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Category: Inspired, encouragement

  • Broken Self-esteem (A Poem)

    I wanted you to tell me I was enough I wanted you to tell me I was free from the chains of my past I wanted you to tell me I looked good no matter what I wore I wanted to look at you in the mirror and feel good about you I wanted you…

  • Offenses (A Poem)

    I wished you well though it hurt deep I allowed you to break me in places only God could heal I learned the essence of pain from you You wrestled with me in each person I met I carried you like airline luggage I struggled to put you down because I carried you for so…

  • Wilderness Mindset

    Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill…

  • Healing the Wounds of Our Past

    Holding on to the past hinders the progress God wants us to make in our lives. There are so many people holding on to years of offenses. They are holding to every offense that has ever happened to them. The enemy is so crafty at replaying our past and who hurt us over and over…

  • What does God say about Celebrating Halloween?

    You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons (1 Corinthians 10:21). “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with…

  • God is Making Your Life His Masterpiece

    “being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6) “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men”(Colossians 3:23). “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ…

  • Falling in Love with Healing from the Past (A Poem)

    The restoration it gives to be free from the past. The growth seen from not being bound to the past. The strength found in relationships built on trust and not fear of being hurt. The peace the spirit in us has because we are no longer struggling with a past, we can’t change. The freedom…

  • God didn’t Do It

    Many of us want answers for our pain. We want the reasons for the trauma we have endured. We want someone or something to answer for the person who caused us so much pain. Many of us have so many ungodly and false beliefs about how God allowed it to happen. It soothes us but…

  • Fall in Love with God

    Many of us fantasize about falling in love with our husband or wife quite often over the course of our lives. How often do we think about how good it is to fall in love with God? Some people view God as being so distant from all we go through. Others feel God is never…

  • Faith Over Fear

    Many of us have seen the t-shirts carrying the message faith over fear, but how do we implement it? How do live out faith over fear in our lives? Many things in life are scary or cause fear. Faith is substance of things hope for and the evidence of things unseen (Hebrews 11:1). Though it’s…