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This challenging message is for women who are where I was - struggling in marriage. Trying to fix it - fix him - and seemingly failing while you feel successful in every other area. There is hope. Things can change for you, but it starts with change in you.

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How Do You Balance All of This?

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So above all, constantly seek God’s kingdom[a] and his righteousness, then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly – Matthew 6:33 (TPT) How do you balance all of this? I had the amazing privilege of being a guest on a podcast a few days ago, and this is one of the […]

Treasures in Darkness

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“Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: ‘I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in […]

When Your Heart Hurts…

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Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh -Ezekiel 11:13 I have experienced heartache. No matter what is portrayed on social media, we all have. I can recall a specific heartache […]

The Believing Wife

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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. But if the unbeliever departs let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to […]

Irreconcilable Differences

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Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? – Amos 3:3 Do you know what is cited as one of the main reasons for divorce? Irreconcilable differences. According to Merriam-Webster, irreconcilable differences is defined as the “inability to agree on most things or on important things”. Two people, who once loved each other deeply and […]

3 Ways to Increase Intimacy

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Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband – 1 Corinthians 7:3 Intimacy is vitally important in marriage. It isn’t just sex. It’s closeness. It’s friendship. It’s shared experiences. And we need it. Life can make it easy for us to allow distance to […]

How Do Two Become One?

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So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate – Matthew 19:6 The idea of marriage is great, right? When we hear the scripture in Genesis 2:24 that says “and they shall become one flesh” we think it sounds pretty simple, don’t we? We […]

It’s Time to Break the Cycle

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There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.-Deuteronomy 1:2It should have been a short trip. It was only supposed to take 11 days. Instead it took 40 years. Forty years to obtain the promise that God had given them; forty years of circles and cycles. It is tempting […]

You’re Doing a Great Work. Don’t Come Down!

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So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?” – Nehemiah 6:3 Each year, I dedicate my first blog to declaring great things over you. This year, I want to declare […]

From Broken Wife To Believing Wife

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being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ – Philippians 1:6 Last week, I shared how broken I was during the first part of my marriage. My self-esteem was practically non-existent, and I hid behind working hard and […]