Category archives: Spiritual Life

When Your Plan to Keep out of Trouble- Fails

When Your Plan to Keep out of Trouble- Fails
Have you ever made a plan to keep out of trouble, but instead found yourself in double trouble? Oh my goodness… That was ME- this week! My daughter got a job 18 hours from home and needed to get there immediately. But, we didn't have a budget for the move. Question: Do we use credit and go into debt? Answer: Avoid debt at ALL COSTS. Keep the goal and stay o[...]

Catch the Foxes

Catch the Foxes
It was a standoff.  The biggest fox I’d ever seen… and me... We've lost countless chickens, ducks, turkeys, and even a couple newborn baby goats to fox attacks. They come to kill, steal, and destroy under the guise of the dark. They can sniff out a bountiful farm a mile away, even sending a few lead foxes to scope out the place before the attack. Then, befor[...]

When God Interrupts Your Plans for His- Just Do it!

When God Interrupts Your Plans for His- Just Do it!
We’d been cooped inside the vehicle way too long! The kids were fighting. Everyone starving... but the good news? We were only 10 minutes from home. Until suddenly I realized... I needed one item from the grocery store. Yeah. . . I reassured them, “I only need one thing and I’ll be out in less than four minutes.     I promise. Set the timer!” They wail[...]

Satan’s Weapon of Torture

Satan's Weapon of Torture
“Satan has asked permission to sift you, Sharon”  my friend said. My mom who lives with us was in excruciating pain, and she had no one to help her- but me.  Same hour, my daughter (who was due to have a baby) called and said that the Dr. was sending her to the hospital because her blood pressure was skyrocketing. She couldn't get a hold of her husband, so I wa[...]

Pray Until Something Happens

Pray Until Something Happens
  Pray Until Something Happens Story Last weeks winner of 3 books, DVD, candle jars and seeds is Kim- you posted on 2014/09/18 at 4:24 PM. A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with bright light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man He had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The[...]

Love- The Antidote for The Poison of Unforgiveness

Love- The Antidote for The Poison of Unforgiveness
If you are visiting from P31's devotion today, welcome! Raging anger morphed him into someone I’d never seen.  It was horrible. Just minutes before, we were having a civilized conversation. His body racked with pain.  Morphine,  alcohol, and other drugs were his best friends.  Doctors couldn't find the source of his pain.  He looked desperately to me. “Help [...]

3 Ways to Help Persecuted Christians of Iraq

3 Ways to Help Persecuted Christians of Iraq
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”Bonhoefer My heart aches for our family (Christians) who are enduring the horrific persecution in Iraq.  News stations have reported  brutal murders, beheadings, and tormenting acts against Christians living in the country of Iraq.  Most [...]

The Best Yes

The Best Yes
I'm so excited to be a part of my dear friend Lysa Terkeurst's "The Best Yes" blog tour!! Exhaustion is not a condition I’ve been accustomed to in my life. I’ve proudly wore the badge called, TIRELESS. I thought I had successfully made it through the most exhausting years- raising five daughters, homeschooling, managing our own business, livin[...]

WhenTrials Hit Every Area of Your Life

Are trials literally hitting every  area of your life? Often when we suffer, it’s the life of our self-nature that causes us pain. When we are dead, we don’t suffer. If we were completely dead to our old nature we would no longer feel many of the pains that bother us . . . God prepares a cross for us that must be embraced without thought of self-preservation[...]