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FYI, you’re a lot stronger than you think and your God is a lot bigger than you can imagine! ❤️
Reminder
21 Saturday Dec 2024
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Pay Attention!!
22 Friday Nov 2024
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus
The other day I met some really amazing older ladies. They were so kind and funny. As we were talking one of them looked at me and said something so affirming about me and it was like a jolt of lightening to my soul.
The Lord is sending you people who will confirm, affirm, and call you out of hiding. For some, these reminders will be like an echo in your soul. You’ve known it, even walked in it but you’ve been on pause and began to question if you would ever hear go again. For others, you won’t want to receive it because you really don’t believe it, believe it!! For some, this might be something you’ve known but felt like it was just you who thought that, it’s not! For others, you walked away out of pain and hurt, the Lord is calling you back.
The Lord loves you!! The Lord sees you. He knows you. Come to him. Believe him, again. Don’t go one more moment believing that he’s forsaken you. This is your reminder, he hasn’t! ❤️
A New Year’s Prayer
02 Tuesday Jan 2024
Posted in Faith
Last year on this day I posted this prayer. He answered in all of the ways I never expected. This is the mystery and the adventure of walking with Jesus. Walking with Jesus doesn’t always guarantee a seat at most tables, a comfortable life, or a problem free existence.
A dear friend would tell me …Em, you’re anointed for the struggle. I must admit that I don’t always want to be, but I surrender to his plan not mine. So, again, I pray this prayer knowing I don’t walk alone, never, no not ever.
Happy New Year! May you be blessed to be a blessing and may your surrender be a sweet fragrance to Jesus.
Yes, Lord.
I will go where You want me to go.
I will speak what You want me to speak.
I will pause when You want me to pause.
I will pray the dangerous prayers of change.
I will ask to be inconvenienced for Your name sake.
I will say yes to Your invitations that make no sense.
I will. Just because You ask me to. {Lysa Terkeurst}
Yes, Lord, yes!
#2024 #surrender #again #anewday #anewyear #chapter1
Changes
02 Saturday Sep 2023
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope, Jesus, Prayer
I love the feeling of the old season fading and the new springing up. The new colors. New smells. New feelings. New desires.
Look around and what do you see?
Is it the new school year? Babies leaving to college? New opportunities? New surroundings? That feeling in your heart of anticipation? Unexpected plans?
Whatever it is that has you feeling change or has your eyes wet with tears of joy or sorrow…God is with you.
You don’t walk in this new season alone. He has gone before you and has been where you’re going. His faithfulness to you has no end. This season will reveal another side of Jesus you haven’t seen. He will not be hidden, but be found by you.
Change can be overwhelming and steal our breath away. Transition is messy. Don’t be discouraged by all of the moving parts, they are necessary. The clearing is meant for our good.
The Lord is asking for our participation. For us to link arms with the One who never fails us. For our trust to be solely on him and in his perfect love for us. He is not done with us, yet. There is so much more to the story. Are you ok with beautiful? Will we let him finish it? 🍁
Ponder It
25 Tuesday Jan 2022
Posted in Faith
I recall many moments a sweet friend would give me an encouraging word and tell me to “ponder it.” She would always use that word…ponder. I had to look it up because it’s not a word I had ever used. The definition is to think or consider especially quietly, soberly, and deeply. Honestly, I was hesitant because quiet is not my style. Being an external processor I talk things out. My friend on the other hand is the epitome of quiet. She would say very little, but when she spoke you listened. Was I not suppose to talk about the things God has told me?
I’ve come to learn what she meant. What quiet looks like on the inside. How to process in the quietness of Gods presence. How to take what the Lord spoke and let it simmer in my heart like soup cooking over a low flame. Allowing time for the full flavor of it to get down deep where my heart becomes convinced. Considering the words before I speak them knowing how powerful they are. That both life and death are an option by what I speak to myself. Guarding the door of my heart carefully as to not let thieves come in and rob me of the truth.
I’ve come to learn there is a time for everything. A time to speak and a time to listen. I pray you hear me today and consider what the Lord has spoke to you. Keep the words close. Don’t allow others to bring their thoughts before you have your own. Don’t let the dream or vision get cloudy or muddied by opinions. Hold close to your heart what the Lord said and consider it a secret until the appointed time. Just like Mary and my friend Beth, believe in Him who has promised and it will come to pass. ❤️
Comfort and Joy
24 Friday Dec 2021
Posted in Faith
The other day I woke up singing “oh tidings of comfort and joy” and for some reason it hasn’t left my heart as it’s still singing in me. I was sure there was a reason so I started to dig a little deeper.
“Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.” Jeremiah 31:13 NIV
The verse speaks of what God will give us in place of something else. He is so good at that. He offers us what only he can give for what has impaired our hope. Our joy. Our healing. Our restoration. Our peace. Our mourning and sorrow can be felt by Him. Our pain is his pain. Our sorrow is his sorrow. He knows all to well the ache of the human heart in times of suffering. He promises to deliver and comfort us from the hand of things stronger than us. Anxiety. Grief. Disappointment. Pain and even death. God is the only one who could do a trade like that. This is what the angel spoke of “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. You and I are apart of “all” people.
He will give us comfort AND joy. I wrestled with this because of the grief in my heart lately. I desperately needed something and he saw fit to bring me both. The song in my heart confirmed it. He was saying “I will do this for you. I see, hear, and know you. My hands are stronger than the ones that threaten and consume you. I am Immanuel, God with you. Your comforter. Your Father. Your peace. Your joy.”
I don’t know where your heart is today, but I do know Gods heart towards you. It’s full of love, grace, mercy, comfort, and joy. He’s more than enough to fill the empty and broken places in you. This Christmas is more than the tangible gifts, it’s about the intangible that will heal and bless your soul. What a gift!
Merry Christmas from our home to yours!
Peace over you and yours,
Emilie ❤️
Did You Know?
17 Wednesday Nov 2021
Posted in Faith
Do you know how loved you are? Not the subjective conditional love that can’t make up its mind from one moment to the next. I’m talking about the I died for you kind of love. The love that fights for you. Believes in you. Protects you. Sees the best in you. A no matter what comes I’m not going anywhere love. If you know Jesus you know he IS this love. The love that sees you and knows you and still went to the cross for you. No one loves like Jesus. His love sets you free. His love is unconditional. We search and desire for someone to love us like this. Truth is…only Jesus could love this flawlessly. Us humans even on our best day will fail the ones we love, but His love never fails. Don’t believe the lie that you’re unloveable or hard to love. You, my love, were created out of love, to be loved, and to share this love. What a lovely truth! ❤️
John 15:13. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Change of Scenery
28 Thursday May 2020
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I remember it so well, crossing the California border headed to Texas. I had no idea what God had in store for us. All I knew was it was gonna be good…eventually. We saw so much potential and possibilities but never realized the journey ahead was for healing. We had so much toxic surrounding us. Every where we went it was there. Unhealthy relationships. Broken dreams. Messed up mind sets. Damaged trust. In Gods grace and mercy he took us to a safe place to heal. To find him, again. To find each other, again. To find ourselves, perhaps for the first time. I love our story of how God redeems everything if we let him. We must yield to his careful hands to take what’s toxic and broken and turn it into something healthy and whole. Only he can do it. Don’t resist his tugging you away. Isolation can be hard as we all have seen in recent days. He has to take you aside and silence the noise for you to hear him speak truth. Life. Healing. Into EVERY broken place. You are safe there. It will hurt, but you’ll heal. I realized after all these years that he was preparing us for the hardest journey we’d ever face. We needed to be emotionally whole to deal with the physical torment of cancer ahead. I’m so glad we said yes. I promise you’ll never regret the change of scenery that healing offers. Go my friend and be healed. ❤️
One Day at a Time
20 Wednesday Mar 2019
Posted in Daily Truth, Encouraging, Faith, Hope
The other day my alarm went off and panic set in. I was afraid of what the day would bring. Am I enough to handle it, whatever it is? As I laid there I felt this reassuring tug and the words “you got through Mike’s cancer, you can get through this.”
We try to tackle life all at once. We want the blue prints. The plan. And when we don’t have it we go bonkers with anxiety, stress and frustration.
As days go by and situations develop in ways we didn’t see coming we need more grace to live one day at a time. The unknowns of life. The anxiety of what needs to be done. The fear of ifs. The torment of how. Only Jesus can bring relief, peace, and help.
The enemy wants and needs you to believe that YOU have to figure it all out….today…right now. That my friends is a lie! Gods word says…So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. {Matthew 6:34} God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. {Psalm 46:1}
We may not have it all figured out and guess what we don’t need to. Can we be ok with that? Can we trust that Jesus has gone before us and will lead us into victory? Can we believe that his heart is for us even in all things?
My hope today is that yes, we can! We can be trusting, hopeful, and confident that we are not alone or without help. We can rest that one day at a time the Lord will equip us. Lead us. Protect us. We are in good hands friends.
Praying for y’all ❤️
Emilie
Won’t He Do It Again?
29 Sunday Apr 2018
Current trials can blind us to the history we have with Jesus. If he has done it once, won’t he do it again? I was reminded again {sometimes we need a spiritual smack} of how far the Lord has brought me and what he has “already” done in my life. A moment of reflection brought me to tears as I was asked “Don’t you remember Em?” Yes Lord, I remember how many times you picked me up and mended this broken heart of mine. I remember every time you miraculously met a need. I remember the moments you divinely guided me in the right direction. I remember how you rescued me from myself. Lord, I remember. Go back today and be reminded of all the Lord has done. Speak of it. Tell someone. Encourage yourself and others with the proof of his faithfulness. Won’t he do it again? Yes, my friends, he will!
Blessings,
Em ❤️
Encouraging Em 