I want to have a healthier life. I want to be in better shape, to have more stamina, to be able to feel comfortable in my skin. Let’s be honest, some days I want to have a shape, be able to walk up the stairs and still hold a conversation at church, and be able…
The provision of God never fails. Never. God always provides provision for His direction. When God told Elijah to go to the bend in the river, the ravens fed him there. When God told Moses to lead the Children of Isreal across the Red Sea, God provided food and water there. When Jesus told Peter…
The prayer ceiling represents those times when you feel like your prayers aren’t making it all the way to God. For some reason, your professions are getting caught in the rafters and just floating around up there – with no relief coming for what your heart is spilling out. When tough times hit, it can…
Dare to live your way and you will find that the way you are living doesn’t make much sense to everyone else. They won’t understand why or how and they definitely will not jump on board the your way bandwagon. But that’s okay. You aren’t designed to follow the pack. You are designed to live…
Hope allows you to be settled in the unsettled moments you face. Sometimes you have to stand on the boat deck during the storm. Hope gives you the sea legs that let you rock with the boat but still stand strong. Just don’t take the opportunity to rock the boat while you’re standing. The storm…
Hope is making the way through intentional actions – those actions taken with determination and courage that only grows up in hope. When you are standing on the firm foundation of promise grown hope then your motivation drives actions that are intentional so you are positioned to live out that promise. You do it because…
Hope opens the way for investing in will. Instead of focusing on want tos or have tos, you are harnessing the power of I WILL. I will do it because I can. I will do it because I’m designed to do it. I will do it because it’s right there. I will. “Hope harnesses the…
Hope vision creates clarity of insight because it sees more than what is there. It’s seeing beyond the walls, the defined matrix of the world, or even your own little box design. Hope vision sees the spring flowers even before the seeds are planted. The clarity of insight happens because hope lights up every corner…
The positive expectations we embrace in our journey create positive energy that is necessary for growth, for BIG DREAMS, and for purpose living. You become all you are designed to be when you have the positive expectations that the promises are real and that you are here to live them out. One of my favorite…
The locking blocks of hope are those little bits of hope that lock together to give us a firm foundation for standing through the tough times. Hope locks together to be stronger – we are all stronger together (it’s why we need relationships). Hope stacks up to make us tall – so we can see…