Tagged with "faith"

• What’s in a Name?

  Discovering how identity shapes destiny — and how God’s naming of us changes everything.

• The Big Picture

  God is painting on a canvas bigger than we can see.

• Stand Where Jesus Stood

  Before the miracles, before the crowds, Jesus entered the wilderness and learned dependence.

• Renew My Mind

  The world has a quiet way of shaping how we think, often without our awareness. Renewal begins not with effort, but with learning to notice — and unlearn — the patterns that have been forming us.

• I Wanna Dance Like Enoch Danced

  A revival I never expected exposed something deeper than power or experience—it revealed the cost of true worship and the quiet pull of pride.

• Hope

  Written from jail, this testimony reflects on the fragile, painful, and necessary nature of hope—how it can both wound and sustain, and how ultimately hope must rest in God.

• What Are You Feeding?

  What we consume shapes what we become — and the Word of God is meant to be our daily bread.

• Mustard Seed Faith

  Even little faith is powerful when pointed toward Jesus. Mustard seed faith moves mountains—and multiplies miracles.

• Faith to Faith

  The righteousness that saves us is credited by God, received by faith, and lived out by faith—from beginning to end.

• God-Sized Praying

  I wonder if God's answers to my prayers reveal that He already knows what I would ask for if I knew what He knows.

• In the Margins

  A reflection on Scripture, time, and the holy space before the beginning—where God already knew every moment of our lives.

• Margins

  What is your favorite place in the Bible? Mine may surprise you.

• Be Still

  We chase holiness like a performance, but God meets us in surrender. In the margins of our striving, His grace whispers strength.

• God's Plan

  A reflection on the road of life, where every event becomes preparation for what lies ahead in God's unfolding plan.

• Faith from Beginning to End

  Righteousness isn't earned — it's credited by faith. From salvation to sanctification, the entire journey is a gift of grace, received through faith from beginning to end.

• Look and Live

  You don’t have to climb your way to God or fix yourself first. Just look to Jesus — and live.

• In His Presence

  Like an ant sensing only vibrations of a passing shadow, we often miss the nearness of God.

• The God Who Is Heard

  From Sinai’s thunder to the whisper of the Spirit, God has always chosen voice over image — inviting us not to behold Him, but to listen.

• Working From Grace

  Sanctification is not passive drifting or self-reliance, but faithful obedience empowered by God’s grace at work within us.

• Psalm 119: A Quiet Faith Formed in the Word

  Psalm 119 reveals a faith shaped not by urgency or perfection, but by obedience and trust reformed through God’s Word.

• The Power of Presence

  Israel’s victories were never secured by strength or strategy, but by the light of God’s presence — a truth that still exposes the danger of self-reliance.

• The Cart or the Horse

  Psalm 15 raises a searching question about who may dwell in God’s presence — and reveals that holiness is not the price of access, but the fruit of grace.

• From Exile to Eden

  “A story of addiction, surrender, confinement, and grace. This testimony stands on its own — offered not as instruction, but as witness — to the slow, unexpected work of God in a life brought to the end of itself.”

• Sticks and Stones

  Scripture was not given to us as a weapon to wound others, but as a living word meant to search us, humble us, and lead us into love.

• The LORD Is My Shepherd

  Psalm 23 is not a wish or a sentiment, but a declaration of settled reality. In valley and pasture alike, the Shepherd’s presence — not the absence of danger — is the source of comfort and confidence.

• I Want to Follow

  Relationship comes before understanding. God leads us into truth before He teaches us.

• Open My Eyes

  We can perceive almost nothing of reality — which is exactly why seeking Him first is not naïve but essential.

• Seek Him

  Prayer does not begin with effort or obligation, but with relationship. We seek God not to earn His favor, but because He has already drawn near to us.

• All Things

  Life does not always come together in ways we can understand. Faith holds to the promise that God is at work even when meaning feels hidden, and nothing is ultimately wasted.

• The Question We Avoid

  A meditation on formation, faithfulness, and the quiet, unseen work of the church beyond its largest gatherings.

• From Knowing to Surrender

  Knowing the truth is not the same as being changed by it. This is the story of a slow undoing — where grace met me when my resolve finally ran out.

• Unpacking Holiness

  A reflection on the movement of God’s holiness — from wilderness fire to indwelling Spirit — and the mercy found in His nearness.

• Waves

  A meditation on Exodus 20 and the unseen waves our choices send forward — into our families, our futures, and generations we will never know.

• Worship the LORD

  Worship begins not with music, but with surrender — bowing low and entrusting what we love most into God’s hands.

• Seek First

  What does it really mean to seek first the Kingdom of God? A reflection on priority, focus, righteousness by faith, and the promise that the Father will provide what we truly need.

• Created In His Image

  A reflection on whether the cross was an interruption in the story of creation or the meaning creation was always built to reveal.

• Complete Protection

  David's opening cry in Psalm 18 reveals a layered portrait of God's protection—strength within, stability beneath, defense around, and victory ahead—awakening love as the only fitting response.

• Sunday Morning Faith

  A contrast between well-worn sayings heard in church culture and enduring truth.

• Go

  God's call to "Go" is rarely comfortable or fully explained.

• God's Got This

  When progress feels slow and God seems silent, Deuteronomy reminds us that His promises unfold little by little. The pauses are not abandonment. They are preparation.

• Never Told Why

  Trust is not found in understanding the script. It is staying in the story with God when you cannot see the reason.

• Press On

  God sees more than our failures — He sees the fight. Even when defeat feels constant, His call is not condemnation but courage.

• Returning to Need

  Jesus calls us back to childlike dependence — not immaturity, but a return to trust, attachment, and the honest admission that we are powerless without Him.

• I Need You

  A simple prayer of surrender—recognizing that loving and following Jesus is not something we can accomplish in our own strength.

• Raise A Shout

  Psalm 100 reveals a progression in worship — from celebration to service to intimacy — built on the unchanging goodness of God.

• Why Indeed

  When despair rises and the future feels uncertain, Psalm 42 reminds us that even the overwhelming waves of life are under God’s control — and His presence remains with us.

• A Preemptive Shout

  Throughout Scripture, God's people often praise Him before the victory is visible. Worship becomes a declaration of faith that God's rule is greater than present circumstances.

• Freedom in Confinement

  Written in confinement, this testimony reflects on discovering unexpected freedom while incarcerated—freedom from addiction, clarity through God's Word, and a renewed commitment to live faithfully before Him.

• Happy Birthday

  Written in confinement on his birthday, this testimony reflects on spiritual growth, past failures, and the deep realization that only God can fill the empty places of the heart.

• Showers of Blessing

  The Psalms repeatedly call God’s people to shout in worship. True praise is not polite restraint but the joyful declaration that our victorious King reigns.

• Hold My Hand: Walking With God

  Seven reflections on trust, surrender, obedience, and steady faith for those learning to walk closely with God.

• Parables and Reflections

  Five reflections and narrative meditations that reveal God's truth in ordinary scenes, personal stories, and spiritual roadblocks.

• Speak Up Lord: I Don't Hear So Well

  Seven reflections for learning to hear God in quiet places through stillness, scripture, surrender, and attentive prayer.

• The Hidden Life of Faith

  Fourteen reflections on the inward journey of faith—stillness, surrender, holiness, prayer, and wholehearted devotion to God in the hidden places.

• When Life Hurts: Finding Purpose in the Pain

  Seven reflections for seasons of sorrow, waiting, and weakness, discovering the nearness and faithfulness of God in suffering.

• Not Complicated

  We often complicate what God has made simple. Loving our neighbor doesn’t require a plan — it requires obedience.

• Received, Not Achieved

  Obedience is not something we accomplish through effort, but something we receive as God works within us.

• Assurance of Salvation

  When doubt whispers that we are not enough, God's Word reminds us that salvation is not earned — it is a gift, secured by faith and sealed by His Spirit.

• In His Hands

  God claims both what is given and what lies beyond it. In the tension between possession and sovereignty, we find quiet confidence that even what feels chaotic remains firmly in His hands.

• Not So Quiet Confidence

  In the midst of fear and pressure, true confidence is found not in our strength, but in remembering that God surrounds, sustains, and secures us.

• I Am Loved

  For most of my life I understood God's love as agape — unconditional, selfless, sacrificial. But Psalm 42:8 introduced me to hesed: a love God has commanded of Himself, bound not by obligation but by nature. He could no more cease to love us than water could cease to be wet.

• The Passover Lamb

  From the skins God made for Adam and Eve, to the blood of the Passover lambs, to the cross — there is one unbroken thread. This is what Jesus walked into.

• A Razor Blade

  We approach Scripture with conclusions already settled, marking only what supports us. A meditation on what happens when we let God's Word divide soul from spirit — and question what we thought we already knew.

• Scars That Birthed Nations

  The nations that conspired to wipe Israel from memory share a common origin: someone who decided God's promise needed a nudge. Edom, Ishmael, Moab — each born from a scar of impatience. And yet, God remains the only hope of deliverance.

• Why Fear?

  Fear multiplies in imagined futures, but faith finds its footing in a single, steady truth: God is for me.