Month: October 2023

I don’t like underlining in books because when I read them again, all I see are the highlighted words and miss anything else that’s there. But I’ve made an exception for the books about the Yada Yada Prayer Group. The conventional meaning of YADA YADA is “boring or empty talk.” But in Hebrew, Yada Yada is more than…

I’ve been rereading the Yada Yada Prayer Group series of books. These books, by Dave and Neta Jackson, are filled with real life issues surrounded by faith and scripture. The titles of the second series of these books, The Yada Yada House of Hope, are the words to a song. I didn’t know it so…

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley So do not worry about…

Worry: give way to anxiety or unease; allow one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles ********** “Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.” Abraham Hicks Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. Corrie Ten Boom Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow…

Anxiety: apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill ********** The immediate effects of anxiety can include rapid breathing and/or heart rate, and trembling. Your body is readying itself for fight or flight in the face of danger. This is a normal – and healthy – response. But some of us seem to…

“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”  C.S. Lewis “Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.”Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith “Faith is not believing in my own…

Doubt is not necessarily the end of real faith, but often the beginning.  Craig Groeschel ********** Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is…

(See Job 42:7-16 NLT) In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended.  God tells them they have been guilty of misrepresenting God.  Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful.  The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. …