When you are stretched to the breaking point, when you have one nerve left and your darling is standing on it; when you are weary and tired and feel like you can't go on—that’s when you wonder what in the world God was thinking when He made you the way you are. What was God thinking? At times it feels like your sensitivity is causing you difficulties and you may be tempted to hate the way ...
Renewal and Recovery: A 5 Day Cleansing Fast For Women
Did you make a New Year resolution at the beginning of this year? The most common goal many want to accomplish is to exercise more and eat less. Great goal! But before you even begin tackling that challenge, start with focusing on spending 5 days of renewal and recovery. The hardest part about making any lifestyle change is...change. Your body, taste buds, temptations, and desires are going to ...
Take a Moment to Remember
Everywhere I turn I’m hearing the phrase, “Remember the reason for the season.” Why is it important to remember? What happens when we forget who we are and who God is in our lives? In our forgetting, we lose the ability to stand strong. The weight of life’s responsibilities and challenges become a load we no longer feel we can bare. As you can imagine, this is when our strength runs ...
The Prayer Stocking Revisited
Last year I wrote a guest post for my friend Christin Ditchfield's blog about a new Christmas activity my family and I started participating in called The Prayer Stocking. In it I shared "What would happen if we used our stockings to collect the prayer needs of others and spent the days leading up to Christmas praying over the requests — even supplying some tangible prayer needs ...
Break the Entitlement Mindset
I am passionate about going after all God has for you and I. Jeremiah 29:11 declares God’s good plan for each of us. We serve the God of abundance and He is a great gift giver. But there are times I have to remind myself that God is not obligated to meet all my wants and desires. After all, He is God and in His sovereignty He knows better than I what my best life looks like. Sometimes I battle ...
Trusting God with Every Little Thing
The world is full of opportunities to trust God with all types of major issues. Expecting mothers are trusting God for healthy babies. Those affected by illness are trusting God for healing. Many experiencing disappointment are trusting God for hope. These life change moments easily take center stage, but even in the small things God beacons us to trust him. This is the challenge I found in ...
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