Weekly Recap + Word of Encouragement
What's been going on around here this week
Hi! So glad you’re here! Here’s what you’ve missed:
On Monday we released Episode 41 of Glory Revealed Musings Podcast with Pastor Chadwick King. It was a life changing conversation for me, what did you think? 🎧 to the podcast HERE.
Also on Monday Musings I launched my first ever devotional for paid subscribers only. This is a big thing for me; I’ve been wanting to write a devotional for a long time. These Bible Studies to accompany podcasts will be called Reflections, and this one is a five day study guide to go with Episode 41 of the podcast with Pastor Chad. I hope it encourages you. You can read that HERE.
On Friday, I shared some Friday Favorites again. Honestly, it’s been a hard week, and my Bible has been my best friend. I tell you all about my favorite Bible study tools on Friday Favorites. You can read that HERE.
Glory Revealed Clothing is selling all it’s left over inventory at $10 and $20 through Sunday. If you missed it, we are closing the shop while we spend some time researching and developing a domestic product pipeline. You can shop the sale HERE.
LOOKING AHEAD 👉🏻 On Monday Musings coming up this week, we’ll have a short reflections to go with Episode 42 of the podcast being released, also on Monday. This podcast is with my friend Maria, who went through a difficult journey trying to find a way to help her daughter fight epilepsy. Her glory revealed journey is just beautiful! Maria has written out some thoughts that will be available for paid subscribers only in the Monday Musings.
Word of Encouragement:
Yesterday morning I woke up at 3 am with a heavy and burdened heart.
Has that ever happened to you? I’m praying about a few things and I have to admit that my heart and soul is grieved. Sometimes, if I’m to be honest, being a single mom carrying the load of all the things is so very difficult.
“Guys, I am embarrassed to ask again, but will you pray for me?”
I almost didn’t send that text to my “Book Club” text thread. If you have been here long enough, you know I have a Book Club that isn’t really a Book Club…we had good intentions, but we got together once two years ago to talk about a book and instead of talking about the book we just… talked. And we never stopped. 😂Since then, we text each other incessantly and get together and laugh and cry and pray for one another. These women have been my dearest friends. But… even though they are my true blue people, I felt I had worn out with my own prayer requesting.
It’s been a long week. Did I say that already?
My book club is, of course, so loving and immediately jumped into prayer mode. I am grateful. But I knew that I needed to fight this the only way I know how…by His Word. So I pulled out my Daily Bible {you can find that HERE} and was disappointed to find that it was a “rest day”. Every seven days the Bible assigns no reading for that day to allow you to get caught up. But I was caught up. And I desperately needed His Word to soothe my soul. Thankfully, even on the rest days, they offer a short reflections. The reflection for that day?
“Wait On The Lord - WOTL”
“Oh Jesus, I’m waiting!” I cried. “My heart is waiting, but my soul is weak and tired!” The scripture verse they gave us to read was Psalm 27. My heart, and my soul, rejoiced. Tears streamed down my face.
You see, when I was a teenager, I claimed Psalm 27 as “my Psalm”. I felt like everyone had one… a Psalm they read when things got hard. Psalm 27 was mine, and I’d like to share it with you:
“The Lord is my light and my salvation—so why should I be afraid? The Lord is my fortress, protecting me from danger, so why should I tremble?
When evil people come to devour me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will not be afraid. Even if I am attacked, I will remain confident.
The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most— is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord’s perfections and meditating in his Temple.
For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.
Then I will hold my head high above my enemies who surround me. At his sanctuary I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy, singing and praising the Lord with music.
Hear me as I pray, O Lord. Be merciful and answer me! My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”
Do not turn your back on me. Do not reject your servant in anger. You have always been my helper. Don’t leave me now; don’t abandon me, O God of my salvation!
Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close. Teach me how to live, O Lord. Lead me along the right path, for my enemies are waiting for me.
Do not let me fall into their hands. For they accuse me of things I’ve never done; with every breath they threaten me with violence. Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.”
Psalm 27
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous.
Friend, I don’t know what you are facing today. Maybe everything in your life is going great and this doesn’t resonate. But if that’s not you, and you’re walking through something that is leaving your knees a little weak and your heart heavy, I want to encourage you to wait patiently for the Lord and be brave and courageous.
This is not easy, my friends. It’s hard to stand tall when your heart wants to melt. But I know, even though I don’t feel it, there is an army fighting for me. {Remember this post?} And even when I can’t see it… He is working.
He is hiding you in His sanctuary. He is setting you high on a rock. All you have to do is wait.
I am praying for you all. Hugs. Happy Saturday!
Amy xo