by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 22, 2013 | anxiety, courage, demands, humility, people pleasing, worry
I don’t often pass along other people’s material but this is from Jan Johnson, author of many books, including Abundant Simplicity: Discovering the Unhurried Rhythms of Grace. (www.JanJohnson.org) For a class I teach, my students get to read Jeremy...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Oct 13, 2012 | anxiety, assumptions, attitude, deception, demands, opened eyes, overwhelmed feelings, pain, people pleasing, perseverance, self-protective sinful strategies, SPSS
The Lord continues to show me the areas of my life where I require formulas for security. These formulas become idols because I’m depending upon the formula rather than in abiding in Jesus and walking in obedience moment by moment as the Spirit leads. Jesus...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 22, 2012 | demands, knowing and understanding God, marriage, obedience, Trust, voice of God, worry
Some time ago I posted about Jesus’s question to Paul, “‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads’” (Acts 26:14 NASB).(If you want to check out that post, click on goads.)That verse and what...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 13, 2012 | demands, God's heart, sin, temptation, Trust
In my last post, I talked about how succumbing to my addiction of sugar is not a “small” sin, yet I overlook it because it doesn’t seem like there will be “big” consequences. But we talked about how there aren’t “big”...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 9, 2012 | demands, marriage, relationships, worry
Larry and I had been married for seven years and were like married singles. I was terrified that our marriage would end in divorce. In my worry and fear, I tried to get my needs met in whatever selfish way I could. In my desperation to want Larry to love me and meet...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Aug 6, 2012 | demands
In a previous post, I talked about claiming God’s promises as a “demand.” In other posts, I’ve talked about the idea of “demands.” When I first heard of this concept, it didn’t resonate with me. I just couldn’t...
