Choose Your Cycle: Virtuous or Vicious
Liz Wiseman (2010) suggests that actions create “self-perpetuating” (p. 36) cycles. She explains the virtuous cycle and the vicious cycle. What we do determines what we get. You can hide […]
Avoid the Temptation to Sabotage, pt. 2
In the last entry, we looked at the risk of being “under” affliction for so long that we succumb to the conditioning and can sabotage ourselves. Today, I want us […]
Avoid the Temptation to Sabotage
Dear Ones, Do not think yourself so far “under” struggle or affliction that 1) things will never and improve and 2) you will not know life with God’s promise fulfilled […]
The Lord has a Way
Good day to all. This is just to encourage us all further… The Lord has a way of showing us He remembers us. If you’re at a place where the […]
The Beginning of Beautiful
My pastor preached recently about how God will use the foolish things to confound the wise, and bring about His purpose. He talked about “crazy stuff” that will happen, and […]
You are no Ventriloquist. I am no dentist.
My dear 20-something sister, Learn now to use your words. It is easy when ill or stressed or not getting your way to just clam up. It can be more […]
What the Lord Knows (encouragement)
Royal Ones, here is what the Lord knows. Be encouraged. All references are from the New American Standard Bible. He knows our way — Psalm 1:6, For the Lord knows […]
Prayer: Try Something New
Here’s another E. M. Bounds quote. …Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital [,] the most joyous, the most efficacious (fruitful), the most powerful of all […]
Want to learn to Pray? Then you must PRAY.
I was book shopping recently and came across a book called A Treasury of Prayer: The Best of E. M. Bounds on Prayer in a Single Volume. It was compiled […]
Public. Private. Secret.
Y’all, blame this one on Blue Bloods again. A protected celebrity said something to the detective that got me. The detective disagreed, but the celebrity insisted. Everybody’s got three lives: public, […]