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Devotions by MeredithTake Time to Process Take Time to Process Psalm 139:23-24Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. There have been many times in my life when battling bad feelings and negative thoughts about someone seemed to be a never-ending inner fight and turmoil within me. Prayer and confessing how I disliked someone seemed like a daily thing, but I remained relentless in the thought that I truly did not want anyt...
2024-10-0704 minDevotions by MeredithRest and Relaxation Rest and RelaxationGenesis 2:2-3And on the seventh day God finished his work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. So, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that he had done in creation. Much thought has gone into the strong consistent pattern in my head of why I think thoughts that I should always be up and moving, working, doing something. You may hav...
2024-09-1004 minDevotions by MeredithBattle Depression and Anxiety Battle Depression and AnxietyProverbs 12:25Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad. Have you ever been around a nail biter? They can make you nervous and anxious over their nail biting! Some people bite their nails so often and so hard that their fingers actually look sore and painful. The Passion Translation reads of Proverbs 12:25, “Anxious fear brings depression, but a life-giving word of encouragement can do wonders to restore joy to the heart.” This proverb can also be translated “Stop worryi...
2024-09-0905 minDevotions by MeredithGod's Daily Faithfulness God’s Daily FaithfulnessPsalm 37:3, 53 Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. 5 Commit (roll off onto) your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass. Recognizing God’s daily faithfulness to us, I believe, is very often overlooked or not noticed at all. It’s a good thing that many of us stop before starting to eat our meal, bow our heads and hearts, and give thanks for the food we have been give...
2024-09-0804 minDevotions by MeredithGod's GPS God’s GPSPsalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. To be directionally challenged is an understatement for myself and my youngest daughter. We seem to be able to get lost in the simplest of settings. We got laughing together the other day as we were walking through the corridors of a huge business building, wondering together if we would be able to find our way out upon leaving. When GPS first became available, Steph...
2024-09-0705 minDevotions by MeredithGod Has Rest for You God Has Rest for YouHebrews 4:8-118 Devote your whole heart to obeying God and His Word. Trust Him to do the things He says He will do. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest. I don’t know about you, but there have been many times in my life that I have given something over to the L...
2024-09-0604 minDevotions by MeredithGod Knows My Heart God Knows My Heart I Chronicles 29:17I know also my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. There have been many times in my life that I was disappointed or angry or embarrassed about someone else’s behavior and began to develop a bad attitude, whether being critical or angry, whatever it may be about that individual. It could be someone I have been looking up to for years, who has had a failure, or someone who fell short of my expectations of their life. I am f...
2024-09-0503 minDevotions by MeredithGod Knows Your Heart's Desire God Knows Your Heart’s DesirePsalm 21:2 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Many times, we feel like those deep desires we may have, seem like they will never come to pass. Matthew 7:7, 8 tells us, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be open to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” This is insistent asking, without qualms, soli...
2024-09-0405 minDevotions by MeredithGod Will Help You Understand God Will Help You UnderstandDaniel 8:16b“Gabriel, make the man understand the vision.” God is sending Gabriel in our verse to help him to grasp and understand what is going on in the Spirit realm. God truly wanted him to understand. In Luke 1:19 Gabriel was sent to Zacharias to bring him glad tidings that in his old age he was to have a son who was going to be the forerunner of Jesus, the Savior of the world. His name would be John the Baptist. Luke 1:26 it tells us...
2024-09-0304 minDevotions by MeredithStand in the Gap Stand in the GapEzekiel 22:30“So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” Standing in the gap is committed intercession, committed prayer. “I sought for a man who would…stand…before Me on behalf of…” Envision with me a wall being repaired that has been damaged by an enemy. One person has to do the work of the repair while another person sta...
2024-09-0204 minDevotions by MeredithFather to the Fatherless A Father to the FatherlessPsalm 68:5A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling. Memories are funny things. Even to this day, I will have flashbacks of times when I was a child, years and years ago. My sister was an excellent pianist, and my brother was a marvelous trumpet player. As they both were quite a jump older than me, I couldn’t play an instrument at my young age yet. In childlike fashion, I would try to sit to the rig...
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2024-03-1504 minDevotions by MeredithGod's Plans God’s PlansProverbs 16:1-2 TPT1 Go ahead and make all the plans you want, but it’s the Lord who will ultimately direct your steps. 2 We are all in love with our own opinions, convinced they’re correct. But the Lord is in the midst of us, testing and probing our every motive. How many times in life, as sheer mortals, we get running forward, full steam ahead, making our own plans? I’ve done it many times. Then when things don’t go the way I had imagined they would go, I s...
2024-01-3004 min
Funeral Planner PodcastMeredith SheehanA conversation with Meredith Sheehan about loss in 4th grade, sharing stories, inescapable impermanence, being the youngest of three, intentionality about meals, the power of spirituality, and doing the crossword. Thank you Mere!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
2022-02-2453 min
I Wanna Jump Like Dee DeeS3 E3: Meredith GravesI was thrilled when Meredith Graves agreed to be on my podcast and I am even more thrilled to release her episode. Listening to Meredith is informative, funny and totally absorbing. Her views on the power of our mindset is fascinating and of massive importance to how we think about our life.For me, her infinite fascination and curiosity with our world is motivated by her drive to learn, challenge, grow, improve and make our world a more inclusive and accepting place. She breaks things up to see the constituent parts and then reconstructs them i...
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