The finish line for Jesus’ followers is being with Him face-to-face forever in utter bliss and blessedness after our lives on this earth are over, but how do we get to the finish line when this marathon called life can be so brutally challenging, gruelingly hard, seemingly impossible, incredibly busy, and totally exhausting? “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about…
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“No matter how I feel, I want to honor the Lord,” I told a sweet younger sister in the Lord. I was feeling pretty wiped out from being on the road full-time for the Lord for several years, from my ministry work, from a long-time painful personal trial, from all the solititude that comes with God’s calling for me, and…
God didn’t create humanity and then take a gargantuan God-sized cookie cutter and press it down on all people again and again to make us and our lives look all like each other. But would you agree sometimes we who are Jesus followers become preoccupied with other Christians and their lives and relationships with God and feel like our hearts…
The Holy Spirit said to me one day these words: “Timing is important. Way more important than you realize. It is fundamental to following me. You can do my will and miss my timing. You can have my timing and miss my will. You need to fulfill my will according to my timing. I have a plan and purpose for…
I had been reading a few books by famous women in ministry when I found myself feeling disappointed about my alone time with Jesus. In my estimate, I wasn’t measuring up to what I had determined was the quality and the beauty of these women’s alone time with Him. They called their time with Him devotional time. I didn’t even…