There have been several moments in my life where an internal roar was released from the depths of my soul. Those roars are embedded in my memory, each one with its own name tag and story.

Powerful word today and one that I’m taking to heart personally. When you extract something, you remove or take out, especially by effort or force.

The word virtue means behavior showing high moral standards. Lately, I’ve been sensing God prompting toward self-reflection toward one’s standards.

In essence, that means without God you are nothing. It literally means you share a breath with God. It means your eyes are consecrated to Jesus, for they are sacred.

God has been bringing so many things to the surface in my life, empathy and the lack of it is a big one. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Most people may respond to that with their houses, their car, their jobs, and/or their money. The truth is those things can be replaced.

God will put you through the same lesson repeadily until you learn the lesson He intended you to learn. There is one truth and that is you can choose to focus on you and you can control your own growth.

Surround yourself with people who love and respect you enough to see the beauty in boundaries. Boundaries are designed to teach a person how to love you correctly.

Today, I woke up with an eye infection. Everything I looked at was blurred. The doctor gave me eye drops, so I know in a few days I will be feeling better and seeing clearly.

Vision is the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. I heard a Pastor once say that the enemy of vision is sight.

Today, I was sensing God encouraging me to see my strength. As I took a deep dive into the past few months, I did see strength but I saw it through much weakness.

Today, the leap God may be referring to is a very personal one. For some people it may be a leap of faith.

I think people throw this word around loosely without truly understanding what God expects from us when we stand before Him in repentance. Repentance holds a significant place in the Bible, demonstrating the transformative power of turning away from sin and seeking God’s grace.

When I think of the word brighten, I think of someone saying I hope this brightens up your day. Brighten means to make or become more light.

The demonstration of emotional restraint is one of the highest forms of restraint. If you ever wanted to gauge your maturity, this is the area where you would start.

Have you ever heard this before? The phrase "we are clay, he is the potter" is a spiritual lesson that comes from the Bible, specifically the Book of Jeremiah.

The word hedonism means the devotion to pleasure as the ultimate goal. People who seek pleasure usually end up disappointed because pleasure only temporarily satisfies and does not last.

So many people today seek success without realizing that success is fleeting. Success is relative.

Don’t give part time people a full time position in your life. I heard someone say when someone treats you like you are just one of many options in their life, while you make them the only option in yours, they said to help them narrow their choice down by removing yourself from the equation.

When you decide to release someone, the world would say you are giving up on them but that’s not truth. There are seasons when releasing someone is necessary. It’s when you have done all that you can and you have to turn them completely