February 2012

Moving From Fear to Faith

| Elayne (Laney) Allison

GRACE ADVENTURE

 

Do you ever feel like God is not hearing your prayer? The prophet Habakkuk did. He looked at the injustice around him and wondered why God did not seem to change the situation. “It’s not wrong to ask why as long as you ask not with a clenched fist, but with a searching heart.” You can say the same words and only God knows sometimes whether the heart is searching or clenched.

God is the One who searches our hearts and God is the One who knows.

  • Are we asking with a clenched fist?
  • Are we angry at God?
  • Are we accusing Him?
  • Are we demanding that He do things our way?
  • Or are we asking out of a humble, earnest, honest search for God?

We do know that Habakkuk, regardless of what was his heart in those early questions, through the course of the book comes to…

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New Normal

| Elayne (Laney) Allison

GRACE ADVENTURE

This past year I have been living in a “New Normal;” becoming single, changes in who I am as a person, challenging my whole thought process of who I am as a woman, and learning my greatness in God who created me.  Everything I was that was “Normal,” which was turned upside down, is no longer.  It has been a fascinating ride, a great year of discovery, and an amazing adventure.

My sister says this is your “new normal,” my doctor told me this is your “new normal,” and even words from the bible are telling me this is your ”new normal.”

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

Galatians 6:15
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

If the Bible tells me that the old has gone, and the…

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