Worry Prayer

The other night, I found myself in prayer – the worry prayer. I’m sure we’ve all done this from time to time. Something is weighing on your mind and you know you should trust God with it, so every few minutes you offer up a prayer to Him about it. While talking with God is [...]

Deal With It

I’m continuing to read Joyce Meyer’s book, The Secret to True Happiness, and I had to share this about this chapter about grief I read a couple of days ago. It’s probably the best advice I’ve ever read about grief.
Grief is not really a topic that you want to read about. I mean, really, who [...]

Passing the Grade

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a challenging situation and wondered – how did I get here? Many times I assume that a difficulty is the enemy trying to discourage me, but really it could be a test set up by God for my benefit. I ask for it sometimes when I [...]

Deep Calls to Deep

While in college, I had one of those defining moments in my relationship with God. I worked at a youth camp and that summer, as I was ministering to teenagers, God worked in my heart. One of my favorite scriptures from that summer was Psalm 42. It just so happens to be the Message Daily [...]

Fasting Encouragement pt.2

I am believing that through this time of prayer and fasting that my heart will be refined and my life will be more surrendered to God. I’m believing that I’ll have a new perspective, renewed vision and increased zeal for doing the work of the Kingdom. I don’t want any compartments in my life – [...]

Fasting Encouragement

Yesterday, we fasted full water and juice all day until after our Wednesday night services. I personally totally felt more in-tune with the Holy Spirit and more boldness. We had a few challenging kids last night. One child was a two year old who was just being a perfect TERRIBLE two. He was saying [...]

Run the Race

Today my devotional challenged me to look at my race and see what is distracting me from Jesus. It pointed to one of my life verses – Hebrews 12:1-2 – and again I was inspired. This time I read it in the Amplified Bible which adds some words to help with the understanding.
Therefore then, since [...]

Relentless Preparation

Leadership requires relentless preparation. You cannot predict every possible challenge. But if you prepare for those challenges that you can predict, you will be better equipped to handle all problems, even the unexpected ones. –Rudolph W. Giullani
This was on the side of my starbucks cup this morning. Seriously. What a great leadership principle to keep [...]