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Feeling Scared?

Feeling scared? I am even as I write this. Not just a little scared. Really, really scared. I am prone to fear, worry, anxiety, and unbelief, and if I am not careful and recognize it as sin and get rid of it promptly, I can spiral downhill quickly, very uncomfortably, and worst of all sinfully. Why am I scared? I am tempted to tell you, but I am compelled by God simply to deliver this message about what to do when we’re scared.

The most obvious and tempting thing to do when I’m scared is to try ...

I Want God to Know This!

Surely I must have the worst singing voice in the world, but I love to sing to the Lord and make up little songs to sing to Him. One day, I sang, “I want you to know how much I love you!” Know what struck me? It’s one thing for God to know we love Him, and well we should as we’re commanded to love Him! But should we not be fervent and zealous and deeply passionate and totally devoted in our love for Him whereby we desire and strive toward our very thoughts, feelings, words, and actions showing f...

Please Put This On!

I love how we are told in the Bible to “put off” whom we used to be before we repented and received Jesus Christ as Lord and to “put on” the person God created us to be. And how LOVE is what we are to “put on” above all else. In fact, LOVE is considered the “bond of perfectness” – or “completion” per Strong’s concordance.

I like to think of taking off our old clothes and putting on new ones. Getting rid of our old wardrobe and wearing our new wardrobe. When we believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and...

A Warning About Kindness

With countless people worldwide turned away from the Lord, love and all the ways in which love is meant to be expressed including in kindness seem to be at a tragic and perhaps unprecedented low. With a seeming scarcity of kindness, I would imagine people likely hunger and thirst for love – and kindness. And for those of us like myself with personal histories of rejection, abandonment, abuse, hurt, heartache, tragedies, and brokenness, we may crave kindness and love even more so. But no matter t...

The Woman with Curls

I was daydreaming one morning when suddenly I found myself thinking of the beautiful natural hair curls of a woman who had been in my life a little bit some years ago. It was a funny, and somewhat odd, thing to remember, I mused. But truth is we may remember all sorts of different things about people from the tiniest of details to the really big things, don’t we? This message isn’t about curls, mind you. It is about this.

When people you have met through the years look back at crossing paths wit...

Love Doesn’t Do This!

God makes so ultra clear in the Bible what the love to which He calls us should and shouldn’t think, say, and do. And to obey His greatest commands to love Him with all our hearts and to love others as ourselves, we need to know – and practice – what love is to do. And we should know – and NOT practice – what love is not to do. One thing God makes clear is that in loving Him and others, we are NOT to boast about ourselves and we are NOT to be prideful.

Showing off and thinking, speaking, and act...

Is Love Your Way of Life?

I am afraid many as I once did think of love as merely an emotion and that our lives should be “rooted and grounded” in our emotions whereby we should think, speak, and act according to how we feel. As though we should only love, praise, honor, adore, worship, serve, obey, and glorify  God when we feel love toward Him. As though we should only demonstrate love toward others and love and serve them with the love of Jesus when we feel love for them. Truth is God’s greatest commands to love Him wit...

Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself,” the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart. “Look at all you have I have already provided.”

I didn’t even see my self-pity until the Lord saw fit to point it out. I repented. Not just for that. But for the fear, doubt, worry, and anxiety.

I had been focusing on what I didn’t have instead of being thankful to the Lord for all He has given me all along the way – most importantly Himself and a forever relationship with Him!

Instead of looking to the Lord and His Word and t...

Beautiful Assignment God Gave Me

“Love her,” the Holy Spirit spoke strongly to my heart regarding someone about whom I was deeply concerned. “That is your assignment.”

Weren’t there a million things I was supposed to do to help her? Wasn’t God going to give me tons of instructions? Didn’t I have a super big assignment in her life? Yes, I did. But rather than give me any number of things to do to help this person, God wanted me simply to LOVE her!

God may give us any number of instructions to help people including sharing the Go...