The notion of unpreparedness is a manifestation of a culture that addresses crises outside of relationship with a good God.

Honestly, if a heavenly or supernatural experience doesn’t change you or point you to Jesus, I can’t believe it’s an authentic experience. God wouldn’t create an experience that didn’t bring transformation and draw you closer to Him.

Shame has a ferocious appetite and it will consume whatever it is allowed to consume.

He will judge nations on the basis of whether or not they have fed the hungry, clothed the naked, given water to the thirsty, and visited the prisoners and the sick.

If we believe that God sent our diseases, then we believe we are being punished, causing us to live in shame—hiding our experience in the dark and refusing to expose it to the light. But if light can shine on the false belief that God causes disease, then judgment will be released, the judgment that reveals His goodness. In this way, the tables

Shame is destroyed by authenticity and love.

The language and experience of natural childbirth is highly desired, but if a mother has to have a cesarean, she is no less amazing, courageous, or spiritual.

After they ate the fruit of the tree, however, they entered a world of comparison between good and evil. From that moment in time, the lines began to blur, and the perspective of the viewer began to alter the concept of what is and isn’t good or evil. Man began life made in His image, but the process of the fall accelerated to a perpetual state of

the enemy was trying to attach my identity to my crisis.