hope for depressed hearts

Hope for Depressed Hearts

What would it take to shatter your faith? To drive your emotional, mental, and spiritual life into a pit of depression?   Last year, I almost found out. After a suffocating season in the hope-sucking Upside Down, the Spirit presses me to share the story of God’s love, my failure, and the unflickering faithfulness of a God who can be …

Dealing With Defeat

“All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant . . . ” Psalm 44:17 God’s people throughout the ages have faced defeat that was difficult to explain. They suffered defeat that seemed unwarranted, despite their faithfulness to God. Take King David whose heartache spilled onto parchment in Psalms soaked with tears of defeat. It was a common experience for this man …

Don't Ditch Your Dream

What is crazier than trying to achieve a dream in 30 days? Fasting while you do. Since issuing my 30 day “Dare to Dream” challenge, a lot has happened. I wonder if it has for you, too. Seeing how my dream (a devotional on God’s heart) is holy ground, I decided to approach it with an extra measure of consecration.  And …

Why Your Faith May Not Be Working

Have you ever experienced a time where you felt weak and ineffective? A time where you felt as though you were getting nowhere, going nowhere, and the little you had managed to accomplish dangled by a thread?     To be honest, for me some days it’s a knock-down-drag-out battle to engage in anything beyond the front door, beyond my bed. I …

Tuning Out the Enemy

Psalm 31:14,18 “But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, ‘You are my God.’ My times are in your hands; deliver me from my enemies… let their lying lips be silenced…”   Satan and his cohorts are ever striving to convince us that our work is in vain, that we are useless to God and others. He whispers, “it’s …