Deliverance Each year I ask for God to give me a word to live by, so when my word was “deliver,” I was confused. I felt like I’d been “delivered” from a difficult childhood and some of the subsequent bad choices I made. I never dreamed that I might be delivered from disease this year….
I have felt emotionally weak for some time now. I have been trying to pull myself up by my boot straps, but I haven’t been able to do it. Life has been hitting me with sick family members, my last child going off to college, and moving, just to name a few. I was embarrassed that I…
Truth #7: God loves you more than you can fathom. It has taken me a long time to believe that God really loves me. When you don’t grow up with a father in your life, you don’t understand what a father’s love looks like. You ask questions like; “Does God really care about the intricate…
Truth #6: God is your heavenly Father, not your earthly father. This week I ministered to a couple of new friends in my life. One of them never knew her father. The other had an abrasive, mean father who she thought did not love her. As far as I could tell, neither had embraced a…
Truth #5: You Have a Purpose by Lisa Burkhardt Worley I met popular singer, Michael W. Smith, on a plane a couple of years ago. Because he was so nice I thought, I’ve got to go see him in concert. It took a while, but last night I enjoyed his “35 Years of Friends” show at Arlington…