There was a moment the other day when, as I was talking about trusting God with my plans for my career, I said, “I do believe that God has this plan for me, but I’m just afraid of being wrong”. And then I thought wait, what? If I truly know that this is God’s planContinue reading “Help Our Unbelief”

Lord, please renew a worshipful spirit within me. Help me to not focus so much on simply getting through the day unscathed by sin or frustration, but instead to seek to joyfully worship You in all things. And let me not become prideful, attributing my successes to my own effort, seeking my own glory. ConvictContinue reading “A Worshipful Spirit”

God is so good! Undeniably, unchangingly good. I can pretty easily get caught up in the fear (more accurately, the lie) that at some point I will make too many mistakes and God’s just going to give up on working in my life – that there’s a limit to His plans for me. But thatContinue reading “The Faithfulness of God”

“O God of my praise, do not be silent! For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without cause. In return for my love they act as my accusers; butContinue reading “But I am in Prayer”

Sometimes I think we forget that salvation is not the end of our Christian journey. While it is certainly a huge piece of God’s plan of redemption, it does not stop there. We were never intended to simply pray a prayer and then continue living as we were; God calls us to so much more!Continue reading “Living On Purpose, In Purpose”

So often I struggle with accepting God’s forgiveness in my life. While I have absolutely trusted in Him as my Savior and know that He died and rose again to wipe away my sins, I still have a difficult time actually grasping that redemption in my daily life. On days when my failures are especiallyContinue reading “The Lord Longs to be Gracious”

Our hearts are so often divided. Our loves and desires, our future plans, and our insecurities constantly pull our focus. If you only knew how often my prayers are interrupted by my internal to-do list or by the day’s questions and anxieties. Almost immediately after the words “I trust you, Lord. Your will be done”Continue reading “A United Heart”

Wow, way to start off really positive, right? Who starts a blog of encouragement with You are not enough? Me, apparently. But the contents of this post are actually what inspired this entire blog, and I promise it’s much more encouraging than the title makes it sound! So, some backstory: My junior year of collegeContinue reading “You Are Not Enough”

An entry I wrote last fall: I’ve been so overwhelmed with shame, kind of out of nowhere, and I’ve been feeling as though God is just going to give up on me. Even in my prayers, I feel that I can’t ask anything of Him because I am so unworthy. I feel like I can’tContinue reading “Renewal”