Category: Devotions

“I know that for me and my life to stay the path..to stay on the path..to stay doing what my Father so desires of me..takes me to put feet to it..but as well it takes me to be intentional..Amen..it takes me to purposefully be intentional..not just do whatever..but actually think about what I am doing..and…

“Anytime there is change in our lives there as well always comes adversity…there is always going to be someone who doesn’t seem to think that you should , or even that you could, when it comes to changing things in your life…for there is always going to be naysayers…there is always going to be them…

“Confidence in Christ isn’t something that we have in our lives when it seems that all is well and all is going well..confidence is knowing that we know that even if all is falling apart..even if everything seems to not be going the way we hoped for..even if the doctor report is a really bad…

“So I was thinking back of when I was taking our dog Benjamin to obedience classes..and I was learning to teach him..as well I was learning that the commands are pretty basic commands..there not awfully hard ones to say the least..but even though they are pretty basic ones..such as sit..lay..stay..or even just come to you…

“Never forget that the battle is never over, we fight daily, to stay grounded, to stay sitted and placed where we need to be with our Lord….if we lose grounding than we will begin to fall away, if we compromise than we never go forward, we stay there at a place that was only meant…

“It always goes back to basically the same principle for us all and that is when life is going south and all is not so right within our lives and nothing at all is making sense…then we always go back to “TRUST”….and that goes with any of our relationships in life….for when life is handing…

“The scripture says it this way…and Jesus passed by…John 9:1..and how many of ya know that when Jesus passes by that all things change…Amen..that all circumstances and situations that are present begin to dissolve and begin to melt away…for when Jesus shows up on the scene in any of our lives, our lives and our…

“So many of us have so many needs in our lives..and I don’t mean just a need..I mean a miracle..Amen..something that literally God would have to do in our lives..you know I am speaking of marriages failing..I am speaking of illness..and drastic illness at that..I am speaking of drug addiction..I am talking of alcohol abuse..I…

“So yesterday and today I was at a women’s conference in Greensboro..and it was amazing..the message pretty much last night and this morning was about belonging..Amen..about us wanting to belong somewhere..to have friends and belong..to have a great job and there belong..to belong in church and simply community..Amen..because we all have been made this way…

“I know so many people in their lives that continually say to me, Mandi, I have a lot of work to do before I can ever come to Jesus..and I say to them all..you don’t have to clean yourself up before you come to the Lord..Amen..because God is the one in whom cleans us up..we…