As I’m trying to practice what I preach and pray with expectation and thanksgiving, I’ve struggled turning my words around the moment the petition has left my lips to say “thank you for answering this just as I’ve asked.” I know some of you are struggling with this too. We know God does not always give us exactly what we …
30 Day Challenge LOUD
Two days ago I gave a challenge to pray expectantly with thanksgiving for His good and perfect answers. Several of you took me up on it. If you could see me, you would see the pom-poms in my hands cheering you on through this challenge. (Okay, well, maybe I really don’t have pom-poms anymore, but I used to, and they are still …
Something to think about
Then Jesus cried out, “When a person believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but the one who sent me. When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world, as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in the darkness” (John 12:44-46). What? …
30 Day challenge
Google Images Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful….(Col. 4:2). You know I’ve struggled, wrestled with the whole concept of prayer lately. Like being in the middle of a dream truths about prayer echo in and out of my subconscious mingled with my own frail human understanding–or trying to understand. Lies of this world disguise themselves as truth complicating …
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on …