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December 31, 2016 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

New Self | Ephesians 4:22-24

Saturday Scripture

Ephesians 4:22 – 24

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;to be made new in the attitude of your minds;and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Prayer

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for a new year–a new start. As I look ahead to the opportunities 2017 has to offer, may my dreams and goals be rooted in you. It’s easy to make my resolutions superficial and driven by my insecurities. Give me wisdom and perseverance to become who YOU want me to be.

Looking for a new you? Ephesians 4:22-24 is a great place to start. @TriciaGoyer

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December 29, 2016 by Tricia Goyer 1 Comment

Encouragement for 2017

Another year has come and gone (perhaps a little too quickly). Maybe you are feeling discouraged reflecting on the year and all the things you didn’t get to do or achieve. If this describes your current mood or if you’ve ever had one of those days (months, years) when you feel like quitting, then read on! I came across these “fun facts” from Sharon Jaynes. Just think if these people had given up after feeling discouraged.

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant or seamstress.

Beethoven’s violin teacher once told him he was a “hopeless composer.”

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas.

Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was too stupid to learn anything.

After Fred Astaire’s first screen test in 1933, the director noted, “Can’t act! Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”

Albert Einstein didn’t speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. His teachers described him as mentally slow.

Babe Ruth, when he retired from baseball, set the home run record (714), but he also held the record for the most strikeouts (1,330).

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade.

And…One basketball player missed 9,000 shots in his career. he lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times he was trusted to take the game’s winning shot and missed. His name is Michael Jordan. He said, “I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeed.

You never know what God has in store for your new year, so trust Him and press on!

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. —James 1:12

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January 7, 2015 by Tricia Goyer 3 Comments

Is It Time For A Clean Sweep?

Is It Time For a Clean Sweep?

I love the television show Clean Sweep. In the show the contents of a whole room are placed into a person’s driveway, and their things are sorted into piles: Keep, Maybe Keep, and Toss. One of the aspects I love about the show is the way junk is fretted over. Seriously, do you really want to keep those mismatched potholders, that torn and stained rug, or that Duran Duran cassette from 1987? If you have to ask, “What is this?” “Where does it go?” or “What does it do?” perhaps it should betossed.

The truth is, maybe we need to look at our lives and schedule the same way we look at the clutter around our house in little piles or big stacks.

Do you have things cluttering your mind, heart, or time that need to be cleaned out?

I remember one day when my husband encouraged me to do a clean sweep. A busy mom of two toddlers and one school-aged child, I was overwhelmed and exhausted by life. John could see it was taking a toll on me. When he asked me about my day, I muttered and moaned. I had a great husband, a budding career, and good kids . . . so why was I so frustrated? Because I was doing too many “important” things and I was exhausted.

John asked me to sit down with my schedule and list everything I was doing. It was a long list! I wrote down cleaning, caring for kids, cooking, schooling, dance class, sports activities, gardening, Bible study and writing—just to name a few. Then John asked me to use my common sense: “Is this something you love? Something you feel called to?”

As I went over my schedule I realized everything, everything, ranked as a priority. I had given it all equal weight. The things I didn’t like took up just as much time as the things I found joy in . . . and soon the joy had become lost in the clutter.

My wise husband urged me to think through a few questions:

What things was I doing because I couldn’t say no?
What things had worked for a season but no longer worked for our family?
What things could I hand off to someone else?

As I thought about my needs—and my kids’ needs—as I listened to my heart and my gut, I started making better decisions. Before I took on new responsibilities I considered whom I was most responsible for—my kids. My common sense grew, and I learned to think through why I wanted to do something and where it would fit. Once I started cutting things, I discovered I really cared about the things that were left!

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What about you? Are you too busy doing too many things? Ask yourself these questions:

What things am I doing because I can’t say no?
What things worked for a season but no longer work for our family?
What things can I hand off to someone else?

Then start cutting away. It’ll be hard, but it’ll be worth it. Not only will your schedule feel freer, but your heart will too. Guaranteed!

Read this post and other great articles over at MomLifeToday.com!

Are you a work-at-home mom raising kids, juggling a career and taking care of family responsibilities with only 24-hour days? Working at home while raising kids and juggling a career and family responsibilities is no easy feat. That’s why I wrote Balanced: Finding Center as a Work-at-Home Mom. Balancing is a process and a journey, one that I have yet to perfect. But between writing more than forty books, raising and homeschooling six kids, being a wife, and being active in my community, I have amassed valuable tips that I shared in Balanced.

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January 6, 2015 by Tricia Goyer 3 Comments

6 {Easy} Habits To Transform Your Year

Every year I think I’m going to do better and be different—about to-do lists, cleaning, cooking, and spiritual pursuits. I see where I’m falling short, but my efforts only last so long. That’s usually because I try to do too much. Can you relate?

My solution is to incorporate easy habits that make a big difference. None of the things on this list will take a lot of work . . . but each will reap big rewards!

Some weeks it seems as though I’m constantly busy, but I never get the important things done. Can you relate? Solution: Come up with the ONE important thing you need to do that day, and do it. It might be to make a phone call, to make a shopping list for the grocery store, or to spend an hour finishing a work project or cleaning out your closet. Making a long list is overwhelming. Also, we often get so busy doing the easy/urgent things that we don’t get the important things done. When you focus on the one important thing, you’ll be amazed by how much you’ll get done.
Are you ever embarrassed when you need to give someone a ride? “Please excuse the drink cups and junk mail!” The solution? Clean out the car every time you get out of it. You have to start with a clean car (of course). But it only takes an extra minute to clean out the car when you exit. We train our kids to do this too. Yes, crumbs and dust build up, but this one-minute habit will make you not be embarrassed when you have to give someone a ride, and you’ll feel good about it too!
There’s nothing worse than trying to figure out what to make at 5:00 p.m. Want to do better? Plan what you’re having for dinner while you make your breakfast. We try to have dinner together most nights. I’d love to be one of those people who has weekly menu plans, but I’ve never been able to be that organized for more than a week. Yet when I think of what I’m making for dinner, I have time to thaw and prep.

Read the 3 other habits and the rest of this post over at forthefamily.org.

Make your goals stick & incorporate easy habits that make a big difference. @TriciaGoyer

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January 1, 2015 by Tricia Goyer 2 Comments

Resolution Solutions

Last night my husband, daughter-in-law, and I were talking about New Years Resolutions.

“I make New Years resolutions every year and follow them for about four days,” Katie said. “Then another week goes by and I often forgot I made them!”

I can 100% understand that!

Today as I think about New Years Resolutions a few things are on my mind. First, is my “word of the year.” Every year–for the past six years–I’ve prayed and asked God to give me a word of the year. As I prayed about it over the last month I feel the word He’s given me is “Listen.” A few things came to mind as this word resonated in my heart.

1. Listen to the Holy Spirit.

I can make a lot of plans and get wrapped up in a lot of ideas, but listening to the Holy Spirit makes all the difference. I don’t want my plans to succeed. I want God’s plans for my life–my world–to succeed through me. This only happens through reading His Word and the still, small voice that stirs when I do.

2. Listen to those closest to me.

With a full house, it isn’t easy to drown out the noise. I desire to take time to listen to those who I love the most. This means being available and asking leading questions in order to understand another’s heart.

3. Listen to people’s stories.

To the people God brings into my life. All of my books involve discovering the “truth” in people’s stories and either weaving them into fiction or organizing it in non-fiction in a way that will help readers. God continues to bring amazing people into my life. Their stories can not only impact my books, but also touch the hearts of my readers.

4. Listen to my readers.

I do what I do because of YOU, and I’m working to be more aware of what YOU care about most. To me, Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. isn’t just a way to tell you what’s happening in my life–but to hear what’s happening in yours. I truly want to know. I truly want to write books that you’ll enjoy, be inspired by, and want to share!

Second, make them happen.

Those are great resolutions, right? By they truly won’t make a difference unless I seek solutions to follow through. For me, nothing happens unless it’s in iCal, so that’s what I did. I scheduled time each day to LISTEN TO GOD. I usually have daily quiet time, but it’s a gentle reminder that He comes first.

I also set weekly appointments to LISTEN. Listen to my husband, my family, people I interview and my readers. Hopefully these appointments will give me pause each day to put some solutions to my resolutions.

Steps You Can Take

Pray about what God wants you to focus on this year. Is it a word? Is it a goal?
Once you have a goal, write down specific steps you need to take to accomplish it.
If applicable, give each step a due date.
Share your goal with someone who can keep you accountable.
Continue to look to God to give you direction and strength.

Now, how about you? What are your resolution solutions? I love to know how I can pray for you in the new year!

What’s your resolution solutions? Make your goals stick this year! @TriciaGoyer

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January 2, 2014 by Tricia Goyer 2 Comments

4 Ways to Find Freedom from Past Mistakes

Do you need freedom from past mistakes? I know I did. Read on for 4 Ways I found freedom from past mistakes:

Find Freedom from Past Mistakes

It’s not often you get a chance to re-write your story, but I did just that when I updated my book Life Interrupted: The Scoop On Being a Young Mom with the new version Teen Mom: You’re Stronger Than You Think. Life Interrupted released in 2004, and it helped a lot of young moms . . . but things have changed. With shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant, teen pregnancy is more talked about. I also changed. God brought deeper healing in my own life. I found freedom some from of my past mistakes.

In Life Interrupted, I shared a little about mistakes such as abortion, teen pregnancy, and trying to overcome the bonds I had with old boyfriends due to sexual intimacy. Teen Mom goes deeper. I share more, mostly because I’ve found more healing. Going back to the past mentally, and allowing God to work emotionally and spiritually is never easy, but it’s important. Luke 5:18 says:

The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free.

Jesus wants to release captives. He wants the blind to see and the oppressed to be set free. That’s what He came for. If you’re carrying around burdens, it’s time to drop them. If you feel as if your past mistakes are weighing you down, it’s time to find freedom. How?

Going to the past mentally to allow God to work emotionally/spiritually is never easy. @TriciaGoyer

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How to Find Freedom From Your Past

1. Let yourself mourn. Our past mistakes hurt us in so many ways. Keeping a brave face is hard. Let yourself mourn what was lost—your innocence, your youth, your healthy relationships.

2. Go to Jesus with your pain. We try to hold everything in because we think Jesus will condemn us. Instead, he wants to comfort us. He mourns all you’ve lost too. If we look at Jesus in the Bible, those he spent the most time with were those the rest of society looks down upon. Nothing you’ve done shocks him. He’s waiting with open arms.

3. Take your past mistakes into the light.

I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’ They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures and on hills that were previously bare. Isaiah 49:9

What does this mean? For me this meant confessing my sins to someone who cared. I first confessed my abortion to a group of women at a post-abortion Bible study, and I could feel the weight lifted from my shoulders. Numerous times throughout the years I’ve also confessed to my husband and close friends. Past sin is still sin, but it doesn’t have the same power over you when put into the light.

This #NewYear, find #freedom from your past mistakes with these tips from @TriciaGoyer:

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4. Invite Jesus into the situation. Years ago I was struggling—really struggling—after being approached by an old boyfriend online. I loved my husband and was in a happy marriage, and I was shocked by how much I was drawn to my old boyfriend. Hearing from him stirred up a thousand memories and longings I’d stuffed deep inside.

A few days before my boyfriend had contacted me I’d prayed:

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24

Within days God indeed showed me what was deep inside—what offended him. There was so much inside I needed to deal with, but I didn’t know how.

It was a daily battle to “take every thought captive for Christ” and not to let my mind take me back to my “first love” and that time during high school. I struggled for a few months until I gathered with friends and they prayed for me. That night, as I lay in bed, I went back there again, only this time I took Jesus. I walked through that relationship, and I saw Jesus standing there. He was weeping, mostly because I was trying to find love in all the wrong places—love He longed to give me.

The next morning I woke up with that burden lifted. I no longer saw that time with my old boyfriend as “romantic,” but I saw it as something that broke Jesus’ heart. Inviting Jesus into our past memories allows us to understand how He felt during that time. And He not only brought tears but also healing to my soul.

Download this printable: Four Ways to Find Freedom From Past Mistakes

It’s never easy to relive past mistakes, but Jesus came to bring healing and wholeness. He wants to give you freedom and peace. This month don’t let those burdens hold you back. Take them to the One who can do something about that. Take them to Jesus. He came to bring freedom in ways you never imagined. Trust me on that.

Has this encouraged you? Comment below.

-Tricia

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January 1, 2014 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Tricia’s Top Blog Posts of 2013

Happy New Year, friends! I hope you take some time today not only to spend with friends and family, but also spend time reflecting on 2013 and how the Lord has blessed and challenged you. Feel free to share those blessings in the comments below, as well as share some 2014 goals you might have!

Take a look at @TriciaGoyer’s top blog posts of 2013!

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In the meantime, have fun celebrating another year, and take a look back at these top blog posts from 2013:

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November 30, 2013 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

You're Invited to My "Simple Things" Facebook Party

As we look ahead to the closing of one year and the beginning of another, let’s pause for an evening of encouragement and fun. Let’s share how we can hear God’s voice in the simple things—both during this busy holiday season and throughout 2014. Grab your copy of The One Year® Book of Amish Peace and a warm winter drink and join me for an author chat party on Wednesday, December 4th at 8:00 PM EST (that’s 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, & 5:00 Pacific)!
Click JOIN on this page to RSVP and then come back to it on the 4th (I’ll send you a reminder!) and follow the link to the party page on Facebook.
During the party I’ll be hosting a book chat and talking about finding peace by the example set by the Amish and how you can live that out in 2014. Of course, there will be plenty of fun giveaways too: books, gift certificates, and more!
I ALMOST FORGOT! I’ll also be announcing the winner of the Canon PowerShot from the Snap It to Win It Amish Peace contest! Find out how you can be entered here!
I hope you can join the fun—and bring your friends! Just share the link to the party page.
Excited about the party? Let your friends know via social media, and make sure to use the hashtag #OneYearAmishPeace.

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January 3, 2007 by Tricia Goyer 2 Comments

Encouragement for the New Year!

After 2020, maybe you need a little encouragement for the New Year. No matter what you faced last year, let’s dream a new dream for 2021. I believe this can be our best year yet friends! I pray this post can shine a little light on wherever you are today and help you move into January with a smile on your face and hope in your heart.

Encouragement for the New Year

Recently, I came across these “fun facts” in Sharon Jaynes’ book, The 5 Dreams of a Woman.

If you’ve ever had one of those days (months…years) when you feel like quitting, then read on. These are sure to lift you up.

After Fred Astaire’s first screen test in 1933, the director noted, “Can’t act! Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”

Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, was encouraged to find work as a servant or seamstress.

Beethoven’s violin teacher once told him he was a “hopeless composer.”

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas.

Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was too stupid to learn anything.

Albert Einstein didn’t speak until he was four years old and didn’t read until he was seven. His teachers described him as mentally slow.

Sir Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.

Babe Ruth, when he retired from baseball, set the home run record (714), but he also held the record for the most strikeouts (1,330).

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade.

And…One basketball player missed 9,000 shots in his career. He lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times he was trusted to take the game’s winning shot and missed. His name is Michael Jordan. He said, “I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeed.

Encouragement for the New Year

Maybe you woke up last year on January 1st with big dreams, big plans, and big ideas about how you were going to achieve them. Then, 2020. No one saw that coming. And as hard as we all tried, none of us could truly escape the many challenges that we faced this year. However, there are also so many good things that happened. For instance, quarantine showed many families that they could homeschool their children–and ENJOY it. Many people I know (including me!) took up new art forms, learned to play instruments, pivoted in their careers, and built new and exciting things while stuck at home. Families spent time together baking, singing, playing games, learning new skills, watching fun films (and lots of youtube tutorials), and getting to know each other better.

Out of adversity, came ingenuity. Out of our trials, we became stronger, more resilient people.

This is not to downplay the fact that many faced hard things this year. And if you experienced loss in 2020, or you’re facing anxiety about the new year to come, I want you to know there is someone who cares.

1 Peter 5:7 says this, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”

This seems like such a simple statement. Yet when Peter wrote this, he wrote from Babylon–believed to be a Roman military outpost. His readers would have been familiar with suffering and that’s evident in the very next sentence he writes,

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ⁹Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”

We see this today. The struggles that we faced in the last year (and maybe still face today) we faced globally. We faced them as families, communities, the world. Together. And that’s how God wants us to move forward as well–as a body, building each other up. He longs to see His Church loving each other and lifting each other up during these times.

That’s exactly why I’m here. I want to lift you up and give you encouragement for the New Year. My heart is to provide stories, podcasts, and courses that guide you forward into all God has for you in the next year. My hope is to be a bearer of His light and a bringer of His hope. I know that no matter what we face, no matter what lies ahead, God will be there through it all and He will guide and direct and protect us as we turn to Him. I hope the next sentence of this scripture encourages and comforts you.

^“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”

Happy New Year! Let’s believe in the Godness of God in 2021!

Encouragement for the New Year

Now, more than ever, it’s so important to pray for our families and to teach them God’s Word and to apply His will to their lives.

My book Praying Through The Bible in One Year allows you to do both!

Praying Through the Bible in One Year is a Scripture Reading Plan and Guided Journal in one. This book helps you read and apply God’s Word to your life. My desire is for this journal to guide you as you seek God and His truth.

It’s divided into three parts:

1. A Scripture Reading Plan. This plan takes you from Genesis to Revelation. Reading four or five chapters a day, you’ll read through the whole Bible in one year! Each week has five days of reading, leaving the weekends for catch up.

2. A Daily Scripture. Pause on these verses, read them closely, and consider how they can impact your prayers for your kids.

3. A Prayer Prompt. Through these prompts, you’ll focus on ways you can pray for your kids. Blank space is provided for you to continue the prayer or to write down other meaningful Scriptures that you read during the day’s reading.

Leave a Legacy

Did you know I created a free course to help you master the skill of journaling through the Bible to create a Legacy Bible for your own children?

Join me as I guide you in sharing God’s Word with your children or grandchildren through the pages of your own journaling Bible. Through this free, 6-week course you’ll discover how to share your own personal reflections through the pages of God’s Word.

It’s such a meaningful way to pass on heartfelt prayers alongside your favorite Scripture passages, leaving a heritage of faith. Each journal entry will be a treasured gift to future generations.

Great Resources for Creating a Legacy Bible:

Blue Leather Touch Legacy Bible

NIV Quest Study Legacy Bible

Bible Highlighters

How to Pray for Your Child Each Day

Do you need a little help to start praying for your children? So many times I find myself praying for the same things for my children.

That they are healthy.

That they are obedient.

The other day I was reading the Bible, and I came upon Philippians 1:9-11:

I pray that your love will overflow more and more,
and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.
For I want you to understand what really matters,
so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.
May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—
the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—
for this will bring much glory and praise to God. (NLT)

As I read it I thought: This is a perfect Scripture to pray for my kids. So I created a PDF to help me pray. I hope it helps you too. Please download the PDF and insert your child’s name. This will guide you as you begin to lift them up daily.

Sunday: Pray for love that overflows

Lord, may the love of _______ increase and overflow for those in our family and for everyone else. (1 Thessalonians 3:12)

Monday: Pray for growth in knowledge

Lord, may _______ grow to love your Word. May the heart of _______ trust your commands. May _______ seek good judgment. Fill _______ with the knowledge of your will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives. (Psalm 119:66, Colossians 1:9)

Tuesday: Pray for understanding of what really matters

Lord, may _______ know your will and understand what is right because of your law. May _______ not copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be transformed into a new person through changed thoughts and through knowing your perfect and pleasing will. (Romans 2:18, Romans 12:2)

Wednesday: Pray for a pure and blameless life

Lord, may _______ keep firm in their faith, staying pure and blameless, until the end. May the good work you started in _______ carry on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. May _______ hold firmly to the word of life, so life’s labor will not be in vain. (1 Corinthians 1:8, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:6)

Thursday: Pray for the fruit of salvation

Lord, may _______ be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. May _______ delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. And because of your word planted deep, may whatever _______ do prosper. (Psalm 1:2-3)

Friday: Pray for righteous character and for a life in Jesus

Lord, may _____ be a peacemaker who sows in peace and reaps a harvest of righteousness. Lord, may your name be honored because of the life of _______. I know this is only possible because of your grace. May love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control flow of the life of _______ because of your spirit within. (James 3:18 2 Thessalonians 1:12, Galatians 5:22-23)

Saturday: Pray for glory and praise to God

Lord, may _______ produce much fruit so that you may be glorified. May the life of _______ be for your praise and glory, because of hope put in you. (John 15:8, Ephesians 1:14)

As parents, it’s important to pray for our kids, and I’m so thankful that God has given us His Word as a foundation to do just that!

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Saturday Scripture

Ephesians 4:22 – 24

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Prayer

Is It Time For a Clean Sweep?

Download this FREE printable from Balanced to help you figure out what needs cutting in your calendar.

Resolution Solutions

1. Listen to the Holy Spirit.

2. Listen to those closest to me.

3. Listen to people’s stories.

4. Listen to my readers.

Steps You Can Take

Find Freedom from Past Mistakes

How to Find Freedom From Your Past

Tricia’s Top Blog Posts of 2013

Encouragement for the New Year

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas.

Encouragement for the New Year

Out of adversity, came ingenuity. Out of our trials, we became stronger, more resilient people.

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”

“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”

Encouragement for the New Year

Leave a Legacy

How to Pray for Your Child Each Day

Sunday: Pray for love that overflows

Monday: Pray for growth in knowledge

Tuesday: Pray for understanding of what really matters

Wednesday: Pray for a pure and blameless life

Thursday: Pray for the fruit of salvation

Friday: Pray for righteous character and for a life in Jesus

Saturday: Pray for glory and praise to God

I have created a free PDF for you on How to Pray For Your Child Each Day

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;to be made new in the attitude of your minds;and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ⁹Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”

^“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”