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Do you remember the first time you learned that you have a spirit? You didn’t arrive at that conclusion on your own. Someone told you, you read it in a book, heard it in a teaching, or watched a video that explained we are spirit, soul, and body— created in God’s image, designed to live from the inside out . Your spirit is unseen, yet it is the truest part of who you are. You can’t hear it, taste it, touch it, or smell it. None of our five senses can discover the spirit withi

Resting in God’s presence and power is the key to true peace. When we linger—when we meditate, ponder, and simply  be still  before God—we begin to quiet the noise of our carnal minds, those restless thoughts that always want to be in control. Romans 8:7 reminds us that “the mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God.” Yet when we turn off our mental striving and open our hearts to listen, something beautiful happens: we begin to receive His wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what t

There’s a moment in Scripture that captures both the desperation of human need and the boundless compassion of Jesus. A father brings his suffering son—tormented since childhood by seizures and demonic attacks—to Jesus. The disciples had tried to help, but nothing worked. This father, worn and weary, looks to Jesus and says,  “If You can do anything, please help us.” Jesus immediately responds to that small word —  if. "If you can?" said Jesus. “ Everything is possible for th

I am who God says I am and so are you! He says we are a new creation in Christ. That means I am no longer the old Julie, the Julie full of negative thoughts. The old me is in the past and the only way to keep it alive is to think and live in the past. We do that when we replay or ruminate about past memories. In Romans 8, Paul makes that classic statement we've all quoted about how nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. In verse 38 Paul says, "For I am convinced tha