Humility in Prayer
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
About a year ago I really started asking God hard questions, but my intention was to get to know His heart. It was a really beautiful time despite painful circumstances. But slowly I started noticing a change in my heart. I grew cold and prideful and it showed in my prayer life. Instead of humbly asking God “why?”, I began demanding to know “why”. I was unsatisfied with not knowing how He was going to fix everything and I required God to prove His goodness to me. Eventually, He became quiet. This turned into a destructive cycle. I’d grow in arrogance and pride and demand He prove himself more ..read more
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A Big God, A Big Will
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
I struggled a lot this past year trying to reconcile what I felt God was speaking over my life and what my life currently looked like. It honestly got to the point where it hurt – hoping and believing for God to move, yet only feeling further and further from the good future He had for me. During my last semester of college, I knew God was speaking to me about Joseph and his life, so I started studying his story. At one point, God had given Joseph a dream about the future where his brothers would be bowing down to him, and yet Joseph found himself in the darkness of a prison. He seemed so ..read more
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Grateful
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
It’s easy to become dissatisfied and disappointed. I would argue that the cause of this is not that we don’t appreciate what we have, but rather because we become focused on what we don’t have. I think that’s why dissatisfaction is not always easy to spot in our lives…because we ARE thankful for our blessings….we just want the blessings we’re used to having PLUS something else. And wanting something else (if it’s in line with God’s desires) isn’t bad. But, a desire (even a godly one) becomes dangerous when not having it tangibly fulfilled causes you to become angry towards or distrustful of Go ..read more
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Expectations
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
Psalms 27:14 says, “Wait for and confidently expect the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for and confidently expect the LORD.” I remember reading this scripture and hearing messages about expecting God to move, come through, provide, and deliver. There began to be a stirring in my heart which produced a real expectation of God to do miraculous things in my life. I started dreaming big and hoping big. I believed I was hearing God speak things over my life, and I was waiting, hoping, and trusting Him with it all. I had faith he would move, but over time nothing was ..read more
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The devil’s flag has been lowered and the Lord’s Banner has been raised.
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
I feel like David; I feel like a lot has been taken from me.  If you are unfamiliar with the story, in 1 Samuel 30 David and his men return to Ziklag where their families and belongings were left. But, upon arrival, David and his men found that the Amalekites had attacked, raided and burned Ziklag and taken their wives, sons and daughters captive. I love verse 4 which says, “So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep” because that has been my exact situation before. Yet, in verse 6 it says, “But David found strength in the Lord his God.” That’s what I want my fi ..read more
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The Lord Is My Avenger
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
I decided this year would be focused on “no distractions.” Pretty soon after that, God brought the story of Mary and Martha to my attention. In this story, Jesus comes to the women’s home and Martha, with good intentions, concerns herself with preparations while Mary just sits at the Lord’s feet. When Martha gets frustrated with her sister, Jesus responds that Mary has chosen the one necessary thing. At the time in my life that I read this, I took it as the Lord convicting me of stressing over applications for after graduation. Though my intentions were good in that I wanted to know the Lord’s ..read more
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Perspective
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
I was sitting next to my brother on a plane from Chicago headed home to Philadelphia. We had taken off in the middle of bad weather so the sky was gray. There was freezing rain, so during boarding machines were spraying the wings with some sort of anti-freeze liquid. As the plane was still climbing, we experienced a lot of turbulence, I kept having that feeling where you know the plane just dropped 100 feet in the sky, and I was hearing loud sounds that would come and go which made me think the engines weren’t working quite right. Immediately, I got nervous and just started praying and trying ..read more
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Move A Mountain
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
Have you ever heard the verse, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20)? If so, have you then gathered up all the faith you could and told a mountain to move just to try it out? Maybe I’m the only one, but every time I have done it, I have not seen a mountain move. It might have – really really slightly…but if it has, I’ll probably never know. It recently got me thinking, though, what if Jesus wasn’t talking about physical mountains, but rather ..read more
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Grief
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
I think grief is often solely associated with the death of a person, but as I found out oh so clearly this past semester, that is not the case. Many things can unfortunately die. People, yes, but also the security of what you thought would be your future, your dreams, what you thought you knew, a relationship…yes, many things can die. The challenge is how to grieve the loss of these things. It’s not a physical death, but these things are gone for good, so isn’t it kinda the same? I didn’t think so until recently. My older brother passed away when I was 13, and I think I was so focused on b ..read more
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Love, Biblically.
amelia catherine
by ameliacatherinehicks
5y ago
On the day after my 21st birthday, I sat in church and just prayed to God asking him to teach me what love truly is – to make this 22nd year of my life a year of love – true, biblical love. I thought I knew what love was, and I thought I was great at demonstrating it. I could be sweet and flirty and romantic and silly and cute. But, when disagreements came, I resorted to my natural instinct of reaching into the pit of hell and, with my words, hurling its flames at others, causing destruction to not only those on the other end, but those relationships as well. Thankfully, God has been faithful ..read more
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