Helping you find healing from the inside out
Making Room for Fruit to Grow The Bible names nine fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5: 22 & 23. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. In my early years as a Christian, I had few of these character traits in my life. I was a deeply troubled young …
The Experiment Over the years I’ve had opportunity to experiment with the connection between emotional pain and physical pain. Sometimes the results have been astounding. One of my earlier trials of this kind of connection came when I was staying with a friend. I’ll call her Betsy. When I first arrived, she greeted me warmly …
Behind the Anger Veil In my last blog, I talked about anger and how it could mask the real problem and the real hurt in a person’s life. Following is a story about how I experienced this very thing in my own life. See if you can identify with this experience and follow the story …
One of the Biggest Hindrances to Healing Can we hinder our own healing? We sure can. There are many things that can block the process, but one of the biggest things that will prevent us from accessing the provision God gave us for our healing and restoration is anger. Anger is what has been …
Hearing God’s Voice The art of hearing God’s voice is one that can be cultivated. I highly recommend it. When you practice hearing God’s voice, it makes knowing what to do in any given situation easier. A Relationship Blows Up We all have disagreements one time or another. No one is exempt it seems. …
The Fruit of the Spirit “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22 & 23 I remember when I first understood this verse. I’d memorized it and tried for years to produce this kind of fruit in my …
Free from Things Others Do Have you ever noticed that you seem to be the target of a series of people in your life who do negative things to you? Let me explain what I mean by that by telling you a story from my own life. When I was about 22 years old, I …
Getting Rid of Nightmares Years ago, one of my daughters brought a friend home. We will call him Hank. He was a young man who did not have any religious background. He’d been warned that I was a “Jesus Freak” and that I was very religious. One day I was asked to entertain him for …
Recovering from Disappointment In this blog post I want to share with you a word I believe I received from the Lord that really helped me to overcome one of my greatest disappointments. I had been married for twenty five years. It had not been the worst of marriages nor had it been the best. …
You Can Know the Truth The Bible says in John 8:32, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Is that even possible? According to the Bible Jesus is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” If Jesus is the Truth, then when we interact with the truth, we are interacting …