Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Grace doesn’t give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this...

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing – over and over and over again – the absolute power available through God’s truth.

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it’s time to switch things up.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Some prisons don’t require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

Ask Jesus to help you fully understand the joys of obedience. Also, ask Him how you can be a woman fully committed to obedience without slipping into a legalistic approach to life. We must always...

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

…there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

Having a set of goals is a good thing for many people. But when a goal takes your focus off God and His daily intentions for you, it can cause trouble. Being driven by my...

Evaluation eliminates frustration. We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations. Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those...

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

How I long never to diminish God by loving lesser things. Rather, I want to make much of God by diminishing lesser things. May I make less of me, less of this world, less of...

Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I...

Don’t you just love it when you’re disciplining your kids and God whispers, “This is good. I hope you’re listening so you can apply this same truth to your life.

I realized that most times it’s not the big things along my spiritual journey that tempt me to get off track. It’s a culmination of small daily aggravations I know God could fix but doesn’t....

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what’s called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern...

I’m not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I’ve been assigned a load I can handle.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

Don’t we get into God’s Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it...

Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold...

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

Whether we’re on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

A man journeyed to a place Where the road caused him to ponder, Should he travel the wide, clear road? Or should he venture up the other? The wide road was more often traveled, It...

Which do I care more about – demanding my rights or displaying right choices?