Pain is a large part of everyone’s life. It comes in many forms – grief, depression, stress, anxiety, loss, trauma, sexual molestation, abuse (both physical and emotional), physical pain . . . the list goes on and on. Pain became a part of our world as soon as sin entered in. The question is how do we as Christians deal with it? This is an issue I (Rebecca) struggled with early in my walk with the Lord. In fact, almost immediately after I made the decision to make Jesus Christ the total Master over every area of my life. Psalm 91 was quickly pointed out to me as the solution. [Read more…]

Some of you are so discouraged by unfulfilled dreams that you actually wish you were dead. I want to share with you a message the Holy Spirit gave to me early this morning when I thought my dreams had died, too. [Read more…]

Drained. Sapped. Empty. Whatever adjective you’d like to use . . . the message is the same: we’re running on empty. We find ourselves depleted of hope because life just isn’t meeting our expectations. We’ve exhausted ourselves seemingly to the point of no return. In our efforts to “press in” and “press on,” we seek God, yet we find our faith is debilitated because we simply haven’t been filling our time with His presence. When we cry out, “Where is God?” we find that He is there . . . He’s been there all along . . . it’s where we’ve been that’s the big question. [Read more…]

Like an uninvited guest, Doubt shows up at the most inopportune times – usually it’s when life is “messy . . . we haven’t had time to get things in order and it appears that everything is falling apart at the seams. Just when we begin to grasp onto whatever is left of hope, Doubt comes knocking at the door. But, when we find doubt knocking, we should be sure and let Faith answer. [Read more…]

Did you realize that the harvest of your tomorrow depends on the seed you sow today? What you will be doing in the future depends on the type of seed you sow now.

In fact, what you are experiencing now is due to the kind of seed you sowed in the past. If you do not like your present harvest, and do not want more of the same this year, you will have to change your seed. [Read more…]

The language we use to communicate with another is like a knife. In the hands of a
careful and skilled surgeon, a knife can work to do great good. But in the hands of a
careless and ignorant person, a knife can cause great harm, cutting into ribbons instead of providing for healing. Exactly as with our words. [Read more…]