• Don't let anxiety rob your joy #devotional #joy
    21 Day Bible Reading Challenge

    Day 11 – Don’t Let Anxiety Rob Your Joy

    Day 11 – Don’t Let Anxiety Rob Your Joy Good morning! We’re continuing our SECOND week of the 21 Day Bible Reading Challenge!  (JUMP on board at ANY time, we’d love to you have JOIN in) How do you deal with anxiety? Stressful situations seem to seep into our lives. Isn’t it terrible that they never give us a call a day ahead to warn us they’re coming? Instead, they show up at the most inconvenient times.  (And truthfully, is there any convenient time for them to come?) I wish we could avoid those situations and that every day could always have a happy fairy tale ending. Unfortunately, there is…

  • How to Redirect Our Focus for More Joy
    21 Day Bible Reading Challenge

    Day 10 – How to Redirect Our Focus for More Joy

    Day 10 – How to Redirect Our Focus for More Joy Good morning! We’re continuing our SECOND week of the 21 Day Bible Reading Challenge!  (JUMP on board at ANY time, we’d love to you have JOIN in) What is it that really catches your focus?  What do you like to invest your time in? Do your daily activities bring you more JOY? I’m not suggesting that washing dishes is that joyful.  But, could we sing a song or pray while we’re washing dishes to bring more joy during the activity? What we invest the most time and money in is where our affections will lay.  I know we’re busy…

  • How to conquer sabotage by Satan
    21 Day Bible Reading Challenge

    Day 9 – How to Conquer Sabotage by Satan

    Day 9 –  Pep Talk: How to Conquer Sabotage by Satan Good morning!  We’re continuing our SECOND week of the 21 Day Bible Reading Challenge! (Join in at ANY time!) Today’s topic will hopefully encourage you to keep taking another step forward! At the beginning of the year, we often get motivated to walk closer to God.  We set up some great goals to read our Bible and pray every day.  We’re so excited because THIS time we’re going to do better than ever before! We start out strong.  As a couple of days pass, we feel elated that we’re still in the race.  We’re off to a good start…

  • How to Win Over Worry
    21 Day Bible Reading Challenge

    Day 8 – How to Win Over Worry

    Day 8 – How to Win Over Worry Good morning! Today we are starting our SECOND week of the 21 Day Bible Reading Challenge! Yippee! (JUMP on board with the challenge at any time!) > I want to encourage you to increase your Bible reading time by 5 more minutes if your goal is to increase your Bible reading time this year. I know some people are prone to worry more than others, but unfortunately, none of us are totally immune to worrying.    Worry is one surefire way to rob your peace and steal away your JOY. Why do we worry so much?  As Christians, we can be a lot…

  • How to Find Comfort During Hurtful Times #comfort #devotional
    21 Day Bible Reading Challenge

    Day 7 – How to Find Comfort During Hurtful Times

    Day 7 – How to Find Comfort During Hurtful Times Good morning! TODAY you have completed your FIRST week for our challenge!!!  I’m sooooooo proud of you! >> SIDE NOTE: Tomorrow will be the start of WEEK 2 so plan to add 5 MORE minutes to your morning Bible reading routine if your goal is to increase more Bible reading “time” for this year. *Join us in our 21 Day Bible Reading Challenge at any time! We all have hurts in life. It’s an unavoidable part of life because we live in a sinful world. Do you still have a lingering hurt? There’s an old saying that ‘time heals all wounds’.  The…