Entries by Kylie Kristeen

Hearing Voices

January 25, 2023 /2 Comments/in /by

We don’t have to heed every bit of instruction just because it sounds like wisdom. In fact, this may even lead us astray. Remember the Garden of Eden? The serpent was crafty with his words, wrapping his lies up in truth. Or consider Jesus in the wilderness. When Satan quoted scripture to Jesus, he wasn’t lying. That was actual scripture; it was just misused. So how do you know which voice to heed? When the serpent sounds like God and the Devil memorizes more scripture than you do, how do you figure out who is telling the truth?

Expecting Miracles

January 11, 2023 /0 Comments/in /by

Do you face impossible tasks?

Do you dream dreams that only He can bring to pass?

Are any among you sick? Hurting? Lost?

If the enemy is blatantly putting evil on display for the world, how much more should we expect the miraculous power of God to shine in the midst of darkness?

Renew

January 4, 2023 /1 Comment/in /by

I wonder, what is God speaking into your life at this very moment that doesn’t seem to make sense? Could it be instruction for the promise He is still bringing to pass? A reminder that it’s coming, and when it does, you need to be able to care for it well. Listen up, friend. It will make sense soon. The instructions He gives now may very well be the source of your fruitfulness then.

Reset

December 28, 2022 /1 Comment/in /by

I recently got a new phone, and like nearly everybody else, I wanted to get it for as cheap as possible (since when did the cost of a phone exceed the cost of my monthly mortgage? Who approved this?!) Getting the discount meant I had to trade in my old phone, but before sending it back, I had to perform a factory reset. Wipe it completely clean and remove the sim card in order to make it useful for someone else.

And now I’m just wondering… how many of us could use a factory reset before the new year? Would we be more effective if we got rid of the old sim card, so to speak, before embarking on something new?

More importantly, how do we get there, spiritually speaking?

Recall

December 21, 2022 /1 Comment/in /by

What if this year, we took the time to pause. To reflect. To remember why the baby laid in a manger, only to grow up and hang on a cross. It was for us. Just to be with us. Just to give us the chance to say yes to Him, so that we could begin a life with Him. This year, let’s not only recall what He’s done. Let’s recall the memories of time spent together, of relationship with God.

Unconventional

December 14, 2022 /3 Comments/in /by

There is one thing I’ve been keenly reminded of today as I sit in the middle of my old stomping grounds: Though He really never does things in a way that I can predict or expect, God always brings things to an expected end of His design.

It’s Not You… It’s Me

December 7, 2022 /2 Comments/in /by

Ever been ghosted by a friend? Like just out of the blue, no more brunch dates, no more texts, no explanations, just gone. This has happened to me with a few people over the last few decades. A couple of them have come back around and let me know “Hey I realize that my disappearance must have been hurtful, but it had nothing to do with you. I was going through some stuff, and I just had to focus on me.”

Instead

November 23, 2022 /0 Comments/in /by

He is bigger than we know. Bigger than what we read on these well-worn pages in the Bible. More powerful. More loving. More perfect than we can ever imagine. And how could we when everything we have ever known in our earthly lives is fallible and broken? How can we entertain eternity when all we’ve known in life is a series of endings?

That’s not to say we should abandon our efforts to know Him; instead, we should seek to eradicate our curiosity by devoting ourselves to communion with Him.

Seen

November 16, 2022 /6 Comments/in /by

I’ve been feeling a little unnoticed – mostly by God, a little by man. Even though I know He sees everything, I just wasn’t feeling like He cared about how I felt. Maybe He sees the circumstances, but doesn’t notice my feelings about those circumstances. You too? Let’s talk about it…

Sneak Attack

November 9, 2022 /4 Comments/in /by

Can I tell the truth about how I’m feeling now? I’m tired of myself.

Tired of only seeing the world according to my vantage point.

Tired of fixating on what I think God should be doing or why He isn’t doing it, as if I had any wisdom to add to the conversation at all.

Tired of being frustrated. Tired of “faithing” it.

Tired of my selfish humanity. Tired of my pride.

Have you ever felt this way? Let’s talk about it…