Casting Vision
As 2017 draws near, there are a number of ways to intentionally cast vision and seek the Lord's heart for the year ahead.
Looking Ahead
Taking some time to intentionally seek the Lord in prayer regarding the year ahead positions us to move into 2017 with vision, focus and clarity!
Looking Back, Moving Forward
For many of us, as we look back, 2016 held great moments and areas of victory. For others, 2016 may have been our most difficult year yet. There is power in looking back and thanking the Lord for His hand in your life in 2016.
Gratitude Creates Good Fruit
Be encouraged to delve deeper into all that gratitude holds so that perseverance, character and hope become more and more alive within you!
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This Advent Season I’m committing to slowing down in order to fully feel the weight of anticipation. In this effort, I want to focus on the significance that the arrival of Christ holds for my daily life. Sitting in anticipation is uncomfortable and risky. It’s exhilarating and hopeful…at first. Then it just leaves us weary. The Bible says that hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. (Proverbs 13:12)
Carrying Gratitude
Gratitude defined is a feeling of appreciation or thanks. It's interesting that gratitude is defined as a feeling. Our feelings provide a compass for our actions (good or bad!) and are triggered by our thoughts. So we can choose to think grateful thoughts, which will create grateful feelings and perhaps even lead to actions of gratitude towards ourselves, God and others!
Are You Bearing Good Fruit?
If we want our lives to produce good fruit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control - then we have to put in the work. Everyday I'm trying to get closer to looking like my Savior, fully knowing that I'll never attain perfection. (So very thankful for grace.)
Speaking To Yourself As A Friend
When left to my own devices, and without intentional thought, I’m entirely too hard on myself. A few years ago someone asked me a very humbling and challenging question that shifted the way I not only view myself, but challenged my concept of grace. In the midst of vocalizing one of my reoccurring and spiraling “should storms,” she delicately asked, “Would you speak to a friend going through the same situation like that?”
What is True?
No one is too messed up for God. Jesus cares. He cares about you, your story, your hurts and your pains, the things you love and your biggest dreams. He loves you and wants an amazing life for you.