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    What If: a devotional
    What If: a devotional
    What If: a devotional
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    What If: a devotional

    By Ruth Perry

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    Ever felt discouraged?Alone? Forgotten? Then this devotional is for you! With wit and humor, Ruth Perry will tug at your heartstrings as she shares lessons learned from her life experiences. After being separated from her friends and isolated from almost everything, Ruth turned to God. He lovingly showed her that she could overcome any difficulties with His help. He will help you too! It is with a grateful heart that Ruth gives God the credit for What If. Without God’s help, these devotionals would not exist. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5 NASB). Let What If encourage and inspire you in your daily walk with God!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmbassador International
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9781620200070
    What If: a devotional

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      What If - Ruth Perry

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      A Piano in the Bedroom

      Actually Listening

      Be Ready in all Things

      Birthday Presents

      Bloom Where You're Planted

      Choices

      Conversations

      Cookie Jars

      Directions

      Do What I Do

      Doing it my Way

      Expect the Impossible

      Follow my Pattern

      Forest and the Trees

      Gentle Touches

      Give a Helping Hand

      Gone Fishing

      Go to the Source

      Greater is He

      Hard to Please

      Harvest Time

      Helping Others

      I Don't Need Instructions

      Just Release It

      Keep Alert

      Lead by Example

      Listen and Learn

      Love the Unlovely

      Making Good Use of Time

      Making the Most of a Bad Situation

      My Namesake

      Needs Being Met

      Never Forsaken

      Never Give Up!

      Nurturing the Young

      Overdraft Protection

      Pleasing God

      Prepare the Soil

      Satisfied

      Saying Yes

      Scrapbooking

      Seemingly Useless

      Spiritual Diet

      Stumbling Blocks

      Subscriptions

      The Shield of Faith

      Toppled!

      Wake Up

      We are the Branches

      We Cannot Serve Two Masters

      When the Pieces Don't Fit

      When Mistakes Need Fixed

      What If

      © 2012 by Ruth Perry

      All rights reserved

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      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISBN: 978-1-62020-006-3

      eISBN: 978-1-62020-007-0

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      Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

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      Photography, Cover Design and Page Layout by Matthew Mulder

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      DEDICATION

      I dedicate this booklet to Shirley Carson.

      It is because of her urging and pep talks to me that I attempted my hand at writing. I would never have had the confidence to forge ahead without her encouragement. Shirley is a strong,

      Godly person and a successful writer besides being a very dear friend. Everyone should have a Shirley in their lives!

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      To all my friends and family who allowed me to make a portion of their lives an open book so others may receive Christian encouragement in the journey of life.

      INTRODUCTION

      THESE DEVOTIONALS WERE WRITTEN FOR the one who needs a little pep talk in discouraging times. I pray they will give motivation to change circumstances. These things have I spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full (John 15:11 NASB).

      Ten years ago my husband and I moved to a very rural area with no friends or family close by. I really needed someone to give me a pep talk! My husband had suffered a severe stroke and our life, as we knew it, came to a screeching halt. After managing some difficult changes, I realized we were not the only ones going through a life-changing event. Isaiah 43:2 says when we pass through the waters, God will be with us. If He leads us to it, He’ll lead us through it! Praise God, He is still leading us today! Since that time I have found a wonderful church and have developed meaningful friendships. I pray this booklet will be of help to anyone needing encouragement.

      My favorite verse in the Bible is found in John 16:33. These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world! Did you hear that? He has already fought our battles for us! We just need to go through them to make our faith stronger in Christ and to give us a solid foundation IN HIM.

      All the credit goes to God for giving me the inspiration for these pages. Without Him, these devotionals could not have been written. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing (John 15:5; emphasis mine).

      The Scriptures used in this devotional are from the New American Standard Bible unless otherwise noted.

      A PIANO IN THE BEDROOM

      But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.

      I Peter 3:15

      AT OUR CHURCH WE HAVE altar invitations at the end of services, where people who feel God’s leading can come to the altar and pray.

      One evening during the altar call, I felt my son Jeff was trying to decide whether to go forward or stay where he was. I bent down to talk to him about Jesus and ask if he wanted to go pray. He was still hesitant, so I told him he didn’t have to go to the altar and that if he wanted, we could pray at his bedside when we went home that evening.

      Jeff’s brother, Dennis, was six years old at the time, and he heard me talking to Jeff. He was

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