Receiving what God gives without striving 📖 " Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honour, when you embrace her. " — Proverbs 4:8 (NKJV) Overview Wisdom is not loud. She does not jostle for attention, nor does she parade herself through hurried lives. Wisdom waits to be honoured, cherished, and embraced. In the Hebrew, the word for exalt  is sālal , meaning to lift up, to value highly, to make room for. Wisdom rises in response to reverence, not ambition.

Shame is a thief. It creeps into the hidden places of our hearts, whispering lies that sound like truth. It doesn’t live in the realm of logic, because shame is not about reason. It lives in the shadows of the amygdala, where fear and survival reside. Guilt says, “I made a mistake.”  Shame says, “I am a mistake.” When I first encountered the Loved, Chosen & Free  seminar in May 2020, I discovered that my whole life had been shame-based. That realisation was confronting, but i

Living the Kingdom Culture of Kindness, Courtesy, and Consecrated Responses "Be careful how you handle any soul in the flesh; you cannot see their rank in the spirit. The one you belittle may be a gatekeeper of your tomorrow—an unseen throne in God’s courts. Walk in honour, for heaven hears your tone before the world sees your deed. — Steve De’lano Garcia ”   Those words stir something deep in me — not fear, but reverence. A holy awareness that every person I encounter bears

A gentle unpeeling: discovering the canvas God painted before the world began For decades, I believed I was an introvert. I wore the label of “shy,” carrying social anxiety like an invisible cloak. It felt like part of my personality — something permanent. Yet one day, I heard a statement that stopped me in my tracks: “If you’re painfully shy, it would behove you to ask the Holy Spirit if that is an inner healing issue.” So I asked. Holy Spirit, in His gentleness, began to pe