God sends a lot of people across my path and one thing I hear myself saying repeatedly is: “Despite what your head is telling you, listen to your heart. God will always lead you in peace.” Finding peace is the key to finding your way through a noisy world. There are thousands of voices you could follow, but there’s only One ...
I was recently talking to a family member who was processing a disappointment and as I encouraged her, I said something out of my spirit that made me pause– and repeat it, so I could catch it too. I said: “I may not know the future, but I know God’s faithfulness.” It was the Holy Spirit confirming an eternal truth. ...
Have you heard the saying, “You can trust an unknown future to a known God”? I think there’s so much comfort in this adage. I woke up this morning with the word future on my heart so I opened my bible and began to look at verses concerning our future to see what the Holy Spirit was trying to convey. ...
James asked a good question: “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works?” (James 2:14). The Message Translation says, “Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it?” I was personally challenged by this recently. My annual women’s conference was this past week and at the ...
As I sat and listened to my husband preach this weekend, I took notes like usual. But mid sentence of writing down “Do you realize…” the Holy Spirit finished the sentence differently than what I was hearing with my natural ears. I wrote: Do you realize eternity will tell us the rest of the story? I have to put this ...
This is a question I’ve asked myself before. When life has extra projects going on, it can be a game-changer. But if you’ll pause and pay attention, I guarantee you’ll sense the grace and peace of God all around you. Instead of being stressed, you can look forward to tackling your projects. But be careful… busy seasons can change some otherwise ...
Years ago, my husband and I decided to paint the trim of our house one summer. We only had one ladder so I had the bright idea that an old milk crate, turned upside-down, would be a perfect pedestal for me to stand on to reach the under-hangs of our house. And it worked for a little while, until I ...
Reading this quote by Charles Spurgeon always impacts my heart because of how true it is– no matter how long you’ve walked with the Lord, it’s so easy to lean on the flesh from time to time ((as if the flesh saved us in the first place). Paul said it this way in his letter to the Galatians: “How foolish ...
Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?” (Genesis 50:19). Have you ever wished you could make decisions for God? Or maybe, you’ve been on the other side of that and you’re so glad you’re not God because you would’ve made the wrong decision. Either way, I imagine we’ve all had similar ...
A minister once said, “You cannot find in scripture where you are to trust people. The Bible only tells us to put our trust in God.” If you’ve never thought about this before, it is a bit surprising at first. But with more meditation, it is not only true, but makes sense. “It is better to trust in the Lord, than ...
This article first appeared on The Christian Broadcasting Network | “…and great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:33b). I hope you can look back on seasons or situations in your life and say with me, “That was great grace.” In other words, when we should’ve been buried under the grief, or the pressure to make a hard decision, or ...
This article first appeared on The Inspired Woman Blog | Covid-19 caused a lot of uneasiness in our world. My parents are in their seventies, and I asked them if they had ever seen a quarantine like that, and of course they answered no, never. There were so many unprecedented things going on, it was hard to know what to ...
There’s a story in the Bible of a man named Simeon who waited in faith for the promise from God to see the Messiah before he died. The scriptures don’t tell us much about Simeon’s journey of faith before this moment in the temple. But what we do know is he was a “righteous and devout man [cautiously and carefully observing ...
Think about this for a minute: Revelation knowledge changes the course of your life. My family and I were recently traveling through another town where we stopped to eat. Afterwards, I told my husband we needed to go under the overpass to the left to get back on the Interstate. OK, simple enough, right? Not exactly. After leaving the parking ...
It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the gift-giving season already –but then again, between family birthdays, baby showers, and weddings, is it ever not the gift-giving season? More specifically, as Christians in tune with the Holy Spirt, it’s ALWAYS the gift-giving season! But don’t get weary with that thought, it’s actually really cool how the nature of God is to ...
Probably one of the most difficult instructions in the Bible is “…walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). In his letter to the Corinthian church, Paul encouraged the believers with this truth, “It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going” (2 Cor. 5:7, Message). The point is: Every Christian must walk by faith. ...
I don’t know what your routine is, but mine looks a little like this: 1. Up early between 5:00 and 6:00 every morning2. Fix a cup of coffee3. Find my glasses (so I can focus)4. Sit in my favorite chair with my Bible and iPad5. Pray6. Read my Bible and/or study book7. Write Simple, huh? That’s what I thought, until ...
With a show of hands, how many of you wish you could know exactly what God wants you to do? Well, I can’t see your hands, but I’m pretty confident 100% of you raised them. How do I know that? Because every person I’ve ever talked with, counseled, or ministered to, has told me so. And I’m with you! But as ...