October 05, 2015

Verses About Anxiety: Scriptures To Soothe An Anxious Soul

October 05, 2015/ Andriana Robinson

Anxiety sucks. When I was the counselor for a Christian addiction recovery program, this was always one of the biggest issues I found struggling women were fighting with. Here are 5 verses about anxiety to read and reread and saturate your life, mind and heart with to help combat anxiety.

July 06, 2015

Motivational Monday | Puppy Love

July 06, 2015/ Andriana Robinson

That’s what inspired this post. I have been thinking about writing this for weeks now. I was going to inspire you all with beautiful words and cute puppy pictures to evaluate yourselves. I was going to encourage you to take a lesson from cute, happy puppies all over the world and strive to be as excited about our heavenly Father as puppies are about us. I was going to tell you that we should be pumped to enter into His presence with joy and thanks giving just like my big puppy is when Mike or I get home after being away from her.

I was going to share all of that until today...

June 30, 2015

3 Compliments To Give Away Today

June 30, 2015/ Andriana Robinson

This world is mean. We are all in a hurry and we all want everything we want immediately. Most of us are more self focused than we’d like to be and we don’t thank people as often as we should. I wanted to write this post today to inspire and encourage you all and myself to be more mindful of the people around us. I am challenging you and myself to find opportunities to compliment and lift people up this week. Life beats us all down at times. Lets be those voices building those around us up. We’ll start with this week and then the rest of our lives.

July 15, 2014

Those Who Know Him Trust Him

July 15, 2014/ Andriana Robinson

Lately my thoughts have been on relationship and communication. In order for any relationship to be successful there has to be good communication, right? The Bible repeatedly communicates the importance of prayer.

We are told to pray constantly (1 Thessalonians 5:17), enthusiastically (James 5:16) and expectantly (Matthew 21:22).

I have this desire building in me constantly to dive deeper into prayer. I crave a close intimate relationship with God.

However I feel like I keep hitting a barricade. Searching my heart the question came to mind: Do I trust God? Do I really trust God? I think I do, but does my life reflect that? As I was working through this question I stumbled upon this verse:

And those who know your name put their trust in you,

for you, O

Lord

, have not forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:10 ESV

Such an appropriate verse for what I was working though, right?! I love the Holy Spirit’s timing. This verse says that those who know His name put their trust in Him. God has more names than I could count and each one gives a glimpse of who He is. His name is Jehovah Rapha which means He is the Lord that heals. His name is Jehovah Shalom which means He is our peace. He is Jehovah Jireh. He is our provider. The names go on and on. His names are a description of who He is.

So knowing who He is causes us to put our trust in Him. When we know Him to be a healer we can trust Him to heal. When we know Him to be our provider we can trust Him to provide. The verse goes on to say assure us that He will not forsake those who seek Him.

Jeremiah 29:13 says, “

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all of your heart

.” (ESV) God promises to be found by those who seek Him. So maybe you are like me today. Maybe there is this burning desire in you for more of God but at the same time there’s this root of doubt deep in your heart. Maybe you like me need to learn or be reminded of His names so that you can strengthen your trust in Him. Maybe you need Him to remind you that He is our peace. Maybe you need to experience that He is our healer. Maybe you just need to know Him as El Shaddai, our Lord God Almighty. Whatever you need He has promised that if we seek Him out we will find Him. When we find Him we will learn more of who He is. The more we understand who He is the more we trust Him.

He will be found by the seekers. Let’s live like seekers.

Weekly Challenge!: Do some research. Look up some of God’s names and pick the ones that stick out to you. Find where they are in scripture and just meditate on their meanings this week!

February 10, 2014

The More I Seek You

February 10, 2014/ Andriana Robinson

I wanna sit at Your feet
Drink from the cup in Your hand
Lay back against You and breathe
Feel Your heartbeat
This love is so deep, It's more than I can standI melt in Your peace, It's overwhelming.

Guys, this song has been on repeat in my mind all day. They even played at church this evening. That line... "Lay back against You and breathe, feel Your heartbeat" Is my prayer. I just want to fall into His embrace. It's the only place that I know of to run to knowing I can just rest. In His presence I can breathe. His presence is like breathing and I have one of those moments where I realize that I have been holding my breath for far too long. I just need Him closer than my skin. I can't stand any space between us. I want to hear His heartbeat. I want to memorize His heart.

I don't know if this is making any sense. I just keep thinking of Psalm 42 where David says, "Like the deer pants for the water, so my soul pants for you God. When can I get to this God?" I am desperate for this God. I can't live without Him. I can't breathe without Him.

My soul is hungry for more of Him this evening. I love these kind of evening. May they never fade.