Tag: encouragement
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Let Me Pray for You
I’ll start: Sometimes, I feel too socially awkward to be used by God. And yes, I’m going to pray for myself, too! Father, we come to you today baring our fears and insecurities. I confess sometimes I feel “less than” socially. Help me remember that it’s not about me, it’s about You. 2 Timothy 1:7…
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Psalm 150 Inspired
Psalm 150 inspired My Father, my gracious God, my King— I praise You as You rule in Heaven, preparing a place for us in your glory. I praise You for Your mighty works— the way You stretched out the galaxies, formed sand and sea, and etched Your fingerprints into all of creation. I praise You…
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I am NOT enough.
“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast al the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Friend, please hear the love and concern in my voice when I say: I…
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Shifting our Focus from Failure to Forgiveness
“ … as far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him” (Psalm 103:12-13). Sometimes I let my failures define me. The words I wish I hadn’t said, the…
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How Great Her Worth: A Prayer
Today I am praying for you, my friend. For the woman who feels overwhelmed and inadequate for all she faces… For the one who is walking quietly through life wondering if she is seen, if her life leaves any ripples as she passes by… For the one standing at a crossroads, wondering if what lies…
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Yearning to Belong
Jeremiah 30:22: “And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.” Yearning to belong. It is a feeling I have lived with most of my life. Never quite fitting in, never quite finding “my people.” Like me, do you sometimes find yourself wondering is anyone truly knows you and “gets” you? As…
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A Battle Cry of Truth
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jermiah 31:3b.) Satan has been whispering his same old lies to me lately. Well, that was awkward. Did you really think you fit in? Maybe they want what you have to offer, but they don’t really want you.…
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Becoming with God
“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). I am near the end of my first career, my kids are growing up and leaving home, and I think I am just now figuring out who…
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Esther 4:14 Inspired
It can be hard to see our purpose, our beauty, our story in this big, demanding world. God’s words of truth and love are all-too-often drowned out by words of comparison, self-criticism, and doubt. Today my thoughts have been on you, the small, simple soul reading these words. I want you to know that you…
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When Life Feels Unsettled
Matthew 7:24-27: “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” I’ve been waking up feeling off-kilter lately. I find myself caught in a strange season. It is filled with emotional highs and lows,…