5-MINUTE DEVOTIONS FOR WORRY: EASE DOUBT AND FIND PEACE WITH PRAYER

It's here! 5-Minute Devotions for Worry: Ease Doubt and Find Peace With Prayer is out in the world!

After facing deep grief and so many life changes it left my head spinning, I battled depression for the first time in my life. Once I was honest with my husband, myself, and God, I began a journey to healing. It's a journey I am still to this day on, but it's a journey that has taught me so much. I've learned so much about myself, my husband, and who God is. The journey has been a blessing.

Now I want to walk with you on your own journey to healing. Whether you've faced worry, doubt, fear, anxiety, or depression, you don't have to stay there forever. There is hope. You can heal and grow. Join me in 5-Minute Devotions for Worry for a 66 day journey where we will read Scripture, I will share my own personal stories and encouragement, we'll pray together, and we will end each day with a reflection to help you dig a little deeper.

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**ANNOUNCEMENT**

A couple of years ago everything in my life was changing. My kids were growing up, we lost my mother-in-law, my daughter married, after fifteen years of homeschool my kids graduated, we lost my grandfather, I became a grandmother, my son married, I left children’s ministry after almost three decades, and we were in the middle of a global pandemic.

There was just so much change all at once. The changes left my head spinning. For the first time in my life, I was dealing with deep grief, worry, anxiety, and depression. However, it wasn't until I suffered a couple panic attacks that I even realized what was going on. After being honest with myself and talking with my husband, I began a journey to healing.

I still struggle from time to time, but I am learning how to deal with everything in a healthy way. My struggles have led me to write a brand new devotional that I pray helps you.

5-Minute Devotions for Worry: Ease Doubt and Find Peace with Prayer is a 66 day devotional to help you deal with worry, doubt, fear, anxiety, and depression. I openly share of my own struggles and the tools that have helped me. Throughout my journey to healing, I learned so much about who I was as a person and who God is-and throughout this time my husband and I grew closer than ever before.

Each day has a Scripture verse, short devotion, thought provoking questions and activities, and a prayer. My prayer is that you will come away equipped with the tools you need to find peace in Jesus and begin a path to healing.

5-Minute Devotions for Worry: Ease Doubt and Find Peace with Prayer launches March 15th, but you can preorder now! To preoder, click below!

 

A REMINDER FOR WHEN YOU HAVE "ONE OF THOSE DAYS"

We've all had "one of those days." A day when nothing seems to go right. A day when we you are so tired you can't think straight. A day when your shoulders carry the stress of the world, or maybe just the stress of your home. A day when anxiety feels like it is through the roof. A day when everything just feels off.

On these days when our hearts are heavy and tensions are high, it can feel easy to let go of the one thing we need the most: time with the Father.

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FIERCE FAITH

I don't remember being a fearful child. Maybe there was fear and I just don't recall it. I only remember living without a care. I knew God and my parents would always be there. I didn't worry about my safety, my next meal, or a roof over my head, nothing worried me.

And then I had kids.

Once I became a mother, I worried about everything. For years I couldn't sleep without the baby monitor on the highest volume and right next to my ear. I am talking years, not just when they were babies, but even as older kids. I put the loudest toys I could find under their window in fear of someone breaking in. I feared going places alone because what if something happened to me and left my babies without a mom. I feared my husband's dangerous job that could leave me without my best friend and children's father. I feared the balconies at hotels where my children could fall to their deaths. I feared every single noise I heard in the night. I feared everything.

In her new book, Fierce Faith, Alli Worthington says, "Fear is a liar. It speaks over us so convincingly, we believe that something terrible is certain to happen, even in the absence of any evidence whatsoever. Fear turns our what-ifs into certainties, freezing our faith and flipping our world upside down."

The thing is, fear doesn't come from God. Fear, the liar it is, is straight from the enemy. Alli says, "Fear is the most effective tool the enemy has in this world, and Jesus knew that would be the case. That's why He tells us 121 times in the Gospels alone to 'fear not.' And that's why He taught about fear on twenty -one different occasion. He knew this would be our struggle!"

Now, there is some fear, more of a healthy respect, that keeps us safe. While my fear of balconies and children was crippling, the fear was good to a point. It helped me to put safe rules in place, such as telling the kids they could never be on the balcony alone, only with an adult, and they couldn't push a chair to the railing. But keeping me up at night in a panic isn't healthy. Alli tells us, "Healthy fear can keep us out of painful situations, like shark attacks or Brazilian bikini waxes. But we aren't talking about God-given, healthy fear here. We're talking about fear of the future, the what-if situations that keep us up at night worrying, the anxiety that keeps us from living with confidence. We are talking about the God-distracting fear that steals our joy and keeps us off the path we are meant to follow."

Do you struggle with fear, worry, or anxiety? Fierce Faith is a must read! Alli knows fear. She is right there with us and walks us through how to fight fear and overcome anxiety with a deep, fierce faith. "By worshiping, trusting, and praising God, you are telling the enemy loud and clear that you are not a woman to be messed with."

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