Tweet I have to admit, there was a silent sigh of relief many years ago when I realized that God had made me a Sender. Shew! I didn’t have to “go” anywhere. But reality soon sets in. Being a Sender is no small task. It’s purposeful, deliberate, challenging, time consuming …and I have failed miserably at it. However, as I sit and think back over the last eight years from that Perspectives course, I can see how God deepenedread more…
Tweet If you’ve been around church for any amount of time you’ve probably heard the term “the flesh” or “the sin nature.” Maybe even heard it called “the old man” or “the dead man.” I like that last one best. DEAD Problem is my inside me gets confused with the fact that my flesh is dead and tries to resurrect it. I feel like those people in the movie Clue after a few murders have happened.read more…
Tweet Knowing God’s plan for you is secondary to knowing God’s purpose for you — to become like Christ, know God, and glorify Him. (Romans 8:29 and John 17:3) I have a purpose in life. Don’t we all? I really have more of a purpose idea. Not even a statement, just an idea. Lord knows I’ve asked Him a hundred times to show me my great purpose in life. And He has. So, what do Iread more…
Tweet If you didn’t read yesterday’s post of 4 Simple Steps to Know the Will of God, please slide down and do that real quick. Knowing God’s will has been difficult for me at times, and at other times, something I just “knew.” There is the big teaching on God’s permissive will, His will for the Church as a whole, His will for the lost, His will for the saved, but most of the time Iread more…
Tweet I tweeted Knowing the will of God is in direct correlation to knowing and living by the Spirit of God. Cannot have one without the other. I personally have whined over and over about wanting to know the will of God. There are a couple of places in Scripture where it out-right says what His will is. Wanna see? M’kay… It is God’s will that you should be sanctified… 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Be joyful always;read more…
Tweet I was just thinking about sin and the concept of mold came up. Can’t blame my brain, I mean they are similar. They grow in warm places, ripe for things to grow that shouldn’t grow there. And, if we aren’t on our game, ugly things grow where things are supposed to be clean. (think shower) They are easily covered, but unless killed and removed, they keep coming back. Shower mold can sneak behind the wallsread more…
Tweet So, I read lots of posts and have written my fair share about the ups and downs of body image and food and size and …. on and on. You know the drill. Yet, when I read about the struggles that women face, Christian women face, concerning their bodies, something in me goes all a hay-wire. Something doesn’t sit right with me. I get irritated and sad all at the same time. There are aread more…
Tweet I just wrapped up teaching a six week series called “Living With Me.” Basically, we uncovered our Impostor. You know, the girl (or guy) inside your head who always counters the truth of God, or that voice inside your head who wants the entire world to be about you and how you feel. Yea, that person. What do we do with that person? How do we silence someone who lives in us. In a word:read more…
Tweet Yesterday I wrote about my One Word: Believe. As God showed me this, I realized that through my unbelief I had partnered with a very foul friend: Guilt, and her cousin, Condemnation. Between the two of them, I was being buried under a mountain of lies. I went to the library last week after many days of talking with my husband about many things in my (and our) life: Good things, things that I didn’tread more…
Tweet Today I get my glucose test. Today will determine if I have gestational diabetes again. Today I am believing that this disease will not rule this body…again. Today I am believing God in spite of earthy “proof” and evidences. Today I am healed. To God be all the Glory in Christ.
