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The Just Between Us  (JBU) Blog has moved to our website, www.justbetweenus.org. We are excited about where the Lord is taking us and we hope you’ll join! You’ll find 30 years of resources, and a community of women who are here for you 24/7 to help you hold your arms up in this journey of faith. None of us have to walk alone. It is our prayer that you’ll feel the love and support of this

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Yep... that's right. On March 1, 2020, the Just Between Us Blog is moving over to our website, www.justbetweenus.org. We are excited about where the Lord is taking us and we hope you’ll join! You’ll find 30 years of resources, and a community of women who are here for you 24/7 to help you hold your arms up in this journey of faith. None of us have to walk alone. It is our prayer that

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By Jill Briscoe Consider the story of Ruth and how it demonstrates love in grand fashion. “So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.  Then the women said to Naomi, ‘Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and may his name be famous in Israel” And may he be to you a restorer of

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By Jill Briscoe There is nowhere that the battle between the flesh and the Spirit rages with more force in my life than in the area of my devotional disciplines. I, like Peter, James, and John in the Garden of Gethsemane, have to be reawakened far too often by the Lord and told to watch and pray lest I enter into temptation! As soon as the alarm goes off in the morning, the flesh reaches

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By Jill Briscoe Vineyards were as much a part of biblical life as the hamburger to the American, a cup of tea to the British, or a sausage to the Pole! It is not surprising, therefore, to discover the figure of the vine scattered throughout the biblical record. Right at the beginning of the Book of Genesis, we read about Noah planting a vineyard. Throughout Jeremiah and Ezekiel’s writings

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By Jill Briscoe “Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand” (Is. 64:8). My self-esteem received a boost when I realized that the Heavenly Potter does not have an assembly line. Each piece has been handmade; each pot is totally unique. Each is beautiful in its very own way, especially when standing on the right shelf, fulfilling the

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By: Jill Briscoe In Psalm 23, we are reminded that our Lord, our Shepherd, guides us “along the right paths for his name’s sake.” If we really blow it, and people know we are professing Christians, our good name will undoubtedly suffer—but more importantly, so will His. Maybe we don’t really care what people think of us—but if we care anything

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By: Linda Justice We’ve all seen it - a husband and wife seated across each other at a restaurant - their glazed eyes never meet and they say nothing.  I’ve promised myself that I would never let that happen in my marriage - or my relationship with Jesus.  But it did.  Recently, I went through a series of losses, job changes, relational

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By: Filoiann Wiedenhoff My best friend and I have an annual tradition of meeting around the end of December to talk and pray about the past year and look ahead to the new year. We share what valuable lessons we learned, what God showed us, and how He was faithful through all of it. We also look forward with great excitement wondering what God has

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By: Jill Briscoe It’s hard when you can’t get home to be with family for Christmas. Jesus’ birthday was coming up. Christmas was just around the corner. “What should I give Him?” I wondered. I thought about flowers and suddenly that triggered a vivid memory of a meeting in Singapore, where a veteran missionary had shared an experience on the

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By: Jill Briscoe There are some good things about worry. First of all, worry gives us a chance to trust the Lord and turn our attention to the things that really matter. When I’m worried, it makes me pray and read my Bible more, and that’s all good! So anxiety can chase us back to God and give us a chance to turn our worries into prayer—if we let it.

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By: Jill Briscoe As new converts to Christ begin to read, mark, and inwardly digest the Scriptures, they grow spiritually. Paul uses an analogy for this kind of growth in 1 Corinthians 13:11. He writes, “When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.” Children act like children, but

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By: Jill Briscoe Jeremiah had a wonderful way of using pictures to illustrate spiritual truths. He wrote, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream” (Jer. 17:7-8).  God wanted Jeremiah to do well spiritually, whatever the results of his

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By: Dr. Juli Slattery “What are you most thankful for this year?” It’s the question we anticipate passing around the table as we celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends. Reciting our gratitude is part of the turkey dinner and pumpkin pie. It’s what we do on Thanksgiving. Like many of our American traditions, Thanksgiving has retained some shallow

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By: Jill Briscoe Some of the most boring times of my Christian life have been spent in church prayer meetings. Some of the funniest times of my Christian life have been spent in church prayer meetings⎯and some of the most blessed times. What makes the difference? What ingredients are needed to turn a prayer meeting from a bane into a blessing? First of

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By: Jill Briscoe Years ago, I was wrestling with some private pain. First my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Then God “added sorrow to my pain.” We were in missions, and the work meant that my husband was traveling for the mission for long periods of time. I struggled with the sorrow over my dad and with constantly missing my husband, but I did not feel that I

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By: Jill Briscoe Face it, difficult people are decidedly different. Even people who love each other are going to learn to make their differences work. Stuart and I are partners in both ministry and marriage. Working together to raise a family to love and serve the Lord and working together in mission and the church have tested us. Both marriage and ministry

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By: Jill Briscoe God spoke directly to the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, who was to relay God’s messages to the people. We don’t know exactly what the word of the Lord sounded like to Jeremiah, but we do know what it did to him. It shattered his heart and fired him up. When God truly speaks, his word is invested with self-existent power able to transform what

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By: Jill Briscoe “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us…” (2 Corinthians 1:21) In the Bible, anointing oil symbolized the presence of the Lord’s Spirit to give a person wholeness. The word for anointing that is used in the Old Testament means to “consecrate to service.” God anointed prophets, priests, and kings and set them

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By: Jill Briscoe “Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.”  (Psalm 119:90) When Communism ruled Eastern Europe, a Christian grandmother found herself in a family of Communists. She lived with her daughter, who was the leader of the party in the area. Her daughter’s child loved her very much, and though the

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By: Jill Briscoe “I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.” ~ Lamentations 3:17-18 Because your relationship with the living God is God’s primary call on your life, that call must come first, even before your career plans. It isn’t a question of which vocation you should

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By: Jill Briscoe You will be able to deal more effectively with a difficult person if you believe that God has put the other person in your life, your marriage or even on your team. We are not to mess with the call of God in someone else’s life. He has chosen this sometimes irritating counterpart not to annoy you or make your job more

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By: Jill Briscoe One fateful day, I tremblingly got down on my knees with my brand-new Bible open on the bed in front of me. I couldn’t pray! All I could do was will myself to stay there as my best friend looked at me in shock. Then I heard the door open, and she called out to the girls down the corridor, “Come here and look at this! She’s gone

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By: Sharon Fraizer . . . He got up from the meal, took off His outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around His waist. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around Him . . . “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”  Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you

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By: Jill Briscoe Love always hopes. It can’t help itself. Always, not some ways or some days, but always on all days. I had a personal experience of this very thing on—of all days—September 11, 2001. I was on United Flight 929 heading for Chicago and home. As the pilot began to dump fuel into the Atlantic, rudely waking the unsuspecting passengers

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