Do you feel too busy to pray? Or maybe you want to pray but don’t know what to say? I invite you to experience the rest of God’s presence when you learn to pray the REST way. Many of us grew up knowing that we should pray every day, but to be honest? It’s quite a struggle. A 2019 survey …
Faithfulness | Fruit of the Spirit Prayer Season
Do you ever wonder if your work matters? Like, you do the same thankless tasks day after day, and no one seems to notice or care? It’s easy to get discouraged, and even more, to stop doing the thing. Because who cares, right? God cares. Scripture tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is… faithfulness. Because God is faithful, and He’s …
Gentleness | Fruit of the Spirit Prayer Season
Would people who know you describe you as “gentle”? Ugh. That’s a tough question, isn’t it? Our world doesn’t value gentleness. Quite the opposite. We see brashness, contentiousness, and strife on display not just in Hollywood and Capitol Hill, but sadly in the Church as well. The world and its desires has slowly infiltrated many of our hearts. In fact, it’s …
The Goodness of God | Fruit of the Spirit Prayer Season
If you were to choose one song to sum up the past 18 months, what would it be? Mine, hands down, is Goodness of God. These lyrics get me every time: All my life You have been faithful. All my life You have been so SO good! with every breath that I am able, I’m going to sing of the goodness …
Self-Control | Fruit of the Spirit Prayer Season
Self-control. Sigh. It’s a word we’ve been talking about a lot in our home lately, and not just because summer means ice cream season. It’s because self-control (and the lack of self-control) affects every part of us: from our food choices to our word choices, to our media choices, to our relational choices, and everything in between. For some of …