So today I want to officially announce the print release of volume number two of my poetry! You can now order "Snapshots: Of the Coming Glory" as a print on demand book immediately through CreateSpace and Amazon! I also want to announce a blog series I will be launching soon! God has been laying the subject of prayer heavily on my heart lately; and I have been inspired to run a series of guest blog posts about prayer. We'll be talking about many...
Lately, I have felt God pressing on my heart to stop asking Him for stuff. It all falls in line with my last two posts actually. I've been feeling challenged to pray only in thankfulness and adoration of Who God is and of His qualities as revealed in Scripture and my daily life. For the course of this next school year, when I go to pray, I will only thank God for Who He is and proclaim His character over my circumstances. At the very least, this...
This summer has been new: new house, new opportunities, new challenges. Most importantly (IMHO), I’ve come to experience a new season in my relationship with God. I’ve become aware of communing. Through all of the transitions this summer related to moving and all of the uncertainties about going back to school, I’ve come to a place where I find myself wanting to do nothing except be still and know that He is God. (Ps. 46:10) There is...
I've been hearing a lot of messages lately about God's love. God's love. God's affection. As one speaker put it, the word love is used so much that it fails to impact us the way it should when used in regard to the way God feels about us. God is affectionate toward us. Affectionate. Yet even this word seems dead to me, or I to it. Should that move me to cry to God for a heart that can respond to Him? In some small way, it does. Maybe if I start...
Today, God broke through all of the noise in my life. I really needed to hear from Him today and He led me and guided me to the right place and the right circumstance so that He could just shower His love on me. I'm really in awe of Him. I really love Him. Here's a new poem for you that I pray encourages you to hold fast to God's promises. Fresh Encounter Now, I feel a gentle breeze,
Subtle, first, but no less real,
Now it comes, oh...
Transition: that's what my life has been about it seems. From as early as I can remember, I have always had changes in my life. Sometimes they were small things like the variety of food on the dinner table. Other times, it was big things like parents divorcing or moving out from under my parents' roof. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to paint a bleak picture at all; I just am keenly aware of the rhythm of change in my life. It's funny: when I...
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” —Matthew 3:2 To repent is to change your mind, to change the way you think. Anything that we do or say, anything that we allow to set itself up against God, we are called to repent of. We are called to repent of anything that refuses to give God dominion. I was reading the Psalms today and the writer was pleading with God to bring retribution to the wicked. The wicked in this passage were...
I was reading through some of my journal entries from a year ago, and I swear I don't believe I actually wrote them. The maturity I expressed in my writings a year ago far outshines the musings of my heart now (or so I feel). Literally, I am in awe of who I've been. I remember every situation, I remember all the pain. Yet somehow through it all, the yearning of my heart remains the same: the abundant life. I am a citizen of heaven. I was made...
Oh boy. This week has been the best week of summer so far. Encouraging text messages, singing the Scriptures, convicting sermons... it's like God's trying to tell me that He loves me or something. =D Allow for me to share with you one of the convicting ideas floating through my mind this week: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In his message series entitled "The Supernatural Power of a Renewed Mind," Bill Johnson...
I was out walking earlier and came upon this view: When I saw this I started thinking about how much this is like life. Sometimes, for whatever reason, a part of who we are is missing or destroyed. God then, when the time is right, sows the seeds of renewal in our lives so that we can live abundantly. However, just like these trees will take many years to grow and mature, so God's work in us is very gradual. He has created us to operate in space...
