Tag: opportunities of faith
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Graced For This: Contingency
“…And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others]” Genesis 12:2c AMP One of my favorite past times is reading. Books have always been my means of escape… as a child when I could not physically remove myself from unfavorable situations, was in need of a challenge I’d pick up a…
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Graced For This: Confidence
“Do not, therefore, fling away your [fearless] confidence, for it has glorious and great reward. For you have need of patient endurance [to bear up under difficult circumstances without compromising], so that when you have carried out the will of God, you may receive and ENJOY to the FULL what is promised”. Heb. 10:35-36 AMP…
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Twilight
You cannot peruse Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok or any other social media platform without being inundated with footage or depictions of current “challenges”. It’s definitely become a thing. A lot of these “challenges”are presented like a (dare) or (what do you have to lose) ultimatum. And many of “us”buy into or rise to the occasion…
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Sunset
“He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.”…
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Confidence
It took a long time for me to settle in, to stop expecting life and love to do me in. It took even longer for me to trust that God’s heart was towards me, that life and love hadn’t escaped, exiled or evicted me from it’s reach. Somewhere throughout this process of discovery came the…
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E way
The writer in me hasn’t exhausted her pen. The woman in me hasn’t expired in the wait. The worshiper I am is expectant of His glory, greatness, goodness and grace. Trusting God to visit life and love with His comfort and care. Although we’re walking through the shadow of death we fear no evil because…
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Afresh
The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. (Lamentations 3:22-23 NLT) If you would have seen this plant after the rain and wind knocked it off the stand weeks ago, or when I watered it at the wrong time and the…
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Embracing the New
To fully grasp and embrace the new, means we have to confront the contradiction of what “worked” for us before. We have to admit that we are not all we should/could be, that there is still room for growth, improvement, and expansion. We are given another opportunity to start anew for a greater purpose that…
