Courageous Radiance

This week, we head back to talking through a prayer acronym that can be used, ACTS. “C” is for confession and we are jumping into its intricacies.What are some hinderances to prayer? Does God REALLY need me to confess my sin if He already knows my heart?I’m so glad that in a generation of canceling one another, left and right, that God doesn’t hit the red button to cancel us. Whether we get prayer wrong or right, what truly matters is our relationship with God. Even in our failure to confess, or when our confessions are half-hearted, I’m thankful that God is always willing to restore us back to a right standing with Him.Thanks for joining! Please subscribe to the blog:www.courageousradiance.com and the podcast. By subscribing to the blog, each month you will get God-resources to your inbox! As always, connect to the Facebook group ‘Courageous Radiance’ and IG. @courageousradiance.

Hey there! It’s Talk About it Tuesday. This is an opportunity to answer some questions sent in by way of the blog, Facebook group or Instagram.We are in the thick of the month of July topic of Prayer. Specifically for this Talk About it Tuesday, how does prayer and connection help us in the reality of our brokenness and sinc that is in our lives.Let’s go! Thanks for joining!Ways to connect:⬇️•Get on the blog mailing list for a free July prayer calendar. (www.courageousradiance.com)•Connect with me on IG @courageousradiance•Join the Courageous Radiance Facebook group

Prayer is the month of July topic!! Let’s kick it off speaking about what prayer is and some basics about what it is versus what it isn’t. I’m excited for you to listen in. If you would like a FREE prayer calendar, head to the blog www.courageousradiance.com/contact and subscribe to get this free resource! Not to mention other freebies that will be sent you each month as we are getting equipped and anchored. Connect with me on Instagram @courageousradiance and the Facebook group Courageous Radiance.

Hey friend! For the next two episodes, we are extending our topic of being planted to parenting. Whether you are a mother, grandmother, aunt, Godmother, student ministry leader, or disciple maker of any kind, there are people we are leading. Our influence ripples our beliefs & actions, as a river, into the places we live, work and convene. Ephesians‬ ‭4:1-2‬ says “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.” There is something or someone that wards the prison of our hearts and minds.Even if I think that “no one rules me”, and that I’m my own boss, then I have allowed myself to be ruler of myself. However, without Jesus, we cannot gracefully model patience, gentleness & humility, to list a few of many. Are we preparing our hearts and those that we parent or lead? Jesus has modeled how to walk “worthy” of the calling, even in the middle of difficult times & persecution. ‭‭I am so grateful that we have such a faithful model! Aren’t you? I am thankful that God loves us so much to have sent his son (John 3:16), and that Jesus loved us enough to sacrifice everything for us. This motivates me to fight the good fight of faith, because the one who paved a way, loved me first.

In these new porch planters, that are very large, I mentally began to calculate how much it was going to cost to fill that massive space. But, then, it occurred to me, to fill it with the unseen, yet weighty large fillings first. By filling half of the planter with large stones, that are unknown to any other eye, it requires less of the glam stones & frill flowers at the top.My cost was less for the larger stones. The beautiful frills and colors at the top look amazing, but they required way more effort to select, more time to glam it up and the expense was more financially. The enemy and the weaknesses of our flesh, want us to believe the falsehood that we don’t have time for God. The demands of our schedules appear to be way more important, but what holds it all together below the surface? When we decide to get and stay planted, we say not only “yes” to God, we invest in eternal self-care. Somehow I can connect the dots to my 30-minute Peloton ride to the correlation to my physical heart health, but there is a disconnect for me to apply this same principle to my spiritual heart, emotional stability and mental wellness when it comes to my relationship with God. God isn’t a task. He is our life Source. It’s not just cute on our planner, He is how our planner gets done & we can have peace for the things that didn’t happen. We plant ourselves at the foot of Christ, as we are reading through Martha & Mary today, because Jesus says that is choosing the “necessary thing” (verse 42.)Friends, as we plant, what we plant FIRST is most important. Let’s get connected!! IG-@courageousradianceFacebook-Courageous Radiancewww.courageousradiance.com

Talk about it Tuesday is here again!

I’d like to hear your life matters & what you want to talk about. As always head to the blog: www.courageousradiance.com and connect with me on social media: IG-@courageousradiance
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Do you ever get derailed in planting and growing your faith and relationship with God? I do, I’m sure we all do. Life happens, and it’s hard to spend time with God.

Let’s talk about it!

Our significance to God is unchanged. The basis by which we define our worth & build our lives from is reliable and it is an unshakable truth.

This is where we plant! We need life giving water connected to our root system, and that is only found in Christ.

Psalm 1 is up for discussion today! Plant and bloom, no matter the season and there is no room for comparison.

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Oh hey you 100th episode!

Hey friend! We are beginning a brand new month theme called “Planted”.

Do you ever struggle day to day NOT wanting to do anything? In difficult seasons, when my emotional battery reserve is depleting, I struggle to have what the day needs.

But, we have a solution! There is hope to our wavering emotions…getting and staying PLANTED!

I am so grateful that in spite of my lack of ability & the crazy of the season, that God is always working. We have freedom to be vulnerable with Him!

The processes of life will happen with our consent or not, so we might as well equip ourselves with an unchanging empowerment.

Our limitations meet His grace!

Happy 100th!

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What is the undercurrent of your decisions and motivations? If I’m honest, it’s not always God, and even when it is Him, I am trying to achieve something for Him.

When do we rest in Him? When can we accept that His love doesn’t need any additives?

Friends, John 3:16 says that God gave us an eternal destiny with Him through His gift of Jesus to pay for our sins. Jesus not only was put up as our sacrifice, He willingly volunteered.

I don’t know about you, but that makes me want to see myself through the love and worth that God sees. We are loved in our worst and we’re saved before we did anything to need His salvation.

Rahab, in Joshua 2, was an unlikely candidate to deserve the designated title of “beloved daughter” of God. She was a prostitute and although she knew of God, she was not a believer.

Why would God allow such a woman to be considered to be in the lineage of Jesus coming to earth? The same reason we get to. She, like us, was loved.

Let’s jump into this week as we light our ignition to fire up for our divine assignments, carrying the banner of “beloved.” Let’s get ruthless for Christ!

Hi friend!

If you could rank your affection with God and the connectedness with Him, how would it rank (0-10)? No judgment. No condemnation.

In our discussion on the podcast, let’s address any inequalities of our heart affections and our check the box.

Hosea 6:6, God desires our faithful love. Are you willing?

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