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God is Satisfied in You
Read more: God is Satisfied in YouDo you ever feel like you just can’t live up to the life God has called you to? Do you ever feel like you don’t measure up? Have you ever felt like you’re just not enough? If you’ve ever felt inadequate or incapable… insufficient or invisible… a disappointment or a failure… be encouraged. I want…
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Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
Read more: Don’t Be Afraid to AskLately God has been reminding me of the power of prayer and boldness to believe He can move. To believe that He hears me. To believe that He wants good things for me. To fight for what He is cultivating. To ask. There was a time I used to feel uncomfortable asking God for something.…
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“I trust You, God. But…”
Read more: “I trust You, God. But…”God has been testing me lately in how and why I trust in Him. With opportunities arising that I’ve been excited about and the potential for entering into a new season of stability, it’s ironically been a rocky past couple of weeks. God’s challenging me about all of the things that I’ve always thought would…
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God Knows Exactly What to Do
Read more: God Knows Exactly What to DoI thought I was making good progress when it came to trusting in God’s ways. I wrote about the topic several months ago. I’ve been striving to let the Lord lead me to the places He wants to take me, even if that means traversing a very different road than I would have thought. And…
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Sweet Emotions
Read more: Sweet EmotionsFor the past year, I’ve found myself more aware of my emotions than I ever been. I used to not be very open when it came to expressing exactly how I felt. I used to be an emotion-stuffer. I stuffed my emotions. I bottled them up. I never let anybody see how I was feeling.…
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The Self-Checkout Line and 50 Shades of Grey
Read more: The Self-Checkout Line and 50 Shades of GreySo I have a confession. I encountered the 50 Shades of Grey DVD stand at Kroger last night. And I was tempted for a good while about whether or not I should get it. Especially since it was so appropriately situated next to the self-checkout line. How clever. As I walked around the store the…
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When I Can’t Find A Reason for God to Love Me
Read more: When I Can’t Find A Reason for God to Love MeGod’s love has never seemed fully unconditional to me. Before, I used to try to find reasons for God loving me. Before, there would always be something that I had done that I thought was good, simmering in the back of my mind to validate God’s reason to want to love me. And in the…
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Grace Motivates Purity
Read more: Grace Motivates PurityI used to assume that the idea of purity in itself motivated purity. Anytime that I glimpsed purity… purity in others, purity of the Lord, purity in the Word or purity manifested in the world I would be very drawn to it. Purity was, and still is, very appealing to me, beautiful to me, desirable…
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“God, I’m Tired.”
Read more: “God, I’m Tired.”Lately I’ve found myself longing for rest. Longing for things to slow down. Needing relaxation. Needing rejuvenation. With a busy schedule and responsibilities beckoning, I just wanted some time to relax. Getting ready to depart for a Christian young adult conference this past weekend called Passion, I was so excited to get away for a…
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The Secret Place
Read more: The Secret PlaceThere’s a place where the Lord longs to fellowship with us. A place where we can escape every other thing vying for our attention. A place where our circumstances fade in the peace of His comfort. A place where my flesh is rendered powerless. A place where the enemy cannot reach me. The place where the…
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