Vocabulary.com defines Awestruck as: To be awestruck is to be full of complete wonder, amazement, or dread for something. I am awestruck by people who make stepping out look so easy. Through the years I have realized that even those where stepping out seems like second nature, they either do it afraid or they have... Continue Reading →
Energize
As much as every ounce of my flesh hesitates when it comes to stepping out, when I get to sharing about the Lord it energizes me. Once I take the step out, my shell comes off and I can just let His Spirit flow through me. Sometimes I am surprised at the things that flow... Continue Reading →
Discern, Heed, Obey
Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment changed by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. I feel like I can usually discern when someone is genuine versus telling me what they think I want... Continue Reading →
Arise, Shine, Your Light Has Come
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.” Isaiah 60:1 As I read this Scripture, there was a longing in my heart for something I have never seen. A sunrise in New Mexico. My husband is heading there for a job next week and I... Continue Reading →
Refining and Testing
“And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”” Zechariah 13:9 I admit... Continue Reading →
Complete Freedom
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 Christ paid the complete price for us to be free at Calvary. So when I carry sorrows, grief, worries, sickness, disease or sin, I have placed the yoke of slavery back on... Continue Reading →
They left it
“And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.” Mark 1:17-18 When we decide to follow Jesus, it will always require that we let go of something and that we move into action. At Jesus’ call, the disciples... Continue Reading →
Growth in the Brokenness #Write28Days
I had planned to mindlessly decompress in front of the television. I sat watching as the actress told her mom that although she realizes it is unreasonable she wished that her life was as important as those her mother worked to save. I was quickly filled with that panicky feeling that sets in as you... Continue Reading →
Christ in Me
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20 There is so much the... Continue Reading →
His Good Pleasure
“for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”Philippians 2:13 The amplified version of the Scripture says “For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening,... Continue Reading →
Restoring Voice 