Category Archives: Encouragement

February 13, 2016

Did We Forget The Salt?

By Christina

imageHas the church lost its flavor?

Have I lost my flavor?

Have you lost your flavor?

Makes me think so much. As we approach an arctic blast for NYC, how often we approach those in life. It’s not easy being in it. Because it gets pretty cold sometimes, I tell you!

Jesus said to his climbing companions, “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
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February 11, 2016

No One To Help Me In

By Christina

imageThere is a man in the New Testament that has an encounter with Jesus the Messiah. He was sitting by the pool of Betheseda. This becomes such an interactive story because as you read you can imagine youself in that place too. You visualize this man by the pool…right by the Messiah and he is bitter, frustrated, angry, resentful, hurt, torn and challenged in every way. He was restricted, yet by what? His own victimized mentality that says, “I have no one to help me…”

No one is there to put me in.

No one is by my side.

No one understands my pain.

No one is there when I need it the most.

No one is going to be able to help me.

PERHAPS! Continue reading

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February 9, 2016

After They Prayed

By Christina

imageIt wasn’t until I really prayed that I felt a change in me.
It wasn’t until I really sought the face of God that I saw a difference. It wasn’t until I became the prayer person that I am today-in my own way-that I saw how God was moving things on my behalf.  I am thankful.

It’s not just a changed environment for me, it’s a changed mind!

That happened with serious prayer and an encounter with God that’s going to last eternal in my soul.

Now Lord consider their threats and enable your servants to speak Your word with great boldness [not hesitating or fearful in the face of danger]. Stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs [see/vision] and wonders [acts] through the name of Your Holy Servant Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting [sitting] was shaken and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly. Acts 4:29-31 (New International Version)

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February 8, 2016

Snoozing Saints

By Christina

imageThe alarm goes off everyday. It is a new opportunity for us. We rise and we move to do what we have to each day. Most days—we want to sleep a little longer. Stay in our comfy zones, under the blanket…no rules and no regulations. We begin to hate the sound of the alarm. Our flesh begins to hate the work that we must do. It annoys our souls—but we have to work. Then we hit the snooze….sometimes once, twice, three times or for maybe even an hour strong.

To snooze is to sleep; slumber; doze or nap.

Many of us are sleeping on our callings and the true work that we have to do for the kingdom! Continue reading

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