"What I say to you in the dark (privately), tell in the light (publicly); and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops [to many people]." – Matthew 10:27
I want to encourage anyone right now who is going through a painful season. When the Lord allows you to experience disappointment for a prolonged period, He’s not wasting your time. He is allowing for the reaping of an even greater harvest. He doesn’t want us to miss out on a single season of fruit, [...]
I just got back from a mission trip to Honduras, and let me tell you: EVERYONE is looking for the light. I don’t care who you are, or where you live in the world – you want to know what real love and light is. People are tired of being tossed by the sea in [...]
“You split the sea so I could walk right through it. My fears were drowned in perfect love. You rescued me so I could stand and sing, I am a child of God.” – Jonathan David Helser, No Longer Slaves “Man plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.” – Proverbs 16:9 Have [...]
I went to the Bethel Worship Night on Wednesday, and let me just start by saying: WOW. I went last year and God definitely blessed me, but this year He absolutely blew me away. First of all, I prayed to have a friend to go with earlier that week and randomly ran into an old [...]
I was eating dinner with a friend the other night, and as we were talking about our stories, these words came out of my mouth: “You went through what you went through so that God could REDEEM it.” I couldn’t help but realize that those words were straight from Heaven to my own [...]
“Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what [...]
“[He is] always striving for you earnestly in his prayers, [pleading] that you may [as persons of ripe character and clear conviction] stand firm and mature [in spiritual growth], convinced and fully assured in everything willed by God.” - Colossians 4:12 Oh, how I love the Lord. No matter what your season looks like, [...]
Unraveling pain through letting the Lord in to heal it is a process. Once we surrender He can heal it all in one go, but I really believe that we still need to submit to the process of letting Him change the way we think about the pain in addition to how we feel in [...]
I love the way God speaks. When I intentionally keep my spiritual eyes open, I find He always shows me something significant in the mundane. This happened to me recently as I went for a drive just to talk to Him and listen, and found myself in a neighborhood I’d never been in before. Some [...]
I’m about to be pretty blunt here, but when I got home from Scotland last week, I had to have a week of mourning. It’s dramatic, I know, but I found myself actually feeling really depressed that all my adventure and exciting explorations were over! I was back in my home town, in a place [...]
Amanda Rassamni Smith 