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Since my last therapy session I’ve wrestled with the thought of complete and total surrender. I’ve tried to imagine what my life would be like on the other side of it, but I was merely left with fearful “What if …” scenarios. I decided to take a walk and pour my heart out to the Lord about it. I shared my fears with Him: fear of a loss of control, fear of my surrender becoming transactional, fear that everything I held dear would be loosened from my grip. Everything that I prayed for, even...

In John 4:1-39 we learn about Jesus and the woman at the well. On His way back to Galilee Jesus had to go through Samaria - this was on purpose and for a purpose. Jesus stopped at this well to rest, and this is where he would encounter a woman, the Samaritan woman. Now we know that Jesus was a Jew and the woman was a Samaritan … Jews and Samaritans hardly interacted with one, but that did not stop the Savior of the world. Jesus asks the woman for something to drink and she’s like “Uh why are...

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.” - James 1:4 MSG God is a God of process. Everything is done in His timing and His way. Through process there is freedom and deliverance, but it takes time – and in our...