It’s no real secret that I haven’t been happy with my work situation for a while. I started actively looking for a new job the last few months of 2018. I had a few hits but nothing really materialized. I ended up being laid off from my job mid January. The week leading up to [...]
This testimony that starts back in 2015. When my second child was born we were faced with going from 2 incomes to 1 income because the numbers did not make sense to have 2 kids in full-time daycare. When we came to GPC in 2016 and we accepted Jesus into our lives, tithing was a [...]
With my husband getting stationed in North Chicago and me getting out of the military our financial situation had changed and we were still trying to figure out all the finances and money was becoming tight. My husband getting less wages being stationed in North Chicago and me only receiving a disability check which is [...]
For as long as I can remember I have had major anxiety.some days worse then others. It was just getting worse and worse. It was a good day if I only had 2 or 3 major attacks. If I slept 5 hours without waking up in a panic I was happy. I don't know how [...]
It's hard to be brief about all that God has done. In October I turned down an opportunity to take another job (within my company) in lieu of a possible promotion to an inside sales role and training of new employees. Shortly after that I was asked to do something completely different that didn't align [...]
In my business, the latter part of the year has always been a challenge statistically. The bulk of the business is made between Feb thru Sept. The year 2018 was a challenge as a whole and by the time Oct came we have been on the edge of our seat waiting on God to move. [...]
I am AMAZED at this passage in Hosea 3:5 “But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to the Lord their God… they will tremble in awe of the Lord and of his goodness.” Hosea 3:5 NLT In the original language this passage literally says that you and I will be in “shock and [...]
You cannot read the Bible without seeing all the commands to “be thankful” in all things. I have not been a very thankful person most of my life-I was always willing to work harder for “more” and not taking a lot of time to appreciate what I already had. But when you don’t express thankfulness, [...]
What if you can’t have a relationship with God while treating it as a religion? We “talk” relationship but we “live” religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were [...]