Tag: mercy

Barefoot Devotions

Stepping Stones of Faith

Hannah B.

In life, you will have stepping stones placed on your path. There is not a way to avoid this because it is the cycle of life. You will experience ups and downs, parched seasons, and blooming seasons.  Stones aren’t placed before you to harm you but to grow your faith and relationship with God. He wants to show you how much He loves you by providing for you – even if that takes removing something in your life and allowing you to feel heartache. You can’t see the plan God has set forth before you but I do know that it is a plan to prosper you and give you a future.

Stepping Stones

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 

[bctt tweet=”The plan is set forth. It already exists. So, why do you worry about the things we can not control when The Maker already has it planned and every obstacle worked out? All He wants you to do is sit in His presence and enjoy Him as He guides your footsteps. ” username=”BarefootHannahB”]

Gods plan

So don’t say, “if God loved me, then He wouldn’t allow me to experience hardship.”

[bctt tweet=”It’s because He loves you that you experience hardship, trials, and sufferings. Through these, your perseverance grows and your spirit has a longing to lean on God during these times. As you stay close to Him, we flourish in our faith as we witness and experience His love, His grace, and His mercy for us. ” username=”BarefootHannahB”]

Romans 5: 3-5 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

If you aren’t careful you may find you stub your toe, trip over the stone and fall.  Maybe you fell years ago and just aren’t sure where things went wrong in life. You could be in a place where you feel like you keep getting pushed back down on stones you thought you already crossed only to lose hope. Perhaps you need to have a come to Jesus meeting and ask God about the stone you’re stuck on.

Life moves forward and each day passes quickly. The days do not wait on us so we must continue to move forward with them. You can use your current stone to rise above, step by step to the next stone or you can stay where you are questioning God, being bitter, and stuck in a rut.

[bctt tweet=”The choice is yours, but won’t you ask God what you need to learn from the current stone in your life? Are you going to choose to allow God to work through the stone you are experiencing now or Are you going to choose to question God and doubt His love for you and the desire in His heart for you to have the best life yet?” username=”BarefootHannahB”]

Change your mind! Choose to look at the stones in life as an opportunity to grow, love others, and most importantly get to know God’s heart on a deeper and more intimate level.

How are you choosing to look at the stepping stones in your life? You are chosen and your steps are already planned. You are living the adventure, keep moving forward.

Xoxo,

Hannah B.

Barefoot Devotions

Faith Over Fear: Season One // Day Six

Hannah B.

Pondering

It’s time to place your shame into God’s hands. When you allow past and present transgressions, the adversary and people’s opinions and judgments about you to seep into your mind, you will start believing them instead of what God believes about you.  When this happens, you will begin to feel shame over false pretenses because his love for you is more powerful than anything that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed. Go to God’s throne room and lay down the thoughts and past transgressions that cause you shame. There is forgiveness available for the taking, will you take it? Allow God to wash your sins as white as snow and start new.

1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Isaiah 1:18  “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

3 Hebrews 4:16 Let us have confidence, then, and approach God’s throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.

Praying

Heavenly Father, I bow down in your throne room seeking forgiveness for the things that I have done that have covered me like crimson. I know that through you, my sins are forgiven and I am made white as snow. Remove all the opinions and judgments that I have accepted from others and replace them with your opinions. Replace my feelings of shame with your grace, mercy, and love. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, Amen!

Practicing

  • After seeking forgiveness and turning away from your sins, what steps can you do to ensure you don’t look back when the enemy reminds you?
  • Study God’s word so that you begin to learn His heart, His ways, and His will.
  • Stay in constant connection with Jesus and talk to Him just like you would your best friend. When He is on your mind, it is easier to walk with Him.

Xoxo,

Hannah B.

Barefoot Devotions // Faith Over Fear Series

Faith Over Fear: Season One // Day Six

Hannah B.

Pondering

It’s time to place your shame into God’s hands. When you allow past and present transgressions, the adversary and people’s opinions and judgments about you to seep into your mind, you will start believing them instead of what God believes about you.  When this happens, you will begin to feel shame over false pretenses because his love for you is more powerful than anything that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed. Go to God’s throne room and lay down the thoughts and past transgressions that cause you shame. There is forgiveness available for the taking, will you take it? Allow God to wash your sins as white as snow and start new.

1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Isaiah 1:18  “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

3 Hebrews 4:16 Let us have confidence, then, and approach God’s throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.

Praying

Heavenly Father, I bow down in your throne room seeking forgiveness for the things that I have done that have covered me like crimson. I know that through you, my sins are forgiven and I am made white as snow. Remove all the opinions and judgments that I have accepted from others and replace them with your opinions. Replace my feelings of shame with your grace, mercy, and love. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, Amen!

Practicing

  • After seeking forgiveness and turning away from your sins, what steps can you do to ensure you don’t look back when the enemy reminds you?
  • Study God’s word so that you begin to learn His heart, His ways, and His will.
  • Stay in constant connection with Jesus and talk to Him just like you would your best friend. When He is on your mind, it is easier to walk with Him.

Xoxo,

Hannah B.