A quiet place for weekly devotionals, honest stories, and Scripture-rooted encouragement for trusting God in everyday life.
Daily Effort
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matthew 26:41 Walking in life-giving steps requires daily effort. Deliberately stepping into what God has for you is a choice. It's rather easy to stumble, falling into death. Death? Walking into self-pity. Agreeing with rejection....
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God's Comfort
For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 2 Corinthians 1:5 As our Father, God longs to comfort us. Longs to comfort us, His children. Whenever I'm terribly upset, this is what I picture: God hears me. He wants to help as my tears break His...
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Real Life 2.0
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God. Psalm 43:5 Ever have a pity party? Honestly, they're fun. It's fun to wallow in poor me. Why? Because when we join our pity party,...
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Real Life
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. Romans 7:18 Life is real, folks. Messy. Super messy. Why? Broken world. Selfishness. Lies of the enemy we believe. Death. Are you aware...
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Trust No Matter What
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. Psalm 40:2 Is it hard to trust God when things look dark? When life seems to be hanging by a thread, and you cannot do a darn thing about it,...
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Life
What is life? Something or someone that is alive. Breathing. Growing. Potential. How does life begin? God. He is the author of life. He created the world and everything in it. How does life end? Natural causes, accidents, and illness. Or by choice with the hand of a "bad guy", murdering a life undefended. Recently,...
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Our Job
I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Psalm 16:8 Sometimes I say, "Really, God?" "Really?" Sometimes I wonder just what He's thinking. Sometimes, I say, "Don't you want to try this instead?" "Seriously, don't you?" Sometimes I wonder just what He's doing....
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Pure Trust
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 1 Peter 4:12 Been reading about Abraham lately. Like so many of you, I've decided to read through the Bible yet again this year. So, I've come to Abraham. Abraham's...
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Securely Loved
And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security. Job 11:18 Are you securely loved? By anyone here on earth? Have you the pleasure of knowing you are completely surrounded by that love? Completely safe through the knowledge you are absolutely securely loved? Do you...
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Simplicity
The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, He saved me. Psalm 116:6 I'm struck at how simple our faith needs to be. Just plain simple. We make Christianity so darn complicated. We become experts, insistent on our own interpretation of things. We condemn ourselves from standards of perfection. We become puddles of...
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Hope
I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder. Psalm 81:6-7 What is hope, really? Knowing the situation will improve. Seeing signs of improvement. Signs of hope. The dictionary defines hope as believing,...
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Be Still
To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 25 Lord, what are Your thoughts this morning? Be still. Be still and know that I am God. I am above it all. Everything, big or small. I am...
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