The Spacious Room

How can we properly love again? Eden is lost, gone, stolen from us. The garden we once communed in with God was exposed to a lie that turned our joy, peace, patience, kind-heartedness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control into shame, disappointment, abandonment, and grief. The freedom we once walked in as we communed with God was destroyed by a cunning serpent, who hatched a plan to kill any h...

In Luke chapter 5, we read about Peter, who had fished all night and didn’t catch a thing. So, Jesus asks to borrow Peter’s boat as a pulpit so he can teach the crowd. Maybe Peter felt like giving up trying to fish for anything? However, he did what Jesus asked and to his astonishment, he was called to something much bigger than himself. There are some observations in this story that can help you...

Remember when you were a kid and your mum told you that if you didn’t clear your plate you wouldn’t get dessert? And remember that feeling of smugness you felt when you did clear your plate and got dessert but your sibling didn’t because they’d left all that yummy, delicious kale on the plate? Yeah, good times. Right? Some wise soul once said, “If we want to live a full, attentive life to God and...

Last week I shared in  The Scarlet Thread Part One,  how the shameful wounds from our past can cause us to feel unqualified from having any kind of relationship with God. However, all He is looking for is obedience and total dependence on Him so we can live in victory and freedom from our past. I talked about, Rahab, a prostitute in the Old Testament, whom God selected to play a pivotal role in th...

We tend to view the great heroes of the Bible as people whom we’ll never measure up to because we feel too broken, too wounded, and too damaged to ever be used by God.   Wounded people can believe the lie in their heads that tells them, “Sure, God used  those  people, but me? Ha! Not a chance!” However, nobody is ever too broken, too wounded, or too damaged to find the path and follow the scarlet...

Why is it we believe that Jesus waits for us to have it altogether before we feel worthy enough to tell others about Him? Why do we fall for the lies our enemy whispers that we are just too wounded, too broken to lead people to Jesus? And while we’re here, why is it that some believers pass through this life making an idol out of the book of Revelation and the conspiracies surrounding end times, m...

Ever wonder what Moses was thinking when he realised there was an ocean between the past of Egypt and the future of the Promised Land? We need to understand that as we move forward into the dreams God has for us, there will always be a Pharaoh chasing us down from our past and an ocean standing in the way of our future. Today, if all you see is an ocean between the past and the promise, you need t...

Gracefully broken. Sounds poetic, right? But what if being gracefully broken means that we have to go through the testing fire first? A fire that proves us, perfects us, and makes us holy so we can become beautifully, elegantly, and gracefully broken for others to experience God’s goodness, kindness, and compassion. I wonder, what fire of affliction are you going through today? Could it be possibl...

The word ‘matador’ means ‘killer’ and the enemy is in the business of stealing, killing, and destroying your purpose and calling (John 10:10). Know this dear discontented bull, that you’ve been taking actions that have caused Satan to change up his tactics. He has quietly observed your endless searching through your social media accounts. Scrolling…scrolling…scrolling…comparing…comparing… comparin...

Numbing the connection to our feelings of self-worth and status with our busyness can be a way of avoiding the pain and discomfort that endlessly circle our thoughts. We’re so afraid that if we stop moving and pause for just a moment, the issues that we’ve tried to keep hidden will be exposed for all to see. But what if in our hopelessness we dared to reach out to Jesus? What if we were able to br...

Last week I shared in, This Is How I Fight My Battles – Part 1   how worship is a powerful weapon when we are struggling with fear, doubt, and worries during the midnight hour. Raising battle-scarred hands not only helps set you free but others can be set free too as we found out in the story of Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16. But what if that surrender, that posture of worship could be found i...

In Acts chapter 16, we find Paul, and Silas. Deemed as rebel-rousing troublemakers by the Roman officials, these worshippers have been flogged and are now facing their darkest hour in the most secure part of the prison. The noises the other prisoners heard from Paul and Silas were not from their moaning and groaning, even though they had been flogged within an inch of their lives. They were using...

All our lives tell a story to pass on to future generations. Remembering what God has brought you through, every trial, every struggle, and every difficult moment and of course, not forgetting all those amazing answers to prayer and each miracle you've seen come to pass are all so important in developing an unshaken and unshakable faith when things in our lives become a little shaky.

A cupbearer was a high-ranking official whose job it was to taste the wine that was going to be served to the royal table just incase it was poisoned. This is the one little moment we can so easily skip when reading the story of Nehemiah, found in the Old Testament. This minor detail that so often gets overlooked is important to remember because before he became a rebuilder and restorer of walls,...

Someone once said, “I can no longer go on basing my faith on what’s right for others or what feels good. I must find out once and for all what God’s truth is for me in my own life. But how do I go about that?”   I believe this is where I had gone wrong for so many years. Because I had been basing my faith on what was right for others for so long, comparing how much sunlight, how much water and wha...

Have you ever had an “aha” moment when you look back and you remember that it wasn’t necessarily always the big, grand decisions you made that led to where you are now, but the small decisions, the ones you intentionally, deliberately, and wilfully made every day that brought the greatest gain and changed the narrative of your story?   We all have turning points scattered throughout our lives, int...

Have you stopped trusting God with your future? To be completely honest with you, I had stopped trusting God the other week. I found myself questioning what I was doing and wondering whether God was going to be with me in every step I was taking. I found my train of thought that had run along the tracks of my faith for so long, now had come to a grinding halt, and I thought to myself, "Is this sud...

Can you believe that the creativity of our mighty God saw us in His mind's eye even before He created us from the dust of the ground and the rib from Adam's side?  And as He formed and fashioned us in our mother's womb, He placed creativity in every one of us. Still not convinced you're creative? Well, let me help you our a little... 

I today's episode, I share the story of Samson and how he positioned himself before God, even though he had no strength, even though he couldn't (literally) see, he became an overcomer of his circumstances. Each day we get an opportunity to focus on the purposes of God in our lives even though we can feel as though our strength has gone and we cannot see how it's all going to work out. Like Samson...

In today's episode, I share two epic stories found in the Old Testament that started out quietly. Each story involves the volume of a courageous women who was a quiet achiever. Two wounded women with not much to offer understood that no loud achievement birthed from their own strength was going to get God's attention. Turning the volume up on their faith required silent, heartfelt prayers that mov...

Endless quotes on Pinterest tell us to, “Be true to yourself” but what does that mean? In Genesis 1:27 we are reminded that we are created in God’s image. He made man in His image, so we reflected Him. However, Adam and Eve were deceived and ate the fruit that the serpent enticed them with, causing a chasm, a broken relationship with God. Man, who bears His image, now looks in a fragmented mirror...

Welcome to my 100th episode! You are invited... And in this week's special 100th celebration episode I share the power of an invitation.  Invitation's make us feel valued, seen and loved. They let you know that someone wants to share a special moment or event with you. In John chapter 4 we read about a women at Jacob's well who has possibly forgotten what it feels like to receive an invitation bec...

So, you've decided this year you're going to throw caution to the wind. say to hell with fear and follow God with the plan for your life? Wonderful!  However, you're making sure you include a clause in the contract with God before you sign on the dotted line because you're no fool, right? You want a second plan if you don't mind, a plan "B" thank you very much, just in case the first plan doesn't...

So, you've answered the call to adventure, stepped out in faith and told fear to go take a hike? But the steep and winding path toward your dream that was lit up in the first few steps so you could read each signpost along the path now seems to have suddenly gone dark. Questions start to circle in your head, "Did I really hear from God?" "Am I going in the right direction?"  Don't worry, in this w...

In this week's episode I share that whatever dreams and plans God has placed in your heart, know that you're big enough to fulfil them. Fear whispers that you're just too small for the task, too insignificant to make a difference.  If there's a chance that the dream God gave to you will develop into something real, then satan will poach, plunder and pilfer your potential until your dreams and plan...