womanhood – VINEYARDS & OLIVES

Nothing Matters More Than the One

“Hi everyone. It’s been a blessing to get to know some of you and your beautiful personalities and gifts. I just really desired to have an opportunity before we left to share with you and encourage you. My husband and I met at a young adults Bible study exactly like this when I was 18…
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Direction Over Speed

Our direction is most important. It matters where we are going more than our speed. May our direction be toward godliness. May our direction be running straight to the Lord. I think naturally we always want to compare ourselves. We love to think, “Why couldn’t I have been at this place by now? Why couldn’t…
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Heal Our Faithlessness

“Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.” Jeremiah 2:11 ESV Women are bombarded with so many pressures from beauty, to relationships, to career choices. In a worldly perspective, the measure of our worth and success comes from…
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Break Up Your Fallow Ground

“Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that He may come and rain righteousness upon you.” Hosea 10:12 After devoting myself to dive in the book of Hosea, one thought came to mind. God’s love for His children is unconditional. He…
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Bind Thee

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.” (NKJV) “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” (ESV) 2 Corinthians 10:4 The forces of sin and darkness continue to wage war against Heaven’s Armies, but cannot stand against.…
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Rise Up

“Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear My voice; You complacent daughters, give ear to My speech.” Isaiah 32:9 ESV It is not easy to swallow words of correction. Nor is it enjoyable to bear the consequences of our mistakes. What seems like the harshness of God’s chastisement is one of the greatest…
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Completely Whole

“You are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” Colossians 2:10 Girl, you and I can wake up in the morning, grab our phones, and see the unending messages that social media brings to our minds. We can see beautiful women, beautiful relationships, beautiful houses, and beautiful stories all on…
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Gracefully Adorned

Dear Beloved, How do you clothe yourself? In Proverbs 31:25 it says, “Strength and dignity are her clothing” (ESV). For the Proverbs 31 woman to clothe herself in strength and dignity, she must believe that this clothing is hers. She must first believe that her Heavenly Father perfectly knitted and tailored this to fit her.…
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I am what I am

Even though I have walked with God since my early teens, I still have my days where my world is caving in and I need His cradling arms to comfort me. My earthly father raised me to be modest, and in my teenage years, he pounded into my mind that I was beautiful the way…
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Are We Actively Seeking The Lord?

This is a question I asked myself as I read the first few verses of Luke chapter 19. Have we gotten to a dry season where we have stopped seeking the Lord? Have we lost urgency? Have we lost the desire to ACTIVELY search for The Holy One? Dear friend, if you have been in a…
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