In our most recent previous posts, we provided you with some tips and truths about prayer. We’d like to take the conversation a little deeper and will be answering several questions about the practice of prayer in the next few articles. I think the best place to start is with the question: What exactly is prayer? When people are asked this question, a common response is “talking to God”. Even the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as: “an address (such as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought”. While these might be technically accurate answers, they are also incomplete ones. Prayer is so much more. Prayer…
A Woman Who Rises is One Who is Engaged, Pt. 4
FREE DOWNLOAD: Teaching Outline Several times I have read or heard the story of the woman who watched the silversmith as he was refining silver. It goes something like this: As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the fire to burn away all the impurities. The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: ‘He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.’ (Malachi 3:3) She asked the silversmith if it was true…
MAKE The Most of Life!
Maybe 2020 kicked you in the teeth a couple times. I know it did most people. Many challenges in 2020 created new seasons in life that don’t necessarily coincide with the changing of the calendar. In the midst of the challenging circumstances of 2021 or whatever new season you are walking into, life is full of potential. Whether the New Year brought you a truly new season of life or something else did, there are four strategic things you can do to MAKE the most out of it. Make Peace With Your Past. Take time to allow yourself to feel and express your emotions about the difficult things you have endured…
Let Me Re-Introduce Myself
Hello! For those of you who are “meeting” me (Cherry) for the first time, I am so glad you dropped by. I am so glad you got to hear from Teri on the last blog post. And I am so grateful to have met her so quickly after my move from Texas to Oklahoma. It seems like every other time I’ve made big moves in my life, it has taken me years to really connect with others and make friends. Teri told me the first time we met that she had been praying that God would bring her a creative friend and that she felt like I was an answer…
