Good News: Encouragement for a WORLD IN CRISIS! – Day 1

May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in Him; so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 God Has Good Plans We’re living in an unprecedented time as we navigate the life-threatening and economy-shaking struggles we’re facing because ofContinue reading “Good News: Encouragement for a WORLD IN CRISIS! – Day 1”

Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 5)

Devotional: Put It Into Practice After 21 days of rewriting thought, you have wiped out the toxic though and replaced it with positive, productive thought. Here’s how we change our lives. Dr. Caroline Leaf Matthew 4:1-11 tells us about how the devil was tempting Jesus when He was in the wilderness for 40 days. DuringContinue reading “Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 5)”

Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 4)

Devotional: Fix Your Thoughts When we fill our thoughts with the right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter. Joyce Meyer Testing our thoughts and leaning to take them captive is a huge part of the mental battle we have with our thoughts. So, when we can learn to do that as aContinue reading “Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 4)”

Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 3)

Devotional: Capture Your Thoughts Taking thoughts captive means controlling them instead of letting them control you. Priscilla Shirer We were created in the image of God, and we are His masterpieces. What would our lives be like if we lived like we believed that truth? The biggest reason we don’t is because we have letContinue reading “Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 3)”

Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 2)

Devotional: Test Your Thoughts The thoughts you keep in a loop determine the direction of your life. Steven Furtick We have a lot of thoughts every day. In fact, many experts believe we think somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 thoughts per day. That averages out to 2,5000 to 3,000 per hour. Remarkable, isn’t it? ItContinue reading “Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 2)”

Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 1)

(This was a really hard one for me to write. I cried so many times because I am not only an overthinker but I have broken and damaged thoughts. Don’t worry; you are not going through this alone. I am with you through this.) Devotional: Mind Renovation We’ve probably all heard how much out thoughtsContinue reading “Reset Your Mind: Overhauling Toxic Thoughts (Day 1)”

Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 4)

Devotional: A couple of years ago while I was in university at Southern Illinois University, well after midnight, I began sobbing uncontrollably while lying in bed. I didn’t know if it was stress, life related, or my mind was going back to a hard time in my life. I didn’t know if God was tryingContinue reading “Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 4)”

Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 3)

Devotional: One night, while I was driving home from Carbondale; where spent the weekend with friends and church, I found myself wrestling with five negative and intimidating statements from my past: “You’re just like me!” “You will never…” “If God ever takes His hand off a man, He never…” “What do you think you’re doing?”Continue reading “Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 3)”

Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 2)

Devotional: In one of Elliff’s books; he mentions and quotes that “One evening before Christmas 1946, a friend dropped off a gift for my mother; a beautiful green felt hat with a large, bright red feather. Rather than trying on her gift, mother cocked her head to one side and looked at out sparsely decoratedContinue reading “Moving from Hurting to Healing Devotional (Day 2)”