Watch the Trailer for Stuck by Jennie Allen This lesson in the study describes two ways to live. One way is to know God, to be His, to be filled with His Spirit and to enjoy life and peace. The other way is to be enslaved to our flesh, constantly pleasing it, and ultimately…
Restless: What Are You Passionate About?
Editor’s Note: It’s Sit & Listen Saturday at Devotionals Daily. Enjoy reading as well as listening to this devotion from Restless by Jennie Allen; a perfect reading to help you identify your passions and your God-given purpose in life. Listen on the blog or on your Alexa device by enabling the skill and then prompting,…
Restless: What Is Your Passion?
Threads of Passions William Wilberforce knew his passion. He resisted it, but this passion held him captive as a young man, nearly at the same time that he became completely captivated by Jesus. He met God and wanted nothing more than to begin vocational ministry; he was convinced this was the best way to serve God. But the passion that…
Restless? Discover God’s Dream For You
Editor’s Note: Restless offers a practical plan to identify the threads of your life and how to intentionally weave them together for God’s glory and purposes. Through this book you will walk through the process of identifying and journaling about your raw materials — the unique threads — that you’ve been given by digging into five areas: 1) Gifts, 2) Suffering, 3) Places,…
Abandoning the Approval of Others
Do you want to be liked or do you want to actually do something significant with this life? ~ Jennie Allen The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? — Psalm 118:6 It was pretty late. Most of the lights were out. I had gotten tied…
Are You Under Attack? God Is With You!
There are always doubts. We doubt because God, while He gets louder, is still invisible, because of the people questioning your sanity and the difficulty of just following a wild invisible God into uncomfortable spaces. We doubt because of the risk, the cost, the abandonment of rights and comforts, the disapproval of people you really…
Restless: Because You Were Made For More
Do you feel restless? What if this feeling weren’t a bad thing? This feeling could be a longing, a restlessness for more of God. It could push us to move forward, to live epic lives that were designed before the foundations of earth were laid. But a lot of us, if we’re honest, are afraid. We…
Let Us Not Shrink Back from God’s Plan
In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield observed, “The more important the work, the more resistance you need to expect to feel.” Why does it feel so hard to not be numb? Because there is a war waging for our hearts, to shut them down. To disable those who love Jesus, and especially those who…
Are You Restless? Discover God’s Dream For You
As I stared at the ceiling, I saw the scrape marks. Right after we had moved into our first house, Zac, my husband, scraped off the popcorn textured ceiling. You’d think that would be something you’d never really notice — the ceiling — but it was something I stared at every afternoon. I stared as my newborn son slept.…
Chasing After the Heart of God
We are not the person we see in the mirror. A mirror only reflects what is on the outside. We are not the person our self-talk says we are. Our minds interpret events that do not reflect who we really are. We are not who others say we are. While some may accurately describe a…
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