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False Shepherds

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The men threw her before the crowd—she had been caught in the act of adultery. Her dignity died, and fear eclipsed her heart. Pulling the blanket she had grabbed from her crime scene tightly around her shoulders, she was barely able to cover her nakedness. However, she could find nothing to cover the awful shame that settled in her soul.

Wanting to defend herself, the woman tried to find words to tell the crowd she had been trapped, but her throat, thick with fear, would not allow the words she screamed in her mind to escape. These men carried great titles as Pharisees and teachers of the law. She knew that as a woman, her defense was useless.

 She was completely vulnerable… until Jesus defended her.

 The Good Shepherd stood between the woman and the false shepherds to intercept the stones he knew were coming. He purposefully stooped down to write in the dust. The Good Shepherd’s fingers made patterns in the sand and perhaps created words. Like a welcomed pause between the thunder claps in a horrible storm, whatever he wrote stilled her angry accusers for a moment.

 The false shepherds were Pharisees, and teachers of the law. Their voices returned and demanded an answer.

 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?” John 8:4–5 NLT

 The woman shivered at the thought of the stones.

 Her only hope rested on the man before her who was writing in the sand. Wiping the tears from her eyes, she tried make out what he was writing, but it remained a mystery.

 The man arose with gentle strength and carefully chose his words.

 “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” John 8:7 NLT

 A stillness hit the air as silence filled the crowd. The woman was stunned. A man she had never met seemed to know what really happened—as if he could see inside her heart and theirs. He stooped down again to draw in the dust as one by one her accusers dropped their heavy stones and slipped away.

Many Women Have Been Hurt by False Shepherds

Have you ever been hurt by someone who carried a title inside of church and it caused you to struggle with your faith? Me too.

The greatest hurt I have experienced came from church leadership. And as I have ministered to women over the years, I have learned I am not alone. This may have happened to you or someone you love.

Wounds from church leadership are very devastating because they can confuse our relationship with God. When I was hurt, my relationship with God suffered because I mistakenly assumed that the way I was treated was God’s heart toward me.

Many women after being hurt at the hands of church leadership want nothing more to do with God. I can relate and truly understand.

But the truth is that the Bible speaks of shepherds and false shepherds on many occasions in both the Old and New Testaments (Jeremiah 23; Ezekiel 34; Jeremiah 3:15; John 10; Matthew 18:6; Acts 20:20–31; Matthew 7:15).

There are shepherds after God’s heart who love and treat women the way Jesus treated women—with great love and respect. However, there are also false shepherds who abuse their power, twist truth to manipulate, condemn with their words, and play on the strings of vulnerable women.

Most importantly, there is only one Good Shepherd who loves you beyond measure.

Rightly divide the truth.

  • NEVER let a false shepherd define your Good Shepherd and rob you of a relationship with the perfect love your soul is longing for.
  • Just because someone has a church title does not mean you should automatically give him or her your trust.
  • And never give up on the body of Christ. There ARE shepherds after God’s heart. Community is often the place where we can be hurt, but it is also a vital part of our healing and growth.

As our family began our journey back to church, the Lord gave me this promise to cling to. “And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding” (Jeremiah 3:15 NLT).

Our family found that kind of church and you can too. Your Good Shepherd promises to lead you with his still small voice.

Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

“No, Lord,” she said.

And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”

Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.” John 8:10–12 NLT

Nourish Scripture: John 8:1-11

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Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

Optimistic Resilience

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Patient perseverance. Optimistic Resilience. Reckless love for new life.

Examples of Women with Optimistic Resilience

Two women from different worlds but with the same determined drive find a way to partake of Perfect Love…

  • To experience abundant life, two women on the outside would break current glass ceilings with optimistic resilience on their Lord and usher in a new season.
  • At the end of their resources, their determined faith would connect them with the Living Fountain from which their healing and an abundant harvest for others would flow.

Two women on the outside with bold faith gained acceptance inside the circle of eternal life, wrapped in the arms of Perfect Love…

  • A Gentile woman’s faith persisted for the life of her dying daughter, and ultimately provided a catalyst for walls between Jew and Gentile to fall (Mark 7:24-29).
  • Suffering for twelve years with constant bleeding, a Hebrew woman found healing by simply touching the hem of Jesus’s garment (Mark 5:24–34). Pressing through the crowd despite her fear (fear made stronger by the cultural divide of her gender and old covenant law), she also painted a picture of the new covenant and hope for women to come.
  • Two women with different circumstances but the same steadfast, immovable faith in Jesus.

Patient perseverance. Optimistic resilience. Reckless love for new life.

We Are Created to Nurture

Women have a beautiful ability to hold onto our faith before we see the harvest because we are created to nurture. We forge forward with bold, brave persistence that believes new life is possible when our circumstances suggest otherwise. And this patient perseverance to walk by faith is a necessary element to see the seeds of God’s Word grow and create a harvest to nurture others.

“And the seeds that fell on the good soil represent honest, good-hearted people who hear God’s word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.” Luke 8:15 NLT

Clinging to God’s Word with determined faith brings healing to our hearts and an abundant harvest to nourish others. God created women to nurture life. Part of nurturing is believing in new life before we see new life—to stick with a seed by watering it with faith until we reap the harvest.

I believe this is why God calls women to help him break up the soil when a new season is on the horizon.

What examples these New Testament women set for us!

  • The Hebrew woman who broke through the crowd—and through old covenant for the new covenant.
  • The Gentile woman who broke through the walls that separated Jew and Gentile for Jesus to bring the gospel to all.
  • The woman by the well who was the first to share Jesus with the Samaritans to sow seeds of the gospel in their hearts.
  • Mary Magdalene, chosen to be the very first to tell others of the resurrection—the first evangelistic outreach.

While God calls women to nurture life, cultivating this calling is a challenge as the enemy of our soul seeks to destroy new life. Our children struggle. Our marriages see difficulties. Our hearts are broken. We face health challenges. Disappointments seek to dilute our faith, and our brave hearts break under the weight of an imperfect world.

Where can we find the courage to cultivate optimistic resilience for reckless love?

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.” Hebrews 12:1 NLT

Looking back at the many women before us who arose and carried hope into hopeless situations will bring bold faith to believe what we cannot yet see. The Hebrew woman who pressed through the crowd. The Gentile woman who persisted in her request.

They are two examples of great women who have gone before us to make a difference by believing in Perfect Love.

You Must Nourish Your Heart

Hey, brave heart. What seems hopeless in your life? Where would you like to see a harvest? Where has God planted you, trusting you with a seed to nurture? You must first nourish your heart by watering it with his Word.

Patient perseverance. Optimistic reliance. Reckless love for new life.

During our Following Jesus Finding Life Series, take the next step after you read your devotion by reflecting on the weekly Nourish Scripture. Be inspired by passages describing women who moved with bold faith and found life with Jesus.

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Nourish Scripture: Mark 5:24–34 & Mark 7:24-29

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

She Followed Jesus

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You matter. Your life matters. You are designed by God to make a difference.

But often life’s challenges can speak a different story to our hearts. Sometimes, they make it hard to believe God’s truth about who we really are.

Jesus invites us to live differently by seeing differently. Walking by faith….those challenges become the very stepping stones to build faith turning broken hearts into brave hearts.

The Women Who Followed Jesus

When Jesus spoke to women in the Scriptures, his words were empowering and life- changing. His words led the women into a place of purpose . . .  into the freedom to become all God created and redeemed them to be.

Whether it was breaking an alabaster jar to anoint Jesus for burial, supporting Jesus from their own means, washing his feet with tender tears, or being the first chosen to share the news that he had risen—women realized that they mattered and that their lives lived for Christ made a difference.

As he captured their hearts with his words, they captured the life they were created and redeemed to live.

The gospel of Luke records a community of these women who traveled with Jesus to take care of his needs as he ministered to others (Luke 8:1-3). As they traveled with Jesus, the words he shared would impact their lives and redefine their future. Walking with him and in fellowship with one another, they stood together steadfastly to live for him, bringing the life-changing gospel message to others.

What a difference knowing his truth made in the way they lived. What a difference it makes in all our lives today. That difference ripples to the lives around us.

Jesus Is Speaking to Our Hearts Today

Jesus is still speaking to the hearts of women. His truth still changes lives, and those changed lives reach out and change others.

This is following Jesus. This is finding life. This is the life you were created to live.

Welcome to Following Jesus Finding Life, the next Treasured Devotions series from Treasured Ministries. In the next twelve weeks you will . . .

  • Build your faith and find inspiration as you walk through the Gospel accounts of Jesus as he interacted with different women.
  • Understand the incredible value God places on women and his true heart for them. Learn how embracing this truth daily can change your life as you walk by faith and not by sight.
  • Discover the differences between “false shepherds” and the “Good Shepherd” so you can travel confidently by following the voice of truth.
  • Be encouraged by supporting resources for your journey, including our podcast.
  • Discern God’s truth for your life with the Nourish Bible Study Method so you can follow Jesus and find the life you were created to live.

God has an amazing plan for your life, and his truth will nourish your heart for the journey. Press forward with God’s dream for your life—one bold, beautiful, brave step of faith at a time.

Forward this email to a friend and invite her to join you!

Let’s do this!

Blessings,

Aliene

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Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

She Believed HE Could… So She Did

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Ready to JUMP?!

Today, we close our series Brave Heart with a benediction to inspire you to follow God with your whole heart and become the woman God created you to be!

Hey, brave heart, I love that you will jump into the unfamiliar. I love that you are bold. I love that you dare to do what I am asking you to do. I love your passion to pioneer (Isaiah 42:16).

 So be free to become the beautiful you I have created (Ephesians 2:10).

Find Freedom to Walk in Your Identity

Let go of what others say and find the freedom to walk in your authentic identity in Christ (Galatians 1:10). Let go of every other hand you are holding so you can grab tightly onto mine (Proverbs 29:25).

I am looking for someone whose heart is fully committed to me and not afraid to walk differently by following me completely. Walking outside the world-defined box takes you beyond what is temporary into living for eternal treasures (2 Corinthians 4:14–18).

 My presence and my purpose for you do not promise the absence of adversity; rather, they provide the assurance that you will never face adversity alone (Hebrews 13:5). With me, you have a love that will never let you go (Romans 8:38–39).

You see, I need someone to be first (Isaiah 42:16). Yes, I am looking for the pioneering spirit inside you that says, I will not settle for what has always been.

I want to uncover what can be.

I need you to be the first in your family to walk a different way (1 Peter 1:18–19). I see the generations beyond you who can be blessed. Indeed, my child, I have created you for this time appointed under heaven to leave blessings in your wake as you live for me.

When I formed the world, I did not rest until I’d made a woman, because she was needed to complete my plan. Today I still work to release the God-given potential within women, because they are an important part in a great story written for my glory.

So don’t be afraid to jump out of the boat. I created you to be brave! You’ll leave ripples of eternal blessings when you walk in courage, trusting in me. Fear is something you learned. Love is what you are wired for, and you’ll walk in love when you follow me because I am love.

My dear daughter, if I am for you, who can be against you? (Romans 8:31). My perfect love can cast that fear right out of you (1 John 4:18). Nothing can separate you from my love—and my love is enough.

Walk in Security

So walk in that security. If worry walks through the front door, push it back out by casting all your cares on me and trusting me with your whole heart (1 Peter 5:7). And if waves of adversity steal your focus, get your eyes right back on me (Matthew 14:30; Hebrews 12:1–2). Find a promise in my Word and cling to it with all your might (Mark 4:20).

Yes, brave heart, flex your faith muscle. Walk differently by living fully for Christ. You are bold, beautiful, and brave.

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

Your Choice

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In Joshua’s old age, he gathered the Israelites together to say his goodbyes. Knowing his life was coming to a close, Joshua shared from his heart about the promises and faithfulness of God in order to inspire the children of Israel to guard their hearts and give them to God:

So fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord alone. But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:14–15)

Our Challenge Today Lies in Our Choices

Joshua’s challenge to the Israelites is our challenge today.

To find abundant life we must give total commitment to the giver of abundant life. God will never make us choose him because real love always gives free will. God’s authentic love invites you to choose. Our choices will empower one way or another. Your free will is a precious treasure to guard so you can give it fully to God.

However, as Joshua warned the Israelites, choosing God is not always easy in a culture that contradicts God’s truth. Often attachments to the past or fear over the future govern our choices to cling to the world instead of surrendering to God.

A woman’s heart is the center of this battle.

The enemy seeks to take our heart captive to destructive sources that prevent us from becoming the person God designed us to be. God wants to release his potential within each of us so we can walk in our authentic identity and bring the love of Christ to others. However, Satan, the enemy of our soul, would love to shut down our heart by convincing us we are not valuable; that we do not matter—and that we cannot trust—God.

But remember this: Jesus laid his life down to fight for our heart, releasing us to live fearlessly for his glory as we look to him as our sole source for life. When our thoughts change, our choices will change. The battle is won through the eyes of faith as you renew your mind to God’s love for you and choose to follow God.

A Brave Heart Walks by Faith

A brave heart walks by faith in God and his Word and not necessarily by what she sees. Oh, she still feels afraid when adversity arrives, but understands that the source of her courage and strength comes from looking at life through the lens of who God is and believing the voice of truth over the enemies’ lies taunting her to fear.

Her heart is determined to believe God. In doing so, she invites others to do the same.

Brave hearts believe God, experience the Promised Land, and lead others to do the same. Only by encountering Jesus and embracing his words through faith will we find true freedom. Open your heart to God’s Word, allow Jesus to capture your heart and become the woman God created you to be.

 Nourish Scripture: Joshua 22–24

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

Love Inspires

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Sometimes the greatest change in the lives we love come when we let others go to make their own choices. Sometimes love means letting go. Sometimes giving ourselves and others the freedom to fail can be the greatest gift!

Know That Authentic Love Inspires

Love is not manipulation. Real love—authentic love—does not try to control. Manipulation, even if our motives are good, cannot bring about real change.

Inspiration, not manipulation, is the key. Inspiration speaks truth, prays, lives by example, encourages and empowers by letting others own their choices.

God calls us to encourage one another but realize we cannot change one another.

You and I have a will that chooses. The Holy Spirit will invite you to yield to him—but he will not force you to follow. Authentic love does not force or control but invites and gives freedom to make choices and experience the results from our choices.

Failures are not to be feared—they teach us. I am told that babies fall some 700 times before they learn how to walk. When they push themselves up again, they build the muscles in their arms, legs and core. As their muscles grow stronger, they gain the ability to walk.  If they never fall, they will not build the strength to walk. Falling is essential to walking.

Grace allows us to be growth minded. If I fall, I can admit my mistake and reach out to Christ by asking for help, take his hand, make a U-turn and learn from my mistakes. I have the confidence God loves me despite my failings and will use every mistake to build me into a stronger servant for him. If I get off the path, God in his love for me will discipline me back on track.

Manipulation, even with the best of intentions, is not God’s way. Sometimes love means letting others go to make their own choices. When this involves loved ones, nothing could be harder.

The Promised Land and the Twelve Tribes

The Lord promised a land flowing with milk and honey to all twelve tribes in the Israelite family. While the Promised Land was for all twelve tribes, only nine and a half tribes took hold of that promise and settled inside the land. The Reubenites, Gadites, and half of the tribe of Manasseh (the Transjordan tribes) asked Moses if they could settle just outside the borders of the Promised Land because they thought that land was “suitable” for their livestock (Numbers 32:1–33).

Although Moses pleaded with the two and a half tribes to reconsider their decision, he granted their request with the stipulation they fight beside their brothers until the Promised Land was secure. Now that the battles were over, and the allotments made, Joshua blessed those Transjordan tribes and sent them on their way.

We Must Invite, Not Force

Even when God calls us to speak the truth in love to individuals, we must then release them to make their own decisions. The Transjordan tribes wanted to be identified as God’s children, but could not fully commit to Promised Land living.

God will never force us to move forward and partake of our spiritual inheritance in Christ. He will never violate our free will.  Jesus has opened the door for abundant life; it is our choice whether or not we will follow his voice (John 10:1–10). His love invites us to follow—it never forces.

God calls us to encourage one another, but realize we cannot change one another.

Part of love is letting go. You cannot manipulate anyone into the Promised Land. God has given all of us free will, and we cannot force anyone to live out his or her spiritual inheritance. But we can love them, speak truth, and encourage them live to follow Christ—especially by the way we live our lives.

Nourish Scripture: Joshua 23

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

Divine Creation

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You were designed by God. When he designed you, he was not using a formula. He was flowing with the creativity of his divine nature. The Bible says we are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14). He didn’t overlook any detail. He even knows the number of hairs on your head (Luke 12:7). He made a masterpiece when he made you. You are “a kind of first fruit” among his creations (James 1:18).

You are a designer’s original.

God was not concerned with worldly standards when he made you. He did not use a mold or cookie cutter. He did not copy you from a magazine cover. He was not concerned with lining you up for perfection. He chose to create and design you so you could fulfill your purpose in life. He put those cracks in you so your life could bring him glory (2 Corinthians 4:7).

Our Gifts Were Given According to God’s Plan

The Lord gave each of us gifts according to his plan for us (1 Corinthians 12:4–12). We are anointed to carry out different callings. When we find our purpose, we are to use our gifts to accomplish God’s plan for us instead of putting ourselves into someone else’s mold, trying to be someone we were not designed to be, desiring someone else’s gifts. Only then are we free to follow the Holy Spirit in fulfilling our calling.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

In this scripture, God says, “I know.” In other words, it is the Lord who knows the most marvelous plan for our lives. Even though God has designed us for his purpose and has plans to prosper us, I am afraid many of us do not know what those plans are because we have not allowed the Lord to define them for us.

The Israelites looked to Joshua to define their boundaries inside the Promised Land. Just as God defined the physical land boundaries for the Israelites, God defines the boundaries of our Promised Land: who we are, what gifts we have, and how we are to use those gifts. After Joshua led the Israelites into the Promised Land, he defined each tribe’s allotment in the Land (Joshua 11:23). All Israelites were God’s chosen people, but they lived in different tribes, with different borders.

True success is defined as knowing God’s will and doing it.

The psalmist says, “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance” (Psalm 16:6).

We Must Pursue Jesus to Reveal God’s Plan

God gives us all different gifts and callings. The boundaries we have are perfect—anything more would be a burden. He has created us and knows what is best for us. Looking beyond your borders prevents you from cultivating your God-given gifts

The Holy Spirit will reveal God’s marvelous plan for our lives if we pursue Jesus.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him—but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit” (1 Corinthians 2:9–10).

Stop allowing the world to set your standards for excellence, and look to Jesus for your boundaries. Value and believe in the divine creation that you are. God does not make mistakes. You are perfectly designed to do what he has called you to do.

True freedom comes when we follow Jesus to be the woman God created us to be.

Jesus is the only one who can bring you into your Promised Land, and Jesus is the only one who can show you your place there. As Christians, we are all God’s children, but we have different allotments and different boundaries—gifts and callings—Jesus gives us through the Holy Spirit. So, take the pen and put it into the Author’s hands by allowing his words to frame your soul. ONWARD!

Nourish Scripture: Joshua 13–21

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.

Prayer Warrior

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Are you are overwhelmed because God has asked you to do something beyond your ability and doubt is starting to build. The next time you catch yourself speaking doubt, quickly choose to exchange those words for a prayer of faith in His unfailing Word.

Childlike faith says, “God, I trust you to answer my prayer in your appointed time by your ability according to your unfailing Word.”

Faith acts like a bridge between God’s promises and the fulfillment of those promises. Prayer is a part of that process. Our prayer life reflects what we believe about God and ourselves. If my prayer life is small what does this say about what I truly believe about God?

Listen to Faith

A religious mindset might lead you to think you must earn God’s answer or even do your own mountain moving, but faith says to stop striving and ask and believe!

Faith says to pray based on who God is not what you think you deserve. Let him sort out your motives, but never pull back in false humility and decide to pray small because the enemy has told you are unworthy to ask. Pray boldly and then leave the results to God.

Joshua was not reluctant to pray boldly. When Joshua fought the five kings of the Amorites, he prayed that the sun would stand still:

On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to the Lord in front of all the people of Israel. He said, “Let the sun stand still over Gibeon, and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”  So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies. (Joshua 10:12–13)

Now that was a bold prayer!

Back in biblical times, people believed the sun revolved around the earth. Joshua was asking God to make time stand still. Joshua’s prayer inspires me. The God we serve created the world in six days and invites me to ask him in prayer? For heaven sakes! Pray big and bold!

Joshua’s prayer was not a long one—or even well thought out. It was not a religious prayer, but it was a bold one—and God answered. Never let a Pharisee convince you that prayer has to be a complicated formula with hoops for you to jump through. Prayer is talking to God and he commands us to ask boldly! Because of God’s grace, we can expect God to move mountains for us in his own timing according to his will.

We are blessed to have the King of all creation listening and answering our prayers.

Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive.”

Ask God for the Impossible

We serve a big God who not only made the sun stand still but can move mountains in our lives. Child of God, pour your heart out to him and ask for the impossible. Brave heart, prayer keeps you dependent on God. When was the last time you poured your heart out to Him in your prayer time and asked for the impossible?

Jesus said, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and he goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, because a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have nothing to set before him.’ Then the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, though he will not get up and give him the bread because he is his friend, yet because of the man’s boldness, he will get up and give him as much as he needs. So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Luke 11:5–10)

Pray boldly and see God answer mightily. So today meditate on these three truths and build childlike faith by rekindling your prayer life.

  • Your prayer has been heard . . .
  • Your prayer will be answered in God’s appointed time . . .
  • Your prayer is always accomplished through God’s ability according to his Word.

In life, it’s only natural for our faith to become fragile. When this happens choose to PRAY! The enemy of your soul would love nothing more than for you to become so frustrated that your prayer life fades. Your prayers are powerful, brave heart. So keep on praying!

Nourish Scripture: Joshua 10–11

Blog written by Aliene Thompson. Aliene Thompson is the founder of Treasured Ministries and the Author of the Nourish Bible Study Series. © 2019 Treasured Ministries.