Most of my life, I think I had the wrong picture of God in my head. When I thought of God, I thought of all the Old Testament fire, distance between his people and himself, and I think we sometimes just stay there in our view of God. Can you relate?

That's not all of who God is! He is actually approachable! He smiles over you. He sent Jesus so that he could be near to you!! You can Walk in with Your Head Held High!

Ephesians 3:12 is our verse we are digging deep into this week. We take a deep dive into the Old Testament view of God and how through Jesus, we need to take a new viewpoint! Join me as we dig in and realize the curtain has already been torn down so we can approach him boldly!

Ephesians 3:12-"In him and through faith in him, we can approach God with freedom and with confidence."

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If you want to be in God's word but you struggle to find time or motivation....THIS IS FOR YOU!!! This podcast is taking a turn to those of you who are BUSY with life get in the WORD!! You CAN be busy and still find time for Jesus. Actually I think that busyness should be the REASON why we make time to be in His Word.

My goal is to help busy women -Know His Word, Be filled with grace, Walk in power!

So join me today as we set up how this podcast will roll from here on out. We are diving into Psalm 119:37.

This is our memory verse for this week:

Turn my eyes from worthless things,

and give me life through your word.

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It's time..to choose Revelation over Resolutions this year. If you are anything like me, I look back over many of my so-called resolutions for the past year, and there are many that I didn't accomplish. In the past, this has led me to feelings of failure and disappointment in myself. This is NOT how God has called us to live! He cares about our goals, but He cares about His purposes and our hearts more. What if 2024 was the year that we let go of resolutions and first chose REVELATION as our first priority?

Come join me on the podcast to explain what that means and how you can shift your goals to be more Spirit aligned than ever before! I'll also share with you what the last 3 months have brought for our family and how I've shifted my goals to be more in alignment with Jesus this year. I promise you'll leave feeling more empowered and encouraged to begin your year that in years past!

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KEY POINTS

1. Revelation leads to resolutions.

2. Revelation gives us power to be resolute because we are asking for a power that isn't our own.

KEY VERSES

“But when He, who had set me apart before I

-John 1:18

Don't let the title of this podcast fool you. No one is asking you to give up your children. I don't believe that God would ever ask us to do that either, but today we are talking about how there was one parent in the Bible who WAS asked to give up his child and the faith it took to trust God in that moment.

The truth is that we face a lot of unknown as parents. Our kids grow up and become increasingly independent, and that sometimes brings up a lot of fear for us as parents as we realize that there is so much out of our control. We face daily fears about our children, our marriages, our jobs, and our relationships. We may not be called to physically give up and sacrifice our kids, but we ARE called to daily give up our fears and feelings to God and chose faith in His love for all of us including our children.

Lean in with me today as we talk about how much God loves his children and desires for us to live lives of faith over fear in our parenting journeys.

Today we are getting real with one of...if not THE darkest moments in my motherhood journey. I was lower than low.

The truth is that I know this won't be my last dark moment in life. It's taken me almost 4 years to wrestle with this moment, and what God taught me through it.

Funny enough, healing has come through studying the life of another mom in the Bible that had some dark moments as a mom. God CARES about our parenting journey. He hears us and sees us in our darkest moments.

If you are in a dark moment and feel alone, please email me for prayer. My prayer team and I would be blessed to pray you through it. Email: [email protected]

So I shared with you all that I was starting my 75 Hard Journey. I actually ended up quitting, but it's probably not for the reasons you think. I am walking away from this feeling like I had a huge win in my thought process and also in my body.

Sometimes we have to have the discipline to let go of "good things" to receive what God's best for us in the moment is.