Tag: encouragement

• Wisdom for Your Weekend: GREAT COMMUNICATORS LISTEN

  

  If you want to be an effective communicator? Listen. If you want to be an effective listener? De-center. Everything someone else says runs through the gauntlet of your personal hangups, flaws, feelings, emotions, mindsets, belief systems, and general outlooks. People who listen well know this and not only monitor how they receive input BUT ALSO […]

  Great Joy

  May 20, 2022

  Exhortation

  empathy, encouragement, honest Christianity, listening, live intentionally, releasing offense, speak less

• Moving Forward

  

  TestimonyforToday: I am easily offended. And when someone is being deliberately jerky and unpleasant my offended self gets REALLY riled up. As I have prayed and asked God to make me better, He has shown me that this isn’t some personality flaw-I really am wrestling with a spirit (Ephesians 6:12). My fight is NOT TRYING […]

  Great Joy

  January 6, 2022

  Exhortation, Songs in the Key of Christ

  a real time change, encouragement, faith, holiness, honest Christianity, offended, offense, walk in faith, wholeness

• I Just Can’t Give Up Now

  

  ADHD and Depressive episodes are no joke, especially when they gang up on me. I’ve been barely making it and pressing my way, denying to my youngest that I needed to sit down (she stay telling me go lay down and STAY down 🙄). Anyway, working my health back to an optimal level, dealing with […]

  Great Joy

  January 5, 2022

  Exhortation, Songs in the Key of Christ

  a life in holiness, a real time change, don’t give up, encouragement, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, keep trying, pressing forward, Songs in the Key of Christ, stand, wholeness, you can do it

• Don’t Let the Process Punk You

  

  I’m gone keep it all the way 💯. I have been a quitter the entirety of my life. I have known this about myself always, even when other people didn’t see it. My hyper-intellectual, performance based, rapid paced output blinds people to my inability to finish anything for myself. See, when you live in fear? […]

  Great Joy

  May 25, 2021

  Exhortation, Let’s Be Real

  a life in holiness, a real time change, don’t give up, encouragement, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, perfection, process, weeds in the way, you can do it

• I been in the storm too long

  

  I’ve been in the storm too long. And you know when storms last and last, we start looking for answers and reasons like Job. Job, whose storms lasted in such a devastating way, looked up to God for answers that were simply not forthcoming; then while he was waiting on God to say something he […]

  Great Joy

  April 2, 2021

  Exhortation, Songs in the Key of Christ

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, encouragement, God loves you, God’s grace, God’s love, Grace, growing up in grace, healing, holiness, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, Job, storms of life, this too shall pass, you can do it

• Drop Down N Getcho Eagle On

  

  Most people know that eagles use wind resistance to lift off. What I didn’t know and found excessively amazing is that eagles chill in turbulence, too. You know what they do? When turbulence hits, the eagle tucks wing, goes into free fall, and then recovers by simply extending wings again as the turbulence subsides. Not […]

  Great Joy

  March 8, 2021

  Exhortation

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, divine assurance, divine protection, Eagle, encouragement, extend, flight, God loves you, God’s love, Grace, holiness, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, tuck, turbulence

• Remember Lot’s Wife

  

  This ain’t the time to turn back now. One time, I found myself driving around Chicago on a mission not my own. As I drove into the city, I found myself both happy and heavy—excited to be back in a place where I felt most comfortable and happy as an adult, yet heavier and sadder […]

  Great Joy

  January 14, 2021

  Exhortation, Let’s Be Real

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, encouragement, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, keep going, press forward, press toward the mark, remember Lot’s wife, salt, Womanhood, you can do it

• The Year of Reclaim

  

  A personal testimony. The thing of it is, I was born to serve. People who assume things about me, assume that I am attempting to do other than serve have to check their own hearts. I have always just filled the spot that needed to be filled. Dishes? I wash them. Alto? I sing my […]

  Great Joy

  January 11, 2021

  Exhortation

  a life in holiness, a real time change, authentic, encouragement, ins er construction, integrity, reclaiming, set into yourself, step into your season, wholeness, Womanhood

• Embrace the suck

  

  The first time I read the phrase embrace the suck, I was actually reading an article about…parenting? War? Marriage? Work? Being black in America? I don’t even remember. I just remember the phrase catching my eye. It was one I’d never heard or read before, and it resonated deep in my chest. I had to […]

  Great Joy

  December 1, 2020

  Exhortation

  a life in holiness, Christianity, don’t give up, embrace the suck, encouragement, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, keep trying, pressing forward, righteous don’t faint, strong finish, suffering, sufficient grace, wholeness, you can do it

• You Can Fall, You Can Even Fail—Just Don’t Faint.

  

  Today I fell but I did not faint. In my former days, the fall would take me out. I’d lie on the ground in defeat, shame and condemnation my portion. The way my mind was set up against me, any little mistake derailed me completely. If I messed up it was not meant to be. […]

  Great Joy

  November 6, 2020

  Exhortation

  a life in holiness, a real time change, Christianity, don’t give up, encouragement, failing, failure, fall, falling, Jesus Christ, just man, keep trying, righteous don’t faint, you can do it