Category: Trials
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How to Deal with Unwanted and Lingering ‘Grief’ this Christmas
Christmas time can be a time to make and remember sweet memories even as it also triggers grief because of those very memories or lost opportunities. Typically, this is because of the loss of loved ones either because they died near Christmas long ago or because it’s one of your first Christmases without them. Sometimes […]
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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 to Accept it When God Says ‘No’ to Your Prayer
When we process through a problem or confusing decision with prayer, we do so to find answers. To find relief, right? But, like the Apostle Paul, God expects us to come at these prayer times with an open hand. With hands that are not so much waiting for a handout as much as being lifted […]
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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 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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Inspiring Interview with Faith Under Fire Movie Producer
There are two things that have been very true of 2020—people love watching movies and we desperately need inspirational Christian content. Thankfully, today’s post is about both of these things! Recently, Melissa Kerley, producer of “Faith Under Fire” and owner of Generation Courage Films, reached out to me to see if I’d be willing to […]
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How to Find Hope When You Feel Cursed in Marriage
I entered marriage with the mistaken impression that it would always feel much more joyful than painful. Ironically, my parent’s marriage should have proven the opposite of that reality for me! 😉 Don’t misunderstand—it’s not as if my marriage hasn’t had plenty of joyful moments. It’s just that the joys have ALWAYS been mingled and […]
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Feel like God Doesn’t Hear You? Think Again!
I’m pulling out an old post from the vault and dusting it off for you, my friends, today! If you’ve ever been in a time of crisis, whether in your marriage or in some other area of your life, then I think you’ll relate to what I’m sharing below . . . Recently, I was […]
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How to Be More Grateful and Make Your Marriage Stronger
Being grateful is not an attitude and choice I easily make most days. Because I’m rather detail-oriented, my eye immediately goes to the visual imperfection or the disappointment in most situations. Yes! I’m rather embarrassed to admit I’m more of a glass-half-empty kind of gal. But I remember a story I read in middle school […]
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