katy.pumphrey.art Do you have someone in your life that continually points out attributes about you that make you feel depressed? I can't stand to be around people like that and yet, on an almost daily basis, I allow myself to be exposed to lies whose source is difficult to turn off and tell to leave. My soul. Nothing is more killing to a soul than the want of … [Read more...] about Discouragement’s Antidote
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God’s Amazing Gifts: Being Misunderstood
The apostle Paul shared an experence that grieved him deeply in a personal letter to the church at Corinth. Although we do not have any idea what his thorn was, we do know that God refused to grant Paul's request that the Lord remove it from him.Being a curious person by nature, I would love to know the exact details of what Paul struggled with. But I am also grateful that the Lord has recorded … [Read more...] about God’s Amazing Gifts: Being Misunderstood
God’s Amazing Gifts: Dependency
Would you describe yourself as being self-reliant?I learned to be self-reliant when I went away to boarding school as a sophomore in high school. I didn't realize what was happening at the time to my heart. I would grow up and marry a wonderful man, but I had unconsciously made a promise to myself that I would never let my heart truly love him the way I wanted or needed to. As a missionary kid … [Read more...] about God’s Amazing Gifts: Dependency
God’s Amazing Gifts: Lost
All of us can remember that terrifying moment as small children when we were separated from our parent in a grocery or department store. There are emotions that rush to the forefront of my mind, burned in my memory, when I think of being lost:Fear,helplessness,a sense of being forgotten,not belonging."For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19:10All of us have been lost. … [Read more...] about God’s Amazing Gifts: Lost
No More Days Left
Today is traditionally the day that I put away all things Christmas-y. I never imagined before I had children that we would have a tree that could be disassembled and put in a box, and although I miss the pine smell teasing my olfactory senses from a real tree as I enter the room, the plug-in wafting the balsam fragrance does just fine. Two babies in 13 months and three babies in three and a … [Read more...] about No More Days Left
My New Life
“'Lord, help!' they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death. Let them praise the Lord for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them." Psalm 107:19-21 (NLT)I have had two individuals ask me about what they can do to bring about revival in their own lives. … [Read more...] about My New Life
