Category: God is Good

Starting Anew

Hi Faith Travelers!

If there is one thing that I have learned in my walk with God, it’s that you have to Keep Listening. We should never take a piece of the puzzle that God gives us and assume that is the full picture. After all, if He gave us the full picture all at once, we probably wouldn’t do it in the first place. Everything God does is always bigger than us, requiring full dependence on His strength and His ways versus our own (See Isaiah 55:9).

Take this faith blog for instance, the Lord gave me the idea back in 2015. I officially started in 2020 and there have been different rhythms of blogging based on how the Lord has led me. There was a time where it was 1-2 posts a year, a time when the posts were weekly, a time when they ceased or were very sporadic and then monthly. Transparently speaking, there was a moment when I wanted to add my own aesthetic regarding the website and the day of the week the blog was posted (good thing but not a God thing) and that worked for a good while (i.e. Faith Fridays). But now God is doing a New Thing (See Isaiah 43:19) and if I try to stick to an aesthetic, I could miss God; who He wants to reach, when He wants to reach them and How He wants to reach them through this blog. I recently realized that by only posting on a specific day, I was pigeon holding the move of God as well as adding undue pressure to myself to get something done on a day that God didn’t even directly tell me to post on. We have to be mindful of allowing our own intellect to take charge or dictate our direction in doing the God things. So here we, right smack dab in the middle of the “New Thing”, moving with God fully on how He wants to do things as you are receiving this post on a Big Ole Tuesday on the last day of March and I am ok with that.

Over this past month, I’d encountered a series of undesired events, one being surgery. This led to me being off work for a few weeks. My first thought immediately went to “now that I am off work, I can work on my God projects and get more things done before the hustle and bustle starts back”. Well God had other plans! He told me to REST! While most people would jump to that rest opportunity; given the amount of work things, business things and, most importantly, God Things on my plate, I felt I didn’t have time to rest. Who says they don’t have time to rest after surgery, you guessed it….Me! Even in my prayer time as I sat with the Lord recognizing there was chaos going on around the world, I went into intercession mode and the Lord stopped me. Yes, He literally stopped me from praying. He told me “I don’t need your prayers right now, I just want you to sit with ME.” It was in that very moment that I realized I was so used to being on the front lines as a prayer warrior, a server of my community and an overall get it done type person, that I realized I didn’t know how to just rest and be God’s daughter.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you will know that I didn’t grow up a Daddy’s girl. So not having that experience affected how I approached my relationship with the Lord in the beginning. It started out more like that of a soldier. My thoughts were, “give me my assignment Lord and I will do it”. I didn’t know any other way until God nurtured and loved on me, showing me what it was truly like to have a perfect Father. It wasn’t an overnight process and I can honestly say I am still learning but after this past month the Lord has exposed something in me that needed to not just Heal but needed to Rest (See Matthew 11:28-29).

I say all of that to say, don’t be afraid to walk in the New Thing that God is doing even when it doesn’t make natural sense. Even when it goes against all natural intellect and even when it feels wrong. We have to learn to be ok with God leading and guiding every moment of our Faith journey because being aligned with the Lord is the best and the safest place to be. So embrace the new and start anew in the God thing journey that He has in store for you.

Until the next Faith Message…

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Love Never Fails

Hi Faith Travelers!

Happy Faith Friday!

Have you ever thought about Love? I mean of course you’ve thought about love because it’s all around us and we experience it in one way or another, whether from a significant other, parent, child, relative or friend. But have you ever thought about the origin of Love, the depth of Love and the power of Love. Some of us don’t think that deep about it so let’s take some time to understand L-O-V-E.

Some of you may say what does love have to do with a faith blog; well I’m going to tell you. To understand faith is to understand God and to understand God is to understand and experience Love. Not just any love, but Agape Love which is the highest form of love, representing God’s selfless, sacrificial, unconditional and divine love for humanity.

We often associate Love with feelings, emotions, affection and commitment. While Love is, in fact, associated with those things, that is not the core of what Love is. In order for us to understand Love we have to first understand the creator and first demonstrator of Love, God Himself (1 John 4:8). God is Love.

Think about how it all started and the mere reason why we all are able to wake up every morning and pursue this thing called life. It’s right there in the staple scripture, John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”. That is Agape Love; an unconditional and sacrificial choice, not associated with emotion or merit. That is the loving God we serve. “We love Him because He first loved us”(1 John 4:19). He gave His Only Son, Jesus, for us. The same “us” who don’t always choose Him and are often mad at Him especially when things aren’t going our way in life because those are the moments we cry out ” Why God?!”, as if He is the one who comes to kill, steal and destroy and not satan (John 10:10). Even then He still loves us.

At the core of who God is, He is Love and what better way can His love for us be shown than through Romans 5:8, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. Because of this we are here today and able to spread our own love to family, friends and the world. Though we don’t necessarily have the capacity to love the way God loves us, we show our love for Him through our faith in Him. We show our love by simply believing in Him and surrendering our lives to Him so that He can accomplish His purpose and plan through us; which is ultimately sharing Him with those don’t know about Him, the Gospel or His Agape Love yet.

The depth of God’s Love is deeper than anything we could ever imagine. It’s so deep that nothing can separate us from it. The scripture Romans 8:38-39 states,”…neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Whenever you have moments where you think God has left you or that you messed up with Him, this is the scripture you need to remember and meditate on.

I once heard the phrase “the power of love”, but I didn’t truly understand the truth behind this phrase until I started studying it in the Word of God. The Bible talks about how “perfect love casts out fear”(1 John 4:17-18). Love actually has the power to dismantle the very thing(fear) that satan attempts to use against us to attempt to counteract our faith. The Bible all says in 1 Peter 4:8 , “…love will cover a multitude of sins”and in Proverbs 10:12, “…But love covers all sins.” This means that just when you thought you messed up for good after sinning, God’s Love has already stepped in and covered it through Jesus Christ.

So how can we love better? The answer can be found in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [a]puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” I am going to share the Expanded Interpretive Translation of this same scripture with you and everywhere you see the word “Love” replace it with your name.

“Love(Your Name) patiently and passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; Love(Your Name) doesn’t demand others to be like themself; rather, it is so focused on the needs of others that they bends over backwards to become what others need them to be; Love(Your Name) is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with themself that they never think of the needs or desires that others possess; Love(Your Name) doesn’t go around talking about themself all the time, constantly exaggerating and embellishing the facts to make them look more important in the sight of others; Love(Your Name) does not behave in a prideful, arrogant, haughty, superior, snooty, snobbish, or clannish manner; Love(Your Name) is not rude and discourteous — they are not careless or thoughtless, nor do they carry on in a fashion that would be considered insensitive to others; Love(Your Name) does not manipulate situations or scheme and devise methods that will twist situations to their own advantage; Love(Your Name) does not deliberately engage in actions or speak words that are so sharp, they cause an ugly or violent response; Love(Your Name) does not deliberately keep records of wrongs or past mistakes; Love(Your Name) does not feel overjoyed when they see an injustice done to someone else but is elated, thrilled, ecstatic, and overjoyed with the truth; Love(Your Name) protects, shields, guards, covers, conceals, and safeguards people from exposure; Love(Your Name) strains forward with all its might to believe the very best in every situation; Love(Your Name) always expects and anticipates the best in others and the best for others; Love(Your Name) never quits, never surrenders, and never gives up; Love(Your Name) never disappoints, never fails, and never lets anyone down.”

After reading that with our names in the place of the word Love, I am certain we all have some work to do when it comes to displaying love. It’s a great thing that we aren’t required to be ready made perfect before God but it’s an even greater thing that we have The Example of Love to not just model ourselves after but to trust that God’s Love will never fail when it comes to us.

I will leave you with 1 Corinthians 13:13 “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love”. God is Love, Love never fails so we can trust that God will never fail nor will He fail us.

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God is STILL…

Hi Faith Travelers!

Happy New Year & Happy Faith Friday!

It’s the last Friday of the first month of a new year and honestly speaking, midway through January, I felt like I was in the same very hard 2025 season, even with “the new year” having already started. It felt as if I was stuck in a new year but with old perspective, old disappointments and old trials and tribulations still weighing me down.

Have you ever been in a difficult space, season or circumstance that you felt like God wasn’t present in? You endured trial after trial, heartache after heartache, and disappointment after disappointment and yet you wondered, “Where are you God?!”…

God is Still With You

In the midst of those seasons, it can sometimes be difficult to pull your own self out of that pit. You find it hard to recall God’s promises in His Word. Promises like “…He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you (See Deuteronomy 31:8) or the promise that “…the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (See Joshua 1:9). Even one of Jesus’ names, Immanuel, means “God with us”(See Matthew 1:23). It’s right there in black and white, yet you still “feel like” God is not there.

God is Still Bigger Than Your Feelings

Notice the number of times I used the word “feel” or “felt” in the beginning of this blog, even from my own perspective. Feelings may be a current fact in that moment of toughness but it’s not the truth…Your Faith Is. Feelings can be defined as “an emotional state or reaction or an irrational belief”. Feelings are temporary and fickle emotions driven by the circumstance, yet Faith is enduring and active trust in God even when the circumstances seem contrary.

God is Still Working

There’s a message that I heard recently when I was still stuck in my “feelings” and the pastor said, “I can Trust God even when I can’t trace Him”. Think about that for a minute. I can put my reliance, my confidence and my dependence on God, His character and His promises even when there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of Him in my circumstance, based on my mere carnal understanding.

God is Still Faithful

Let’s take a look at the Book of Daniel in the Bible (See Daniel 3). In chapter 3, King Nebuchadnezzar had made a decree that whenever symphonic music played, everyone had to bow and worship the golden image of him and if they did not, they would be thrown in the fiery furnace. Well Daniel’s friends, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego were Jews in service to the king, who only believed in and worshipped the true and living God, so they refused to bow and worship any other gods. The King was angered and set to throw them in the fiery furnace. He asked them “who is the God who will deliver you from my hands”. They said to the King,” If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”(See Daniel 3:17-18) Notice the “But if not“; they had full awareness of the situation they were in with no line of sight of how things would end, yet they still put full confidence and trust in the God they served even though they couldn’t trace HIM in that very moment of being sent to their death.

The story continues with Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego being bound and thrown in the fiery furnace. When the King looked in the furnace he saw four men loose, walking around in the midst of the fire, not hurt and with the form of a fourth man looking like the Son of God.(See Daniel 3:23-25)

God is Still A Promise Keeper

In moments like those we sometimes expect God to save us before the trouble starts. We often come up with ways of how we think God will or should bring us out of a fire when sometimes His Way (See Isaiah 55:8-9) of doing things is bringing us through the fire not smelling like the smoke we’ve been in, so that He and He alone can get the glory.

God is Still A Deliverer

The three men walked out of the fiery furnace with no evidence having been in a fire. King Nebuchadnezzar praised the true and living God and made a decree for all the people to worship the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego because “there is no other God who can deliver like this”. (See Daniel 3:26-30)

God is Still God and God is Still Good

I’ll leave you with a permission to shift your perspective moment. The next time you find yourself in your own fiery furnace circumstance or situation. Shut down the Feeling surrounding the circumstance and activate the Faith that is needed for you to remember and trust that God is God and He is Good. He is everlasting, omnipresent, has infinite supply, and can do immeasurably more than we can ask, think or imagine (See Ephesians 3:20). Most importantly He loves you and His plans (See Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) for you are always good.

Until the next Faith Message…

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