If you've experienced loss this year, this episode is for you. Maybe you're feeling burned out, exhausted, at the end of your rope, or hopeless. Maybe you've been separated from loved ones, or you've missed out on important life events like travel or a wedding.

Bring your grief, anger, frustration, and sadness, to God. It is healthy and good to bring our emotions to God. He's our loving Father who wraps us in his loving arms. We live in a fallen world with so much pain and heartbreak. There are things that have been especially heavy this year. 

While we grieve, this meditation ends with hope, because in Christ we always have hope. We know how the story ends. It does not end in grief in loss, but in a celebration of God’s kingdom being established forever, and in all things being made new. No more tears, no more suffering. Jesus has already defeated evil and death. 

Today's passage is Psalm 42 (NIV):

As the deer pants for streams of water,

    so my soul pants for you, my God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

    When can I go and meet with God?

My tears have been my food

    day and night,

while people say to me all day long,

    “Where is your God?”

These things I remember

    as I pour out my soul:

how I used to go to the house of God

    under the protection of the Mighty One

with shouts of joy and praise

    among the festive throng.

Why, my soul, are you downcast?

    Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

    for I will yet praise him,

    my Savior and my God.

My soul is downcast within me;

    therefore I will remember you

from the land of the Jordan,

    the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

Deep calls to deep

    in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your waves and breakers

    have swept over me.

By day the Lord directs his love,

    at night his song is with me—

    a prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my Rock,

    “Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go about mourning,

    oppressed by the enemy?”

My bones suffer mortal agony

    as my foes taunt me,

saying to me all day long,

    “Where is your God?”

Why, my soul, are you downcast?

    Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

    for I will yet praise him,

    my Savior and my God.

Psaume 42:2 (Second 21): 

Comme une biche soupire après des cours d’eau,

ainsi mon âme soupire après toi, ô Dieu!

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Do you believe that God is good? It's hard to believe that when we're suffering or disappointed. But the Bible tells us about God's character, and it tells us that he is good. He is faithful. His love for us continues forever. Let's CHOOSE to thank him and praise him because of his character. He is good. Let's choose to thank him even when we don't feel like it. His truth is higher than our felt experience, and the truth that God is good brings us so much hope when things feel dark. 

Meditating daily on God's goodness is an important part of our health and wellness. I bet you'll feel a little bit lighter and more grateful after listening to this meditation.

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Are you exhausted every morning? I've created these morning meditations to help you! They're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time.

If you need help focusing during your morning time with God (or lack thereof), I've created a week of guided scripture meditations to help you find more rest in God's presence during your week. 

You know about the power and importance of starting your day with God, but you're too exhausted to focus. I've made it easy for you! Even when you're tired because the baby kept you up last night, all you have to do is PRESS PLAY.

These 7 guided scripture meditations will take the struggle out of sticking to your morning time with God. I created what I wish I had years ago when I was suffering from burnout and too tired to start my day with God's Word.

What you get in your guided scripture morning meditations:

- 7 scripture meditations on the theme of rest (mp3 format)

- Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

- A different scripture passage for each day of the week

- Each day is customized to guide you through your week

- A guided start for one day of rest per week (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

- Short prayers

- A journaling prompt

- Guided gratitude with scripture

- Guided relaxation and breathing

- Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

- Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

- A PDF guide on how to get the most out of listening

- These meditations are designed to be used for multiple weeks

Get your week of guided scripture meditations at restforhersoul.com

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Today we are meditating on the joyful, hopeful passage of Psalm 100 (NIV).

Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth!

    Worship the Lord with gladness.

    Come before him, singing with joy.

Acknowledge that the Lord is God!

    He made us, and we are his.

    We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving;

    go into his courts with praise.

    Give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the Lord is good.

    His unfailing love continues forever,

    and his faithfulness continues to each generation.

These are the first two verses in French for our mini French moment. (Psaume 100 Segond 21). 

Poussez des cris de joie en l’honneur de l’Eternel,

habitants de toute la terre!

Servez l’Eternel avec joie,

venez avec allégresse en sa présence!

Thanks for listening! 

How much time do you waste every day? Is it on your phone? Something else? What could you do instead? Rest more? Laugh more? Finish a project? Actually learn to connect with God and hear from him? Start a business? Get outside more? Dare to dream a little! 

Whatever it is, I bet there are things you'd love to do, but you think you don't have time for them. In this meditation on Psalm 119:37, you can spend some time asking God to help you dream about what life could look like if you stopped looking at worthless things, and walked in his life-giving ways instead. 

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If you're having trouble feeling motivated to read your Bible every morning, but you want to - I've created a solution for you! These 7 morning meditations guide you through scripture, prayer, and time in silence with God.

They guide you through your week, and they're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time. The theme for each morning is rest in God's presence. All you need to do is press play and listen through your morning prayer and Bible time with God! https://restforhersoul.com

What you get: 

A different meditation for each day of the week

Short prayers

A journaling prompt

Guided gratitude with scripture

Guided relaxation and breathing

A different rest-themed scripture each day 

A guided meditation for one day of rest (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

A PDF guide for how to get the most out of these meditations

A printable checklist for a 4 week challenge to make morning scripture meditations a habit

A PDF with a brief explanation on why Sabbath is biblical

Go to restforhersoul.com to get this set of 7 morning meditations!

You don't have to be exhausted all the time. You can be a non-anxious, joy-filled, peaceful presence to those around you. God invites us all to have rest that's so deep, it's on a soul level. We don't need to live frantic, exhausting lives. When we look to Jesus, ask him, and study how he lived, we can begin to walk in the rest that God has for us. 

It takes intentional action on our part though. We have to CHOOSE to live lives where we make the time to spend time in God's presence and find true rest. 

In today's episode we reflect on what changes we need to make in our lives to enter into the rest God has for us. Our passages for this meditation are Jeremiah 6:16 and Matthew 11:28-30.

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If you're having trouble feeling motivated to read your Bible every morning, but you want to - I've created a solution for you!

These 7 morning meditations guide you through scripture, prayer, and time in silence with God. They guide you through your week, and they're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time. The theme for each morning is rest in God's presence. All you need to do is press play and listen through your morning prayer and Bible time with God! https://restforhersoul.com

What you get: 

A different meditation for each day of the week

Short prayers

A journaling prompt

Guided gratitude with scripture

Guided relaxation and breathing

A different rest-themed scripture each day 

A guided meditation for one day of rest (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

A PDF guide for how to get the most out of these meditations

A printable checklist for a 4 week challenge to make morning scripture meditations a habit

A PDF with a brief explanation on why Sabbath is biblical

Go to restforhersoul.com to get this set of 7 morning meditations!

This sure feels like a year of drought, doesn't it? So many plans have been cancelled, things lost, things changed. Is it truly possible to NOT be anxious or worried in a year like 2020? God tells us more about this possibility in Jeremiah 17:5-8. Listen to this calming meditation and be refreshed in God's loving presence. 

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If you're having trouble feeling motivated to read your Bible every morning, but you want to - I've created a solution for you!

These 7 morning meditations guide you through scripture, prayer, and time in silence with God. They guide you through your week, and they're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time. The theme for each morning is rest in God's presence. All you need to do is press play and listen through your morning prayer and Bible time with God! https://restforhersoul.com

What you get: 

A different meditation for each day of the week

Short prayers

A journaling prompt

Guided gratitude with scripture

Guided relaxation and breathing

A different rest-themed scripture each day 

A guided meditation for one day of rest (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

A PDF guide for how to get the most out of these meditations

A printable checklist for a 4 week challenge to make morning scripture meditations a habit

A PDF with a brief explanation on why Sabbath is biblical

Go to restforhersoul.com to get this set of 7 morning meditations!

Want to do something about the evil in the world? Love your enemies.

Yep. That's what Jesus did, and he calls us to do the same. "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink."

This is impossible to do by sheer willpower - but we don't do it in our own strength! God gives us the Holy Spirit to enable us. We NEED the Holy Spirit to change our hearts and minds and enable us to love our enemies, to wish them well, to pray for them, and to help them. 

Listen to today's episode as we meditate on what God says about our enemies, and how God is just and he will deal with evil in the end. That's not our job. How freeing. We get to spread love in the world by loving our enemies. Our passage today is Romans 12:19-21. 

This is part 3 of 3 in our series called Love in Action. You can listen to the first two in episodes 25 and 26! 

Instagram: @restforhersoul 

No matter how bad things are, when we're in Christ, we remember that this is not the end. We have SO much hope, because we're focused on what is eternal. Get cozy, close your eyes, and listen to this hope-filled passage from the Living Word of our loving Creator. Today's passage is 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.

My prayer for you as you listen is that you'll be filled with immense peace and HOPE from God's loving presence. 

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If you're having trouble feeling motivated to read your Bible every morning, but you want to - I've created a solution for you! These 7 morning meditations guide you through scripture, prayer, and time in silence with God.

They guide you through your week, and they're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time. The theme for each morning is rest in God's presence. All you need to do is press play and listen through your morning prayer and Bible time with God! https://restforhersoul.com

What you get: 

A different meditation for each day of the week

Short prayers

A journaling prompt

Guided gratitude with scripture

Guided relaxation and breathing

A different rest-themed scripture each day 

A guided meditation for one day of rest (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

A PDF guide for how to get the most out of these meditations

A printable checklist for a 4 week challenge to make morning scripture meditations a habit

A PDF with a brief explanation on why Sabbath is biblical

Go to restforhersoul.com to get this set of 7 morning meditations!

When there's so much turmoil in the world, we long for peace. Jesus calls us to love our enemies. Did you catch that? LOVE our ENEMIES.

That's impossible for us to do by willpower alone. The thought of trying makes me cringe. The amazing thing is that when we invite the Holy Spirit into our hearts, God transforms our hearts and minds so that we can actually begin to live the lives of radical love he calls us to. We can bring real love and change to our world! 

Listen in to meditate on God's truth for loving our world well. We all know our world NEEDS love. Today's passage is Romans 12:14-18, and it's Part 2 of this passage. Listen to Part 1 in episode 25. 

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. (Romans 12:14-18)

Instagram: @restforhersoul

How do we love others well? Here, the apostle Paul gives us some action steps we can take that have stood the test of time. They're as relevant now as they were 2000 years ago. Listen as we begin with some deep breaths, a whole body relaxation, and then hear the Word of God that refreshes us like no self-help book ever can. Today's passage is Romans 12:9-13.

Instagram: @restforhersoul

God is NOT too busy for you. The same God who created galaxies, planets, animals, and people loves YOU on a personal level. He cares about every single person, because he dreamed up every single person who has ever lived. It's hard to wrap my mind around it. 

Listen to this meditation on Psalm 8 to hear about all that God made, and how he loves people and WANTS to partner with us to steward everything on Earth.  

Exciting news!! I'll be leading the morning scripture meditation at the Be Radiant conference on Saturday, September 19. You can still sign up! CLICK HERE for details and to register. Say yes to your calling and create a movement! 

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If you're having trouble feeling motivated to read your Bible every morning, but you want to - I've created a solution for you! These 7 morning meditations guide you through scripture, prayer, and time in silence with God.

They guide you through your week, and they're designed to be listened to for multiple weeks at a time. The theme for each morning is rest in God's presence. All you need to do is press play and listen through your morning prayer and Bible time with God! https://restforhersoul.com

What you get: 

A different meditation for each day of the week

Short prayers

A journaling prompt

Guided gratitude with scripture

Guided relaxation and breathing

A different rest-themed scripture each day 

A guided meditation for one day of rest (Sabbath or the Lord's Day)

Each meditation is 12 - 14 minutes long

Reflection questions to set intentions for your day

Time in stillness to rest and be loved by God

A PDF guide for how to get the most out of these meditations

A printable checklist for a 4 week challenge to make morning scripture meditations a habit

A PDF with a brief explanation on why Sabbath is biblical

Go to restforhersoul.com to get this set of 7 morning meditations!