Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, Forgiveness, General Inspiration, Living Free, Living Fully, Renewing your mind with the Truth 53 Comments

Get Real

 (Beginning August 1, the content of my blog will be completely different from the Girlfriends in God devotions. So if you are not signed up for my blog at www.localhost/sjold, please do it today…and invite all your friends. We’re going to have more give-a-ways, more personal interaction, and more inspiration than ever before! Now, on to today’s story!)

“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed for his compassions never fail.  Read more…

Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, General Inspiration, Living Free, Living Fully 8 Comments

How are Your Knee Jerk Reactions?

(Beginning August 1, the content of my blog will be completely different from the Girlfriends in God devotions. So if you are not signed up for my blog at www.localhost/sjold, please do it today…and invite all your friends. We’re going to have more give-a-ways, more personal interaction, and more inspiration than every before! Now, on to today’s story!)

“…train yourself to be godly,” (1Timothy 4:7 NIV).  Read more…

Sharon JaynesA Sudden Glory, Confidence in Christ, Dealing with Your Past, Expectant Living, Forgiveness, General Inspiration, God's love, Identity in Christ, Living Free, Living Fully 2 Comments

Getting the Scoop

Grab a cup of coffee.

Pull up a chair.

And listen to my interview with Lisa Buffalo on Living Joyfully Free radio.

Oh, and you might want to grab a few Kleenex.

 

Just click on the picture to listen.

I’d love for you to come back and share your comments.  Read more…

Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, Dreams of a Woman, God's love, Knowing God, Names of God 17 Comments

A Daddy Who Loves Me

[God said] “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters” (2 Corinthians 6:18 NIV).

When I was a little girl, my father spent most of his waking hours working at his building supply company, observing construction sites, and socializing with his colleagues and associates. Even though his place of business was only a few blocks from our home,  Read more…

Sharon JaynesA Sudden Glory, Dealing with Your Past, God's love, Living Fully, Trusting God 65 Comments

God Sees Your Disappointment

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are – yet without sin,” (Hebrews 4:15 NIV).

Let’s face it. People let us down. They disappoint us. And so does God. Often our experiences fall short of our expectations for God to meet all our needs the way we think He should,  Read more…

Sharon JaynesA Sudden Glory, Dealing with Your Past, General Inspiration, Knowing God, Listening to God, Living Free, Living Fully, Trusting God 14 Comments

Disappointment with God Part 2

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18).

As you live and move and have your being in Christ, at some point, difficult days will come. We live in a fallen world, and suffering is simply a part of it.  Read more…

Sharon JaynesA Sudden Glory, Dealing with Your Past, Dreams of a Woman, General Inspiration, God's love, Listening to God, Trusting God 73 Comments

Disappointment with God Part 1

 “All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful,” (Psalm 25:10 NIV).

I sat on the floor playing a card game with my young son. It was shaping up to be one of the best summers ever. Steven was savoring every minute of the long hot days, our Golden Retriever, Ginger, had delivered seven adorable puppies, and after years of negative pregnancy tests and doctor visits,  Read more…

Sharon JaynesDealing with Your Past, Women in the Bible 8 Comments

She Didn’t Have a Happily Ever After…But She Could Have

Today’s Truth
“He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners…to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion–to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair,” (Isaiah 61:1-4 NIV).  Read more…