Read MoreSo let me encourage you (and myself!) with the same encouragement I give to my daughter in the car – speak the truth back to him and then ignore what he’s saying to you. Bind up that liar with the truth of the Word! Renew your own mind to believe it and remain steadfast in it. He’s lying!
Read MoreSometimes, when my soul is dry like that, it’s like I don’t even want to try to come before the Lord because I’m afraid I’ll just get distracted by something or someone and then I’ll be more agitated than I was before I began.
Someday my girls will leave home….
Read More“But as you read and abide in that secret place, you’ll bear my fruit and live in my grace.”
Read MoreAnnette explains the importance of scripture memorization!
Read MoreLike a child to Father’s lap
He calls me and I run
I come to the place
Where every battle’s won
His steadfast love and mercy are available to all yet unrealized by many— but oh how your posture changes and you walk taller and with grander purpose knowing that you’re crowned in His love. Oh how that crown of His steadfast love shapes identity, enhances beauty, and marks those who bear it with something others see even from far off. It’s exquisite, unearned and cannot be replicated. Yet because of Jesus, it’s readily available to all who would just accept it.
Read MoreEver had the Holy Spirit just hit you with something? Like there was something so unmistakably for you in that very moment?
The other day at a church service…
Read MoreWe often assume that because we didn’t see what we asked to see, in the moment we asked to see it, that God didn’t listen or respond. But that feeling isn’t the truth and it’s definitely not a sound resting place for moving into 2019.
In our grief, He invites us into His presence and takes our brokenness and makes something new from it— but we have to be willing to bring it to Him.
Simeon obeyed the prompting by the Lord’s Spirit in something as mundane as where to go and when to go, and in those small steps he encountered the Presence of Jesus face to face.
Oh, what God can do with our sorrows when we shift failed expectations to expecting His Presence instead.
The testimony of John the Baptist was “Jesus is coming;” the testimony of our lives is “Jesus came,” and our lives are changed.
Read MoreJesus was born into what was already a lineage of legacy of God looking to the hearts of men and not statutes. Creating something mighty from something mundane.
Read MoreThen Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.
God just knows that women need each other for the highs and lows that make up the journey of life—and relationships that produce revelation of Him are the absolute best.
Early Christmas Presence—The Presence of Jesus was realized in the scrolls but neglected in the hearts of the Chief Priests and Scribes; religion had them content with explanations rather than personal encounters.
Like Mary, we have both calling and invitation to birth the light of Jesus Christ into the darkness of the world around us
