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1. Fulfilling Your Calling When God Is Silent

Have you ever felt confused about the future? Have you ever woken up with a sense of anxiety about the direction of your life? Do you want more for your life but feel lost in determining how to have more? ...

Created on 30 October 2018

2. 4 Choices to Help You Cultivate a Resilient Heart

Discouragement hits all of us at times. The disappointments and challenges of life leave us feeling drained and dismayed. We've all been there. The question is, how do we bounce back from discouragement? ...

Created on 29 October 2018

3. Your Isaiah 61 Encouragement to Persevere Under Trial

Remember the song, "Tall Oaks from Acorns Grow"? It's a cute children's song—one I hadn't thought of in decades ... until I began catching up on long overdue yardwork. For the past two years, circumstances ...

Created on 18 October 2018

4. Called as a Woman in Leadership? Follow These Bold, Biblical Examples

Women in leadership—what a trendy topic! Although I guess it would only be this trendy because we think it's something new and scandalous. Various societal systems of the past have implied that it's unsuitable ...

Created on 18 October 2018

5. The Secret to Powerful Peace in the Midst of Your Swirling Storm

During a recent trip, I held the arm of the flight attendant guiding me to my seat inside the airplane. "Here's your seat, Mrs. Eckles," she said. Not the Bulkhead Seat! After I settled in, I realized ...

Created on 05 October 2018

6. How Your Terrible Trials Can Become Your Teacher

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of." —Charles Spurgeon I agree with Charles Spurgeon: Trials are indeed a revelation. They are meant to be our teachers, ...

Created on 28 September 2018

7. What to Do When You Feel Stuck in a Waiting Season

Are you in a season of waiting? Perhaps you feel that your life is on pause or your dreams are on hold. Maybe you have prayed and fasted and have deeply desired a different reality, but you are living ...

Created on 06 September 2018

8. 3 Timely Tips From the Book of Job About Dealing With Difficult Circumstances

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. You can read Part 1 here: "How the Book of Job Can Help You Break Your Depression." The life of Job is truly epic: a rich man who loses almost everything, including ...

Created on 30 August 2018

9. 4 Joy-Filled Ways to Find Life in Your Time of Waiting

Life does not begin based on earthy relationships. You may be waiting to really live after you find that best friend, or spouse, or have your own children, or be part of a supportive work team or a gain ...

Created on 22 August 2018

10. 5 Spirit-Led Steps for When You Feel Like God Doesn't Care

Do you ever feel like God doesn't care? Someone says, "God is good." And you respond, "All the time!" And yet part of your heart isn't tracking. If God really cared, wouldn't things be better? What do ...

Created on 12 August 2018

11. Transforming Your Frustrating Wait Into the Most Fruitful Time of Your Life

Do you wait well? Not many of us do, so if you feel like an abysmal failure when it comes to the waiting game, you are certainly not alone. However, the truth is, everyone is waiting for something. Moms ...

Created on 26 July 2018

12. How You Can See God's Living Love in Life's Deepest Darkness

Some friends and I sat at a table in a local restaurant. "Hi Amy!" I said looking in the direction of my friend's 3-year-old. "Did you like your visit to Disney World?" She didn't answer. "Honey," her ...

Created on 17 July 2018

13. Why This Common Mindset Among Christians Is Totally Wrong

... ited! Get very excited about your trial because it is going to turn you into something better than you could have been without the trial. You are about to become a man or a woman of perseverance who no  ...

Created on 12 July 2018

14. Your Psalm 37 Way to Wait Without Going Crazy

Waiting is not my forte. Can you relate? Over the last few years I've been asking God to uproot a sense of hurry in my spirit and replace that with patience. Here's the thing: When you ask God something ...

Created on 18 June 2018

15. 3 Truths to Help You Soar When Life Stinks

"And you can now get 'Mature Manure,' the radio announcer said, "and you'll have the greenest grass ever." Mature manure? Who ever heard of that? But as odd as its name, so was its effect. It turns out ...

Created on 01 June 2018

16. Truth-Filled Tips to Help You Find the Treasure in Your Times of Trouble

Think back to the times you've made some significant step forward—overcoming a bad habit, developing a new skill, learning a significant new insight, or breaking free from something negative in your past. ...

Created on 13 May 2018

17. 3 Spirit-Powered Secrets to Help You Celebrate God's Work in You Even When Others Don't

I wonder if you've ever had an ah-ha moment with God and then wondered, Did that really happen? Or maybe God has done a miraculous work of healing in your life, and after a while you doubted, "Did God ...

Created on 23 April 2018

18. Why You Should Keep Running Toward Your Healing

The winner of the race is not sitting down on the sidelines. This person is not hidden from view, asleep, or complaining because the race is so difficult, but actively running. And the people watching ...

Created on 13 April 2018

19. Your Key to Fully Embracing Abundant Life

...  we want it, regardless of our circumstances. This mentality is not biblical, it isn't noble, and it's robbing us of an important kingdom concept—perseverance. Without which, we forget how to wait on G ...

Created on 05 April 2018

20. The Surprising Place You're Sure to Supernaturally Connect With God

We had this perfect plan, where I was going to shine in the marathon weeks of methodically packing and moving, and he was going to be stellar in the end sprint. Because that's how we roll. Except we didn't ...

Created on 29 March 2018