“Christians don’t have anxiety,” is what was being taught around me at the church I was attending at the time. Therefore, I didn’t feel like a real Christian. It produced shame which led to minimum prayers and reading my Bible less frequently. All I kept thinking was, “I can’t be a Christian and have anxiety.”

Do you have adult children you are praying for? Are your prayers fear-based or faith-driven? Do you want to know how to pray effective, fervent prayers over your loved ones? May these 10 Bible verses encourage you as you pray over your adult children.

Did you know there are trees that God intentionally planted for us in the desert? The scripture tells us God planted them in the desert wasteland. The purpose of this planting is to demonstrate God's power and creation for people to “see and understand” that He who did it.

I began to understand how and why my trauma was keeping me stuck. It was grueling and uncomfortable, but I kept coming back.