If we’re honest, we pray maybe two or three times and then we try to manipulate the situation ourselves, or we pray and then we run 1 million scenarios in our head of how it could go wrong, or we pray not believing at all that God will actually do anything but because we think we’re supposed to.

What is this feeling in my chest? I recognize the tension of comparison that is sneaking in and stealing my joy. It leads me to envy almost every time I choose to compare. The enemy has been beating me here in this space where comparison becomes something more sinister and wants to hang around my heart. I don’t want to let him beat me anymore. I keep falling into this trap, and I have got to learn to fight back. The comparison trick that Satan traps us with, especially women,

So many of my thoughts and so much of my time are caught up in things that are important to the culture around me, but they aren't things that will matter in eternity.

I am not paying attention to what I am actively believing. I try to see myself through other people's eyes and it starts to make me dizzy.

In my shortsightedness, I cannot label things correctly. I don’t recognize always good.

I have zeal a lot of things... coffee, a new book, watching my kids play soccer, Christmas lights, (I always regret this zeal in...

Why do I choose other peoples words and allow them to speak over me more than I choose God’s words?

I pray that you will make me fit for what you are calling me to do. That's what I wrote, but that's not what the verse said. It actually...