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143: This is How I Fight My Battles Join us as we talk about how we fight our battles. Life is hard and we often encounter spiritual battles of different types and sizes. So, let's look at scriptures that tell us how to fight. 1. Trust God. Sometimes God allows us to experience a difficult season for a reason. Exodus14:13-14: Remember, the Israelites had been in a hard season. They had been releas...

142. 10 Strategies to Live Victoriously Are you ready to stop feeling defeated? (We heard you shout, YES!) It's a choice. We can live defeated or we can choose a better way. Join us as Gwen discusses 10 Strategies that we can implement to debunk that defeated feeling and start living the victorious life. Here are the 10 Strategies you will hear Gwen discuss: 1. Act as if success is guaranteed, fai...

141. Jumpstart June: Engaging Jesus in Your Relationships Listen as Kim starts us off in Colossians 3:12-14 encouraging us to be compassionate, kind, humble, gentle, and patient. Are we all of these things? Today is a good day to check ourselves and shift our focus from how we are treated to how we treat others people. As believers, we are called to exhibit this list of things to others. Pam remin...

140. Jumpstart June: Engaging Jesus in Your Emotional Health How do we engage Jesus in our emotional health? We are overwhelmed by all of the things we have going on in our lives. But God never intended for us to do any of it on our own. We need Him and we need to engage Him in every area of our life - even in our emotions and our mental health. Our feelings and the status of our heart matters to...

139. Jumpstart June: Engaging Jesus in Your Physical Health How do we engage Jesus in our physical health? Does it matter how we take care of ourselves? How can we honor God by becoming intentional about our health? The Bible tells us that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is the motivation we need to make some changes and choose to make better decisions. Let's give some thought to w...

138. Jumpstart June: How to Engage Jesus Join us as we chat with Melanie Redd, best selling author, blogger, and speaker. Listen as she shares that she does not want to do anything apart from Jesus. Therefore, she engages Jesus first thing in the morning to fill her cup before she pours into anyone or does anything. You are going to enjoy this conversation and all of the nuggets she shares with us...

137. Maybe He Doesn't Even Care This is the 4th episode in our Maybe Series. Have you ever felt as if God doesn't care about you or about the circumstances of your life? Hebrews 4:15-16 reminds us that God does care and that He can sympathize with us because He experienced temptations. We must be careful to recognize the lies of the enemy and discard those. Instead, let's cling to the truth of God...

136. Maybe None of This is Real We are here for episode 3 of our Maybe Series. We hope you are enjoying this series and finding some assurance around all of your maybe's. Today, listen as we wonder - Maybe... none of this is real. Have you ever wondered if God is real? Do you struggle with doubt? You are not alone. It is okay to ask questions. Be sure to recognize who is causing you to question. W...

135. Maybe I am Lost This is the 2nd episode of our Maybe Series. We are wondering if you ever feel lost - as in you aren't sure where you are headed, if you are doing the right things, or if you have more questions than you have answers. What do we do when we feel lost? First, let's rest in Him. This requires spending time with Him, leaning into Him, and allowing Him to help us. Next, we have to...

134. Maybe... I Need to Change My Habits Listen as Gwen opens us with some tough questions and asks us to define our habits. Are they replenishing us or depleting us? Are they drawing us closer to God or leading us astray? Give it some thought. Do you need some new habits? What habits do you have that need to be exchanged for something far better? When you make it a habit to be obedient to the ins...

133. How Do We Spring Forth? How do we become intentional about moving forward in our relationship with Jesus and letting Him spring us forward into what He is asking us to do? Join us as we read from Isaiah 43:18-19. Let's not be dormant, stuck in our past. It's time to spring forth! As God has promised, He will use all things for our good bringing springs of living waters in the desert. Highligh...

132. How do You Share Jesus and Lead Others into a Relationship with Him? No need to be nervous or fear you cannot do it right. Keep it simple and share Jesus with others. Opportunities will arise when you least expect it. Today is the day to get ready to share Jesus and lead others into a relationship with Him. It is not enough to know who Jesus is, we must know Jesus. That means recognizing that...

131. Planting Seeds that Point Others to Jesus - How can we be intentional about planting seeds about the good news of Jesus? We start by being intentional about praying for others, praying they will be receptive and that the seeds will take root. We can also ask God to help us recognize the opportunities to plant seeds when they arrive. In the Parable of the Sower we learn that the condition of t...

130. How Do we Bloom Spiritually? How do we grow spiritually? What is spiritual growth? Let's start by asking are we growing or are we dormant? We find the answers in scripture. Take some time to read Psalm 1 - and see how we are to be like a tree bearing fresh fruit. The Word is what nourishes us and causes us to bloom spiritually. The fruit of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,...

129. Who Told You That? - Ask yourself this question, who told you that? This is a great question to ask yourself when the negative self-talk is invading your thoughts, when the words of others are permeating your mind, and when you are believing things that are not true. Asking the question, who told you that, helps you discern the difference in the truth of God's words and the lies Satan wants u...

128. Speak Lord, I am Ready to Listen - We want the Lord to speak to us, we are ready to hear. There are those times when we can't hear a peep. What stops us from hearing from God? Are we too distracted, too busy, or anticipating how we think we will hear from Him? Maybe we need to create margin - blank space - that is reserved from Him. Maybe we need to sit in the quiet so we can hear Him whisper...

127. The Resume of a Leader - When we talk about leadership we are referring to being a servant leader. A servant leader is a growing leader led and grown by the Holy Spirit. In order to lead like Jesus, we are called to serve. We are to live by a different model than the world lives by. Servant Leadership Is about being like Jesus and leading like Him - not just showing up and going through the m...

126. Will you Rise up and Lead? As a believer, we are called to lead. We are not called to shrink back and let time just pass us by. We are called to follow Jesus and lead others to Him in our workplace, in our community, and in our home. It is time to stop making excuses. Whether we have a leadership title or not, we are to rise up and lead. But we are not to lead like the world, we are called to...

125. What Lies on the Other Side of Obedience? Goodness lies on the other side of obedience. Our disobedience has to be addressed. God's way is best. When we choose His way and walk in obedience to Him, we discover that what He has for us is better than anything we could choose for ourselves. Obedience brings freedom. It means you are no longer in bondage to striving. Obedience offers us His power...

124. Trust and Obey. Trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. These lyrics to the old song in your church hymnal are so strong. Can you trust and not obey? Can you walk in obedience if you don't trust Him? These are good questions to ponder today. Know Him, love Him, trust Him and obey Him. These 4 elements are necessary if we are to walk in obedience to...

123. Walking in Disobedience. Obedience is the practical acceptance of the authority and will of God. It is submitting to Him in our actions, words, and thoughts. It is to agree with God and be in a position of power in Christ. So that means that disobedience is simply not trusting that God knows what is best. Today, ask God to reveal your disobedience. Even doing the right thing for the wrong rea...

122. Do I Have Enough Faith? The definition of genuine faith is abandoning all human reliance and self effort, placing total dependence upon God's character, His actions, and His promises. Faith is a gift from God. We can pray and ask God to help us have enough faith. Do we worry and fret or do we place our faith in God and rest on His promises? During the midst of every struggle and trial, we hav...

121. Do You Feel Shame? Satan says "shame on you", but God says, "shame off you". Whatever it is that causes you to feel shame - something we did or something that happened to us - we can exchange our shame for God's peace. Shame started at the beginning with Adam and Eve. It's not new. But the good news is that as Daughters of the King, we can give God our shame, surrender it to Him, and trust Hi...

120. Are you Lonely? Loneliness has become a mental health crisis in the United States. We can google and find the world's recommendations of how to endure loneliness. But even better than that, we can look in God's word to see what the Lord instructs us to do when we find ourselves feeling lonely. Jesus is your best friend and you can interact with Him. Listen as we describe a way you can journal...

119. The Lies we Believe We are comfortable believing lies about ourselves, about our circumstances, and even about the health of our relationship with Jesus. Sometimes we are being deceived and sometimes we are deceiving ourselves. How do we stop believing the lies of the enemy and start making sure what we believe lines up with the truth of God's word? Ask the Holy Spirit to help you identity an...