🩷 Devotional: Letting Go of Shame and Walking as a New Creature in Christ ✨ There is a quiet ache many women carry—memories that sting, choices we regret, seasons we wish we could rewrite. Shame whispers. Guilt lingers. The enemy loves to remind us of who we were. But God, rich in mercy, speaks a different word over us. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJB) In the dispensation of grace, God is not reforming the old you. He isn’t polishing your past or asking you to make up for it. He has crucified the old you with Christ and given you an entirely new identity in Him. “And ye are complete in him…” — Colossians 2:10 (KJB) “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” — Colossians 3:3 (KJB) Your past "in Adam" is gone. Your shame is not yours to carry. Your guilt has no authority over your standing b...
Devotional: Longsuffering for the Believer Walking in Grace 🩵🩷💜 Longsuffering is one of those beautiful, quiet virtues that grows in the hidden places of a believer's heart. It is not simply “putting up with things.” In Scripture, longsuffering means patient endurance with a gentle spirit, especially in situations that are slow to change or people who are difficult to love. It is grace in motion. It is strength wrapped in softness. It is the steady, Spirit-shaped ability to remain kind, faithful, and anchored when life stretches you. Paul reminds us that this kind of patient endurance is part of our walk as women in Christ: > “With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.” > — Ephesians 4:2 (KJB) In this present dispensation of grace, God Himself is demonstrating longsuffering toward the world. Instead of judgment, He extends mercy. Instead of wrath, He offers reconciliation. And He invites you—right where you are, in your home...