If you have missed the introduction to the series check out last week’s post here. by Emily Sue Allen I could tell you many stories about times in life that I felt inadequate, weary, unable to overcome obstacles, incapable of repairing circumstances, and like my cup was totally empty. I could tell you stories from […]
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“Hurry up mom! We have to do the hard to get to the easy.” Yeah, she is pretty much right. Doesn’t make it any easier in the middle of a mountain climb (not really a mountain, more like a hill that feels like a mountain). Not the words I want to hear as I
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By Crystal Storms “If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:11b (NIV) Have you ever looked back at an accomplishment and thought only
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“Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life” Proverbs 4:23. We have an enemy who attacks our minds on a daily basis in hope to demolish anything we put our hands to. He is out to destroy our family, marriage, purpose, and ultimately our lives. The Bible is clear: The
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“He leads me along the right paths for His name sake” Psalm 23:3. Have you ever been in a season of uncertainty? Where you’re restless, lost, or not sure of the plan? I don’t mean just a few bad days of wandering. I mean an entire season. You wanted to resist it. You wanted to
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“Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.” Brokenness. Not something we celebrate or even invite into our lives. No one wants to be broken and in need. Feels very unnatural to come to the end of ourselves with nowhere to go but up. Yet, deep intimate prayer is birthed from a
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It’s 10pm and I’m making sandwiches. You read that right…sandwiches at 10 at night?! Why might you ask. Because I’m a mom. A mom of four. A mom of four who just placed all four of her kids in school for the first time. And it’s kinda a shock to our system. See for the
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Dressed to the nine, suitcases packed, with book proposal perfectly typed and ready to go. Hair and nails freshly done, prayed up and ready to take on this writing conference with full confidence, knowing God has something HUGE in-store for me. Yeah, that wasn’t me on a hot July afternoon. I was the woman doubting.
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“Hurry up!” “Brush your teeth!” “Let’s go, we are running late!” They may or may not have gotten in a fight in the bathroom over a brush, and I may or may not have lost it. Yelling they needed to love each other. The youngest can’t find his shoes and the oldest continues to cause
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Love even when it seems difficult. I tell my daughter driving in the car on the way to the store. She tells me she doesn’t understand how I could continue to love someone even when they hurt me. Even when their words cut so deeply. Even when they chose to not love, and hit me
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