Our burdens, emotional or otherwise may feel too heavy to carry on our own, but thankfully we don't have to. We don't have to rely on our own strength, we can lean on God's.
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We have a sweet treat for you all, to share with all your friends and family. What better way to celebrate the season than Pumpkin Cupcakes!
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In the moments when the emotions threaten to spill over, I’m reminded that Jesus wept, too. He felt the emotions we feel — the ones we often feel plagued with. He wept, because He, like us, was designed with emotions with the Father’s heart in mind. Made in the image of God, emotions and all.
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Friends are essential, but as the Bible says, there is a time and season for everything. Let's check our friendship connection. Are there some friendships that have become stale and stagnant? Is it adding more weight than joy to your life? Are you consulting God about your friends?
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God’s grace is abundant and sufficient. Don’t feel as though you have to figure everything out on your own. God is working on our character, perfecting us until the day of Jesus Christ when we will finally be perfected.
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We get so caught up in the theory of being empathetic that we forget how to take the time to apply it in our daily lives. Empathy is tied with intentionality. You can’t have empathy without taking deliberate time to connect to someone’s pain and situation.
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What makes you, you is a connection of everything you were, everything you are and everything you are meant to be. The circumstances God walked you through shape your calling, allowing you to see clearly what it is you are here to do.
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The human connection with music is powerful. It helps us through every facet of life. I don't know what we would do if music didn't exist. But, even more-so, music with Jesus is like the blood running through our veins; we need it.
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The nine qualities listed in the Fruit of the Spirit scripture are not simple expectations. Rather, they hold a great deal of weight and have a direct correlation to the depth of your own self-awareness and your ability to connect to others and to Christ.
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This is especially relevant during this time of isolation during COVID-19. It is more difficult to spend time with our real friends and much easier to sit around and engage with whichever platform suits us at the moment. So, we must be mindful of how the characters and personalities we are consuming influence us and assess whether we should or shouldn’t be watching them.
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To guard our heart is to watch our words and our speech. What do you find yourself saying about your current circumstance? Are your words bringing life? Many times the way we speak is like “reverse prophecy.” It’s cancelling and swatting away what God has to say about you, your life and purpose.
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Intimacy is not only in a sexual context, but rather a deeper level of connection with another person. There is intimacy in our relationships with family members, friends or loved ones. How much more do you think God wants that type of relationship with us? A relationship that puts Him first before anything or anyone.
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God didn’t create us to be compartmentalized, He created us to be holistic humans who are immensely complex.
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My mom is a wise woman. She spoke these words over dinner the other night, and they’ve stuck with me ever since: “It’s crazy how unseen things, can be so seen.” I know that she was talking about the effects of the virus that has shaken our world, but to look at it in the way of family connections changes everything.
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In saying yes to His instructions, I am able to connect with Him in a brand new way. He is peeling back layers and layers of Who He is in me!
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God is a God of many opportunities. Even now, we have been give the opportunity to put everything on pause and truly seek God. He wants to speak to us, he wants to give us several opportunities to hear him. This is the time we can make up for those lost connections we have encountered before.
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We were fragile and wounded — living out of those places was going to be the death of our union. But God laid a foundation of healing that has allowed our relationship to stay connected and even thrive in a season that has put us all to the test.
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Here I was thinking so little of myself, when God knows me so intimately and cares for me so passionately. Just as a creative requires attention to detail and knows their work forward and backward, how much more thought would God have put into creating and knowing you?
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