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"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life."
Proverbs 4:23

Vineyard Days – Horticulture of the Heart

March 31, 2014 by Nancy Bentz 1 Comment

Now the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God.   But as for that [seed] in the good soil, these are [the people] who, hearing the Word, hold it fast in a just (noble, virtuous)  and worthy heart, and steadily bring forth fruit with patience. Luke 8:11&15 (AMP)  ~ Jesus speaking I love reading what […]

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Vineyard Days – Under His Shadow, Part 2

January 23, 2014 by Nancy Bentz 2 Comments

“All earthly things are the shadows of heavenly realities… If you would know Jesus, study the vine.” ~  Andrew Murray ~  *** Scripture is full of mystery, yet we are told to ask and be given, to seek and to find, to knock and to have the door of understanding opened up to us. It […]

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Vineyard Days – Selah III

October 19, 2013 by Nancy Bentz 4 Comments

Penning Vineyard Days has been to this wellspring’s heart what writer’s block is to an author’s novel. I hit a wall. For four weeks I have been focused on writing other pieces and getting a Fall video series underway with fourteen students in the class. It was also four weeks ago that I posted Part […]

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Vineyard Days – The Processes of Potential

July 21, 2013 by Nancy Bentz Leave a Comment

*** The Shulamite had some un-learning to do. But that did not deter her Shepherd Lover. In fact, this is where He excelled and took such delight for He had the patience of Job and His very nature was hope. This Man with a plan possessed great confidence in the final outcome. And it was […]

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Vineyard Days – Rock Piles of Potential

July 18, 2013 by Nancy Bentz 3 Comments

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. –  Antoine de Saint-Exupery Previously: Either way, we have a pile of rocks to deal with. What becomes of the rocks has everything to do with the image we bear within…  *** […]

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Vineyard Days – Terroir

July 2, 2013 by Nancy Bentz Leave a Comment

The selah moment is concluded, unless this post throws you back into another one…which is often my hopeful intention! I sit in amazement at how the Lord continues to bring to my notice intriguing tidbits relevant to Vineyard Days. I go off on a search about one thing and hit pay dirt. Which now leads […]

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Vineyard Days

April 18, 2013 by Nancy Bentz 3 Comments

 Who believes what we’ve heard and seen?  Who would have thought GOD’s saving power would look like this?     The servant grew up before God–a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look.  He was looked down on […]

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A Thousand Little Choices, Part 3

March 31, 2013 by Nancy Bentz 4 Comments

There has always been a prelude to our life of choices. I don’t remember selecting the family I would be born into; do you? My nationality, the place on earth I would live, the era in which I would land, born to position or humble means…none of these were handed to me on a ‘menu’ […]

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Royalty Realm – In a Manner Worthy of a King

August 6, 2012 by Nancy Bentz 1 Comment

Waiting. Resting. Developing patience. Building faith. We commonly use these and many more descriptors to express what is going on when forward movement seems to have come to a halt, or at the least, slogging through molasses. Such nice terms for, “Hmm…here I am. Where are you, God?” Just recently while in this season of […]

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Royalty Realm – Real Simple

April 29, 2012 by Nancy Bentz 1 Comment

Life doesn’t get much simpler than living, moving, and having your being in the kingdom of Heaven, aka the Royalty Realm. It’s the constant monitoring of self-imposed or others-imposed expectations that wears you down to a sputter and drains the joy right out of your oil pan. Take Jesus for example… While Jesus lived His […]

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