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Do you ever feel like your joy is being stolen? I know I do. Suppose you can’t wait to get married, so you decide to find the perfect mate for yourself instead of waiting on God to work it out for you. It would be a terrible mistake to become so desperate that you settle
Hey guys! Have you ever been spending time with the Holy Spirit in the morning and keep getting super distracted? Like you CANNOT focus to save your life? That was my problem a couple days ago during my Jesus time. It was crazy! It is so frustrating, and I ended up texting my pastor about
TGIF! Oh wait, it’s Thursday. Do you ever have those days where you think it’s Friday when in all reality it’s not? I don’t know about you, but for me that is downright disappointing. You get your hopes all up, excited that it’s the last day of work before your weekend starts. It doesn’t matter
Have you ever told yourself that your life seemed to get harder once you accepted Jesus into your heart? Or maybe you even thought it wasn’t worth it to make that choice because your life was decent beforehand. You see, the devil doesn’t need to bother you if you aren’t saved. He wants to get
Fellowship: friendly association, especially with people who share one’s interest I hear the word fellowship thrown out a lot in church. For the longest time as a young person in the church, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. I just knew that when someone used that word, we were probably having some kind of
Today I was able to put some canned food in my food pantry at my church. This pantry has been a vision of mine for about two years. God put it on my heart, but I guess I wasn’t ready for the duties and hours it was going to take to make this happen at
Hey guys! So for the past few weeks at our life class we have been studying dangerous prayers. One of the prayers we are learning to pray is “search me”. I have been praying this in my time with the Lord and I got an answer… “Your time is coming.” I have been so discontent
Purpose: the reason for which something is done or created, or for which something exists We all have purpose. So often, I think people see themselves as a “waste of space”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone say “I don’t have purpose. I’m just here”. Or, people have said, “I don’t
Remember that saying in grade school, “I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything you say bounces off of me and sticks to you”? I think it taught us that words don’t matter very much, or we tried to tell ourselves that at least. But what we didn’t realize is that words can potentially do more harm than
Wellness: the state of being in good health, especially as an actively pursued goal I hear the word wellness quite a bit. Typically, this word is used in the context of physical and mental health, but I realized one day that I don’t completely know what wellness means. After finding the meaning, I quickly saw
by leaps and bounds 