How to Prepare Your Heart to Accept God’s Will

How to Prepare Your Heart to Accept God’s Will

God’s will and our desires don’t always coincide. Yesterday I talked about the reality of this in my own life; how our waiting season has tested our desires against our faith. And though we do not grieve and wait as those who have no hope (1 Thess. 4:13), the knowledge that God answers according to His sovereign will, not always according to our ideas, can be frightening at times.

It behooves us, then, to prepare our hearts to accept God’s will – no matter what His answer may be.

Keeping the Faith in Lonely Seasons

Keeping the Faith in Lonely Seasons

I look out the window of the plane and the desert landscape falls away from me. The few days I spent in Oregon last week encouraged, refreshed, and equipped my heart for the unknown days ahead – days of waiting, praying, and expecting great things of our good, good, Father.

But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid. Josh and I have now been facing a very difficult family situation for almost six weeks. We continue to pray, to seek, to knock – but even in the seeking and the knocking we know that God is sovereign, and His timing is not ours. The thing we’re asking for is good. But we have yet to receive an answer to our prayers.

What Christian Girls Need to Know About Flirting

What Christian Girls Need to Know About Flirting

I’ll never forget the phase of my early teen years in which I believed that showing young men any amount of kindness was equal to flirting and therefore must be avoided. Though that idea may sound completely laughable to some of you, it was, and sometimes still is, a pervasive mindset in some circles.

Dear Church, You’re Wrong About Sex

Dear Church, You’re Wrong About Sex

Dear church, you’re wrong about sex.

Not all the time – but a lot of the time. There’s been some truth sprinkled here and there. There’ve been some speakers and ministries who’ve done this tender topic the justice it deserves. But in general, the sexual narrative Christian women have heard over the last four decades is not one of gospel freedom. It is a message burdened by fear, guilt, shame, and legalism – sometimes all of these at once. It’s why Christian girls are done with courtship culture. It’s why many are fleeing legalism and others flee the church. Through one ear, women are being taught about the love and grace of Jesus Christ, while into the other pour proof-texted, fear-based half-truths about female sexuality.

What to Do When You’re in Love With Someone {And the Timing is the Actual Worst}

What to Do When You’re in Love With Someone {And the Timing is the Actual Worst}

So – you like him. Actually, you love him. If he’s the guy you grew up with, this love is probably the phileo-agape real deal. You’ll love him even if he moves on or you move on or both. Which is, of course, not your ideal ending – but always a possibility. You love him, and the timing is absolutely horrible.

You’re about to graduate and take a job in another state.

He has two years left at a school you don’t attend.

You’re not even out of high school, looking at a minimum of five years before marriage is on the table.

What do you do?

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