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January 29, 2024

January 29, 2024

God’s wisdom and revelation are free gifts to believers who seek and ask. They are key ingredients to spiritual growth. One of the major benefits of spiritual growth is the opening of a pathway to healthy and happy relationships. So, my tip for today is to make spiritual growth a priority in your life. God wants an increasingly intimate relationship with you!

 

As you grow closer to the Lord, you will come to a deeper understanding of His great love for you. Your capacity to love others will be enlarged, and you will become better equipped and enabled to establish and maintain healthy and enjoyable relationships. You will also enjoy a host of other benefits. Most importantly, you will establish a more intimate relationship with God.

 

Are you up for thinking and praying about ways that you can experience spiritual growth and greater intimacy with God?

January 22, 2024

January 22, 2024

Jesus answers His disciples question about what they should pray for in Luke 11:9, telling them “seek, and you will find”.

 

The verse quoted above in the picture provides the answer to the question of what each of us needs to focus on. Who, rather than what, is the key for our focus. 

 

Seeking the Lord’s presence includes admitting that we are needy, helpless even. This is difficult for most of us, but an essential step toward arriving at a place of trust and dependence on God.

 

No matter how difficult our circumstances, as we seek the Lord’s presence, He redirects our minds to things above. In the process, we glorify God as we focus on Him and His strength and ability to meet our needs.

 

Putting ourselves in His presence brings us peace, joy, and contentment, all of which leads to rejoicing! “In His presence there is fullness of joy!” (Psalm 16:11)

 

As we seek, He confirms His presence with us, guides us, and provides everything that we need for the situation at hand.

 

Have you tried seeking His presence recently?

January 15, 2024

January 15, 2024

I love this quote by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as one I heard today in an interview with his daughter, Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King ~

 

“My father was a living epistle. He literally embodied the Spirit of Christ. There’s a power in believing and lining yourself up with God’s Word.”

 

Taking the first step is so important! When we exercise our faith, and our desires are lined up with God’s Word, the Lord will meet us there.

January 8, 2024

January 8, 2024

Transformation is a primary key to moving forward and achieving a closer walk with the Lord. I am so grateful to the Lord for His transformational power, His healing, and the knowledge that He’s not finished with me yet!

 

By allowing God to work in me, through challenges that have come my way, I am able to play a part in paying His work forward by helping others to experience God’s healing as well. It has become increasingly clear to me that God allows us to go through hard times for good reason. He uses everything for good! (Romans 8:28)

 

Of course, God works the transformation. My part in it is simply allowing Him to transform me, hopefully, day by day, into the image of Christ. While this goal won’t be fully achieved until I go to be with Him, I have the use of, and access to, the knowledge and wisdom that He gives me to help others along the same path toward their own transformation.  

 

It’s an added blessing to me to be able to help others as I work to pay it forward!

January 1, 2024

JanuarY 1, 2024

Here’s to your health in 2024!

 

God desires for His children to be healthy and to enjoy healthy, loving relationships.

 

Loving others well begins with understanding and accepting God’s love for you and understanding that you are a precious child of God!

 

As He promises to bring health and healing to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 33:6), He wants you to be complete in Him and to fulfill His plan and purpose for you.

 

He will heal His people and they will enjoy abundant peace and security!

 

Are you going to accept God’s best for you in the new year?

December 25, 2023

December 25, 2023

Merry Christmas!

 

I love the comforting thought of God always being with me.

 

Charles Stanley comments that “Because of the indwelling Christ, believers are never separated from His permanent presence. We are in Christ and He is in us. What an encouragement! What a comfort! What an assurance! We always have a shoulder to lean on – the broad shoulders of Immanuel. We always have someone to listen to our heartache – our constant Companion and Friend, Jesus”.

 

Isn’t this a wonderful gift?!

December 18, 2023

December 18, 2023

When reading these verses, I can’t help being reminded of Linus in The Charlie Brown Christmas Special, reciting them on stage in the Christmas play. Reciting these words, he redirects his friends to the true meaning of the celebration of Christmas.

 

Our attention is often directed elsewhere: finding the perfect Christmas tree, a family  gathering, presents, etc. 

 

Linus reminds us that scripture focuses on celebrating the joy of welcoming Jesus as our Savior and the good news of His coming to rescue us and bring us abundant life with Him here on earth and eternal life with Him in His kingdom. He is the ultimate Christmas gift. All we have to do is accept it and embrace it.

 

(John 1:12)  “ . . . as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”  

 

This is a gift for ALL people, everywhere. Receiving it brings us to a place where we can’t help but “Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS”! (Philippians 4:4)

 

“But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them. That those who love your name may exalt in you.” (Psalm 5:11)  We have reason to sing, to sing from our hearts to the Lord. “Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob”! (Psalm 81:1) 

 

Have you received the ultimate gift? Are you aware of His presence with you? Are you singing His praise this Christmas ?

December 11, 2023

December 11, 2023

As beautiful as it is, the Christmas season has a way of stirring up and increasing our anxiety.

 

Before you allow your mind to wander down the road of worry, cry out to your heavenly Father!

 

He hears your prayers!  Even Jesus cried out to His Father when he was burdened here on earth.

 

When you give your worries to the Lord, you shift your focus from your problems to your loving Father, who is all-knowing and all-powerful.

 

As we’re told in 1 Peter 5:7, “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”

 

If you can put your focus on God’s ultimate Christmas gift to us, you’ll discover that you can trust that God is ready to take your cares into His hands.

December 4, 2023

December 4, 2023

We all experience various forms of turmoil in our lives. Often it’s a relationship that causes pain and suffering. We all would like to experience greater peace and contentment despite the storms that sometimes rage around us.

 

It is possible! This quote about peace from Charles Stanley is worth a close reading…

 

“God’s peace is not an escape from reality. We are not transfixed or somehow mentally ‘removed’ from feeling pain or struggling…Rather, peace is an undergirding rock-solid foundation so that no matter the tears we cry or the sorrow we feel, deep down inside we know with an abiding assurance that God is with us. God is in control, and the joy of the Lord is going to emerge far greater than any depth of agony we may be experiencing.”

 

This kind of peace is a principal focus of my coaching practice.

 

Interested?

November 27, 2023

November 27, 2023

Praying for someone who has hurt us is not an easy thing to do.

 

Forgiving them is even tougher.  But keep in mind that allowing someone to keep hurting you is not a criteria of forgiveness.

 

Add to that the fact that God welcomes your cry for help with forgiving. Along with it, He’ll provide restoration, healing of your heart, strengthened faith and His peace!

 

Also, you’ll have an answer to the question: “ What have I learned from being wounded?”