![]() God taught me how to be strong and courageous in the Lord, not in my own limited ability, intelligence, power, connections, finances, health, or discernment. Here was the truth… During that devastating marriage with the narcissist, God equipped and prepared me for His divine labor. I felt inadequate and unworthy, but I did see the truth. God revealed His will to me, and I was called to step out of my fears and doubts and start a Christian ministry to encourage and empower women. Once I wholeheartedly and intentionally focused on the word of God, my faith grew. I shared the details of that story in an essay called “ IronMan vs Marriage.” That was when I chose to focus on God’s word. It happened when I signed up for Biblical counseling in 2016, after my husband of four months filed for divorce saying he wasn’t interested in me anymore and wanted to be an IronMan instead. To study His word, He needed me to choose Him using my free will. To grow my faith, He wanted me to study His word. You can read what happened to me in the blog posts called “ How Satan Came at Me Looking Saint” and “ My Story of Narcissistic Marriage.”ĭuring the next few years after I invited Jesus into my heart, I learned that on my own, I am weak and scared, but with Christ, I am strong and courageous. If you’re interested in the details of what, when, how, why, and where happened, I described it all on this blog and even included pictures and videos. ![]() The devil almost destroyed my faith and hope by intentionally manipulating me into suicide. Well, that’s not how things turned out for me… Instead of having a perfect life with God, I was attacked by Satan. In the beginning, I believed in a Santa Claus kind of God: I’ll check the boxes for being nice, and God will give me a fairytale kind of perfect life. God has been drawing me closer to Jesus, one day at a time. ![]() My path to Jesus has been complicated and painful, but I would do it all over again in order to have the deep, wide, big, strong, and steadfast faith I have today. I came to Christ in 2014, and God’s been working in my heart ever since. The typical things I was excited about for most of my adult life were sex, alcohol, exotic travel, night clubs, hairdos, and shopping. Not only because I myself wasn’t even a Christian for most of my life but also because something like this would be the last thing on my mind. I never could have imagined starting a ministry. Here’s what happened to me and how God taught me to be strong and courageous as Deuteronomy 31:6 teaches us to be as Christian women. In fact, this ministry is exactly what my story of being strong and courageous is all about. When we have to do God’s word and not just hear or know it, things get very personal and scary.Īnd that’s why my entire Christian ministry Online Discipleship For Women is dedicated to helping you create a joyful life by embracing God’s word. See, I knew what God said in Deuteronomy 31:6, only now I had to actually do it. It is a story of how scared and insecure I was when God asked me to step out of my own power and into His so that I could do the good work He prepared in advance for me to do. Faith over fear! That’s the mindset we must adopt in order to be strong and courageous as Deuteronomy 31:6 teaches us to be as Christian women. His character never changes and he is always with us.Īs you walk through this year, during the good times and the bad, trust that God is with you, he will not leave you, and be strong and courageous.Be strong and courageous Bible verse calls us out of our natural anxiety and doubt into God’s supernatural divine power of protection, provision, and promotion. God will not fail them now.įrom our human perspective, it’s easy to forget all God is done in the past and just focus on now. God has helped them defeat many challenges including leaving Egypt, parting the Red Sea, and destroying the Egyptian army. Deuteronomy 31:6īut Moses reminds them (and us) God is with them and God has always been with them. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. They are afraid.īe strong and courageous. Moses, who has been their leader since they left Egypt, is not going with them. They are ready to enter, but they don’t know what is on the other side. The Israelites have finally reached the edge of the promised land. In today’s verse from the end of Deuteronomy, Moses is speaking and telling us to have courage. Share on Pinterest Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email Share on RedditĪs you look forward, you don’t know what will happen in the next few days or months.
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