I am currently finishing up the Flourish Devotional and Study Steadfast: Cultivating a Heart Like Mary by Jennifer R Kochert and Mindy Kiker. This week I have been reading, looking at, dissecting, discovering in Luke 2:19, “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” We need to practice awareness and notice the …
Tag: believe
Decide to Believe.
Decide to believe and then practice believing until you believe. Believe you are worthy of love. Believe you are loved. Believe you belong wherever you are, doing whatever you’re doing. Be intentional about believing God’s Truth about you. You are a child of God. You are loved by The King. You are filled with the …
Commit to LOVE.
“Receiving love is the key to experiencing more love and that begins in your mind by deciding to receive the love that God has given us.” God’s love is His gift to us. Jesus came to bring us the gift of LOVE. God gave us His Holy Spirit to live in us so we would …
The World Isn’t as It Should Be
“The world isn’t as it should be.” I’ve read that sentence in two Advent devotionals this year. I understand that the world is not as God originally created it, the perfect garden. I thought about saying the world is not as God intended but then I was thinking He had to know that man was …
Joy to the World
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10 There are things in life that happen that cause us to be afraid. God gave us our fear instinct/feeling, but He does not want us to …
The Soul Felt Its Worth
Do you know your worth? Do you feel you have worth? Do you agree with God about your worth? Jesus came to bring us gifts. The gifts of life, love, peace, hope, joy, salvation, freedom, worth, and value to name a few. Do you receive His gifts? Do you accept them as your own? Or …
A weary world rejoices!
I am not sure if you believe in God or not. Or maybe I should say I am not sure if you trust in God or not because I think lots of people claim to believe in God, but our lives do not reflect trust in God. I have believed in God since I was …
LOVE.
Love is a skill you learn. Love is a thought, a feeling, an action, and a result. “Love your neighbor (the people in your life: family, friends, strangers) as yourself.” We must know love to offer love. We practice loving. To live a life of unconditional love, we must believe we are loved, know we …
Searching.
I sometimes feel like I am on a constant search to find the “thing” that will make me “better.” We seriously sometimes think there is some thing or some circumstance that will make us better. We think, once I get married, once I have kids, once I get that job, or the promotion, or when …
Practice believing.
We all want someone else to be kind to us, to believe in us, to support us, and encourage us, and tell us we are doing a good job. To include us and make us feel good about ourselves. And that is great if we have it. But I want to ask you, are you …
seeking and discovering a better WAY 