Christians in the Gritty

Send us Fan Mail Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace seems like the last place you would look for a message about marriage, but the recent Marriage Retreat Christina and Melissia went on with their husbands talked about just that. One speaker mentioned the fire being turned up 7 times, but it would be. The fire was so hot. How hot are we making the fire in our marriages? Thank go...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. In our lives we have to be able to let God interrupt us, change our path even. The same thing goes for people we encounter throughout our day. We have to remain interruptible. Many of the miracles Jesus performed were done when he was interrupted. God can do big things in the times between, when we let go of what we have planned and follow what G...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Psalm 105:1-5 ' Oh give thanks to the Lord ; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that h...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. When we are trying to please God and our families, we are never going to be perfect. we are going to "fail" at some point. We have to remember to give ourselves grace. God gives us grace, and we often forget that he knows we are not perfect. We need to learn from what we are struggling with and move forward. We see you and we know it ca...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Zephaniah 3:11-20 ' “On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain. But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of t...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. To look at all God created and not to see that indeed it had to have been created by a higher power, but instead created by happenstance is such a leap of faith. It takes more faith to be an atheist than the see what has been created and recognize there has to be a creator. God did create the earth and everything in it, including all of us. Do yo...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Knowing our worth as adults is hard enough, being a teenager doesn't make it any easier. In this episode Christina and Melissia talk about how hard it is to get through those times in our lives when we forget where our worth comes from. Genisis 1:26-27 "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends! Keywords Faith, spirituality, community, obedience, worship, life changes, God, support, prayer, personal growth Summary In this episode of 'Christians in the Gritty', Christina and Melissia discuss the challenges of navigating life changes while maintaining a strong spiritual connection. They explore the importance of obedience to God,...

Send us Fan Mail Our good friend Carolyn has stepped in to help out while Christina is sick. She guest hosts with Melissia for this episode about God's glory. A video version of this episode will be available on our YouTube Christians in The Gritty Find us: https://christiansinthegritty.buzzsprout.com Our Facebook Page TikTok: christiansinthegritty Instagram: christians.in.gritty.podcast

Send us Fan Mail Christians in The Gritty Find us: https://christiansinthegritty.buzzsprout.com Our Facebook Page TikTok: christiansinthegritty Instagram: christians.in.gritty.podcast

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Everything happens in God's timing. He will lead us to something and often we have to wait for our next steps. BUT in the meantime, don't wait around. Go do the work. Be sharpened. Ask God to search your heart, to refine you. So, in a way, while you wait for God's timing on what he is calling you to, don't wait and do nothing....

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best friends.  ‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Find us: https://christiansinthegritty.buzzsprout.com Our Facebook Page TikTok: christiansinthegritty Instagram: christians.in.gritty.podcast Christians in The Gritty Fin...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. As humans, we want all the creature comforts. As Christians, we don’t stop wanting that and we know what our God can do. He can take our pain and He can heal any of our sorrows. But often we need the pain. Pain sometimes helps us; to be alarmed to a problem in our bodies, to help us through emotional sorrow, or to refine us. What we go through gr...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Full surrender comes from trusting God. Our obedience of what the LORD is asking of us shows God that we love him. Not obeying God completely, is not being truly obedient. “Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. The one who doesn’t love me will not ke...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Melissia and Christina talk about God‘s provision and putting their trust in Him. Sometimes we try to take control of our lives and the situations we are in rather than letting God take care of us. We want to keep our worldly comforts, but God often calls us ‭to more so we will rely on Him more fully. He always has something better for us than we...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.   God often calls us to things that we are afraid to do or we just plain don’t want to. Melissia was feeling led to speak about the rebuilding of the temple in the book of Haggai. When God‘s people finally surrendered in obedience, they were able to feel a fullness and joy from God. Christina talked about that same surrender God’s servant Job had...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Baptism is the outward expression of faith. It’s your Testimony! We are not saved with baptism. We are saved only with the blood of Jesus! We are then sealed! The Bible talks about the importance of baptism, and we should be obedient to that. However, only our faith in Jesus will save us. It’s Jesus! Only his blood, his perfect sacrifice. Praise...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends.  The greatest gift is Jesus! We get the spirit of God to dwell in us being our guide. We are HONORED with the opportunity to share the greatest gift WE can give to another person, the gift of sharing the gospel! Praise God for trusting us to be part of His message! ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭52‬:‭13‬-‭15‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God’s plans for us are beyond our scope. It’s hard to know why we are going through the things we are. While we are still in the midst of it, it’s especially hard to know of what good is going to come from it all. We have to know that God sharpens us and He uses all things for His glory and for our good. We need to let our suffering get us to the...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. In the book of Ezekiel it talks about leaders who were benefiting from those who they were to care for. The people they were to lead. They were not taking care of the sick, the poor, the lost, or the hungry. God calls us to love one another. We have to be taking care of each other. ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭34‬:‭1‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “The word of the Lord came to me:...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. When we are thankful we don’t have room for worry.  God did not wire our brains that way. Being thankful in prayers and remembering who God is and what He has done and can do strengthens our faith. Faith is everything! Faith is our salvation. Faith is how we have healing. Through faith we do God’s works. Our trust in God comes from having faith....

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Teaching comes with great responsibility. The Bible talks about how people will be held to what we teach others, especially when it comes to children. Jesus says in Matthew 18:6 "but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in t...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We had our first speaking engagement! Oh, how we were blessed! It was a great event and we are in awe of the fact that God used us for this. We were able to hear from women who were talking about the battles they were going through. How they could relate to the message we were giving. We prayed so hard for the Holy Spirit to speak through us and...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We are not the ones who were called to convict others! We are called to love. We, as Christians, are to keep each other accountable, but God does not want us to attack each other for our choices. We let God do the convicting! The Holy Spirit will start working on us for our own refinement. It’s not the same for everyone. Some may be convicted of...

Send us Fan Mail Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. To paraphrase Lysa TerKeurst, who said it well, “The gap between our expectations and reality is where our disappointment lies.” It’s natural to expectations in life and have a picture of how things are supposed to be, but when those things don’t happen we get disappointed. We as Christian’s need to remember God knows the plan better than we coul...