If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it.

It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.

I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.