Tag: encouragement
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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,…
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Finding God’s Truth in the Turmoil
My small, simple soul has been dealing with a big, daunting issue. An emotional issue that has been making me feel all the wrong kinds of small. Instead of small and safe in my Father’s embrace, I feel small and vulnerable. Small and not enough. I’m sure you have faced your own big life…
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I Can Fix That!
1 Corinthians 1:19: For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” I am a fixer. If one of my sons needs to move, I’m online checking out apartments and local listings. If someone I love is facing a medical diagnosis, I’m looking…
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Are You Holding Back Your Dreams?
Psalm 62:8: Trust in him at all times, people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. I didn’t realize I was holding a piece of myself back from God. I had been harboring a desire, a fear, a longing that I felt simply wasn’t mine to claim. It felt…
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Falling Apart to Fall in Love
O God, You are my God, earnestly will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh faints for You, as in a dry and weary land where no water is. Psalm 63:1 For years I prayed for a deep, heart-felt, even desperate longing for God. I wanted to desire God above…