Category: Choices
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How to Make a Change for the Better that Lasts
Months ago, I introduced you to my Heart Healing Prayer method that allows you to prayer journal and process through a struggle in your life. It’s one of the most effective and transformative ways I know, as a biblical counselor and prayer warrior, to respond to a problem in life or marriage. Happen to have […]
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How 5 Unfair Tasks Can Make Marriage Stronger
Sometimes we bristle at a task because it’s “unfair,” especially when it comes to our marriages. Oh sure, most of us accept this reality in the realm of parenting or even in our jobs. But when it comes to marriage, we’ve somehow bought the lie that there should never be anything “unfair” about it. I […]
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How Praying Scripture Guides You to God’s Best Plan
Several years ago, I allowed two of my sons (about 13 and 10 at the time) to walk home from an event at church without looking at a map or formulating a plan. They wanted to leave early from a picnic that was being held on our church grounds and thought that they could easily […]
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6 Reasons Why It Helps to Examine Your Heart
Are you that person who avoids letting a doctor examine you? Maybe it’s just that you don’t like getting on that dreaded scale! Perhaps you fear that your doctor will diagnose a problem that you’d rather remain in denial about. Maybe the pandemic has you feeling a bit skittish about entering a doctor’s office—a potential […]
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How to Get Results by Praying Through Scripture with Journaling
Sometimes we try to do too much before or instead of praying through a problem. As you might imagine, that typically makes the problem much worse! 😉 However, most of us don’t really take either of these tacks. Most of us do too much, while ALSO praying about it. Then when we grow tired and […]
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How Surrender Unlocks the Door in Your Life and Marriage
God has been taking me on a journey that’s involved more unpacking than packing. That doesn’t mean I haven’t packed my actual bags and traveled on vacation this summer, because I have! 😉 In fact, I just got back from visiting my family and friends in parts of Tennessee and North Carolina. During those times, […]
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How to Face Suffering Like Jesus and Why it Helps
This is a golden oldie I’ve pulled from my vault, written years ago. I hope it encourages you in every struggle and trial you face in life or marriage. Anyone who knows me well, knows I’m not much of a crier—at least not someone who usually cries publicly. But put me through a time of […]
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10 Inspiring Ways Troubles Can Be Used to Ignite Joy
I remember the moment like it was yesterday—the day I recognized the unbreakable link between troubles and joy. Ironically, that day and moment happened more than 20 years ago. 😉 My husband had just been called to pastor a church. And we were so excited to get started on that new journey. During those first […]
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How to be Humble When Pride Rears Up
I’ve pulled from my vault (2014) a post on humility that really captures a struggle I deal with to this day. I hope you find it to be as inspiring, funny, and convicting as I do now and did then. Lately, God has been dealing with my “pride.” Ugh! That’s such an ugly word and […]
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