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Seeking repentance is an ongoing part of the Christian walk. The bible explains that our unforgiveness and unrepentant state, prevents our prayers from being heard.   Jesus calls for repentance as an essential response to the coming of God's kingdom — not just sorrow for sin, but a radical reorientation of life. Seeking forgiveness and repenting from that sin by changing our mind on how we thought...

Our stories are the training ground God uses for His glory.  He uses what broke us to birth empathy in us   Your story is so meaningful because it comes through places you though you wouldn’t ever recover from.    Romans 8:28 calls for in all things God works for the good of those who love Him.    We don’t go through these trials just to move on. We go through them to move others.    The devil wou...

This is an area of discipleship I believe we are called and commanded to do. Its the one area that God says, test me in this. Let me show you that when you fully trust me, I am worthy of your trust. Not in a do this and God does that. Its a posture. Its a position of surrender before the Lord to seek Him and what He desires you to do, not because of what I am saying, but ask Him Lord is this an ar...

This rest is necessary. We have so many habits and addictions waiting to devour us and we need to have rest physically and digitally from what can potentially overtake us. There are even so many opportunities for us to sin with the access that we have digitally.    Opportunity to covet. Opportunity to lust. Opportunity to put trust in man or self. Opportunity to fear. Opportunity to feel insecure....

If you want your words to carry power, you have to stop speaking like a beggar and start praying like a BELIEVER.I think so often, we talk TO God and not WITH God. So often we forget that its a two way relationship. A two way conversation and that just as much as God desires to hear from us, He also desires that we hear from Him. Stop praying uncertain prayers about things God has already promised...

Is this God's plan for your life? A book you read over and over again? A book you study every single day?   A book He wrote for you.  A book that transcends time. A book that will speak to whatever you are going through at any given time that will give you wisdom and discerment on how to raise your kids, to take that job or not take that job. To buy a home or not buy a home. Should you forgive and...

When I think back on my deepest formed relationships in life and how they were developed it is abundantly clear that those relationships developed by investing time in one another.   We can spend time with people and then we can invest time with people.    When we invest in a deeply connected manner we yield a return on our investment.  When we spend time, I see it as the more superficial experien...

The purest form of courage is to rescue other people. We all need rescuing from time to time and its important that we see ourselves as usable by God for the benefit of his kingdom and for his glory.   What does the bible say about this topic?    Spiritual Gifts test https://spiritualgiftstest.com/spiritual-gifts-test    

So many of us go around in life in our day to day activities with surface level questions, answers and conversations. I have learned that we can validate each other in our humanity when we are honest with ourselves,  Honest with God (who knows it all anyway) and with others.   Most people have a narrative and that narrative says we are the only one. And that simply is not true. When we think and f...

There is a narrative we are told and sold about what our lives are supposed to look like and then there is what God’s word says. I don’t know about you, but I recommend actively pursuing more of what matters - specifically what it looks like to be making disciples. This is a topic that once you gain that clarity, you can and should operate your days with more peace and confidence.   Spiritual Gift...

God often gives us the dream first to help prepare us with hope for the future.  The dreams are what sustained Joseph during extremely difficult circumstances.    And your God-given dreams will sustain you too, no matter what your future holds. How do we stay devoted to our dreams, our family, and our faith when we are in the midst of our holding cell, like the one Joseph experienced?   First, whe...

Have you ever wondered if there is more to this life?    Have you ever considered that you were created for influence and to multiply?   Do you consider yourself a person of infuence?   What would it look like if you got abundantly clear on what you were put on this earth to do? Let's work through what this could look like for you!

My top 5 list of MUST do's for faith based business decision making, strategies and for ideal success!    You make decisions with your business and they should absolutely be in full alignment with your Christian walk. 

We are created to be fruit bearers. We are created for influence. We are created to multiply our efforts. So what does the activity look like with those outcomes?   Let me also tell you that in this process, never trust your feelings. They are not worthy of your trust.   You need to trust the ONE who guided you to this path and stay on the path with the steps that it takes to remain on the path.  ...

You are good. But can you be great?!    I am not referring to a life of being content with what you have. Contentment is a mindset.   I believe, as people whose lives are rooted in faith, we walk a fine line between desiring more for this life and having a spirit of contentment. What I will be sharing with you is a perspective around what God is capable of doing through you. When we look at our li...

Other people’s opinions: None of your business If those opinions prevent you from doing what you are called to do, they become an idol for you   When you are on mission for meaningful things, you should have one person who you are looking to for validation or approval, and that is YOUR creator.   So unless those people loved you enough to die for you, they should NOT be who you are considering as...

In case you struggle with having value with your life.   In case you frequently wonder what this life is about anyway.   You are not alone. Most people undervalue who they are. Once we realize WHOSE we are, we can better understand Who we are. Then have the audacity to actually believe it!  You are made for more. 

Get clear on who God is. Get clear on who you are as a result of who God is and then have the audacity to believe that He desires to do meaningful work through you - the kind of impact that is MORE THAN you can think, ask or imagine.  I actually have the audacity to believe that God desires to do BIG things through me. Buuuuut, I also have these very conflicting thoughts that accompany that same b...

Maybe you are like me? Maybe you put attention and priority towards things that have no earthly value? Maybe you struggle with the desire to see and do things that matter most for all of eternity? God is growing my thought process around doing everything I do as if for the Lord. He is teaching me that when my heart aligns more with His, that doors open to more of the things that matter most, inclu...

Our behaviors leave us clues. Sometimes our behaviors are not just about the behavior. Many times there is a root cause to our behaviors that we can connect the dots to point to a direction that indicate where our faith, hope and love reside. Its important to realize and know that there are behaviors that happen as a result of those root fears and lack of trust that can lead us down paths that ren...

When you’re in the depths of pain, whether it’s separation from loved ones, financial crisis, marital discord, and the challenges of raising a family, God is not the one who moves. We are the ones who move. We are the ones who remain less faithful. We lose our focus and we become self reliant on how to move through.    Our position is not faithful    God is always faithful to us so why can’t we be...

Pride keeps us from doing what we can still do.  Shame keeps us in regret.     Pride closes the door to spiritual growth, but humility opens the door of your life to more of God's grace.  In the end,it is because of Jesus’s humility that we can be forgiven of our pride. This life is not about us and we only deserve the wrath of God for our sin. Jesus took the punishment of our pride upon himself a...

I want to encourage you to advocate today. Advocate for your best self. Advocate for your belief that you are worthy of being set free. Advocate that your life matters and that there is more to your life than just existing. That you are made to thrive. You are made for purpose and your body is designed to carry you to that life purpose.   You can take all the dream vacations and live in the dream...

All these areas of our lives are all avenues that God desires to use you, to deliver you from, to give you healing from, to give you hope for the future from and as you allow him to use these things for his Glory, you become more set free. And the more set free you become, the more your life looks and feels like it is made to. Its made to matter.    The narrative in our heads can be flipped like a...

There are a lot of things that we can delineate for our time in life   I like to think of it in 2 categories We either invest our time or we spend it   When I think about investing my time in things like my health and fitness or my walk with God, those yield a return. A high rate of return.   And my investment in my body - that is Gods vessel, allows me to yield a higher return on my desires to se...