Handling Your Inner Critic
Have you noticed no matter how hard you try, a little voice inside you finds fault? Sometimes it sounds like your own, or it may be the voice of someone impossible to please. You must learn how to handle that negative commentary, or it will drain the joy out of your present and plant spikes under every step in your future. You are daily aware of how far short you fall from God’s standard, and that keeps you humble, but the condemnation part has nothing to do with Him. Growth is what is pleasing to the Lord! No, you’re not as far along as you’d like to be (who is?) but if you have moved forward and improved in any way, God is pleased with you.
read moreThe Best Way to Love Yourself
Obedience to God is one of the best ways to love yourself. It is the daily bath that wards off the disease of terrible consequences. Applied to the private parts of your heart, obedience disinfects and deodorizes what might otherwise stink up your character.
read moreWhile You Are Hurting
It had been lurking in the shadows of my heart: a hurt I had incurred about a week prior. Busyness made it shy, but when the quiet came, the hurt limped back to center stage.
read moreComfort in Your Waiting Place
Have you ever started out on a venture that took longer and was much harder than you anticipated? Maybe you’ve thought of quitting and writing it all off as a big mistake…
read moreAll You’ll Ever Need
What if you’re too weak or scared or insecure to be a slayer? What if you need a place to heal or to be inspired and encouraged?
read moreThe Bad Fruit
In Genesis 3, it talks about the fall of Adam and Eve. I’d like to keep focus on the fruit. The serpent came along and tempted Eve with a piece of fruit. God told Adam and Eve they couldn’t eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:17 NIV) God told Adam and Eve if they ate of the tree they would surely die. The serpent started by telling Eve lies. He twisted what God told Adam and Eve not to do. The serpent told Eve that he knew that God didn’t want them to be like Him. The serpent told Eve that she would be like God;...
read more“Beauty Will Rise” by Christina Blaney
I will see my beauty rise, I will see through God’s eyes. I have to look beyond the dirt, And beyond all the hurt…
read moreI Am a Princess by Christina Blaney
Psalm 45:13-15 ESV All glorious is the princess in her chamber with robes interwoven with gold. In many colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions behind her. With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the King.
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The Book – Overcoming Abuse God’s Way
