Thoughts By Women

2023-05-19

Are You Afraid to Fully Surrender to God?

Many people say, “Sure, I believe in God. I’ve gone to church most of my

2023-05-18

Make the Most of Every Opportunity

How would you like to be Jonah with a doom and gloom warning message for these people? He delivered this message to a city of one hundred and twenty thousand people at the time - Nineveh.

2023-05-17

The Fabric of My Faith

Faith is woven throughout the everyday fabric of my life, in the big and small circumstances, in the hard and perplexing uncertainties, and in the quiet moments when God is calling my name, drawing me near and asking me to follow wherever He leads. I will choose faith because this is what God desires.

2023-05-16

Squeezing God In

Be creative about how you squeeze God into your day. Talk with him as you wait in bumper-to-bumper traffic, or in that fast food line.

2023-05-15

When We Dare to Let God be For Us

“Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. . . Rest in the Lord.” (Psalm 37:5,7)

2023-05-13

Soul Quiet

I confess, I am rarely quiet. It is go, go, go. Do, do, do. And at the end of the day, it’s difficult to turn off my brain and rest.

2023-05-12

Clarifying your Need

I have noticed, sometimes, when I’m sitting by the side of life’s road, crying out to Jesus for mercy, he stops, calls me closer and asks, “What do you want me to do for you?”

2023-05-11

Lifted Up

Why are you cast down today? God gives us hope. We can cling to it. Hold on and believe it.

2023-05-10

Precious

Poem: Precious. Precious Lord the One who gives Life and sustains me I pause..... Just to love on You..... to bless You ....Make You large in my life.

2023-05-09

Open Wide

Imagine if a baby bird decided he would rather fend for himself. How far would he make it from the nest? How soon would he require the sustaining influence of his mother’s care again?

2023-05-08

Kindness is Contagious

“Be Kind and compassionate one to another”, the Bible tells us. Why not today? It doesn’t have to be a meal—it could be a smile, opening the door for someone, or offering to baby sit, weed someone’s garden—

2023-05-07

Peace I Leave With You

What difficult experience do you find yourself in right now? What are you dreading? Can you visualize Jesus in that situation?

2023-05-06

Impatient Heart, Be Still

Have you ever been caught up in any web of impatience? God is a God of time and order. He requires us to uphold that very important Christian virtue – patience.

2023-05-05

What’s on Your Mind?

Guarding our thoughts, being sober-minded, and meditating on eternal truth will produce a transformation the Bible calls the “renewing of the mind.” (Romans 12:2)

2023-05-04

Seeing Like Jesus

Even Christians with dedicated “world vision” grow weary of the world’s needs. We quickly turn the magazine pages so as not to gaze too long on the sad face of yet another child with a cleft lip.

2023-05-03

The Fruit of Our Lips

God calls us to openly acknowledge Jesus as our Lord and Messiah. The apostles rejoiced because their disgrace came from being aligned with Jesus.

2023-05-02

So Much More

The truth of the gospel is this: there is more to life than what we are facing, suffering or rejoicing in right now.

2023-05-01

What is Best?

Discerning what is BEST leads to fruitful living that pleases God. The instruction is specific.

2023-04-30

God is Our Comfort

Isaiah 66:13 “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you…” In our culture comfort is revered. We are made to feel that we’re entitled to the good life of health, success, and happiness especially if we’re Christians.

2023-04-29

My Weakness, God’s Strength

But when chemo made me helpless as a newborn kitten, I finally realized control was an illusion. I humbly learned that I had no power of my own. I had zero strength and learned to lean fully on God for the first time in my life.

2023-04-28

Love: Answer to Hostility

Is there someone in your life that is hurting you but who needs your love and your blessing? How will you begin returning good for evil?

2023-04-27

The Debt We Always Owe

Recently, the Lord enabled me to get out from under a debt that would have taken years to pay off. As soon as it was paid, I logged into my account to look at the zero next to my loan and to bask in the feeling of "Paid in Full."

2023-04-26

Nothing On My Own

The Spirit shows us God’s goodness, his glory, and his power. The Spirit reminds us of Jesus’ obedience, his sacrifice, and his love. By revealing God’s character and reminding us of God’s commands, the Spirit guides us to do nothing on our own, but only the will of the Father.

2023-04-25

Cling to the Lord

Are you clinging to the Lord? When you are clinging to Him, you will go where He is going and fit into His way. It is an act of the will.

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