A Prayer to Find Joy When Joy is Hard to Find
We help one another find joy because of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's keep walking in faith as we live in our present. Sometimes our “nows” fill us with excitement, and other times they fill us with trepidation. But God, in his infinite...
A Prayer for Joy When You Need It
A Prayer for Joy Do you ever feel like joy hides like an elusive toddler? You can hear it laughing, but you can't seem to find it? This week's prayer for joy will help. Life contains joys and sorrows. It brings us times of sweet fellowship and...
When Your Heart Needs Perspective in the Waiting
There's hope for perspective in the waiting. My perspective in the waiting gets clouded by my impatience. Waiting. I don't love it. It can make me feel crabby and in the long waits for answers to prayer, it can make me feel hopeless. And hopelessness is a...
A Prayer to Release and Experience Peace
It's time to release. What are you gripping? Do you ever feel like if you let go, you'll fall into a chasm of hopelessness? There's a time to fight and hang on for dear life and then there's a time to release. And sometimes the release...
The Psalms Prayer Project Volume 3
Do you ever feel like the earth is giving way beneath your feet and everything you thought to be true and right turns out to be sideways and upside down? I love these verses from Psalms 46:1-5 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in...
The Psalms Prayer Series: Part 2
The Psalms Prayer Series Many of the Psalms reference imagery that gives us an ability to express our hearts and to know comfort. Such as: The Lord is my rock and fortress who reaches down and draws me out of deep waters. Or: he makes my feet like the feet of a...
The Psalms Prayer Series
The Psalms have long comforted me and continue to do so because they have taught me how to express honest emotion. The sludge that hides deep in my heart is given a voice. And they show me that even when I screw up, there's hope. Further, the Psalms give...
The Joy Series: Jesus Completes Joy
The lyric's significance rushed over me. The words reverberated in my head and grew wildly in my heart as I realized the power within them. "If I have you, I have everything. But without you, I have nothing. If I have you, I have everything, but...
The Joy Series: Joy Is Our Strength
How do we translate joy into strength when this life seems to drain us of our energy? We live in the thin place where we function in this world but not of the world. Where we embrace grace so that we can live well with grace while resisting the...
The Joy Series: Joy Fuels Your Endurance
Joy as a feeling is something we're familiar with, but joy as fuel is something entirely different. We need motivation when we tackle unpleasant tasks and procrastinate like crazy. There's an idea that we'll feel joy once we accomplish the tasks,...
The Joy Series: Joy Affects Others
Joy seems elusive right now. I need the reminder that it's not a feeling but a fruit, it's part of God's nature, and it's tied into the gospel news. My heart hurts and feels bruised by disappointments and relationships. I trudge through the same...
The Joy Series: The Gospel as Joy News
Have you ever noticed that not all good news floods your life with joy? Sometimes good news brings trepidation, anxiety, concern, or questions. Sometimes good news brings change, and for some, change causes apprehension, which haunts the joy that the...