WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE THISTLEBEND BLOOM BLOG
Bloom! is a personal look into a few women’s lives as they participate in Thistlebend studies and follow the Lord as He tills their hearts. May you be encouraged as you experience the tilling, the Lord is doing in your own heart!
Areas of Surrender
Am I really willing to pick up my cross and carry it for Jesus? After this week’s Heart of a Woman lecture, the following hymn came to mind: “I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.” I was very convicted by Laurie’s lecture. She plainly asked us where […]
Confidence and Praise
Praise has been a major theme on my mind the past few months. I haven’t felt great the last few months either. I’ve been tired, I’ve been nauseous, I’ve gotten sick, and life really hasn’t gone the way I expected it to at all. Almost every day, at some point, over the last few months […]
Because I Am a New Creation
Waking up to another week and another to-do list that fills up the page. Walk the dog. Check. Grocery. Check. Head to work. Check. Driving down the road with a million thoughts and what seems like a million things to do and I realize, I didn’t even spend time with the Lord this morning. Then the […]
Thoughts from That Moment
Before we start our journey together I ask that you take a minute to stop and pray. My prayer is, “Lord, please give us eyes to see, and a mind to take in whatever it is that you may have for us today. May you give us strength and grant us the grace that we […]
Praying with a Stranger
Three years ago, I would never have considered asking my server at a restaurant if I could pray for him or her. Even though I was a Christian and prayed regularly, I lacked awareness of how to pray in the moment – especially for others. I also lacked courage. I would have been so concerned […]
Finding Identity
As I go through Heart of a Woman so far I’ve been faced with many questions that I honestly don’t want to answer. Asking God to search my heart, but not only to search my heart, but to try it too—that’s extremely difficult for me. I love order. I love everything to be “perfectly” in […]
Raising His Banner–in Prayer
This week while going through the study Heart of a Woman I found my flesh resisting prayer at every turn. But as the week went on I dove more into the prayer lives of great men who worshiped the same God. How eloquently did they display their affection for God through prayer? I found myself […]
Turning from the Grievous Way
To whom will I bow and serve today? Christ or Self? There really are only two choices aren’t there? That was something I saw this week as we continue to pray through Psalm 139. “And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psa. 139:24). Flesh vs. […]
Grace for the Details
This was my thought today… “everything is sweeter with Jesus.” I know this sounds perhaps cheesy or cliché, but it really hit me as a distinct reality tonight. I love Charles Spurgeon’s quote from our homework this past week: “If you are a child of God, you will see your Father’s face and live in your […]