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Spiritual Depression: When You Are Feeling Defeated in the Wilderness
When we are in a season of Wilderness Wanderings, our faith in God may falter. We may question where God is in our situation. Remembering the past faithfulness of God is crucial in these situations. Spiritual Depression is real and can happen after a mountain top experience. If we turn to God, we can overcome…
Lessons from the Israelites in the Wilderness: What Not To Do In The Wilderness
There are many lessons from the Israelites in the Wilderness that we can learn and apply to us today. In the Wilderness, we have two options. We can choose to loose our faith in God, focusing on our circumstances, or we can set our sights on the one who can save us from our circumstances.
The Purpose of Wilderness Wanderings in the Bible
Sometimes, in the midst of the crowds of happy faces and the busyness of the year, we can feel lost in the drift of the season. Feeling this way can make us feel lonely, upset, or isolated from those that we love, and crucially, it can also make us feel isolated from the voice of…
Wilderness Wanderings in the Bible
Though the romanticized view of wandering could look like this picture, all open spaces and dramatic scenery, the actuality of wandering may seem as hopeless as Frankenstein and his monster locked in the final epic pursuit. We all wander at times in our lives. These are those seasons in which we are lost from God.…
Pause, Remember, and Tell the Story Again
By remembering the past and retelling it, the Israelites learn about what makes them a people and reminds them of where their focus should be now. The story becomes a testimony that reorients their priorities. The outcome of this ‘remembering’ is that their children “should set their hope in God and not forget the works…
Habits – Get a FREE Devotional Guide
When we focus on our relationship with God, we are not simply focusing on doing all the right spiritual disciplines, aka right habits, to please God. Instead, we are daily showing up to enter back into relationship with him. That daily return to our conversation with God through prayer, study of his word, accountability with…
The Asterisk* – What to do when “caveats” get in the way of living your best life…
There is always, always, always an exception to every rule. Maybe you might say that it’s worthwhile to acknowledge these other sides… Like a good rebuttal, it adds credence to what the author is saying and helps you to trust them. But, what I’ve found in my reading is that most caveats actually lessen the…
When you feel like you don’t have enough to give…
Fears and anxieties though are not just wrapped up in this time of uncertainty. I was having them way long ago, just about anything under the sun that I felt that I couldn’t control. It’s not something that appeared when they announced the first COVID case in my state or when the public schools were…
3 Ways to Cultivate Gratitude Everyday
I have been an avid journaler since I was a quirky preteen in elementary school. Though I have had several iterations of journaling types, from a close to daily diary to a sparse update twice a year, I love the thought of putting pen to paper. This being said, I know that I have a…
How to Live a Life of Gratitude
That’s all good and well and can be very useful when I am trying to get caught up on chores, errands, and work assignments. But, what about those drifting times? The times when I feel purposeless in life, like I have no direction, and because of that, feel like I am moving about in a…
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