Nuggets of Wisdom
“I am consistently breaking free from what my [spiritual] mentor calls left-brained discipleship, where I prayed all the time. But I don’t know if you could really call it prayer because I was doing all the talking. It’s been a process…to communicate with the Lord as Father, as Friend, as Savior.”
“As long as I kept showing up, the Lord would steadily increase my ability to sense His presence and hear His voice.”
“We often want to jump to the ‘take your hearts captive’ phrase before we process, and then it becomes a numbing tool…but it doesn’t actually get to the really deep places in your soul.
“Sometimes the path to wholeness feels anything but peaceful.”
“It takes a really long time to become the people that God saw when He first knit [us] together.”
“A first step might just be noticing you’re overactivated. The next step is, ‘I’m going to calm myself when I’m activated. And then I can begin to unpack my thoughts.”
“What are some things I can do to build capacity?”
“If we’re looking for quick fixes, we’re going to be stuck.”
About the Author
Jennifer Slattery is a multi-published author, speaker, cohost of the Faith Over Fear podcast, and Friday’s host of the Your Daily Bible Verse podcast. She loves Jesus, her family, their mini-golden doodle, and massive doses of heavily-doctored coffee.
Reads and Resources
A Guide for Listening and Inner-Healing Prayer: Meeting God in the Broken Places (Rusty Rustenbach)
Inner healing prayer transformed my pain and helped me see God’s loving presence in my past. I gained freedom from the ghosts of childhood abuse, and now serve as an inner-healing prayer coach.
If you long for God to heal the broken places in your life, don’t hesitate to contact me at tammy.kennington@gmail.com. I’ll happily share more information.
Why is it Important that Jesus Gave His Followers Peace When He Left Them? (First published on Biblestudytools.com)
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Peace and grace,
Tammy
