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!

 

Two Are Better {Part 2}

Yesterday we discussed how we need to turn to our sisters in Christ when we are facing hard times. We were not meant to do this life alone. We need each other.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

On the flip side of that, our sisters in Christ will also face hard times. But will we know it?

Are you aware when your sister in Christ is hurting? When she is sinking into a pit of depression? It is so easy to get wrapped up in our own world. Worrying about our own schedules, our own homes, our own problems, that we may not even see someone we love who is hurting.

Keep your eyes, ears and hearts open to the hurt around you. Be aware of the signs of depression. Have they become negative? Do they complain about loss of appetite or lack of sleep? Have they gone through a major life change? Are they suddenly short tempered? 

First and foremost, pray for them. Ask God to be with them and touch them. Then go to your friend and genuinely be there. Talk to them, speak life over them, pray with them, just be there for them.

Let's not go through life so closed off in our own life that we forget to see the hurts of others.

Linking With:
Woman to Woman's Word Filled Wednesday

Two Are Better {Part 1}

When word splashed across my Facebook newsfeed announcing the death of actor Robin Williams, I was stunned. Such a great actor gone so early. It broke my heart. Almost immediately arguments began over the topic of depression and suicide.

I am not here to debate whether or not depression is a real disease. And I am not here to debate whether or not suicide is selfish.

I am here to say, we need each other.

Friends, we need each other. God's Word tells us that two are better than one and that we sharpen each other. That alone tells us that God did not want us to do this life alone.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:17

We will all face depression at some point in life. Why? Because we are humans living in a fallen and evil world. At some point depression will seep in. In those times we need to turn to God, then we need to turn to our sisters in Christ.

Go to your sisters in Christ, be transparent with them, cry on their shoulder, seek their wisdom, let them pray with you, let them help you. Do not do it alone! Going at it alone is not how God intended and will only lead to destruction. Go to your sisters.

Are you facing a hard time? Do you have a close friend in Christ that you can turn to in hard times? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments.

Linking With:
Woman to Woman's Word Filled Wednesday
Winsome Wednesday
Wise Woman