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Announcing Our Newest Collaboration
Brave Strong Girl and Prayerful Signs are partnering to offer a special gift series for the BSG Community just in time for Christmas.
Are you beginning to think about Christmas gifts?
Us too! That's why we are so excited to introduce you to Amber 'Thompson' Colberg and her company, Prayerful Signs.
What is Prayerful Signs?
Prayerful Signs is a business who designs gifts utilizing acrostic poetry and prophetic prayer to offer words of life, truth and encouragement to people.
This bundle of custom inspired prints was made with prayer and intention to encourage a woman in her walk with Christ. All prints are black font on a white background. The print set is offered at a discounted price of $30 (regular $45). In addition, if you use the code "BSG" at checkout, you will receive an additional 10% discount off your total order, including bundles, custom items and the BSG trio.
Shop early because custom Christmas orders are only being accepted until November 6th.
Meet Amber
Brave Strong Girl is an affiliate partner with Prayerful Signs.
Healed by Light and Sound
God reveals His glory and brings His healing through both light and sound.
If you’ve ever had an x-ray or a radiation procedure - or if you or someone you love is facing this kind of treatment - be encouraged.
God still heals by light and sound.
Align Your Body and Experience Healing
Your body is a healing machine. When things are in alignment, it will naturally heal.
Your body is a healing machine. It has a miraculous ability to heal itself. No one has to tell it what or how to do it. Yet, every day many deal with chronic sickness.
Why?
In this video blog, I share why and how alignment is a critical factor for your physical, emotional and spiritual healing. When what is missing, broken or out of place is properly repositioned we can heal.
The First 48 Hours
Receiving bad news is never easy. Shock comes quickly and so many unanswered questions often overwhelm us.
Receiving bad news is never easy. Shock comes quickly and so many unanswered questions often overwhelm us. It isn’t until later - looking back - that we can identify the miracles that were happening all along the way.
I recently shared my “First 48 Hours” with my Equip team at Gateway Church. They encouraged me to share with you this window into the moments following my diagnosis with breast cancer. Join me as I share about my first 48 hours and how God met in the midst of a really hard day.
Celebrating 10 Years of Healing
My health journey reaches an important mile marker.
When I began my cancer journey in 2009, I had no idea all of the struggles - nor the blessings - that lie ahead. Despite the cost and the struggle, I’ve gained much more than I’ve lost.
Are You a Good Listener?
Intentional listening offers many benefits, especially when you listen to God.
I’m not sure how I developed the habit of being a poor listener.
I have several theories:
I am an only child, therefore I have a life-time habit of listening to myself before I pause to listen to anyone else. (This should explain so many things about me.)
I am selfish. Although I am an enthusiastic listener, I am often eager for you to get to the end of your point so I can tell you about mine.
I am impatient. I enjoy conversation so much that sometimes I fall into a dream state where I think we are in perfect step with one another, and that I intuitively know what you are about to say. In eager confirmation of my mind-reading skills, I will burst forth, interrupt and complete your sentence. (I almost never get this right, but somehow I keep right on trying.)
It’s taken me a long time (and a lot of awkward moments) to understand the finer points of conversation and just how far I tend to drift, but it wasn’t until I began to listen to the voice of God that I began to grasp the true value of intentional listening.
Do you need to work on being a better listener? Then sit down with me and we can learn together.
Are You Listening?
If we learn to listen to God we will gain understanding.
There are many things I don’t understand.
When I don’t understand, I tend to think and think and think. (That’s a nice way to say I worry a problem to death.)
If I am still bugged by the answer I can’t seem to find, I begin to talk and talk and talk at God.
He waits and waits and waits.
When I finally grow quiet, only then am I ready to listen.
Is there something you need to understand? Settle down. Grow quiet and listen to God.
Have you been pruned?
Do you feel like you’ve been pruned? Sharply shaped without your permission? You are not alone.
Do you feel like you’ve been pruned? Cut back? Sharply shaped without your permission? You are not alone. A part of me too is all rough edges, exposed emotions and sappy branches.
In what seemed like a moment, the entire world experienced a sharp and swift pruning of our lives. We were sent home to protect us from an enemy that is invisible and deadly. Our “sheltering at home” will either become place of safety and healing or they will become prisons of pain and fear.
Why would God prune the entire world, all at one time? We can find some understanding In John 15. Jesus reveals the Father as a farmer who cares for his vineyard through pruning so that what is “cut back” will become even more fruitful.
There is only one reason that God prunes a fruitful vine and that is to make it more fruitful. He prunes an unfruitful vine as well, but that vine is clipped off as deadwood, never to reproduce again.
You and I are sitting on the cusp of a great revival of faith in Jesus.
Believers have been called into their personal prayer closets. In private, He is tending to our pruned branches, preparing them to bear more weight - more fruit - more of His glory.
Those who have not yet heard the good news or who might have even rejected or ignored the gospel are experiencing the same pruning as a moment of grace whereby their fear and pain can make way for His healing, rescue and His salvation.
Prepare yourself now to share your testimony tomorrow. The whole world is being “ripened” so that man might listen and believe.
How to Overcome Negative Thoughts
Special guest Nanette Eiland shares how she is standing on God's promises to overcome negative thoughts.
Are you currently facing unexpected and fearful consequences or changes due to the pandemic? Maybe your fears or negative thoughts are centered around concerns for your health, or the stress on your marriage, or maybe you are struggling because there is so much ambiguity in this moment.
Many times we can’t control the circumstances of our lives. Events happen. Changes come. Sometimes we swing “up” in emotion and sometimes we spiral “down.”
My friend, Nanette Eiland, just experienced an unexpected change of her own.
“On Monday, I received a call letting me know my position was being eliminated.”
Nanette, not being one to allow the enemy an opportunity to add his torment to a difficult moment, quickly turned to God’s Word for help.
In this video blog, Nanette and I visit about her journey over the past few weeks. We talk about how she’s coping and what she is doing to keep her fear and negative thoughts from ruling her mind and heart in this moment.
I hope you are encouraged and empowered by this conversation and that you too, will use God’s Word to overcome fear and negative thoughts.
Stay with it all the way to the end and I will bless you with a prophetic word!
Looking for Direction?
“Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ.
So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, mericiful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising Him always. ”
“We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God. We capture, like prisoners of war, every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the anointed one. ”
How to Overcome Anxiety And Worry
You weren’t meant to bear the kind of fear that generates a constant flow of anxiety and worry.
All of us struggle with fear and anxiety, but you and I were not made to bear the kind of fear that generates a constant flow of anxiety and worry. It’s not good for us and it’s not fruitful. This video reminds us that we are called to be worry-free and to resist the kind of anxiety that is crippling.
This video is included in Gateway Church’s Fresh Start Bible series called “Fresh Start Journey” by Pastor Jimmy Evans. Open your Bible and follow along with me. This is question #33.
Matthew 6:25-33
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can anyone of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
This video is a part of a 52-part series designed for new believers from Gateway Church. Each video answers a common and pressing questions from all of Christianity and is designed to help YOU develop a more intimate relationship with God. You can access all 52 videos on the Gateway Discipleship Resources Youtube channel. Be sure to subscribe to the channel so you can access all of the great resources provided for your spiritual development.
How to Overcome Loneliness
A special guest video blog with Pastor Chelsea Seaton, a 30-something single coping with the loneliness of the “shelter at home” season,
Are you experiencing loneliness? You are not alone. Millions of people around the world are dealing with a new and uncomfortable reality - They are alone.
Whether you are single, isolated by the virus, a widow or even a single parent suddenly home with your family, the sensation of being disconnected from everything you know can make you feel alone.
In this Vblog, I am visiting with my special guest and long-time friend, Chelsea Seaton, who is a 30-something professional young woman who owns her own home and happens to be single. In obedience to the “shelter at home” order, she found herself home alone for weeks, eventually discovering what it feels like to be lonely.
Chelsea offers a Biblical understanding of loneliness along with some practical tips for how to emotionally connect and engage with others.
This is a little longer than my usual videos so grab a cup of coffee and spend about 20 minutes with me and Chelsea.