Not only are there changes going on in your body that you can't see, there are changes going on in your spirit—with your discipline, your courage, and your

TO HONOR GOD COMPLETELY, you need enough faith to leave with Him. Leave? Leave and go where, you ask? Leave the way you've always done life and start doing things differently with God. Leave the attitude, leave the stubborn pride, leave the right to be right, leave the control, and biggest of all, leave the unbelief.

It's so easy to park our minds in bad spots. But this is where pity parties are held, and we all know pity parties demand an abundance of high calorie delights. Pity parties are also a cruel way to entertain, for they leave behind a deeper emptiness than we started with.

Taking thoughts captive and being transformed by thinking new ways isn't some New Age form of mind control. It's biblical and it's fitting with how God wired our brains.

Jesus is the gatekeeper for the thoughts I put in my mind and the identity I allow to sink into my heart. Lord

I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If I change the way I react, I can change the way I define myself as a mother. I don't have to be defined as one barely hanging on in survival mode. I can be a mom who thrives and lives and loves the great adventure I've been called to.

And I keep on marching as if this is the way a Christian woman is supposed to live, as if this is the call on my life, as if this is all there is.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives. May we think on and live out truth, and only truth, today.

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

We don't think about fixing things until we realize they are broken.

What gives power to all that I fear others are thinking and accusing and saying isn't the people themselves. It isn't even the enemy. I'm the one who decides if their statements have power over me or not. It's me.