Honey From the Rock

C.S. Lewis once said, "Joy is the serious business of heaven." In today's episode, I talk candidly about how putting together today's episode was a challenge, directly related the word the Lord gave me for the year: Joy. 

Whether it's in a season of needing to confess hidden sin before the Lord, and letting Him dig out deep roots or a season of deepening abiding in Jesus...the Lord's joy is available to...

There is power in remembering the Lord's goodness, especially in the struggle, suffering, and difficulty of life. Today, I'm remembering how Jesus has carried me through the most grievous and horrible year of my life. Yet He has showed up in the most amazing and sometimes quiet ways. 

As I look back, I'm asking two questions: What does remembering what the Lord has done provoke in you and me? And in the midst of what ...

Following up from last week, I'm digging deeper in to Mark 6 and why it's so important that Jesus tells the disciples to take courage and not be afraid. 

When life's storms try to swallow us whole, and things seem bleak and difficult, Jesus is with us. He's calling us to courage. To deepen the roots of our faith and trust in Him. He wants us to walk confidently in Him, not in fear, which clouds our vision and tak...

The storms of life are inevitable, but guess what? So is Jesus and His being with us in them. Though there are many times where we can't see Him, discern His presence, or understand why we are going through what we are going through, Jesus is always with us. Because He's promised to never leave us or forsake us. However there are times that our lack of discerning His person or presence comes from a hardening of heart. 

In ...

What are you thankful for? Or in light of what you are facing in life, does it feel close to impossible to be thankful? It's tempting to believe that when life is completely broken or full of betrayal or sorrow that thankfulness feels unimaginable.

But Jesus has shown us a better way.

The night before Jesus was crucified, He instituted the sacrament of Communion. He passed the cup and broke unleavened bread, telling us to eat an...

What does it mean to delight ourselves in the Lord? We love to quote that verse, yet David outlines a way to walk with the Lord, where trust, faithfulness, and commitment play a big part in what it means to delight in the Lord. Today, I'm reminding myself (and you!) that there is delight to be found in the Lord when we trust Him. When we obey Him. When we cultivate faithfulness right where we are.

As we head toward Thanksgiving...

Do you believe that the Lord will bring fruit in your life through affliction?

Today, I'm getting passionate on the podcast as I preach the truth to myself - and you all get to listen. I briefly examine two specific examples in the lives of Leah and Joseph. Both afflicted, though in different ways, they experienced how the Lord saw their suffering and eventually answered them in the midst of it. They both came to a place where ...

Questions of the Day: 

1. How has Jesus shown His love to you this week? 
2. What are you wrestling with that you need to cast on Him and trust Him with the outcome?

Anxiety can cripple me at any given moment with fear about the future. Concern about relationships. Feeling responsible for other people's reactions rather than walking in the peace of the Lord. These are just a few of the examples where anxiety takes over. 

But I&...

In a follow up to last week's episode, I wanted to share some of the lessons the Lord taught me about Himself and His Word. Walking through suffering and affliction isn't easy and the Lord is so gracious and kind in His comfort. However, He also uses these things to deepen our union with Him. 

The Lord has used the things I've walked through to not only help me learn about His grace and mercy, but to expose areas of s...

Please note: today's episode deals with sensitive issues like reproductive complications and infertility. 

What do you do when you when you find out that you won't be able to have children as a single woman?

Today, I'm sharing a part of my story - how Jesus has faithfully walked me through endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, uterine fibroids, and ultimately a hysterectomy at the age of 30. Though I've walk...

Loving the Lord means surrendering to Him every day. Jesus says we can't be His disciple if we don't pick up our cross and deny ourselves. What does this practically look like? What does it mean to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength? Is the Lord expecting perfection?

In today's episode, I talk about why following the Lord doesn't mean perfection, and why the Lord is pleased when we wrestle...

Jesus tells us three times in the Gospels that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. But what does that mean? How does that look? In today's episode I talk about how Jesus Himself showed us how to fulfill that commandment in the example He gives us. And though we won't do it perfectly like He did, He has given us everything we need to love the Lord with all we are and h...

In this inaugural episode, I share why and how I came up with Honey from the Rock, and what you can anticipate from this podcast moving forward. I talk about why honey is necessary to our spiritual lives and why Jesus is, in the midst of everything hard and beautiful about this life, truly the honey we need. 

Scriptures and resources discussed in this episode:

• Psalm 71 and 81
• Matthew 11:28-30
• Luke 24:45
• Jude 24
• BibleHub.com

I hop...