Category: Faith

  • How Can I Hear God?

    How Can I Hear God?

    He can literally use anything to speak, and yet, we want him to speak in specific ways so that we have control over the way it looks, and so that we don’t have to seek him in order to understand. We don’t want to have to stop and give him…

  • I Am No Longer in Darkness: Our Freedom in the Lord

    I Am No Longer in Darkness: Our Freedom in the Lord

    There is so much darkness that even seemingly happy people are in when they do not have the Lord in their lives. And we are free from that. There is so much freedom in knowing that we live in the light, and are free from darkness. What things has the…

  • Pride and Joy: Viewing my Goals as Gifts

    Pride and Joy: Viewing my Goals as Gifts

    What I realized when I read this verse is that there is a distinct difference between feeling joy in a moment God gave to me, and pursuing those moments as the only way to fill my soul. I don’t need to withhold my joy when I feel it bubbling up,…

  • Seeing The Gifts of God Within Our Toil

    Seeing The Gifts of God Within Our Toil

    He gave us pride in career achievements, baby giggles, Girl Scout cookies, really good coffee, and romantic dates with our spouses to remind us that everything is not in fact meaningless. He gave us those precious gifts to remind us that the toil is not in vain, and that even…

  • Not My Will But His: Feeling Worthy Of Your Call

    Not My Will But His: Feeling Worthy Of Your Call

    I am not worthy of this call on my own, but because he chose me for the call of motherhood, I am worthy. It is not my own patience, my own shining parental abilities, my own strength, or my own ideas. It is hands down, plain and simple, only the…

  • Christ and Our Kids: 4 Tips for Putting God First In Their Lives

    Christ and Our Kids: 4 Tips for Putting God First In Their Lives

    “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along…

  • Your Words Defeat The Enemy: How Will You Use Them?

    Your Words Defeat The Enemy: How Will You Use Them?

    “When life is hard for someone, and Satan is desperately trying to get in and wreak havoc, the last thing he wants is an encouraging word from God via a friend or loved one. He wants control, he wants people at their weakest, he wants to discourage any good thought.…

  • In This Present Fog, God is Still Good

    In This Present Fog, God is Still Good

    We have to trust that where we’ve seen God work before, where we’ve seen him faithful, he will always be faithful. And even if we haven’t walked hard rocky trails before, we’ve seen other people run them with abandon. We’ve seen men and women of faith who have walked before…

  • 5 Tips For Starting And Maintaining Quiet Time WIth the Lord

    5 Tips For Starting And Maintaining Quiet Time WIth the Lord

    The Lord wants us to get away with him. He wants us to take a minute and recharge and reboot. In these days, when we need rest the most, we have to be proactive. It seems counterintuitive to add another thing into our schedule in order to get rest, but…

  • Fixing the Tiny Holes in Your Marriage

    Fixing the Tiny Holes in Your Marriage

    I think the devil is literally prowling around looking for tiny holes that he can drive over, step on, pick a, and make bigger and bigger. And how can we stop this? How can we prevent him from devouring our marriages? We can be alert…