Words for the Journey

In his famous Psalm, David gives us great insight into the close relationship he enjoyed with the Good Shepherd. Taking a look at the elements of intimacy revealed in these 6 verses will help us find more satisfaction in our relationship, as well.

James 3:13-18 gives us eight traits of wisdom: Pure, peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, merciful, fruitful, impartial, and living without hypocrisy. But what does that mean in practical terms? Find out the two enemies of wisdom and how you can begin to live in God's wisdom.

The Sabbath is a holy day, blessed by God, a day when we cease from our work. God created us, and so knows how our life functions best, that we need a weekly break for our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Learn what Scripture says about this important part of our life.

It is hard to know how to manage life when we're suffering, as when a loved one dies, or our spouse leaves us. What do we do? How do we get through the day? Cyndy will walk you through a typical day with sadness, offering ideas and suggestions to get through it in a healthy and helpful way.

There is no shortage of things consuming our time and sucking the life out of us. There is a high cost we pay in living this way. How can we stop the craziness and begin tending to the needs of our own soul? Find your way back to peace.

God has a plan to finish our healing so we can live the amazing life he created us to live. Getting there means sticking with the process until he is done. Discover the signs that will indicate God has healed you, and the rewards that are coming.

This life is a hard journey. There's a reason why this world doesn't feel like a good fit, one Scripture addresses. But if we'll remind ourselves of the promises of heaven, it will help us maintain today. Cyndy has 3 tips and 3 promises to encourage us while we're still here.

When we have pain and problems, we tend to gravitate toward anything but God. God asks us to keep him first. If we'll pay attention to the basics (seek God, fellowship with Christians, pray, and read Scripture), he will richly provide for our needs, guiding us with love and power.

It's no fun when our mind continually replays tormenting thoughts. However, we can take control. In this podcast we will discover how to get the bad stuff out of our head and replace it with healthy thinking. With God's weapons, we can fight and win these mental battles.

Grieving is one of the most important parts of the healing process, but also the part most often misunderstood and skipped. Grief is sneaky, sometimes showing up in unusual ways. Learn how to recognize and value your grief, what to avoid, and what to do when it shows up.

While it goes against our human grain to forgive, there are many compelling reasons to do so. Forgiveness brings good health, freedom, and closeness with God. We will dispel common misconceptions about what forgiveness means and dig into many of the benefits of complying with this fundamental directive.

The purpose of our life is to serve God and glorify him in everything we say, do, and think. Getting these areas to line up is hard work and requires true beliefs and healing for our wounds. The effort is worth it because it leads to the best life possible.

After we begin to heal and realize we don't want to be a victim anymore, we need to learn new ways of doing things. How can we live healthy and successful lives? God gives us four helpful steps to do this in Psalm 37: Trust, commit, rest, and wait.

After we begin shedding the victim identity, we need something to put in its place. Micah 6:8 provides a great starting place, three standards that will guide us in any situation. Justice, mercy, and humility are not hard to understand, but very challenging to follow.

Receiving God's healing in our life is wonderful, but it isn't the end goal. Healing is just a means toward a greater end which is to finally live the life we were created for, as the person God made us to be. He has great plans for us, but we need restoration before we are ready.

It's every person's tendency to justify their sin and shy away from confession, but we're really hurting ourselves in a tremendous way when we do this. God's plan and intention is never to shame us, it is to relieve us of guilt, setting our mind and heart free. It's for us—not for him!

No one wants to contend with Satan, but we don't get a choice about that. We only get a choice about standing up to his lies, living in the truth, using our God-given weapons, and get healing for our wounds. Find out how you can gain victory in your life.

While it is true our season of healing in the wilderness is challenging, that's not the whole story. This season also includes many blessings, including growing intimacy with the Lord. Find out where joy can be found, as well as things you can do to make your life brighter.

In order to pass from our old life of bondage and enter into our new life in the Promised Land, it is necessary we travel through the wilderness. We will learn how to avoid some of the mistakes the Israelites made, mistakes that made this season harder and longer.

Are you stuck? So many settle for an unsatisfying life because it's familiar and they are afraid to trust God to take them to something better. In Isaiah 43, God reveals his deep love for us and his plan to take care of us all the way to the Promised Land. His love will keep us moving forward.

The road to self-acceptance requires some effort, as well as an understanding of the truth, but it is worth it. Self-acceptance makes it possible to live in peace with ourselves and experience the best life possible, the life we were created to live.

There are two types of members in the “Victim Club,” the passive victim and the aggressive victim. Find out which type you are, and how you can resign from the club by examining your false beliefs about yourself and about God. This is one club you don't want to belong to.

Too often we have allowed our self-worth to be defined by the bad things that have happened to us, along with the poor choices we've made. And as such, have come up lacking value. Find out how you can shed the lies and begin enjoying the person God made you to be.

Our needs are God-given, but if we try to meet them in our own prideful way, we will suffer for sure. Psalm 107 gives us three powerful metaphors illustrating victim lifestyles on Pride Pathway, metaphors that will help us identify victim choices that hurt our life.

Anger can interfere in our life, causing problems to others and ourselves. However, if we aren't aware of the wound underneath our anger, we probably won't be able to resolve it, only manage it. Find out how you can get rid of your anger every time it shows up.

Changing a false identity or victim behavior begins by seeing God for who he truly is and seeing the inestimable value of ourselves. God gives us a real-life example of this miracle in the story a Hagar. No one valued her until the day she met God while running away from her life.

Our perspective has a great deal to do with our success or failure. Nehemiah relied on the Peak Perspective, God's way of viewing matters, and so was part of a great accomplishment. We, too, can be part of God's plan, if we will look at him, not our circumstances.

If God's Word is true, and he loves us enough to let his Son die for us, and he holds all power, then why do we experience so many painful things? Who is really responsible for the problems in the world and the pain in our life?

Certain wounds like sexual abuse, do incredible damage to our heart, mind, body, and soul, as we see in the story of Tamar and Amnon. Even so, the Lord can and will heal us, if we'll allow him to do so. Healing begins by laying a truthful foundation in our beliefs.

It is easy to fling around the term “healing,” but what exactly do we mean? Our podcast today will bring clarity while we learn to dissect our wounds. Find out the four places affected by our wounds and the corresponding remedies so you can find complete healing.

God often has a perspective that is different than ours, something we can solve by receiving truth and getting healing. Unhealed wounds and false beliefs can blind us, making it easy to head in destructive directions. Find out how you can abandon the Dirt Perspective and adopt the Peak Perspective. 

Defeating our pride and learning how to trust God is challenging. Today's teaching will break this problem down into its three core elements: Power, Protection, and Provision. These helpful handles will help us see where the problem of pride is showing up in our life.  

Trying to live the life we were created for, while painful wounds are living is us, doesn't work. That's why God brought Joseph's family back into his life, so he could be fully restored and free to lead Egypt in strength and wisdom. Joseph is an example for all of us

When we disconnect from God, we put other things in his place, things that steer our life in the wrong direction. These false idols take our life captive. Today, Cyndy will share thoughts on how you can get your life back on track.  

Everyone puts their trust in someone or something, but if it is not God, we will not experience the help and blessing of his power working on our behalf. False idols come in a thousand different forms, but one thing they all have in common, they steal us away from God's best. 

God clearly spells out two roads of which we can travel. His Word arms us with ample reasons and encouragement for choosing Trust Trail, as well as an equal amount of warnings why we should avoid Pride Pathway. Even so, making the right choice is difficult. 

God has outlined for us two roads, roads I call “Trust Trail,” and “Pride Pathway.” One leads to life and happiness, the other to disappointment and destruction. There are reasons why we make the choices we do. Find out how you can avoid pain and suffering by traveling on Trust Trail.

Our beliefs affect how we conduct our life: every relationship, every decision, every reaction, which is why it is critical that we know what we believe, and that our beliefs line up with God's Word. Otherwise, our beliefs will continually derail our life, leaving us disappointed and frustrated. Find out how you can get your beliefs back on track.

We all want to live a happy life, so does God, but stuff is holding us back. Just like the Israelites in Exodus, he's taking us to a good place, but we must follow him in order to get there. Getting to a great place in life hinges on our willingness to deal with our issues. 

We all want to live a happy life, so does God, but stuff is holding us back. Just like the Israelites in Exodus, he's taking us to a good place, but we must follow him in order to get there. Getting to a great place in life hinges on our willingness to deal with our issues.

So many of us have deleted ourselves off the list of those Jesus loves and cares for because of the lives we've lived, just like the woman in Luke 7. After an encounter with Jesus, though, that can all change, as it did for her. We can begin to discover the truth that we are all worthy of love.

Nine men and women who took Healing Journey this year share their stories of how God used the class to change their lives. Their stories are inspiring testimonies to God's power and desire to heal us.

Nine men and women who took Healing Journey this year share their stories of how God used the class to change their lives. Their stories are inspiring testimonies to God's power and desire to heal us.

Learning from Joseph, Moses, David, and Paul, we will see a pattern God uses to prepare his children for their created purpose. Getting healthy has to come first before we can realize that purpose. We need God's biblical healing before we can achieve our dreams and see our passions fulfilled.

Anyone who has struggled with anxiety knows how painful and debilitating it can be, affecting our mind, body, heart, brain, and spirit. Cyndy will talk about her own experiences with anxiety and offer helpful tips and strategies to find relief and healing.

Where does fear come from and how do we get rid of it? Too many of us befriend our fear rather than see him for the true enemy he is. Find out the two doors we open that allow fear to come in and grip our life, and how to close those doors for good.

More and more, our world is characterized by hatred and division. How can we live as Jesus asks us to live in such a hostile world? While we can't control the world, we can control ourselves and make a positive impact. We can follow Jesus and be known by our love.

Jesus was the model of the non-dualistic life, deliberately going outside the socially acceptable boundaries. As we follow him, we learn to remove the barriers, to accept others, to see similarities, not differences, and move into relationships with love. God will always supply us with love when ours runs out.

Living with an undivided heart means we see all people as part of our group, every nationality, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, political party, etc. Even closer to home, those in our family, church, neighborhood, and work place are to be included. Sectioning off groups and individuals is dualism and limits the life God asks us to live.

Dualism is an attitude of judgment and exclusion, defining those we will love and those we will hate or dismiss. Dualism creates divisions. God asks us to love as Jesus did, without parameters, seeing all people as equal, as God's creations, worthy of respect. It is an attitude that starts in our heart.

As screens dominate our life more and more, we need to stop to examine and evaluate our habits. Too much screen time is not only unhealthy for our bodies, it is unhealthy for our soul. God never wants us to be captive to anything but his love.