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“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) Before the miracles. Before the crowds. Before the sermons. ..Was the wilderness. Before the cross Before the fulfillment of The Father’s redemptive plan.. ..Was the wilderness. There was hunger. There was isolation. There was testing. Yall, sometimes our 40 in the wilderness feels like eternity We trudge through the valley, dry..thirsty..isolated..alone And the distance behind us never seems...

God sat me down and began to pour these words into my heart today with a sweet young soul on my mind… All the while whispering, “I’m found in the quiet.” I have no idea why, but it’s in those moments that I trust when God directs my steps to speak into another life. My only prayer is that they’ll be blessed by His words, while I’m blessed to be a willing vessel. And that’s all He calls us to be Stillness… For me, stillness is often linked to anxiety. My mind, conditioned for constant...

Lately, I’ve been gifted with a great big dose of humility and it seemed the harder I tried to press into my faith, the harder satan worked to derail me. After 2 hard months of constant misfortune, I have found myself begging for a break. I’d replaced Jobs name with mine in the following scripture, where Satan decides to strip Job of everything he has, to test how faithful a servant he was to God: “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. But now stretch...