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Heather M. Dixon: equipping women for courageous living

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Looking for God in the Details of Your Storm

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After Pharaoh’s command that all male Hebrew infants were to be killed, his daughter finds baby Moses in the reeds of the Nile. She hires a Hebrew woman to nurse him; the woman just happens to be Moses’ own mother. Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt. Two Israelite spies working for Joshua just happen… Read More

Gathering Courage: Stepping Out Onto the Water

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Crazy medical events. Terminal illness with no cure or treatment. Life upturned. Priorities rearranged. Tears and strong-held hands and deep breaths and sore knees from sincere prayers because blind faith is all you have left…and all of this on repeat. Lately I wonder…did I ask for this? Really. Of course I didn’t ask for this…. Read More

Getting Ready: Preparing my Heart and Home for Battle

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Getting My Home Ready for Battle: Spring Cleaning in the Fall Funny things can happen when you heed a warning from God to get ready. For example, you throw away random things from your back porch, because that’s where you heard the warning in the first place. God: Get ready, Heather. Me: Oh, okay, I… Read More

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  • Summer in NC 💜
  • A little late in my Independence Day well-wishes but I've been asleep since we've been home so 🤷‍♀️
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  • I am speaking tonight to a group of high schoolers about anxiety. What tips would you give them for dealing with it? PS - I am copying and pasting your comments into a handout that I will give to them tonight 😍
  • "I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me." - C. S. Lewis . There are days when the words of my prayers are all over the place. My conversation with God is about as focused as a classroom of toddlers exploring a new playroom. When I have too many requests, I can't seem to keep them all straight in my mind and I just dump them all at Jesus' feet, hoping He'll pick them up and make sense of them. Sometimes, I can't even form them into words and they simply come out as, "How long, Lord?" . If you're nodding your head right now, you might appreciate David's prayer in Psalm 6. He's got a lot going on: he's facing discipline from God over an unspecified act of disobedience; he's dealing with intense physical pain from an illness so severe it threatens his life; and he's got his fair share of earthly enemies. . His prayer includes pleading over all of the above, but the heart of it is captured in six tender words..."how long, O lord, how long?" . But as he lifts his requests to God in prayer, something changes. You can almost sense his breath of relief and the lifting of his chin when he proclaims at the end, "The Lord has heard my cry for mercy..." . Praise Jesus that He hears our weeping, He hears our cries, and He accepts our prayers, no matter how all over the place they may be. Whatever is filling the language of your prayers today, keep lifting it up to Jesus. Prayer changes us, while the anchor of God's unfailing love stays the same. We may start our prayers with confusion and frustration, but we will end them with the blessed assurance that God will deliver us. He hears. He accepts. He delivers. His love never fails. . ☝️ from my private Facebook group with reading plans and study aids to help you stay in God's Word daily. We're getting ready to read through Gideon's story in Judges this week. Would love for you to join: link in my bio >> join my private Facebook group 🤗