Hope
Thanksgiving: An Opportunity to Give Thanks Even in Challenging Times
Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays—a moment to pause, gather with loved ones and family members, and reflect on all we have to be grateful for. But let’s be real: some years, finding that gratitude feels harder than others. Maybe you’re facing difficult situations that make it tough to see the bright…
How to Stay Optimistic in the midst of Adversity?
Stay Optimistic in the midst of Adversity. Health challenges have been around since the beginning of time. We live in a broken world and as such sickness and disease have been prevalent in humanity for ages. Today, we are living in a historic time, a time, never seen before, some compare our current world status…
Get Up and Walk You are Healed!
Get Up and. This promise would come to me repeatedly during a season of struggle while in my process of seeking my healing. The way I understood it is that God is faithful to those who hunger and thirst for Him. The book of Matthew 5:6 says “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for…
Rename Your Valley
Rename Your Valley. A few days ago, while driving my kids to an appointment I got to listen to one of Pastor Joel Osteen’s sermons. I enjoy listening his teachings as he speaks biblical truths that resonate with my spirit. Anyhow, he spoke about renaming your valley and brought to reference the famous and familiar…
God has said Yes before you believed!
God has said Yes before you believed! When I first heard this and really thought it through it filled my heart with so much joy and hope. I quickly imagined saying YES to my three children before they would even understand it. I imagen saying yes to protecting them, caring for them, loving them, providing…
Get Unstuck
Get Unstuck At its core, hope—the positive expectation of something good coming—is rooted in your beliefs. But sometimes it seems like even though your conscious mind knows that there is always hope, your emotions keep getting stuck in negativity and worry. Why? Because we tend to operate in default mode, based on the habits and…
Be Unreasonably Optimistic
Be Unreasonably Optimistic A hopeful person is one who truly believes that things can change for the better. When you are dealing with a challenge, one of the keys to being hopeful is to be unreasonably optimistic, just like the biblical David, who, against all apparent odds, succeeded in beating Goliath. While even those who…
Anticipate the Good
Anticipate the Good. Hope, a positive expectation of something good coming, is all about training yourself to anticipate the good rather than worrying about the bad. Being hopeful means overcoming the negative beliefs, thoughts and reactions that have become so automatic to us. How can we do this? It’s a matter of awareness. When challenging…
Serving a God of Hope
Serving a God. I have been called to live in alignment with the heart and mind of my God, a God of hope, the Creator of the universe for whom absolutely nothing is impossible. What I’ve learned through prayer and intimacy with Him and his Word is that there are no hopeless situations or circumstances….
