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Hey family, With gratitude to God and a full heart, I’m so thankful to share that “AS THE DEER PANTS – Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season” is now live on Amazon. Many of the prayers inside these pages are prayers I have prayed through my own seasons of longing, repentance, waiting, endurance, and worship. Others were written carefully and reverently with you in mind for the weary, the steady, the struggling, and the hungry. It is a call to deeper communion with God. These prayers are rooted in Scripture, shaped by reverence, and written to lead the soul back to its rightful center not merely relief, but the living God Himself. If you have ever felt spiritually restless… If you have ever sensed your faith needed depth, not noise… If you have longed to pray but struggled to find words… If you desire a life marked by dependence, humility, and holy hunger… Then this book was written for you. To those who have supported me from the beginning, thank you. Your encouragement, prayers, and faithfulness have carried me more than you know. To those who are new here, welcome. I pray this book serves you deeply and sincerely. And to those still considering, I invite you not simply to purchase a book, but to commit to a more prayerful life. Let these pages guide you slowly. Return to them. Linger over them. Let them expose, steady, and strengthen your soul. My hope is not that you admire these prayers. My hope is that you pray. Until the soul is satisfied in Him. The link is available now on Amazon. 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?…

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When the Future Fills You With Dread There is a weight that settles on the soul when it turns its gaze toward the future and finds not hope but uncertainty. Not the healthy and humble acknowledgment that tomorrow belongs to God, but a creeping and consuming dread that wraps itself around every unanswered question and unsettled circumstance and squeezes the joy out of the present moment entirely. What will happen to my health. What will become of my children. What if the provision runs out. What if the worst I have imagined actually comes to pass. These are not the questions of a faithless soul necessarily. They are the questions of a very human heart living in a broken world where real things genuinely do go wrong and real losses genuinely do occur. But dread is not merely an emotional response to uncertainty. It is a theological position. It is the heart's quiet conclusion that the future is ultimately ungoverned, that what lies ahead is subject to forces beyond the reach of God's sovereign hand, and that the outcome of tomorrow depends more on the fragility of circumstances than on the faithfulness of the One who holds all circumstances within His purposes. "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11). Those words were not spoken into a season of comfort and stability. They were spoken to a people sitting in exile, stripped of everything they had built their security upon, facing a future that by every visible measure looked bleak and uncertain. And yet God spoke of plans. Deliberate, considered, sovereign plans that the chaos of their circumstances had not interrupted for a single moment. The Christian has been given something that no amount of careful planning, financial preparation, or human foresight can provide. They have been given a Father whose knowledge of the future is not predictive but constitutive. He does not merely foresee what will happen. He ordains it, governs it, and works within it for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28). Not one circumstance that enters the believer's life arrives without first passing through the filter of His wisdom and His love. "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father" (Matthew 10:29). If the sparrow does not fall outside of His notice, the future of His dearly purchased child certainly does not unfold outside of His governance. Dread loses its power not when the future becomes certain to our eyes but when the God who holds the future becomes more real to our faith than the fears our imagination has constructed. "Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself" (Matthew 6:34). That is not a call to irresponsibility or naivety. It is a call to a daily and deliberate trust in a God who has never once been surprised, never once been outmanoeuvred, and never once failed to bring His people through exactly what He promised to bring them through. The future is not unknown to Him. And you are not forgotten by Him. That is enough. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋 Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed🙏 As the deer pants👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… The War for Womanhood Series – Book 1 and Book 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…... Or amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

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Knowing about Christ is not the same as knowing Him. Scripture makes that distinction clear. Read the full article on BMC. 👇 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans… 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

FAITH THAT ACTS DECISIVELY WHEN COURAGE IS REQUIRED Jael’s account unfolds in a time of deep oppression. Jabin ruled through Sisera, whose army had crushed Israel for twenty years. THIS WAS NOT SEASONAL TROUBLE BUT SUSTAINED DOMINION THAT PRESSED A NATION INTO FEAR AND WEARINESS. God had already moved through Deborah and Barak, and the Lord Himself routed Sisera’s forces. What appeared to be military conflict was, in truth, divine judgment breaking through human resistance. Sisera fled. The man who once commanded terror now ran for his life. POWER COLLAPSED INTO PANIC IN A SINGLE DAY, AND THE ONE WHO HAD PURSUED OTHERS NOW SOUGHT COVER. He arrived at the tent of Jael, a place that seemed safe. There was peace between her household and his king. No suspicion. No alarm. Jael welcomed him. She covered him, gave him milk, and allowed him to rest. SHE CREATED AN ENVIRONMENT OF SAFETY WHILE STANDING IN A MOMENT THAT DEMANDED DISCERNMENT BEYOND APPEARANCE. What looked like hospitality on the surface concealed a deeper reality unfolding under God’s hand. This was not a battlefield. There were no witnesses, no counsel, no delay. THIS WAS A SOLITARY MOMENT WHERE FAITH HAD TO DISCERN AND ACT WITHOUT EXTERNAL CONFIRMATION. Sisera slept, confident in his refuge. Jael moved. “But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg… and drove the peg into his temple…” Judges 4:21 SCRIPTURE DOES NOT SOFTEN THIS MOMENT, BECAUSE IT IS NOT PRESENTED AS IMPULSE BUT AS DECISIVE ALIGNMENT WITH GOD’S DELIVERANCE. The same God who routed the army now completed the victory through an unexpected instrument. This must be understood rightly. Jael did not act from personal vengeance but within the unfolding purpose of God. WHAT APPEARS SHOCKING TO HUMAN SENSIBILITY IS REVEALED IN SCRIPTURE AS PARTICIPATION IN GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OVER OPPRESSION. When Barak arrived, Jael revealed what had been done. The one who once held power now lay silent. God’s word stood fulfilled. The honor went to a woman. Deborah’s song does not hesitate: “Most blessed of women be Jael.” Judges 5:24 THIS IS NOT CAUTIOUS RECOGNITION BUT DIVINE COMMENDATION, A DECLARATION THAT COURAGE ALIGNED WITH GOD IS NOT OVERLOOKED BY HIM. Jael’s life confronts a modern tendency to delay under the guise of wisdom. We often rename hesitation as discernment. Yet there are moments when delay is not caution but disobedience. WHEN GOD’S PURPOSE IS CLEAR, INDECISION IS NOT NEUTRAL, IT RESISTS ALIGNMENT. She teaches that faith under pressure is not always quiet or gradual. IT CAN BE SHARP, DECISIVE, AND WITHOUT HESITATION WHEN THE MOMENT DEMANDS ACTION. Faith does not always wait for ideal conditions. It recognizes the moment God places before it and moves in alignment. Her account is not a call to imitate method but to examine the heart. WHEN A MOMENT OF COURAGE IS PLACED BEFORE YOU, FAITH DOES NOT RETREAT INTO ANALYSIS, IT STEPS FORWARD IN OBEDIENCE. Jael’s story stands as a sobering reminder that courage is not measured by visibility but by faithfulness in decisive moments. WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ALIGN WITH GOD’S PURPOSE APPEARS, FAITH DOES NOT SHRINK BACK, IT ACTS WITH CLARITY AND COST. Truth does not bow to the age. It stands. And so will those who stand with Christ. 🖋️Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed 👇 AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… or 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

To tailor doctrine to fit experience is dangerous because it reverses the order God has set. Truth is not shaped by what we feel or encounter. It is revealed by God and stands above us. “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” John 17:17. When experience becomes the standard, doctrine is slowly adjusted to match it, and error begins to feel normal. That is how deception works. “To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn” Isaiah 8:20. Experience must be tested, corrected, and governed by Scripture, not the other way around. If we build on experience, we drift. If we stand on the Word, we remain grounded. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

Rome trembled. Thrones cracked. But the Word didn’t stop at rebellion, it rewrote reality. From cathedrals to cottages, eternity echoed with truth that outlasted empires. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.” Matthew 24:35 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

When Comparing Yourself to Others Quietly Destroys You There is a sin that has found its most fertile ground in the age of social media but it is not a new sin at all. It is as old as the first two brothers who ever walked the earth. Comparison. The quiet and persistent habit of measuring your life, your gifts, your progress, and your calling against the visible circumstances of another person and arriving at a verdict that leaves you either inflated with superiority or hollowed out with inadequacy. Neither destination is healthy. Neither is honest. And neither has anything to do with the actual will of God for your particular life. Yet comparison remains one of the most socially acceptable and spiritually destructive habits a believer can carry. What makes comparison so theologically dangerous is what it reveals about the heart beneath the surface. At its root it is a quiet dissatisfaction with the sovereignty of God. It is a subtle accusation that God has been unwise or unfair in the distribution of gifts, opportunities, circumstances, and seasons. When Peter stood on the shores of Galilee freshly restored by Christ and immediately pointed toward John asking "Lord, what about this man?" (John 21:21), Christ's response was immediate and penetrating. "What is that to you? You follow me" (John 21:22). Four words that cut through every comparison the human heart has ever made. Your calling is not John's calling. Your path is not another person's path. The only question that matters is whether you are faithfully following the One who called you. Paul understood this deeply enough to build an entire theology of gifting around it. The body of Christ is not a competition. It is a organism in which every part is necessary, every function is assigned by God Himself, and the eye cannot say to the hand "I have no need of you" (1 Corinthians 12:21). The diversity of gifts, personalities, callings, and capacities within the church is not an accident of providence. It is a deliberate design by a God who knows exactly what He is doing and who has placed every member precisely where He intends them to be (1 Corinthians 12:18). Comparison does not simply wound the one doing the comparing. It implicitly rejects the wisdom of the God who did the placing. The freedom that comes from laying down comparison is one of the most underestimated liberties available to the believer. It is the freedom to run your own race without the crushing weight of another person's pace, another person's lane, or another person's finishing time bearing down upon you. "Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1). Not the race set before someone else. Not the race that looks more impressive from the outside. The race that God in His sovereign wisdom and infinite knowledge has marked out specifically and deliberately for you. Run it faithfully. Run it with your eyes on Christ rather than on the runner beside you. That is the only race that will matter when you reach the finish line. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋 Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed🙏 As the deer pants👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… The War for Womanhood Series – Book 1 and Book 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…... Or amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

Paul wrote letters. Luke wrote a Gospel. John wrote Revelation. Putting truth in writing has never disqualified the message. If it did, you'd have to throw out most of your Bible. The argument isn't "no one should write books." It's that Scripture stands above every book, including mine. That's exactly the point Sola Scriptura makes. Try engaging the theology next time.

@5SolasKittyKate Another Sola Scriptura Screecher who is selling…wait for it…her own books

The doctrine of Sola Scriptura has always stood because it rests not on human invention but on the authority of God Himself speaking in His Word. Scripture is not one voice among many, but the final and sufficient standard for truth, faith, and life. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable… that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16–17). What God has given is not partial or lacking. It is sufficient. Throughout history, whenever the Church has returned to the Word as its highest authority, it has been corrected, strengthened, and preserved. The Bereans were commended not for innovation, but because they examined the Scriptures daily to test what they were taught (Acts 17:11). Even the apostles did not ask for blind acceptance. They directed people back to the written Word as the standard by which all teaching must be judged. Sola Scriptura does not mean that the Church, teachers, or tradition have no place. It means they all stand under Scripture, not above it. Jesus Himself rebuked those who elevated human tradition over God’s Word, saying they had “made void the word of God” (Mark 7:13). Whenever Scripture is displaced, confusion follows. Whenever it is restored to its rightful place, truth becomes clear again. The enduring power of this doctrine is seen in its fruit. God’s Word does not fail. “The word of the Lord remains forever” (1 Peter 1:25). It convicts, corrects, and transforms across generations because it carries divine authority. Sola Scriptura has always stood, not because men have defended it perfectly, but because God has spoken clearly, and His Word continues to be the unchanging foundation for all who would know Him rightly. 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

Every system requires interpretation. Including Rome's. You've simply moved the problem back one step. Now instead of asking "who interprets Scripture?" you have to ask "who interprets the magisterium?" And when popes contradict councils, and councils contradict each other, your infallible interpreter starts looking remarkably fallible. Scripture itself addresses this. 2 Peter 1:20-21 doesn't say prophecy requires an institution to unlock it. It says holy men spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. The same Spirit who inspired the Word illuminates it in the believer. That's not chaos, that's the promise of John 16:13. And Psalm 119:130 says "the unfolding of Your words gives light, it imparts understanding to the simple." Not the pope. Not a council. The Word itself gives understanding. The real question is whether your infallible interpreter has actually produced the unity and clarity you're promising. It hasn't. Rome has given us indulgences, papal infallibility declared in 1870, the immaculate conception declared in 1854, doctrines with zero apostolic foundation, all claimed as binding truth. Sola Scriptura doesn't demand perfect interpretation from every reader. It demands that Scripture alone sits in the seat of final authority. Believers can err in interpreting it. But Scripture itself does not err. That distinction matters enormously. An infallible book interpreted fallibly is still safer ground than a fallible institution claiming it cannot be questioned.

@5SolasKittyKate Sola scriptura ignores the necessity of interpretation and an authority to do so without error.

Read the text again, Aidan. Acts 17:11 says they were "examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so." Scripture was the measuring rod they held Paul's preaching against. Not the other way around. If anything, this destroys your argument. Even an apostle's teaching had to pass the Scripture test. The Bereans didn't submit to Paul and then open their Bibles to rubber-stamp him. They opened their Bibles first and tested him by what was already written. And God called them noble for it. So your own example proves the point. If Scripture was sufficient to verify an apostle, it is more than sufficient to test the claims of Rome. The question you need to sit with is this: why would God commend a church for measuring teaching against Scripture, if Scripture was never meant to be the supreme standard? The Bereans didn't need a magisterium to tell them whether Paul was right. They needed their Bibles. That's Sola Scriptura in practice, straight from the book of Acts.

@5SolasKittyKate The Bereans consulted Scripture to verify that Paul was a Divine legate, and then they assented to his authority as an Apostle and to his preaching after confirming that. Horrible example, as it disproves your point.

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The canon objection cuts both ways. Scripture's authority doesn't derive from a council listing it. God breathed it. The Church recognized what was already authoritative, it didn't create it. Rome didn't author the Word, and no institution can grant authority to what already possesses it from God Himself. On fragmentation, Rome is hardly the picture of unity you're painting. Antipopes. Councils contradicting councils. The Great Schism. The Reformation didn't fracture Christianity, it called it back to the Scripture Rome had buried under tradition. And Jesus? He quoted Scripture as the final court of appeal repeatedly. "It is written" was His weapon, not an appeal to a magisterium. He rebuked the Pharisees in Mark 7:13 for doing exactly what Rome does, making the Word of God void through tradition. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says Scripture makes the believer complete, equipped for every good work. That's sufficiency language. If Scripture requires an external institution to interpret and complete it, it isn't sufficient. Paul disagrees with you. Sola Scriptura doesn't mean solo, it means Scripture as the supreme authority. The Church submits to the Word. The Word doesn't submit to the Church

Evangelicals are completely clueless when it comes to the Bible, in this example @yesiwetmyplants appeals to 2 Timothy 3:16–17 to declare scripture but if you look at the passage nowhere does it list which books are god breathed. She even tries to bring up history but every time a group of people claimed to stand on Scripture alone they quickly fractured into a thousand different groups from Montanists, Arians, Donatists, to present day Protestants. Jesus never taught Sola Scriptura he established a Church.

Amen! Hidden anger is one of the quietest thieves in the Christian life. It takes so much and leaves so little, and yet it is so easy to justify and so hard to release. May the Lord grant us the grace to open our hands and trust the One whose justice never sleeps and whose verdicts are always right. Thank you for this beautiful response.

@5SolasKittyKate Amen. May the Lord help us let go and deliver us of the hidden anger that is slowly weakening our faith and killing our joy

When Anger Takes Root in the Heart There is a form of anger that does not announce itself as sin. It arrives dressed as righteous indignation, as a reasonable response to genuine injustice, as the natural and understandable reaction of a person who has been wronged, overlooked, or treated with contempt. And sometimes it begins that way. Not every anger is sinful at its birth. Scripture itself affirms that there is such a thing as righteous anger, for God Himself is angry with the wicked every day (Psalm 7:11). But there is a journey that anger makes in the human heart when it is not brought under the authority of God and His Word, and that journey leads somewhere deeply destructive. The danger is not always in the initial flash of anger. It is in what happens when anger is given a room in the heart and allowed to stay. "Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil" (Ephesians 4:26-27). That final phrase is the one that demands the most careful attention. Unresolved anger does not simply sit quietly in the corner of the soul. It opens a door. It creates an access point through which bitterness enters, through which relationships are slowly poisoned, through which the mind rehearses offences rather than releasing them, and through which the enemy gains a foothold that can take years of painful sanctification to dislodge. Jonah is perhaps the most painfully honest portrait of misdirected anger in all of Scripture. He was angry at Nineveh for receiving the mercy he believed they did not deserve. He was angry at God for being more compassionate than his theology of justice could comfortably accommodate. He sat outside the city nursing his rage while God gently and persistently asked him the question that cuts to the heart of every angry believer. "Do you do well to be angry?" (Jonah 4:4). It is a question worth sitting with honestly. Not every anger that feels justified is actually righteous. Much of what the heart calls righteous indignation is simply wounded pride or unmet expectation wearing theological clothing. The soul that carries chronic anger is a soul that has not yet fully entrusted justice to God. It is holding onto the verdict because it does not fully trust that God will render one. But He will. "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord" (Romans 12:19). The release of anger is not the denial of justice. It is the deepest possible act of faith in a God whose justice is perfect, whose timing is sovereign, and whose verdicts are never wrong. Lay it down. Not because the wound was not real, but because the God who saw it is more than capable of carrying what you were never designed to bear alone. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋 Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed🙏 As the deer pants👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… The War for Womanhood Series – Book 1 and Book 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…... Or amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

FAITH THAT STANDS WHEN A NATION ABANDONS GOD Elijah appears in Scripture without introduction, stepping into history at a moment of deep national collapse. Israel had turned from the covenant under Ahab and Jezebel. Baal worship was established, prophets were hunted, and truth was suppressed. THIS WAS NOT PASSIVE DRIFT BUT DELIBERATE REBELLION, A NATION REORDERING ITS WORSHIP AWAY FROM THE LIVING GOD. Into that darkness Elijah spoke: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives… there shall be neither dew nor rain except by my word.” 1 Kings 17:1 His declaration was not political but prophetic. The drought that followed confronted Baal at the very point of his supposed power. GOD WAS NOT MERELY JUDGING ISRAEL, HE WAS EXPOSING THE POWERLESSNESS OF THEIR IDOLS. Yet Elijah’s obedience did not begin on a platform. He was sent into hidden places, first to the brook Cherith, then to a widow in Zarephath. There he was sustained by ravens and by provision that did not run out. FAITH THAT STANDS BEFORE NATIONS IS FIRST FORMED IN SECRET DEPENDENCE, WHERE TRUST IS BUILT WITHOUT AN AUDIENCE. When the time came, Elijah stood on Mount Carmel and addressed a divided people: “How long will you go limping between two opinions. If the Lord is God, follow him.” 1 Kings 18:21 The people answered nothing. SILENCE REVEALED A HEART UNWILLING TO CHOOSE TRUTH, A PEOPLE PARALYZED BETWEEN CONVICTION AND COMPROMISE. The test was set. Two altars. Two claims. One true God. The prophets of Baal cried out with increasing desperation, cutting themselves and calling from morning until evening, yet nothing happened. FALSE WORSHIP DEMANDS INTENSITY BUT PRODUCES NO POWER, NO VOICE, AND NO RESPONSE. Elijah then repaired the altar of the Lord. BEFORE FIRE FALLS, WHAT HAS BEEN BROKEN MUST BE RESTORED. He drenched the sacrifice with water, removing every natural possibility of ignition, and then prayed: “Answer me, O Lord… that this people may know that you are God.” 1 Kings 18:37 The fire fell. It consumed everything. The people fell on their faces and declared the Lord is God. IN A SINGLE MOMENT, GOD SHATTERED THE ILLUSION THAT HAD HELD A NATION IN DECEPTION. Yet Elijah’s story does not end in triumph. Jezebel’s threat drove him into the wilderness, where he sat under a broom tree asking to die. THE MAN WHO STOOD BEFORE A NATION NOW SAT ALONE IN WEARINESS, REVEALING THAT PUBLIC STRENGTH DOES NOT CANCEL PRIVATE FRAILTY. God did not crush him. He fed him, allowed him to rest, and reminded him that he was not alone. A remnant remained. FAITH IS NOT SUSTAINED BY PERSONAL STRENGTH BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT MEETS HIS SERVANTS IN THEIR WEAKNESS. Elijah teaches that faith under pressure does not measure truth by majority. When a nation abandons God, obedience may stand alone. TRUE FAITH DOES NOT BEND TO CULTURE; IT SPEAKS WITH CLARITY EVEN WHEN SURROUNDED BY SILENCE AND OPPOSITION. His life declares that God remains God regardless of national rebellion. TRUTH DOES NOT LOSE ITS AUTHORITY WHEN IT IS REJECTED, AND GOD DOES NOT LOSE HIS POWER WHEN HE IS DENIED. This is the enduring witness. Faith under pressure stands, confronts, and depends. IT IS FORMED IN SECRET, TESTED IN PUBLIC, AND SUSTAINED BY THE GOD WHO ANSWERS BY FIRE AND PRESERVES A REMNANT FOR HIS NAME. Truth does not bow to the age. It stands. And so will those who stand with Christ. 🖋️ Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed 👇 AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… or 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

Cunning, craftiness, and novelty belong to deception, not to the preaching of the gospel. Scripture warns that the enemy works through subtlety. “The serpent was crafty than any beast of the field” Genesis 3:1, and Paul says, “the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness” 2 Corinthians 11:3. That same spirit shows up wherever truth is twisted to attract, impress, or control. The apostles took the opposite path. “We have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God” 2 Corinthians 4:2. True preaching does not rely on cleverness or novelty, but on clarity and faithfulness. “My message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” 1 Corinthians 2:4. The Pharisees loved outward show and religious innovation, but Christ exposed them because their methods hid the truth rather than revealed it. The gospel does not need to be improved or dressed up. It needs to be proclaimed as it is. Where cunning is used, truth is usually being replaced. Where the Word is preached plainly, Christ is made known. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

When Busyness Becomes a Substitute for God There is a particular form of spiritual drift that is almost impossible to detect because it does not look like drift at all. It looks like productivity. It looks like responsibility. It looks like the faithful management of a life full of legitimate demands, worthy commitments, and genuine obligations. Nobody around you raises a concern because from the outside everything appears not just acceptable but admirable. And yet something is quietly eroding beneath the surface of all that activity. The soul is moving. Not toward God but away from Him, one busy hour at a time, until the distance that has opened up between the heart and its Creator is vast enough to be felt but somehow too gradual to have been noticed in the making. Busyness has become the defining virtue of the modern age. To be busy is to be valuable. To be constantly occupied is to be important. To have no margin, no silence, and no unhurried hours is somehow worn as a badge of significance in a culture that has forgotten how to be still. But God has not forgotten. "Be still and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10) was not a suggestion offered for seasons of leisure. It was a command issued in the middle of a passage describing the earth giving way and mountains tumbling into the sea. It was a call to stillness precisely when everything around demanded frantic movement. The capacity to be still before God is not a luxury reserved for monasteries and retreats. It is the oxygen of the spiritual life, and without it the soul slowly suffocates regardless of how productive its schedule appears. Martha is the portrait Scripture gives us of a soul whose busyness had quietly displaced her devotion. She was not idle. She was not irresponsible. She was serving the Lord Himself in her own home, and yet Christ looked at her with a tenderness that carried an unmistakable correction. "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary" (Luke 10:41-42). One thing. In a life overflowing with things that all seemed necessary, Christ identified only one that actually was. Not the meal. Not the preparation. Not the service. The sitting. The listening. The unhurried presence at the feet of the One whose words alone carry the weight of eternal life. A life of ceaseless activity without sustained communion with God does not produce spiritual strength. It produces a kind of hollow competence, the ability to perform the external duties of the Christian life while the interior life grows thin, dry, and increasingly distant from the Source of everything it is working so hard to serve. "Apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). Nothing that bears eternal fruit. Nothing that carries genuine spiritual weight. The most important thing any believer can bring to their responsibilities is a soul that has been with God, unhurried, attentive, and nourished by His Word and presence. Guard that space. Protect it fiercely. The world will always provide more than enough reasons to abandon it, and the soul will always pay the price when it does. TO SUPPORT 🌐 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans 🖋 Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed🙏 As the deer pants👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… The War for Womanhood Series – Book 1 and Book 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…... Or amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

Some of the heaviest burdens are invisible. You keep showing up. You keep giving. You keep holding everything together. But you were never meant to carry it alone. Matthew 11:28 is not a suggestion. It is an invitation. Read the full piece in BMC. Walk with me in learning to rest while carrying. 👇 buymeacoffee.com/katspillsbeans… 🖋️Books authored by me 👇 Buy and be blessed. AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👇 amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… OR amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…

FAITH THAT WRESTLES HONESTLY WITH GRIEF YET REMAINS WITHIN GOD’S COVENANT Naomi’s story begins with movement, but not the kind shaped by hope. A famine drove her from Bethlehem into Moab with her husband and sons. WHAT BEGAN AS A SEARCH FOR PROVISION BECAME A JOURNEY MARKED BY LOSS THAT STRIPPED HER LIFE OF SECURITY AND STRUCTURE. In a foreign land her husband died, and though her sons married, the stability was temporary. Soon both sons also died, leaving her without husband and without children. SHE STOOD IN A PLACE WHERE HER FUTURE WAS NOT MERELY UNCERTAIN BUT EMPTY, WHERE LOSS TOUCHED NOT ONLY HER HEART BUT HER IDENTITY AND HER PLACE IN THE WORLD. When she heard that the Lord had visited His people with food, she chose to return. THIS DECISION IS QUIET BUT PROFOUND, BECAUSE FAITH UNDER PRESSURE SOMETIMES LOOKS LIKE RETURNING TO GOD’S PROMISE EVEN WHEN THE HEART FEELS BROKEN AND HOLLOW. As she journeyed, she urged her daughters in law to remain behind. Her words exposed her grief. She believed the Lord’s hand had gone out against her. “THE HAND OF THE LORD HAS GONE OUT AGAINST ME.” Ruth 1:13 NAOMI DID NOT ABANDON GOD, BUT SHE STRUGGLED TO UNDERSTAND HIM, AND THIS DISTINCTION MATTERS BECAUSE FAITH CAN WRESTLE WITHOUT WALKING AWAY. One daughter returned, but Ruth clung to her, binding her life to Naomi’s God. When Naomi returned to Bethlehem, she no longer identified with her former name. “DO NOT CALL ME NAOMI… CALL ME MARA, FOR THE ALMIGHTY HAS DEALT VERY BITTERLY WITH ME.” Ruth 1:20 The pleasant one now called herself bitter. SHE INTERPRETED HER STORY THROUGH LOSS, YET EVEN IN THAT CONFESSION SHE HAD RETURNED TO THE LAND OF COVENANT, PROVING THAT HER FAITH, THOUGH WOUNDED, WAS NOT ABANDONED. As the account unfolds, her perspective begins to shift. She observes Ruth gleaning and recognizes the kindness of Boaz. Slowly, through ordinary provision, she begins to see again. “THE LORD HAS NOT FORSAKEN HIS KINDNESS.” Ruth 2:20 FAITH DID NOT RETURN TO HER THROUGH SUDDEN CLARITY BUT THROUGH QUIET RECOGNITION THAT GOD WAS STILL WORKING IN THE MIDST OF HER PAIN. What she once called emptiness began to reveal hidden provision. Naomi then moved from grief to guidance. She instructed Ruth concerning Boaz, acting in alignment with God’s design for redemption. HER WISDOM, ONCE SILENCED BY BITTERNESS, NOW FLOWED AGAIN FROM A RENEWED TRUST THAT GOD HAD NOT ABANDONED HIS PURPOSE. When Ruth bore a son, the women spoke words Naomi could not have imagined. “HE SHALL BE TO YOU A RESTORER OF LIFE.” Ruth 4:15 THE WOMAN WHO RETURNED EMPTY NOW HELD RESTORATION IN HER ARMS, AND HER STORY BECAME A TESTIMONY THAT GOD’S PURPOSES CONTINUE EVEN THROUGH SEASONS THAT FEEL DEFINED BY LOSS. Naomi teaches that faith under pressure does not always appear strong or certain. IT MAY SPEAK WITH BITTERNESS, IT MAY WRESTLE WITH GOD’S DEALINGS, YET IT REMAINS WITHIN THE COVENANT AND REFUSES TO TURN AWAY. She did not pursue other gods. She did not abandon the people of the Lord. She wrestled, but she stayed. FAITH THAT ENDURES SUFFERING IS NOT PERFECT IN EMOTION BUT PERSISTENT IN DIRECTION, AND EVEN WHEN THE HEART STRUGGLES, GOD CONTINUES TO WORK TOWARD RESTORATION. Her life stands as witness that God is not absent in grief. EVEN WHEN LIFE FEELS EMPTY, HE IS STILL WRITING A STORY THAT IS NOT YET COMPLETE. Truth does not bow to the age. It stands. And so will those who stand with Christ. 🖋️ Books authored by me 👇Buy and be blessed 👇 AS THE DEER PANTS Prayers for Thirsting Souls in Every Season amazon.com/dp/B0GP8YJ8KL?… THE WAR FOR WOMANHOOD SERIES – BOOK 1 AND BOOK 2 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?… or 👉amazon.com/dp/B0GFJHBZJN?…