An Anointed Oil For the World
For these women, the Bible isn’t just a nice book on a shelf that gets dusted off each Sunday for church. It’s a lifeline.
For these women, the Bible isn’t just a nice book on a shelf that gets dusted off each Sunday for church. It’s a lifeline.
When we stop trying to do it on our own that God is truly able to step in and get the job done!
I know what it feels like to know that you were brave once . . . but that you haven’t been brave again in a really long time.
Everything that comes into my life is filtered through the wisdom, the power, and the goodness of God.
Your cross may not look like my cross, but we all have one … you can be sure of that.
The most powerful weapon against long-term parenting struggles is relentless hope.
We must be aware of natural predators such as resentment, unforgiveness, pride, selfishness, disdain, and disinterest.
At the crossroads of doubt and faith, is where true intimacy with God begins, not ends.
The weariness of our trials and the problems of this world need never overtake us. God has already made a way.
Through prayer, self-leadership, and daily empowerment, you can transform your mindset and your life.
None of us is growing any younger and so we must be determined not to shuffle through life!
God’s Word will enable me to live a life of heaven’s grandeur and of daily miracles!
The Lord, the King of all Kings and the Lord of all Lords, is still sitting on the throne of heaven.
It is your personal assignment to deliver the hope of Jesus to the world in which you live.
We must deliberately turn our brains away from the negative and focus on the positive to build up some strong brain pathways for hope and faith.
God can use your personal story to open doors that will honor Him in ways you couldn’t do otherwise.
Eventually, we have to abandon the template if we want to write our own story.
I will continue to sing of the resurrection … even when my heart is filled with the pain of earthbound living.
The power and authority that Easter heralds should compel all of us to go and make disciples.
One of the most comforting truths in Scripture is that God does not abandon us in our darkest moments.
Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: the faithful love of the Lord never ends!
To prepare them for the Lord’s divine purpose for their lives, we must instill in our children a deep, unwavering love for God and His Word.
Through those intolerable circumstances … I have seen the goodness of God.
I realized the value of this day was found in my ability to love and to be loved.
Words have the exciting capacity to deposit health in diseased attitudes and minds.
The ripples of the choices that you make in the family home will impact generations to come!
Sometimes an unexpected storm comes crashing in on the shores of our heart and simply knocks the breath right out of us.
When your heart is a mangled mess … hope has the power to heal.
Into the darkness of sin and shame, an angelic chorus heralded the news that delivered Jesus to earth.
It is about you, making yourself available at this time in history to reveal the presence and love of our Savior.
I can’t help but think maybe He is stripping away the worldly trappings of this season so I can focus on what really matters.
Your heart can become an explosion of joy because of the birth of a Baby over 2,000 years ago.
Thanksgiving is a calling … it is a determination … it is life at its finest.
The Sabbath is a large chalice overflowing with the wine of abundance. It is the Bread of Life, broken, and forever filling.
He loves to speak new life over the dead, barren places in our hearts.
May we all strive to have a childlike faith, trusting that God can and will take care of us.
Christmas is just too miraculous … too eternal … and too significant … to confine it to one calendar month in this paradigm known as “time.”
For a Christian, hopeless behavior has been banished and hopeless situations are extinct. We are the people of hope.
I yearn to have the assurance that I will not fall away, and I will not be moved regardless of what happens in my life.
The songs you sing today prophesy the theology you will adhere to tomorrow.
I remember the feeling of the warm, damp earth under my bare toes as I walked up and down the garden rows with my father.
Whatever you need strength for today is yours in Jesus Christ and in the overwhelming power of the Holy Spirit.
In the middle of my crisis, He knows exactly where I am and how to get to me!
I learned that freedom isn’t free and that some things in life are worth fighting for.
Nothing else satisfies my soul like time spent in His presence reading His love letter that was written just to me!
As an adult woman, I still don’t much care for the dark but no longer am I intimidated by it.
Fear birthed anxiety in me, and I was crippled by it for years.
Grace has taken away bitterness and has planted mercy and forgiveness in its place.
For all women … old and young … married and single … barren and fertile … this should be a day of promise and of purpose!
Start declaring the glory and power of God over every battle that you face!
We need Him to take us by our human hands and then guide us with His divine hands to a higher place.
God performs His big things through your brokenness.
If you are bound by fear, be set free today by the Savior Who could not be held by death!
The supreme weapon of holy love will turn a world of evil upside down.
We are meant to go through the storms of life—not camp out there.
Maybe this list will help you choose some wonderful books to add to your library this year.
Perhaps every day on the calendar should be celebrated as an opportunity to give love to a lonely, hurting world.
Perhaps you need to sing a song that reminds you that God will have the last word during every tumultuous time in your life!
Would Jesus blame … or would Jesus bless?
The outright rebellion of my tongue demands immovable boundaries.
Hope is valuable … faith is irreplaceable … but love makes all the difference.
We are only given this day … this unmatched and miraculous day … to be lived one time.
Because of Christmas … we can hope for the impossible and we can trust the good, good Father.
We have heard the song of the angels and we have joined in the triumphant chorus.
What if God has allowed a difficult person or two into your life to develop your grace muscle?
It is with sincere thanksgiving we acknowledge that the “more” for which we ache has already been found in You.
Despite hard times, we will see joy in the land of the living.
We will all suffer at some moment in our lives, and we must be prepared to suffer well and to suffer joyfully.
Though we think of our service to God as a gift to God from us, in reality, everything is His already.
God loves to speak new life over the dead, barren places in our hearts.
There is a direct correlation between how much joy you experience and how deeply connected you are.
When doubt tries to creep in through the back door, we gird our minds and keep our gaze set on Jesus.
God’s work on planet Earth will not be complete without your enthusiasm and potential.
Life is about perspective and wearing the correct lenses as we respond to what is happening around us.
A tender heart doesn’t deny the truth but lives in a town by the name of “Mercy.”
The morning has evolved into a resplendent day filled with rare and precious possibilities.
I don’t want to lose the purity of the simple days in life in the wait for the next grand event that becomes a professional display of exorbitance.
I learned that freedom isn’t free and that some things in life are worth fighting for.
The window is small for evangelism … the time is short to impact someone’s eternity.
I choose in this season … and in every season of the year … to rejoice in the season that it is.
As I choose to give …and give … and give again … I stunningly discover that I lack nothing … nothing at all!
You were made to sing a song of joy and hope … and the world is waiting to hear your song.
How one travels the rapids of transition may just determine how the traveler comes through on the other side of the surprising metamorphosis.
You are engineered to be strengthened with joy and to live in the stronghold of hope!
I believe that success is not measured by accolades but rather by character.
You’re not too old … so don’t throw in the towel!
Sin blocks our pathway to a wonderful, loving relationship with the Father who created us.
If you never spend any time at all getting to know Him … how will you ever be like Him?
I choose to pray about my future rather than to regret my past.
Life … in all of its splendor … is built one delightful day at a time!
My life was meant to be a magnificent symphony that celebrates the glory of God.
I dare you to figure out what you are good at … and then do that even better!
If you treasure the Word – It will be on display in your life.
When Christmas lights up the ordinariness of my feeble attempt at life … the uncommon miracle paints a picture of stunning impact.
God’s Word – the Bible – is the declaration of His mind and His heart.
Some events are so pervasive that they are worth celebrating for more than just a day … or more than just a month … and Christmas is one of those extraordinary events.
Christmas is found in the extraordinary and eternal love that God has for His children.
We exist to write a new song of wondrous thanksgiving and glorious worship!
It is in the wait that I am given a strength I never before had.
A sincere companion is generous with her time … her home … her family … and her resources.