Greetings!

It has been a long winter, but I feel a new season beginning to “spring” forth.

That is definitely a metaphor for life. We will go through these seasons that sometime feel like we have just been sucker punched. And, here's the thing...because our Father never takes His eyes off of us, He knows exactly what we stand in need of...and He will love us through it all. Our God is faithful, and He will never go back on His word, and His word says He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Our God can be a bridge during those times. Those times when we feel like we are about to go under. During those moments when we can't see Him, or feel Him...He sends us a lifeline...something to let us know that we are not alone. I love that. We can count on that. No matter how many times the enemy tries to set traps for us, the Lord is our Jehovah Nissi...our banner. He goes before us to lead the way to victory. We just have to remember to let Him lead, and to never take our eyes off Him.

The amazing thing about seasons is that they happen like clockwork. The Bible says, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22 KJV) We will always have seasons…and praise God…we will always have the Lord. He is our anchor, our strength, our promise, and our King. We can be assured that God will always show up. The word says that joy comes in the morning....if we keep looking up...we can be assured that our help is never far away.

There is healing, and deliverance in the word of God. Whatever we stand in need of can be found in His word. Keep believing, keep praying, keep worshipping, and keep praising.

Until next time…

Be blessed.

Greetings!

This past weekend, I went to a women’s conference with one of my sisters. The theme for the conference was, “Sisters Imagining Greater.” The title alone pulled me in, because right now, I need to believe God for greater. I need to believe…and we need to believe that even though things may sometimes seem too hard to bear…our God is still “greater” than any situation we may face.

The speakers at this event were two powerful women of God. They were both dynamic speakers with a gift for commanding your attention. They spoke on topics that mirrored the theme of the conference, and it left me wanting to believe that God’s plan is just that…His plan. We can’t change it, fix it, or make it happen any faster.

Many times, we short-change our destiny because we can’t “see” the vision God has in place. We need to begin seeing through God’s eyes. Our impact is tied directly to our belief that we are who God says we are, and that we can be who God says we can be.

The thing that really impressed me about this church was not the pastor, or the history of the church, which were both pretty great. No…it was this sweet spirit of fellowship. You could tell that it was genuine. They were not just putting on their game face for company…they really were glad you came. It showed in how they treated one another, and it showed in the way they treated each woman who came through that door. They made you feel like it wouldn’t have been the same without you. I love when women work together. We are so much more powerful when we celebrate one another. I left that conference inspired. And that helped me believe God for something greater.

Until next time…

Be blessed.

Greetings!

Yesterday, our group ministered at a local rehabilitation center. The preacher who spoke gave a demonstration using a heavy backpack to illustrate how we walk around weighted down by all of our burdens when Jesus is walking right beside us trying to “lift” those burdens from our shoulders.

We get so used to trying to handle things ourselves, that we don’t know how to rest in God. Resting in God doesn’t mean that we will never be anxious, or nervous, or afraid. It means that when we do begin to feel those things we can “cast our cares” on Him, and allow Him to carry our burdens. But, a lot of us feel that we are not being good stewards when we do that. Surely, we must not be managing our lives well, because we shouldn’t still have so many burdens. And besides that…it’s just rude to put your problems on someone else. But, it’s not being rude when you place your burdens on God…it’s being real.

We can’t go through this life alone, and we shouldn’t feel we have to. That’s a trick of the enemy. Sometimes, as Christians, we make these man-made rules that we can’t even maintain, and that keeps us in a place of defeat. We keep trying to relegate God to the same category that we place man. We believe that putting all our cares on God is like “copping out,” or getting God to do the things that we could actually do ourselves. That is not truth. God expects us to bring our burdens to Him. He is not like man. He knows that we need Him, and He loves us enough to wait for us to figure it out.

In Psalm 34:19 it says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” So, why are we struggling through trying to do something we were never made to do? Our job is to let God be God in our lives, and to trust Him with all of our “stuff.”  Then all we have to do is remember that He who holds the plan…holds our hand and that nothing we have done or may do will ever change that.

Until next time…

Be blessed.