by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 2, 2015 | God's heart, God's love, hope, knowing and understanding God, lies, psalms, sanctification, sexiness, sin, surrender, temptations, thirst for God, way of escape
Quite often when we’re tempted, we are being challenged to question the goodness and provision of God. We see this in Joseph’s experience. We know how Joseph was tempted while being Potiphar’s servant. Potiphar’s wife asked Joseph “day...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 22, 2015 | God's heart, love, quotes, strength, stress, surrender, trials, Trust, truth
God Understands Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. –Isaiah 49:13 (NIV) Because of God’s mercy, He understands our pain and knows His plan...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 4, 2015 | be made willing, dependence, joy, obedience, surrender
Remember my post about Tiffany Darling? Can I be honest? As I’ve followed their journey of faith, I’ve compared myself to them. And I come up lacking. I’m so weak I pray that God won’t want me to talk to the person seated next to me on the...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Dec 13, 2014 | Christmas, courage, faith, faithfulness, fear of man, glory to God, hope, lies, surrender, Trust
You may be reading the Christmas story again this season, but have you stopped to think about God’s definition of “favor”? Let’s review.The angel arrives in front of Mary and proclaims,”Greetings, favored one! The LORD is with...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 24, 2014 | beliefs, knowing and understanding God, peace, surrender, Trust, worry
God is an expert. God knows the what that He desires to accomplish. The what is the result of His plan, but as we’re heading toward the what, we get worried. We wonder if God really is capable and powerful enough to handle our situation as the tornado of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 11, 2013 | heart change, idols, repentance, surrender
In my last post, we talked about “sitting in it” so that we can identify the motives of our hearts. Here’s a further way of “sitting” as given by Elyse Fitzpatrick in her book Idols of the Heart, a book I’ve highly recommended in...