Mental Health Meets Faith
Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. (Matt. 6:21) Recently, God has been speaking to me alot about value…what I value, along with where my value as an individual comes from. All of that should be wrapped up in Jesus, but if I am honest, I would have to say that there are times when I have allowed other things to slip into the seat of my utmost affections […]
Take delight in the Lord and He will give you your heart’s desires. (Ps. 37:4) Recently, I have been doing a lot of study pertaining to our thoughts and the mind. In a short span of time, I have read Breaking Free by Beth Moore, Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer and Heart Made Whole by Christa Gifford. (All excellent reads!) God is bringing me through the process of rewiring my brain, in order […]
I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of […]
A little over two weeks ago, I began leading a women’s Bible Study for my church based on the book Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. The book’s focus is how, as women, we can become more strategic and deliberate about prayer. It’s a book I enjoyed reading for myself and have been enjoying reading with the ladies at church as well. In the first chapter of the book, the author points out that many of us […]
Recently, I returned from a trip to Kona, Hawaii where I served as a part of the Missions Builders Program at Youth with a Mission’s (YWAM) University of the Nations. For the next several weeks, my blog posts will focus on all that God spoke to my heart during my time there. One particular night in Kona, as I was lying in bed, I began to fade into that fuzzy place between wakefulness and sleep. […]
Do you ever have those perfect storm moments in life? Those moments when everything seems to come crashing down all at once? I have experienced several of those moments over the course of my life. God reminded me recently of one particular time I struggled through a perfect storm. I came home one night and crawled into my bed. As I tossed and turned through the night, in the middle ground between sleep and consciousness, […]
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Luke 15:20 Not too long ago, I watched Finding Dory for the first time. I live with my pastors and their two ridiculously cute children. So, I get lots of opportunities to watch kids movies and I love them. It might sound […]
At one point several months ago, I was talking with a friend about seasons of waiting. All of us can relate to the feeling of waiting on God for answers to prayers that as of yet, go unanswered, or at least as far as we can tell. These seasons can be long and painful. Wrestling with physical and emotional pain, unmet longings and unfulfilled dreams for prolonged periods of time can wear on us and […]
For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create dry rivers in the wasteland. (Isa. 43:19) The first day of spring this year fell on March 20th. I am the kind of person who loathes winter. People have tried to explain to me the benefits of winter, but to me it’s dark, cold, snowy and […]
Demolition or Restoration? A couple of weeks before the start of 2017, I was praying about some circumstances on my way to work. It was one of those fervent, desperate types of prayers. I looked over and saw right in front of me a big white truck, upon which was written, “Restoration. Recovery. Reconstruction.” I felt in my spirit that God was saying that this is the work he is doing in my life and […]