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  A Prayer for July: Starting the Month with Faith A gentle prayer to welcome this new month with hope There's something sacred about a new month. A page turns, and with it comes a quiet invitation to begin again — to lay down what didn't go the way you planned, and to open your hands to what's ahead. Before July gets busy, before the calendar fills and the to-do list grows, let's pause. Let's bring this month to God first — not after the plans are made, but before a single day begins. "This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." PSALM 118:24 Every month is a gift, even the ones that feel heavy before they've even started. If you're stepping into July carrying tiredness, uncertainty, or a heart that's still healing from the last season — you are not behind. You are exactly where grace can meet you. A Prayer for July Lord, I bring this month to You before it even begins. Thank You for the days behind me — the ones ...

  LOVE LETTER FROM GOD A Love Letter from God: You Are Enough You have measured yourself against everything and everyone — and come up short every time. But God's measure of you looks nothing like yours. The voice that tells you that you are not enough is one of the oldest lies ever spoken. It started in a garden, when the enemy convinced two people that who they were — in the presence of God Himself — was somehow not quite right. Not quite sufficient. Not quite worthy. That same voice still whispers today.  You're too much. You're not enough. You've fallen too far. You've failed too many times. But God's Word tells a very different story. "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." EPHESIANS 2:10 (NIV) You are not an accident. You are not a rough draft. You are His  handiwork  — a word that in the original Greek means  masterpiece . And masterpieces are not mistakes. My Precio...

  LOVE LETTER FROM GOD A Love Letter from God: You Are Not Forgotten When the silence feels heavy and the waiting feels endless — God wants you to know: He has not looked away from you. Not even for a moment. There are seasons in life that feel impossibly quiet. Prayers go up but answers seem slow to come. You look around and wonder if somehow, in all the noise of the world, your name slipped through the cracks of heaven's attention. It hasn't. Scripture is filled with the stories of people who waited — Abraham and Sarah, Hannah, Joseph, David — men and women who cried out in the dark and wondered if God still remembered them. And in every single story, God showed up. Not always when expected. Not always how imagined. But always faithful. Always on time. "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." ISAIAH 49:15–16 (NIV) Go...

  LOVE LETTERS FROM GOD  ·  DEVOTIONAL A Love Letter from God: My Love for You Has No End A personal message from your Heavenly Father — for the days you wonder if you are truly, completely, unconditionally loved. "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness." — Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV) There are moments when love feels conditional — like it has to be earned, maintained, or protected. Like one wrong step might cause it to disappear. If you have ever felt that way about God's love, this letter is for you. He has something He wants you to know, not just in your mind, but deep in the places where doubt tends to take root. My dear child, I want you to know something that I have been whispering over you since before you took your first breath: I love you. Not the version of you that you are trying to become. Not the you that has it all together. I love  you  — exactly as you are, right where you are, in the middle of everything you ...

  LIVING FAITH DAILY A Devotional for the Weary & Waiting A Love Letter from God: You Are Not Forgotten "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!" — Isaiah 49:15 ✦   ✦   ✦ If you have been feeling invisible — like your prayers are bouncing off the ceiling, like life has moved on without you — this letter is for you. Read it slowly. Let it settle into the quiet places. My Beloved Child, I have seen every moment you thought no one was watching. The night you cried quietly so no one would hear. The morning you forced yourself to get up even though everything in you wanted to stay down. The prayer you whispered under your breath, half-convinced I wasn't listening. I was listening. I am always listening. I know what it feels like to you right now — the silence, the waiting, the wondering if you somehow slipped through the cracks of my attention. But hear me, child: you are no...

  A LOVE LETTER FROM GOD You Are Not Forgotten For the seasons when silence feels like absence — and waiting feels like being left behind. There are seasons in life that feel impossibly quiet. Prayers that seem to go unanswered. Promises that look like they're taking too long. Moments when you wonder — honestly, vulnerably — if God has moved on without you. This letter is for those moments. Not a theological treatise. Not a checklist of things to do to feel better. Just the words of a Father who has never once looked away from you — even when you couldn't feel His gaze. Read slowly. Let it land. My dear child, I know what it feels like from where you are sitting right now. The waiting. The wondering. The weight of a silence you were not expecting. You have prayed the prayers. You have held on to the promises. And still — still — things look much the same as they did before. And so a question has crept in, quietly, in the middle of the night:  Have I been forgotten? Child, let ...