Category: God

  • Losing Control: 3 Things to Do to Manifest God’s Power

    Losing Control: 3 Things to Do to Manifest God’s Power

    Lately, I’ve been dwelling on what my purpose is. My roles generically lend to the broader purposes of my life, but the matters of God’s planned destiny and the exact details he wants to manifest will not come without intentionally sowing seeds. Boldness, Bravery, Authenticity Have you been wondering the…

  • We Are But Mortals On This Planet

    We Are But Mortals On This Planet

    Going for a walk last night, my husband and I noticed a particularly bright light in the sky. It was too bright to be a star, and stationary in its position. Leaving the neighborhood and entering into the darker surroundings of farmland, Chris pulled out the Google Star Map app…

  • How to Feel Loved by God

    How to Feel Loved by God

    It’s easy to hear and believe in my head that “God loves me,” “Jesus loves you,” or even a Bible verse about the love of God. It’s one thing to read it and know it. It’s another thing to feel it and experience it. What is God’s Love? Feeling loved…

  • Apart from God I Can Do Nothing

    Apart from God I Can Do Nothing

    My Strength vs. God’s Strength Somewhere between holding on and controlling things with my strength and letting go and coming to the end of my strength is where God moves. He is strong when we can’t do it. He is strong when we think we can, because without Him, on…

  • What Did God Ever Do For Me? (Let Me Tell You…)

    What Did God Ever Do For Me? (Let Me Tell You…)

    As Job saw his life fall apart before his eyes, so I saw my life crumble into chaos. As David cried out to the Lord to be saved, so I wept numerous times through the darkest nights of my life. As Paul pleaded for God to remove the thorn in…

  • Why Did I Go Off My Medication?

    Why Did I Go Off My Medication?

    In this PsychCentral.com Show podcast with fellow bipolar blogger and mental health advocate Gabe Howard and his co-host, Vincent M. Wales, I read a letter to the televangelist who inspired me to go off my medication and we discuss how to respond to that person’s misguidance. In this episode of…

  • In A Spiritual Quandary: Do I Look for Wow Moments or Listen to God’s Word?

    In A Spiritual Quandary: Do I Look for Wow Moments or Listen to God’s Word?

    Lately, I’ve been considering the things I’ve been caught up with in the last few years, namely: spiritual revelation. I have come relatively far in my spiritual walk with Christ, but I question whether I have gotten distracted with the shiny sparkly items of certain contemporary prophets and the byproducts of…