When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.

If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time.

When I work with Women of Faith, I probably talk to anything from 15- to 20,000 women a weekend. They are dying to hear somebody tell their story out loud and not self-combust, to bring all the secrets out of the shadow into Gods light.

It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.