I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It’s like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.
Month: January 2024
In the Bible, ordination – I don’t see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it’s whether you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you’re anointed by God, whether you’re called by God, whether you’re obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don’t see any purpose for me in being ordained.
In the Bible, ordination – I don’t see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it’s whether you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you’re anointed by God, whether you’re called by God, whether you’re obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don’t see any purpose for me in being ordained.
I’m living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He’s pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they’ll be pleased.
I’m living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He’s pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they’ll be pleased.
If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?
If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?
Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.
Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.
When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn’t going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that’s been my aim. Some people don’t understand, but you can’t please everybody anyway.
When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn’t going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that’s been my aim. Some people don’t understand, but you can’t please everybody anyway.
Sometimes when you’re suffering really intensely, you can’t pray for yourself.
Sometimes when you’re suffering really intensely, you can’t pray for yourself.
Abraham wasn’t perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn’t quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
Abraham wasn’t perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn’t quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there.
Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there.
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It’s the home of your dreams!
You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It’s the home of your dreams!
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we’re too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we’re too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.
The ultimate goal for me in prayer is to draw near to God…to fall in step with him…to discern his will so that my life might be lived accordingly…to discover what burdens are on his heart that I might take them into my own heart, then pray them back to him.
The ultimate goal for me in prayer is to draw near to God…to fall in step with him…to discern his will so that my life might be lived accordingly… to discover what burdens are on his heart that I might take them into my own heart, then pray them back to him.
Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith – especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone – with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.
Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith – especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone – with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.