"I don't mind waiting" this is the response I gave the Lord not too long ago. Ever since, I have been wrestling with not being frustrated in this waiting. God is stretching my patience and is drawing me closer to Himself. It sucks right now but I made a commitment

I am realizing with the help of the Holy Spirit that being gifted and being called are two different things. When I was in the 10th grade, I sat outside my house and thought about what I wanted to do with my life. When I was about 9, I told

I have been having a hard time at work. I no longer enjoy the workplace I once enjoyed. One day during a lunch break, I decided to seek the Lord's face about my feelings. I remember asking and praying about this job, I felt the Lord said it was a

Asking for help is difficult. I think it is challenging for a few reasons and they are based on my view and perspective of what it means when I say "hey I need help, could you assist me?" Here is what goes through my mind when I think about asking

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." – John 10:10 NRSV I think it is pretty clear in this scripture that life with Jesus is supposed to be just that, life! It is supposed to be

I am STILL afraid of close relationships. Define "close" for us please. Sure. When I say "close", I mean physical closeness, mental closeness and emotional closeness. I fear these things for reasons I am sure come from relationships I have seen in my life. The relationships my sisters have had.

I was singing a worship song that I love and as I continued to sing, I realized that the song only repeated itself. I then began to think of other songs I have sang in church and have grown up hearing around my house and how they were repeated as

Lament [https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=define+lament]: 1. a passionate expression of grief or sorrow 2. an expression of regret or disappointment; a complaint There is a book in the bible titled Lamentations. This book is full of passages that adhere to the definitions above. Expressions

A friend asked that I would write what the expression "fill my cup, Lord" meant to me. To me, saying fill my cup Lord, is a cry for the Lord's help because where I am needs change and most importantly, what I have is not enough. Maybe my resources (joy,

I have been studying the book of Malachi lately. In the first chapter I noticed the word of the Lord was given to Malachi for the people of Israel. When I started the second chapter, I noticed the word of the Lord given to Malachi was directed specifically to the

in the deep i scream i gasp for a hand to hold for a breath of air once more in my selfishness i scream not for company but for separation i scream for distance and beg for isolation I do not open up to people easily or often, I think

I need healing. I have had some experiences in life that have broken me. In small pieces or in big pieces, all in all I have been broken. What I am coming to learn in my heart is that if something has the capability to be broken then it also

I am seen. I have always wrestled with being seen. I have never really been the outgoing and extroverted person, I am more reserved and to myself. I prefer to be in the back and I stray away from being the center of attention. While these things are true, I

Psalm 37:4 "Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." Jesus, I have been wrestling with what I desire. I have been wrestling with the things I want. I can say I have no idea. I know I want you, I want

I am learning that I need to keep the truth of what the Lord says about me fresh in my mind. It has become a little too easy to forget, in my forgetfulness I have allowed the lies of the enemy to sit in my mind as truth, and that

Faith is not the absence of reality. In fact, faith is pulling the impossible into our reality, by calling on the name of Jesus. One of my favorite scriptures is Mark 9:24, there is a father and his son, the father sees Jesus, calls out to him and asks