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I enjoy learning about my faith and spending time in prayer in nature, in the chapel or in my prayer chair. Many years ago, my journey began when I was re-awakened in my faith when I asked God what my purpose was. He answered by setting me on fire and I have been journeying with Him since.

• Bitter-sweet!

  By joannsblog2016 on April 19, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  “A person who is full refuses honey, but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.” Proverbs 27:7 What is one of the first comments you hear or say after a big Thanksgiving feast has been consumed? “I’m stuffed, I… Read More ›

• Trust in the midst of darkness

  By joannsblog2016 on April 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “My own Jesus, do with me as you wish, as long as you wish, without a single glance at my feelings and pain.  I am your own…. I want to satiate your thirst with every single drop of blood that… Read More ›

• What works of His is He making visible?

  By joannsblog2016 on March 22, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that… Read More ›

• Satiate His Thirst

  By joannsblog2016 on March 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “There came a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink… If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have… Read More ›

• Hold fast to God’s Yes – defeat the doubt

  By joannsblog2016 on March 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts… Read More ›

• How will you prepare for Lent?

  By joannsblog2016 on February 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Lent begins next week. What does the Lenten season mean to you and how do you prepare? Are you ready to spend the next 40 days growing deeper in your relationship with Jesus? Have you thought about what that means… Read More ›

• Truest friend – as iron sharpens iron

  By joannsblog2016 on February 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Iron is sharpened by iron. One person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 Do you have that one friend, one family member that speaks truth into you?  That one person you can trust to be honest with you about both the good… Read More ›

• Being vulnerable – God’s love and grace

  By joannsblog2016 on February 9, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will.  All I have and call my own.  You have given all to me.  To you, Lord, I return it.  Everything is yours; do with it… Read More ›

• An invitation to waste time

  By joannsblog2016 on February 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “Because you are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you” Isaiah 43:4 Can you name the invitations you have received lately? Perhaps you were invited for a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding or a graduation? What about… Read More ›

• Reconciliation Face Down

  By joannsblog2016 on January 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “All grace flows from mercy, and the last hour abounds with mercy for us.  Let no one doubt concerning the goodness of God; even if a person’s sins were as dark as night, God’s mercy is stronger than our misery. … Read More ›