by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 19, 2015 | armor of God, courage, heart change, holiness, hope, sin, temptation
I’d like to spend several posts talking about how to resist temptation. Here’s the first one. Did you know temptation questions God’s command? My husband, Larry, looked through his binoculars and spoke into his police radio, “Rick, see the man with...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 13, 2015 | deception, dependence, God's heart, temptation
Here’s what I recently heard someone say: “God knows what you can handle and He gave you that challenge because He trusts you to handle it.” I was surprised. I assumed she was basing her statement on 1 Corinthians 10:13, but...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 6, 2015 | belief, caring, compassion, courage, demands, God's love, mercy, pain, prayer, prayer for others
You most likely have never done this. You receive a prayer request as an email about a friend’s very difficult situation. She is asking for prayer for deliverance from pain or the solution of a problem or restoration of a troubled relationship. And this is...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 2, 2015 | forgiveness, freedom, grace, joy
I had vulnerably shared at the Friday evening session of a women’s retreat how God delivered me from being a child abuser. During the Saturday afternoon free time, I enjoyed visiting privately with many of the women. One woman, Carrie, came into my room looking...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 28, 2015 | beliefs, faith, fear of man, motives, relationships, self-protective sinful strategies, stress, Trust
Can you relate when I say I’m good at being hyper-vigilant? Wikipedia defines hyper-vigilance as, “an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats.” The hyper-vigilant person...
