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Finding Comfort
Is comfort important to us? Do we really need it? Or is it just something we think we need? Where or how do we find it if and when we do need it? After working with God to tear down many of the mental strongholds which led me to become a sugar addict, surrendering my...
What Have You Got to Lose?
For most of my life, I was focused on trying to lose weight especially when I gained tot the point that I weighed over 300 pounds. Focusing on losing weight made me think about all the things I shouldn’t be eating. That just made me want to eat them all the more....
Progressively Changed
We all want transformation, but do we really want to go through the continual process of change that will mean? Our transformation process has been likened to the metamorphosis of the caterpillar to the butterfly. The caterpillar goes into the chrysalis and 10 to 14...
God Turns Our Messes Into Messages
Out of our biggest mess will come our greatest message if we give it all to God. For years I felt like a mess with so much weight on my body I could barely move. I tried to fix it myself but every time I tried to diet, it would just result in me losing weight and...
Good, Not Disaster
God is good and has good plans for us, even if we feel we are stuck in a disaster of our own making. What He says in Jer. 29:11 NLT is not just a cliché, it’s a solid truth. “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for...
Grace Changed My World
Grace is this multi-faceted aspect of God that defines His nature and underlies everything He is and does. It is the engine that drives His purpose here on earth to help us move at Grace Speed. For at least 50 years I thought grace was just something that happened at...
How to Overcome Boredom Eating
What is the biggest issue you have regarding emotional eating? I asked my coaching group that question the other day. One woman answered: boredom. Then she asked, “Is boredom a feeling?” This was a very intriguing question to me. I’d never considered boredom a...
God of the Impossible
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I know God is the God of the impossible. He did the impossible in my mother's life. He healed her from mental illness that wreaked havoc with her emotions. And because I had a front row seat to witness that transformation, I was able to...
When Sheila Walks In the Room
It was at a Bible study and prayer meeting at Sheila Ruffin’s house. At that point in my life I had a Bible degree and a lot of head knowledge, but very little experience in following God’s leading. At Sheila’s, though, we’d study the Bible and then we’d apply what we...
Dealing With Anger
“What’s Eating you?” What is the thing that is bugging the daylights out of you? What makes you angry every time you encounter it? What throws you off course and causes you to cuss like a sailor in your head, whether you actually say it or not? It’s the thing that, as...