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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Ps. 145:18 Comfort for Your Difficult Day

Let's start with the Chinese food that I heated up in the microwave for lunch on Saturday. When I pulled out the plate, a piece of rice exploded and landed inside my nostril, burning me until I could retrieve ...

Created on 14 March 2018

16. 4 Wondrous Ways God Turns Terrible Trials to Tremendous Triumph

I turned toward a new friend seated beside me during a writer's conference. He's got to be kidding! Did I hear him right? Did he say what I thought he said? Those questions ricocheted in this crazy chica's ...

Created on 02 February 2018

17. 3 Spirit-Powered Steps to Help You Find Peace in Life's Storms

Recently, Steve and I were on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean participating in a radio summit cruise. When the ship first began to move out into the ocean, I began to feel a bit light-headed and dizzy. But ...

Created on 29 January 2018

18. The Place of Warfare: Where You Find Your Psalm 2 Inheritance

"Your greatest places of warfare will become your greatest places of inheritance!" This is the phrase the Holy Spirit spoke to me in the fall of 2014 while I was meditating on Psalm 2:7-8. In Psalm 2, ...

Created on 21 January 2018

19. A Challenging Life-Lesson From Champion Runner Wilma Rudolph

I pulled my van up next to the curb, and one little bedraggled second-grader dragged her book bag and long-ago-cast-off jacket into the car. "Hey sweet girl! How was your day?" Every afternoon begins the ...

Created on 11 January 2018

20. How God's Role as the Ultimate Recycler Prepares You for a Future of Abundance

Because God's knowledge of you is all-encompassing, He is able to meet your needs. He can meet your needs for unconditional love, acceptance, worth, value, recognition, security, comfort, nurture and emotional ...

Created on 10 January 2018