Character of Jesus

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Survivor Mode vs. Your Savior: 3 Ways a Survivor Mentality Severely Limits Your Relationship with Jesus and How to Overcome It

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Hard Truth: Survivor mode and a thriving relationship with Jesus cannot co-exist.

Why? Because survivor mode is a short-term, fear-based way of thinking.

Sure, it's a common mode to form when we've lived through abusive relationships; starting over from square one; dire financial hardship; or any other experience where the bottom seemingly fell out from under us.

But we want to move closer to Jesus. We want to be empowered by Jesus. And our identity *is* in Jesus. Which means that, ultimately, a survivor mode has no place in our relationship with Jesus. …

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4 Intimate Ways God Has Used My Prayer Time to Reveal His Immense Love for Me

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For those of us who've experienced bad relationships, such as an abusive or distant earthly father, God's love can be a really hard concept to wrap our minds around.

Having had both an abusive father and ex-husband, understanding God's love was a journey for me. And one of the major ways that God has shown me His love is through my prayer time. …

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Exhausted from Constantly Trying to Fit into Other People's Expectations? Maybe You're Not Supposed To (Just Like Jesus)

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Friend, the struggle to fit in is a real one.

There's the pressure and expectations from other people, and the culture at large, to look a certain way, act a certain way, and keep within certain predefined systems. (Not to mention the ones we place on ourselves.)

But the only expectations we should be worrying about are those from God. …

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3 Tips to Seeing God as Your Loving Heavenly Father When You've Experienced an Abusive or Indifferent Earthly Father

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Our relationship with our earthly father directly affects how we see our Heavenly Father. Yet for so many of us, our earthly dads were absent, abusive, indifferent - or even cruel.

How then do we come to understand God's character and trust Him as our loving Dad?

Here are three tips that I've learned from my own journey that will ground you in a realistic, flexible, and compassionate starting point to doing just that! …

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God the Master Weaver: How He Took My Major Mistakes, Missteps, and Sin and Created a Gift for My Christian Sisters (and How He Can Do the Same for You)

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Confession: In a recent period of my life, I really, really messed up. Big time.

Missteps so huge that when I look back, I can't believe that was me.

And you know what else is unbelievable? That God is creating something beautiful out of that mess - something that will minister to other women, just like yourself, and impact the world at large. …

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God and Feminism: The Bible Verse that Gives You Permission to Be an Equally Complete Person and Not Apologize For It

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As women, we often face people or systems that want to limit us; label us; or make us feel as if we have to hide part of ourselves in order to be taken seriously.

Join me as I share my own struggle with allowing myself to be the complete woman God specifically created me to be - as well as a Biblical truth that now dictates my identity as a whole person. …