Book Review - Shift:Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my...

Grace meaning- God's influence upon the heart, His unmerited favor. Follow Me When we look back on our lives, most of us can recall that defining moment when God spoke into our hearts His calling. We heard and responded with, "Yes, Lord, I will follow You." The decision to follow Jesus may have been made fairly recently for some and in childhood for others. Perhaps, the Lord spoke into your heart as a teenager, and you have followed Him ever since.

I have never been comfortable with the idea of letting go of my children for any reason; addiction is no exception. Even though they are adults and making grown-up decisions for their lives, the advice to let them go and allow them to hit their rock bottom shakes me to the core. Ask any mother the hardest decision they've had to make regarding their struggling child. They will most often say it was the "letting go". The same holds true for wives, sisters, and grandmothers. It

What I needed was to be cleansed by the living water. This living water represents the gift of the Holy Spirit in our lives.