Will You Jump?
I have been challenged to respond differently when I hear God tell me something that makes no sense.
I have been challenged to respond differently when I hear God tell me something that makes no sense.
We can take a deep breath and ask Him to be God in our situation, whatever that looks like.
We no longer need to be afraid of anything because God can bring goodness from any painful, traumatic, awful circumstance.
As you move into a posture of receiving rather than performing, you experience rest and deep peace because it isn’t up to you to figure it out.
Let’s look at our fears in the Light—the One who brings freedom, peace, and even joy even in the middle of circumstances that hurt and scare us.
God reached through the darkness with which we had surrounded ourselves, calling our names and extending His hand to pull us out of the pit.
If you believe you are accepted, you will act like a chosen one.
God had not abandoned me in the overwhelm, and I needed to look at His promises to see my way through.
If you want to experience peace, practice allowing your imagination to be consumed with Jesus.
God invites us into relationship empowered by Him to create together and bring forth beauty and new.
Jesus as my teacher and rabbi means that I can trust Him to teach me all I need to know as we walk along.
Look to the love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us—that’s where hope is found.
God of the hard days and the good, thank you for delighting in my dependence on you.
Whatever your situation today, bring your sacrifice of praise to Jesus, recognizing as David did His lovingkindness, grace, and faithfulness.
Take grand steps acknowledging that He will be enough for the strength you need to do the impossible.
We don’t lose heart or stay discouraged about the difficulties we face, for we know that God is bringing something good out of it.
If you don’t have enough to stay faithful in whatever you are called to today, just ask Him.
His touch alone is able to bring beauty from brokenness and life from death.
In Him, I have intimacy my heart craves, joy even in trouble, and peace that makes no sense.
Sometimes Christmas doesn’t look like commercials, or movies or what we imagined.
Jesus’ birth was a trumpet call. A new way of doing life.
We don’t have to wait for the situation to change, or for the suffering to end to have hope!
They all realized their relationship with God got them through and allowed them to see the good in terrible situations.
God is all you need and you can rest.
Jesus was calling them to believe Him in a way they hadn’t yet. So often my storms are similar.
No one is ever too broken, too exhausted, or too much of anything to experience this life as God intended us to live it.
Don’t let the distractions of the enemy move you into a place of confusion, chaos, and worry.
We bring all those emotions and lay them at the feet of Jesus, who leads us gently as our Shepherd.
Just because the problems drown out the beauty, doesn’t mean the beauty is gone.
God places incredible worth on you and sees you with value.
Our expectations sometimes need a bit of shifting to bring us to a place of rising above whatever pain we find ourselves in.
I walk humbly before God, not taking myself too seriously and surrendering to the One who is able as I see what I lack.
We can allow insecurity to be a call back to reliance and trust in the One who holds us and provides all we need.
Fruit is not a result of trying harder, but of accessing the nutrients found in the Life of Christ within us.