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Join My Book Club That’s right! I am hosting a book club on Facebook called, The Strange Readers Cafe` and I would love for you to join me. For the next 75-days (from Oct. 3 to Dec. 16) we will be reading Can You See Me, Now? in this private Facebook group together. How do […]

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“No one calls on your name, striving to take hol

“No one calls on your name, striving to take hold of you.” Isaiah 64:7

This is Isaiah’s complaint -
People who identify as Worshipers of God - are not approaching Him in an earnest and believing faith.

Charles Spurgeon illuminates what this looks like today -

“Few people stir up themselves to take hold of the living God, few grapple with spiritual matters in downright earnestness and bring them before the Lord with resolute faith.”

Paul boast that he wants to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of him. So he presses on…(Phil. 3)

Let us break free a of wishy washy passionless pursuit -to pursue something more—

How?

Stir yourself up - By bold and believing prayer.

If you are not sure we what to pray, a start with this: Lord, help me learn what it means to ‘take hold of you’…believing He will.

You and me in deep relationship with Him - is His desire. He will surely answer. ❤️

#believingprayer #prayer #sheprays #sheyearns #christianquotes #charlesspurgeon #takehold #goodnews #digitalart

What a privilege - You and I are invited — no -

What a privilege -
You and I are invited — no - instructed to utilize the strength of the Lord.

Today - let’s ask for Him to strengthen us - as we are called to be made strong.

And let us rejoice that there is more grit and power in the fight for our lives to look more like Jesus than we can muster alone.

🙏💪🙏💪🙏💪🙏

#strongerinjesus
#christian #bible #sheyearns #goodnews #digitalart #shereadstruth

“Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and t

“Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but a slaves of Christ….”

This is the context for which we are to do God’s will from the heart.

A large part of the population ranked as slaves in the culture to who this letter was originally written.

It’s a call to serve in our daily work with a good attitude no matter how contentious or secular or monotonous it may be.

You and I are to serve (in whatever capacity) as if it is to and for Jesus.

As we mature in our faith — how we “work” or labor through the day should become more of an outgrowth of the heart-work God is doing in our lives.

“There must be vigor, power, freshness, reality, eagerness, and warmth about it; or it will be good for nothing.” C Spurgeon

Well- that sort of cuts to the crux of the matter for sure.

It begs the question each of us should ask ourselves — “who am I trying to please?”

Let us move closer to Jesus in how we spend our days — from the ❤️

#godswill #fromtheheart #christian #biblicalwomanhood #biblicaltruth #shereadstruth #sheyearns #bibleverse #truthfortoday #yesandamen #daughterofdelight #incourage #womenoffaith

A couple of weeks ago, Can You See Me Now? Release

A couple of weeks ago, Can You See Me Now? Released!!!!

I’m so excited to offer the opportunity to walk this journey with you!!!

Can You See Me Now? It’s for any woman who has felt left out, familiar with loneliness or feels insignificant- and offers a biblical path forward.

I am leading a private Fb group - The Strange Readers Cafe’

Where we will walk through the 75-day journey together-

OCTOBER 3 - DECEMBER 16

To join - find the link in my SmartBio 🙌
I can’t wait to meet you there.
See you Monday!!!!

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Sometimes you and I are going to be swindled, bamb

Sometimes you and I are going to be swindled, bamboozled, and spiritually clubbed when we are least expecting it.

But other times the enemy shows up right on schedule. He seems to wreak havoc on my life with my full participation -

This verse calls us to be wise about our own weaknesses, that sin for us that so easily entangles, and how we (personally) struggle —

Don’t give the devil an opportunity means to shut the back door of our lives- and lock it. Bolt the front door. Make sure the windows are secure, set an alarm, keep a baseball bat handy, and get a big dog.

Have you ever left your garage door open ALL NIGHT because you failed to be vigilant? Or neglected to put your valuables away in a car - only to have your windshield broken - and your stuff stolen? (Why, yes…)

This is an all-call, my friend, for vigilance in our lives.

You and I have been given tools with which to arm ourselves (Ephesians 6).

This is a call- not only to remember these - but to consider what would bring you down or take you out.

For instance- my spouse and I agreed early in marriage on some practices we felt would keep out the badness —

In ministry and in his work environment- there are certain things we allow and don’t allow.

You don’t have to agree with our choices- or like them.

It’s our way of closing the garage door and locking all entrances and exits.

The enemy is real. He would like nothing more than to see you and I abandon our faith, fail miserably- landing in utter destruction. He’s mean like that.

Let’s leave nothing to chance. We are still going to get the spiritual breath knocked out of us from time to time — but we don’t have to hang out the welcome mat with a note telling where he can find all our valuables. 🙌

Here’s to refusing opportunities and being rude to that which seeks to destroy us. 🙌🙏🙌

This truth never gets old. Let nothing hinder you

This truth never gets old.

Let nothing hinder you from this reality. If you are a believer - having confessed your sins and believing Jesus died for these — making you completely new - free- unburdened by failings…
You are closer than you might feel.

Note: The feeling is not the truth.

Our unshakable reality is that we have been brought near whether we feel it or not.

You and I have been brought near— not by our own doing or because we deserved it — but because of the blood of Jesus.

It’s just a fact.

What might we do differently if we would face today believing this is true for our lives?

#goodnews #sotrue
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Psalm 58 is rich. I recite parts of it regularly

Psalm 58 is rich.

I recite parts of it regularly as a prayer.

In fact, I wrote it in my prayer journal. BUT honestly, I accidentally changed “RECORDED” to “REORDERED”-

You have REORDERED My wanderings…

Which made perfect sense to me -
Boy- have I needed God to re-order my life from wandering off the straight and narrow of His desires.

Either way, the text assures us he sees it all. He knows of all our detours and side hustles we explore that move us off the road cut out for us.

And He cares deeply. He wants us to know—
Nothing is wasted.

He captures every tear because your pain and mine are dear to him— even when it’s totally our fault and our making.

God does not turn his back on us in the wanderings— when we venture off toward other pursuits. There is no “I told you so…” to face in our pain.
He is there- present fort every hurt-filled moment.

He remains and sustains.

#goodnews #encouragement #bibleverses #happymonday #godcares #godknows #nothingwasted #sheyearns #christianbloggers #womensministry #godlovesyou

This is not prosperity gospel jargon. It’s Isa

This is not prosperity gospel jargon.

It’s Isaiah— to whom God said,
“I will open rivers on the barren heights, and springs in the middle of the plains. I will turn the desert into a pool and dry land into springs. Isaiah 41:18

God can do the impossible in your life. These are everyday confoundings to desert dwellers. They are familiar with dry, desolate places— external and internal.

Friend, God can do in your life, wonderful things you have not even had the guts to long for.

He knows the barren places in your life — and seeks to do the unimaginable with your life.

I will- is not I might if you were different.
It could have been but you screwed up again.
If you were more like her- I could.

I will —

And why would He do such a thing with and through you?

Vs 20–
“So that they may see and know, consider and understand that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

God doing the miraculous in your life - makes Him seen and known for His gloriousness (if that’s a word).

My prayer for you (and for myself) today simply:

Lord do it!!!!
#amen

#godisgreat #hecandoit #thankful
#christianwomen #christiandigitalart #sheyearns #sotrue

This is likely a familiar verse. But often we are

This is likely a familiar verse.
But often we are not as familiar with what lives before it.

“A voice of one crying out: Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.” Vs. 3-4

Followed by:
A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should we cry out?”
“All humanity is grass, and all goodness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fade when the breath of the LORD blows on them, indeed, people are like grass.” Vs 6-7

And then comes the verse we know. Vs 8

You and I will droop, wither, and die just like the flowers.
We are finite.

But not the Word. It transcends time and space. It’s reliable beyond any other written word ever recorded (with the stats to prove it). Why wouldn’t we seek it out for all of life?
Who to trust?
What to do?
How to navigate the hard places?
Finding and living out our purpose.

God declares here that reading about who He says He is, who you and I are, and what He promises is worth the risk of believing- with our very lives.

The Bible is different than all other books, even those considered holy. And what is revealed within the pages enables disciples of Jesus to understand what they could not before.

I know what it’s like to leave God’s Word unattended.
And I know what it’s like to risk reading and believing what it says.

It’s worth the 15 min. 🙌

#solascriptura #shereadstruth #sheyearns #canyouseemenowbook #biblical #readthebible #yesandamen

If I could pray anything over the next generation

If I could pray anything over the next generation - and this present one — it would be that we be so familiar and acquainted with the work of God in our lives that these words would ring true all of our days.

Lord, do it!
Amen and Amen

We see this relationship played out across the wri

We see this relationship played out across the writ of Scripture, but today I’m thinking of King Hezekiah. If you will recall- he is king when the Assyrians took all the fortified cities in Judah AND threatened to destroy Jerusalem. Their king sent a note with messengers to threaten the people and all the authorities— explaining how resistance was no use since they had already destroyed EVERY OTHER kingdom. And don’t think your god is going to save you. Look at what we did to all the other gods. Yours is no different. Etc.

Hezekiah demonstrates this connection between faith and love by taking the note before God, spreading it out, and trusting He can do something about it.

This is not far from the stuff of life today.

Like me, I’m sure you have problems.

You might even have some sort of threatenings of your own.

The question I ask myself is—
Am I making my first line of defense God? Or am I spending endless hours trying to come up with my own solution?

Demonstrating my faith in God when all the pieces are not quite fitting together - or when I am broadsided with the unexpected — also reflects my love for Him.

May this be true of us in the easy days when all is right in the world- and the hard. ❤️

I love the absolute nature of God. Being fully pre

I love the absolute nature of God.
Being fully present and completely capable to give the aid we need in difficulty or distress is no exception.

Too often you and I hang onto it either for good or at least beyond what we should.

I need reminders like this one.
God is fully able to help and to comfort.

#heisable #heiswilling #trustgod #leaveitwithgod #spurgeon #digitalart #christianwomen #christianwomenbloggers #sheyearns #yesandamen

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