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    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women: Greater Intimacy with Your Heavenly Father
    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women: Greater Intimacy with Your Heavenly Father
    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women: Greater Intimacy with Your Heavenly Father
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    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women: Greater Intimacy with Your Heavenly Father

    By Joy Fry

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    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women provides the reader with tools for experiencing greater personal intimacy with God. The book contains devotions with Scripture verses, poetic reflections written by the author, and applications questions for the reader to ponder. The daily devotions are brief and are designed to be completed in about fifteen minutes. The themes of the devotionals include The Fruit of the Spirit, Triumphs over Earthly Troubles, The Character of Jesus, and Promises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateDec 21, 2012
    ISBN9781449778811
    Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women: Greater Intimacy with Your Heavenly Father
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    Joy Fry

    Joy Fry is a former business executive who began daily devotions in her early forties. Until that time, she had been unable to make time for growing in her personal intimacy with God. Since the summer of 2000, she has experienced the joy of daily moments of reading and reflection in communion with her heavenly Father. She enjoys leading Christian writing groups for women and encouraging other writers.  Fry lives in the San Francisco Bay area, where she frequently hikes in the redwood forests.

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      Thirty Reflective Devotions for Time-Pressed Women - Joy Fry

      Copyright © 2012 Joy Fry

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      NIV – New International Version

      Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7881-1 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7880-4 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923306

      WestBow Press rev. date: 12/19/2012

      Contents

      Dedication

      An Introduction

      SECTION 1: FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

      Day 1. GIFTS OF THE FATHER

      Day 2. JOY

      Day 3. LOVING ONE ANOTHER

      Day 4. GOD’S LOVING KINDNESS

      Day 5. PERFECT PEACE

      SECTION 2: TRIUMPH OVER EARTHLY TROUBLES

      Day 6. BURDENS LIFTED

      Day 7. POWER OVER FEAR

      Day 8. SEASON OF SORROW

      Day 9. FACING TRIALS

      Day 10. FREEDOM FROM EARTHLY FEARS

      Day 11. OVERCOMING TEMPTATION

      Day 12. LET’S SING PRAISES

      Day 13. RENEWED HOPE

      SECTION 3: THE CHARACTER OF JESUS

      Day 14. OBEDIENCE

      Day 15. HIS LIGHT

      Day 16. SURRENDER

      Day 17. SERVING OTHERS

      Day 18. WORDS OF TRUTH

      Day 19. SEEKING GOD’S WILL

      Day 20. FAITHFUL SERVANT

      SECTION 4: PROMISES

      Day 21. OUR GUIDE

      Day 22. OUR HOPE

      Day 23. OUR REFUGE

      Day 24. THE MIRACLE OF GRACE

      Day 25. THE LORD’S DIVINE WILL

      Day 26. NEW BEGINNINGS

      Day 27. CHILDREN OF GOD

      Day 28. TRANSFORMATION

      Day 29. PROTECTION

      Day 30. PROMISES FOR ETERNITY

      NEXT STEPS

      CLOSING

      NOTES

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my friend Carolyn for her faith and

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