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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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04:53

Power in Prayer: Be Vigilant

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/24

by Marilynn Chadwick I echo nineteenth-century, Yale-educated scholar and theologian R.A. Torrey when he said, “There is a devil. That’s why we pray.” And if you ask me why it’s important to bring order and discipline to our lives for the purpose of prayer, I would add, “Because we are in a spiritual war.” The Bible admonishes us to live daily as sober-minded and watchful, because “the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8 ESV). Anyone with combat experience

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04:45

Power in Prayer: Lean Upon Friends

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/23

by Marilynn Chadwick There are some spiritual battles that leave us so weak that we must lean on the help of a few good friends. It was one of those times for the paralytic in Luke 5. We don't know the man's ailment or all he had suffered. We do know he was helpless and unable to get to Jesus by himself. A few friends carried him on a mat to see the Master. Their way was blocked by the crowds. So, they ingeniously climbed on the roof, hauled up their sick buddy, cut a hole in the roof, and lowered

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04:51

Power in Prayer: Praise as a Weapon

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/22

by Marilynn Chadwick I once saw an old Tarzan movie in which the ape man was peering at a droplet of water through a microscope. The instrument had been brought to Africa by Jane’s father, Professor Porter. Tarzan was quite shaken to see that the water he drank daily was teeming with all kinds of organisms, invisible to the naked eye. Similarly, the Bible reveals that our spiritual atmosphere is filled with unseen enemies—the source of our spiritual battles. “For we are not fighting against

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04:40

Power in Prayer: Wait for the Second Voice

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/21

David and Marilynn Chadwick join Jenn Houston in a discussion about today’s blog.

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04:36

Power in Prayer: Pray with Precision

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/18

by Marilynn Chadwick Precision is important in spiritual as well as earthly battles. A turning point in World War II weapon technology was the development of precision bombing. Through a somewhat crude forerunner of the Global Positioning System (GPS), precision bombing enabled the United States to focus on bombing German military sites, and especially artillery arsenals, decreasing the civilian casualties. I once heard the story of a young WWII bomber pilot who wrote to his family, “I consider

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04:50

Power in Prayer: Listen Closely

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/17

by Marilynn Chadwick Thomas Edison tried unsuccessfully over ten thousand times before his final breakthrough invention of the electric light bulb. The Wright brothers experienced hundreds of crashes before their breakthrough in flight. And countless scientists performed endless experiments before breakthroughs in DNA research. Breakthroughs in any endeavor require perseverance. Especially in the spiritual realm, when we seem to crash headlong into a formidable yet unseen enemy again and again. If

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04:43

Power in Prayer: Be Wholehearted

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/15

by Marilynn Chadwick How often do you take time to really listen to God? Many of us blow through our days without thinking about God. Even our alone times are filled with so much noise that it can be hard to hear his voice above the fray. It was the seventeenth century theologian Francois Fenelon who said, “How rare it is to find a soul still enough to hear God speak.” I believe that training my heart to hear (and obey) God’s voice is my most important task on earth. No doubt it has the most eternal

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05:42

Sabbath Rest: Sharing Our Stories

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/11

by Marilynn Chadwick All three of our now grown children especially looked forward to the end of our Day Off, which they referred to as “Family Home Night.” These were weekly times of shared togetherness at the close of Sabbath and included special movies, family prayers, Bible stories, and make-your-own-pizzas. The movies we selected didn’t always have a spiritual message, but they helped reinforce a value or character quality such as perseverance, compassion, kindness, or courage. Our family

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04:34

Sabbath Rest: Stop Worrying

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/10

by Marilynn Chadwick In addition to “not working” on the Sabbath, the observant Jew also practices “not worrying.” Seriously. How does one “not worry?” Is that even possible? A friend coined this snappy little acronym: W.O.R.R.Y: Worry Only Robs Rest from You It’s true. Worrying is exhausting. I realize as believers in Jesus, we’re not obligated to keep Sabbath according to any particular formula or law. But a true confession. After some honest reflection, I’ve come to realize that worry actually

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05:14

Sabbath Rest: Stop Working

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/09

by Marilynn Chadwick It’s been said that Americans are the only people who worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. Maybe that’s why keeping Sabbath is so hard. Many of us enjoy feeling productive, and taking a day off seems to slow us down. The word Sabbath, or sabat in Hebrew, means “to cease, desist, rest.” Put another way, Sabbath simply means to stop working. The very first use of sabat, translated “rest,” in the Bible is in Genesis 2:2-3 NIV: “By the seventh day God had

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04:56

Sabbath Rest: Finding Your Rhythm of Rest

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/07/07

by Marilynn Chadwick Are you feeling tired today? Maybe you worked late, slept poorly, tried to juggle too many tasks, attempted to solve too many problems, took on too much responsibility for everything and everybody around you. It seems you’re not alone. America is a nation obsessed with rest—or the lack of it. At my children’s high school one year, teachers sent home a disturbing article about sleep deprived teenagers. Researchers are telling us that people now fantasize about sleep! It seems the

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04:54

The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience is a Virtue…

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/27

by David Chadwick Patience is a virtue… but it’s also a fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit are an all for one and one for all package deal. Once you abide in Christ and Christ in you, you will bear much fruit (John 15:5). When we are abiding with Jesus, connected to the Spirit, we will operate in patience. The word patience in the Greek is makrothymia. It means long suffering or fortitude. It implies a willingness to be willing to wait in spite of what our eyes can see. In the Amplified

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04:38

The Fruit of the Spirit: First Comes Love

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/24

by David Chadwick When you have an intimate connection with Jesus, the fruit of the Spirit is evident. The overflow of a Spirit-filled life is a Spirit-led life where the fruit of the spirit from Galatians 5:22-23 are found in ample supply. The first fruit of the Spirit is love. Love is the first fruit of Godly attributes and character found in the life of a believer. I find it so significant that love appears first. The Greek word here is agape. It means unconditional acceptance of another person

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04:41

The Fruit of the Spirit: An Introduction

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/23

by David Chadwick The fruit of the Spirit is one of my favorite things to teach. In fact, every time I think about this topic, I immediately flash back to my daughter Bethany’s 6th birthday party. It was a “fruit of the Spirit” themed party. I dressed up as her favorite character called “Sunny Love Tree” and each child who came to the party was given a different fruit of the spirit. That party was one for the books! Much like I, as a Father, long to see my children walking in the light, Jesus longs

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04:58

Fasting for Breakthrough: The Swarm

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/13

by Marilynn Chadwick The story is told about a group of Texas fifth grade school children who figured out a way to stop bullying in their classroom. Whenever a fellow student was being bullied, the other classmates would gather around the victim and simply stand without saying a word. This show of solidarity stopped the bullies dead in their tracks every time. The students nicknamed their tactic "The Swarm." I think we can learn a lesson about prayer and fasting from those school children. Let's be

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Fasting for Breakthrough: When Fasting, Avoid This

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/11

by Marilynn Chadwick "Give me some tips on how you fast,” a friend asked as she prepared herself for her first fast. Her question got me thinking. What have I learned that's made fasting a valuable part of my prayer life? I shared some of those tips with you yesterday. But I should point out that fasting does not make us super saints. In fact, Jesus cautions all disciples in his Matthew 6 tutorial on prayer against being prideful when we fast. Or when we pray. Or when we give, or serve, or do

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04:58

Fasting for Breakthrough: Practical Tips

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/10

by Marilynn Chadwick Generally, fasting is from food, but it doesn’t always require total abstinence. The Bible includes the story of Daniel. While seeking understanding for a vision, Daniel fasted for three weeks (Daniel 10). During that time, Scripture tells us, he “ate no choice food, meat, or wine, and didn’t use lotions” (Daniel 10:1,2). Some today call this kind of partial fast, a “Daniel Fast.” Fasting doesn’t necessarily have to be from food. We read in Isaiah 58 about a powerful type of

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04:36

Fasting for Breakthrough: Getting Unstuck

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/09

by Marilynn Chadwick Do you feel stuck today? Maybe you need a breakthrough in prayer. Or relief from a stubborn problem. A breakthrough usually occurs after a long struggle against some kind of obstacle or enemy. A spiritual breakthrough can be described as that sudden leap forward in an area where we've been fervently seeking God. In short, a breakthrough is getting "unstuck." One way I've experienced personal breakthroughs in prayer is through fasting. I’m not sure why fasting adds power to my

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04:18

Men of Valor: David’s Mighty Men

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/06

by David Chadwick David’s mighty men. They were a group of 30 or so men found 2 Samuel 23 (some scholars think there could have been as many as 37). We have already learned about his inner circle, Eleazer, Shammah and Jashobeam. But there were more mighty men who served David, somewhere around 30 or so. These mighty men fiercely loved and cared for their king. These were King David’s most fierce and loyal soldiers. They were true “men of valor.” The most respected of all of David’s soldiers, these

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04:19

Men of Valor: Benaiah

A Moment of Hope ·

2025/06/05

by David Chadwick Benaiah is our next man of valor. Found in 2 Samuel 23:20 and 1 Chronicles 27:5, he was the son of Jehoiada, a leader in David’s army, and one of David’s most trusted advisors. Much like many of our previously studied characters, he, too, is specifically called a “man of valor.” Every great leader needs trusted advisors around him or her. People who can see things that the leader can’t see. Those who know things the leader doesn’t know. People who have different strengths and

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