village to visit the new school our church helped build. Eager parents had assembled around the courtyard where the opening ceremony was to be held. There was an air of anticipation for the very first school ever in this tiny mountain village! We met

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04:40

My Ebenezer Box: The Man in the Tattered Jeans (Part...

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/15

by Marilynn Chadwick Continued from yesterday... …Suddenly, I snapped back into the reality of sitting on the airport shuttle van. The conversation between the construction worker and the van driver continued. I caught a word or phrase here and there, still not paying much attention. That is, until the older man said something to the young driver about how “you just gotta be willing to try a new thing—even if it scares you.” “Take working on skyscrapers,” he went on. “At first, walking on that high

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04:40

My Ebenezer Box: The Man in the Tattered Jeans (Part...

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/14

by Marilynn Chadwick A frayed white silk scarf in my Ebenezer Box is a rather odd-looking souvenir. Yet it reminds me of the time I got to see the Lord at work in a very dramatic way. During this mysterious encounter, God also broke the back of a troubling fear. When it was all over, the world seemed much smaller, and my confidence in God grew to new heights. It all started on the way to catch a flight at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport. We were heading home after visiting our son who

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04:28

My Ebenezer Box: Sudan Sam

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/13

by Marilynn Chadwick After the events of 9/11, I felt compelled to pray for a world in trouble. I specifically asked God to break my heart for the things that break his. One by one, he put different nations on my heart for prayer. A few weeks later, after reading about the massive genocide of Christians, I put the Sudan on my list. In my Ebenezer Box is this excerpt from my journal dated October 11, 2001: Confession: Lord, I have not prayed for the suffering of your people worldwide. My view has

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05:05

My Ebenezer Box: Victory Over the Darkness

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/10

by Marilynn Chadwick A staggering 400 million people in India have never even heard the name of Jesus! Some people worship over 300 million gods. They are often overwhelmed by fear, bondage, and darkness. If I ever wondered whether the spiritual forces of darkness are real, I became thoroughly convinced after I met Pastor Jay, a church planter in a remote village in central India. One small photo of a little family in this village stays in my Ebenezer Box as a reminder of how one ordinary woman was

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04:12

My Ebenezer Box: The Matchmaking Miracle

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/09

by Marilynn Chadwick Life was exciting at the large, southern university I attended in the 1970s. I was more absorbed with fun, football games, and finding myself than I was with finding God. But when I accepted Christ the summer after my junior year, my whole world shifted. Until then, I had dated a number of perfectly nice guys. But now I began to yearn for a man who had a passion to serve God. I confided in the Lord about my hunger for a companion with whom I could share my spiritual life. After

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04:51

My Ebenezer Box: Above All

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/08

by Marilynn Chadwick To hold onto hope, we must learn how to guard our minds against “hope killers”—those pesky predators that seek to destroy our God-given dreams as well as our peace of mind. One of the most troublesome hope-killers is anxiety. Like a slow leak, anxiety drains our faith. It fills us with a low-grade dread that steals our joy. Mental health experts are disturbed by the growing numbers of those suffering from anxiety—now the most common mental illness in the United States. I've

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04:56

My Ebenezer Box: On the Lookout for Signs

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/07

by Marilynn Chadwick Back in 1976, after I made the giant leap from unbeliever to believer, I was surprised to find I could actually sense God’s presence—he was real! What’s more, I discovered that if I was alert, I might catch tiny glimpses of his work all around me. The Bible calls these signs. The word sign means “direction, evidence, working” or even “fingerprints.” Signs reassure us that God has our life—including our problems—in his hands. Nowadays, smartphones make it easy to capture a photo

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04:27

My Ebenezer Box: Ebenezer Stones

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/06

by Marilynn Chadwick I don’t know about you, but my faith grows when I hear stories of God’s power. And when I personally experience a miracle, my faith soars! Over the years, I’ve collected mementos of my own spiritual victories—I call them my “Ebenezer Stones.” Photos, small artifacts, scraps of paper, pages of my journal, little bits of “this and that” all point me back to times when God showed himself strong by interrupting the ordinary flow of daily life with a miracle. Any time I find

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04:40

Strong in the Lord: Stand Your Ground

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/03

by Marilynn Chadwick Resist him, standing firm in the faith... (1 Peter 5:9 NIV). A man who had just returned from visiting members of the underground church in China was asked how the believers were able to cope with continued trials. "These brothers and sisters know this is not the end of the story," he explained. "They expect God's glory to come at the end of their trial. And they do believe the trial will end in victory." No wonder the Chinese church is often referred to as “the joy force.” Are

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04:45

Strong in the Lord: Strength in Numbers

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/02

by Marilynn Chadwick I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one (John 17:22 NIV). If we want to grow strong, we need to stick together. We are better and stronger when we’re part of a team—a body of believers. Who would dream of fighting a war alone, or playing against an entire basketball team by ourselves? I heard a statistic recently that made me pause. Guess why most missionaries leave the field? Not poor living conditions, lack of creature comforts, fear of

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04:31

Strong in the Lord: Stick Together

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/05/01

by Marilynn Chadwick May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus... (Romans 15:5 NIV, 1984 version). I love going to the beach. Everything about a trip to the ocean inspires, refreshes, and amazes me! Of all the oceanic animals God created, I am most fascinated by bottlenose dolphins, the most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Dolphins are easily trained. They can reason, solve problems, think abstractly, and even

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04:53

Strong in the Lord: Obedience Strengthens Us

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/04/30

by Marilynn Chadwick If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 KJV). We’ve been exploring practical ways to grow strong in the Lord. Earlier, we saw how King David strengthened himself after a devastating attack by the Amalekites. He got alone and "strengthened himself in the Lord” (1 Samuel 30:6 ESV). Then he courageously obeyed God's instructions. David had experienced God’s power in battle before, so he was certain God could be trusted again. David's obedience resulted in a thrilling

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04:51

Strong in the Lord: Confession is Good for the Soul

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/04/29

by Marilynn Chadwick Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed (James 5:16 NIV). God loves us when we are weak, but he delights in making us strong. His power shines most dramatically through our weakness. We've been exploring the various ways God strengthens us. Last week we saw how structure and order can help us free ourselves from the things that rob our strength, enabling us to follow hard after Christ. God wants us to travel lean and light

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04:33

Strong in the Lord: Doors of Protection

A Moment of Hope ·

2024/04/25

by Marilynn Chadwick Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you... (Isaiah 26:20 NIV). I’ll say it again. Some of God’s best miracles happen behind closed doors. Jesus instructed his disciples to go into their room and shut the door when they prayed. Their Father, who "sees in secret,” would reward them, he promised. We may discover God gives us strength when we're out of sight. Hidden from people. Away from distractions. We've been looking at some of the ways God empowers us and

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