This Is Not What I Expected - Joy Comer
This Is Not What I Expected - Joy Comer

I had three choices. 1. I could quit right there and go back home. 2. I could stay and complain that things weren't what I invisioned. 3. I could accept it for what it was and make the best of it. I chose number 3. I knew this was God's will for my life no matter if it was not my plan. How many times in life have we faced circumstances and said those words? "This is not what I expected!" In marriage, as a mom, as a daughter, at a job, as a friend, or even as a Pastors wife things don't go the way "we" plan.

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Christian Life, Christian Service, Friendship, God's Will, Peace of GodAmy SappExpectations, Faithfulness, Will of God, Hindsight, 20/20 Vision
Contentment - Karen Caviness
Contentment - Karen Caviness

Have you ever thought of how strange it must seem to God that we can go from one

holiday where we focus on being thankful for all the blessings that God has given us

straight into the next holiday, where our focus should be on the greatest gift ever

given; however, this is the time of year that many people seem to become

discontent. Sometimes it is discontentment because we think we won’t get that

special gift we have really been longing for. Or perhaps it’s not so selfish; our reason

for discontentment is because we don’t have the means to give the gifts we wish we

could.

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Christian Life, God's Will, Trusting GodAmy SappContentment, Comparison, Focus, Holidays, Discontentment
The Label - Amy Sapp
The Label - Amy Sapp

Chances are that at some point in life someone has done or said something to hurt you... When people are "people" AND we all are very "peopley". Things tend to happen or get said that maybe shouldn't have been. And it HURTS! Sometimes it hurts pretty bad. I am pretty sure if we are honest with ourselves, we would admit that we have all been there at some point in time. And if we are truthful with our own selves we have also been on the side that has done the hurting as well.

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Christian Life, Encouragement, Friendship, TrialsAmy SappLabel, Kindness, Amy Sapp, Hurt, True, Honest, Judging
Great Faith - Wanda Cape
Great Faith - Wanda Cape

Can you imagine with me for a minute how it must have been in the days of Jochebed?  I imagine that she faced some extremely hard times. As you will discover in the book of Exodus chapter 1, the wicked King, Pharaoh, had just instructed the Hebrew midwives to slay the male children of the Hebrew women. When Pharaoh discovered that the midwives were not killing the boy children, as he had instructed, he charged all his people to cast every son of the Hebrew women into the river. 

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Christian Life, Faith, God's Will, Trusting GodAmy Sappfaith, Wanda Cape, Jochebed, Church, Trials
Where And How Will We Spend Our Winter? - Rachel Harkins
Where And How Will We Spend Our Winter? - Rachel Harkins

When it is necessary for us to “go outside and face the storm”, will we tread prayerfully and carefully while remembering that many spiritual accidents occur in the winter time through decisions made in haste? Will we remember that, just as winter blizzards can be blinding, spiritual winter times can leave us temporarily blinded to the direction God would have us take?

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Christian Life, Encouragement, Faith, God's Will, Trusting God, TrialsAmy SappWinter, Trials, Difficulties, Snow, Forecast
UNBELIEF - Kelli Campbell
UNBELIEF - Kelli Campbell

If you believe in someone, you have faith in them. Faith is complete trust, confidence, conviction and belief. Trust is the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something. The Lord our God created the children of Israel! He delivered them out of bondage, in Egypt. He promised to be their God and to give them the Promised Land. God showed the children of Israel they could trust and believe Him in so many ways. How could they, His creation, not believe Him? 

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Christian Service, FaithAmy SappUnbelief, belief, faith
The Beauty of Holiness - Lisa Hampton
The Beauty of Holiness - Lisa Hampton

It is clear in the scriptures that the Lord finds holiness in his children beautiful. That beauty stems from the holiness of God. In Chronicles 16:29, Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Similar verses can be found in Psalm 96:9. Holiness is not a suggestion it is a command.

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Christian Life, God's WillAmy SappBeauty, Holy, Holiness, Call
Even If - Sarah Green
Even If - Sarah Green

And then I saw a mom across the waiting room holding her little boy who has “classic” CF, the kind I just found out my baby did NOT have. And my next thought was, “Would I be thanking Him even if my Anna Jo had not had a good diagnosis?”

Would I still be praising Him even if He chose to tell me no?

Would I still trust His mercy even if He let my innocent child suffer?

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Children, Illness, Trusting GodAmy SappAffliction, Sickness, Baby, God, Genetics
God Knows - Rebecca Graham
God Knows - Rebecca Graham

I delivered our sweet baby 2 weeks later. So many things raced through my mind as I held that sweet baby. Excitement- the fact that God allowed me to see and hold my precious baby. It was an answer to prayer. Sorrow- missing out on all the special moments. But then, something that stuck out to me the most in that moment.......was trust. God knew! He knew everything that would take place, before it even happened. How amazing is that?!

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Trusting GodAmy SappGod's Will, trusting God, Miscarriage, Perfect Peace Comment
Are You a LuLu? - Alicia Hanks
Are You a LuLu? - Alicia Hanks

I often think that God gives me object lessons in my life to teach me important things. Lately, He has a placed a very big object into my life. We recently acquired a dog. Her name is Lulu. Lulu is half Burnese Mountain dog and half Aussie Shepherd. Both of these types of dogs are work dogs, very smart and trainable. Our Lulu is seven months old and has been staked in the yard or in a kennel most of her life. Her owner loved her, but knew that she was not able to properly take care of her.

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Christian Life, Christian ServiceAmy SappFellowship, Devotion, Obedience, Discipline, GodComment
Trailblazing for Christ - Janice Wolfe
Trailblazing for Christ - Janice Wolfe

Trailblazing according to the online Merriam Webster dictionary is defined as making or pointing a new way!

When I look at the lives of the 3 women mentioned in Hebrews 11, I see trailblazers. Women

who faced fearful, uncertain circumstances and yet, they chose faith over fear. They chose to

blaze a trail of faith into the unknown territory of fear and uncertainty.

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Christian Life, Faith, Trusting GodAmy SappTrailblazing, Trails, paths, leader Comment
By the River's Brink - Cathy Sandiford
By the River's Brink - Cathy Sandiford

Lately, I have been thinking about Jochebed, the mother of Moses. The Bible doesn’t tell us much about her. Just like all mothers, surely, she had a dream for how she would raise her children. She didn’t have an easy life, but she had a little family and ways of loving and training her children for the Lord. I wonder, did she plan in detail how she would raise them and teach them about the Lord and life. Was she preparing them to have the right attitude about their suffering? Did she have a plan to try to ease their hurts as they grew that would bring them closer to God so they wouldn’t stray away from him in bitterness?

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Children, Encouragement, TrialsAmy SappSpecial Needs, Trials, Goals, Training Comments
An Open Hand- Christi Davis
An Open Hand- Christi Davis

“The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” These were the words that spilled from my lips at what many would say was one of the worst moments of my life. These words came out, not because I am “Super Christian,” but because of a biblical principle that my mom taught me in Jr. Church and lived before me from the time I was young.

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Christian Life, Life Changes, Trials, Trusting God, Christian ServiceTiffany MooreChristi Davis, service, Christian life, trials, trusting God