by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Spiritual Fitness, When life is Hard
When God wills suffering? How can a good God possibly allow suffering? We pronounce the question with a flourish, smiling smugly on the inside thinking that we’ve finally found ourselves an excuse to doubt Him, or at the very least, justify our bitterness or our...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | May 24, 2021 | Discernment
“Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you upon the water.” “Come,” He said. – Matthew 14:28-29 Do Whatever He tells you – Luke 16:10 More than 20 years ago, I made a young and impetuous vow to myself and to God that I would do His...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Jun 13, 2020 | Personal Growth, Relationship with God |
In many respects I am the last person who should ever be writing about this topic. God as Father? Childlike faith has almost always had an impossible and, if we are being perfectly honest, even slightly repulsive ring to it in my mind. My whole childhood I LONGED to...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Mar 27, 2020 | Discernment, Endurance
I read the story of the Burning Bush with new eyes the other day… Did you know it is like an instruction manual to recognize and answer God’s call for your life? Yeah, me neither… Until now. Usually when a story from the Old Testament comes up, I...
by carolynpereira1311@hotmail.com | Mar 18, 2020 | Discernment, Quiet and Listening to God, When life is Hard
What are we supposed to think when God is silent? If He truly loved us wouldn’t He speak? We are seeking desperately for answers, for encouragement, for consolation… and yet we are met with quiet. Why? Did I do something wrong? Does He not love me? Does He not care?...