“You have not asked for anything in this way before, but now you must ask in my name. Then it will be given to you, so you will be completely happy.” ‭‭John‬ ‭16:24‬ ‭CEVUS06‬‬ http://bible.com/392/jhn.16.24.cevus06   Is it just me or can you, too, be generally happy but then you think of this or that […]

 “But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭GNT‬‬ http://bible.com/68/rom.5.8.gnt Every girl is moved when her man does something with much effort to show her he loves her. Nothing melts a girl’s heart more than that. Can you think of […]

Before becoming happy anyway, that’s exactly what I was doing…giving on debt. It’s not enough to have old stale manna from heaven. Girls, I had some of the best old stale manna. I had heard some of the best teaching on the planet and had heard from God personally in some pretty awesome ways. But fresh […]

Go where you are celebrated and not tolerated was one of the very first leadership principles I learned in the early 90s just starting out in ministry. Have you ever heard that phrase? Probably have and if so, are you following it? To be honest, this phrase never struck a real emotional chord with me […]

A little rejection never killed any one! But the way you respond to it could. Let’s take a close look at how to handle rejection. Rejection…what is rejection? Rejection, or the verb Reject, meaning “to throw” or “to throw back“, may refer to: Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or […]

I heard Terry Savelle Foy say that some famous guy whose name I should remember but don’t said this often, “Do it now.” It was his motto he lived by. I like that. It reminded me of the section of each chapter of my book “Happy ANYWAY”. The section is called Own Your Happy. It’s […]

 Mark 8:17-21 17Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them:“Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?18Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?19When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many […]

You know that room mom that may be at the school as much as your 3rd grader? Or the one who is at the church “every time the doors are open” day or night it seems. How about the friend who is working on preschool crafts from home, counseling people on the phone constantly, and […]

There is no power in rehearsing facts. Is that thought helpful? How can you be happy in the middle of living hell. Your heart of gratitude in the midst of life stinking….it turns thugs around in your favor. Praise silences (restrains, and causes to sit down) the enemy.    All hell has come lose in […]

Did you know that if you are born again, you DO have joy? Galatians 5 tells us the list of the fruit of the spirit. Notice there it says the “Fruit of the spirit is love…” Then it goes on to list the others. All the other fruit come out of love. I once studied […]