Five Ways to Accelerate Your Spiritual Growth in 2022: Learn to Recognize When You Are Triggered

Five Ways to Accelerate Your Spiritual Growth in 2022: Learn to Recognize When You Are Triggered

It is no fun being triggered, but there is something far worse: Being triggered and not knowing that you are triggered. Being blind to triggers can end friendships and marriages and cause great suffering for both you and the ones you love. This is because if you don’t recognize that some of your upset is your stuff, you won’t see that there is something you can do about it.

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The True Story of Craig, Child of God, and God's Amazing Love

The True Story of Craig, Child of God, and God's Amazing Love

We pray for people each day at Daily Connect, our mid-day time to gather on Zoom to connect with each other and God. One of our regular attendees, Emily, asked us to pray for a friend in her apartment complex named Vanessa. Vanessa had been diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative neurological disease that affects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. It is a horrible diagnosis. The disease eventually takes away one’s ability to walk, dress, write, speak, swallow, and breathe.

We prayed close to daily for Vanessa and learned over time that she was a transgender woman. Through Emily, we learned that Vanessa had come back to Jesus, a surprise (to me at least) because I did not know that she was a Christ-follower. We learned the Vanessa had moved back to her family home. At one point, Emily—with Vanessa’s permission, forwarded Vanessa’s testimony to me.

Many days later, I began the intercessory prayer time at Daily Connect by praying for Vanessa. I believe the Holy Spirit was leading me because I prayed that she would experience a glorious end. I was picturing a divine encounter where heaven would open, and she would be drawn up into God’s loving embrace. All would be put to rights.

Two days later I learned that God had another answer to my prayers. One hour and ten minutes after I prayed Vanessa had a divine encounter. Here is that story.

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Healing Sammy

Healing Sammy

Today I want to share with you from a time in my life when God was very near to me, but he was not doing what I wanted, and I was not happy! Twenty years ago, when my son, Sammy, was nine, he had a simple case of strep throat. The doctor put Sammy on antibiotics and after a day or two he felt great and went back to school.

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