Copyright https://www.ibelieve.com 2023, iBelieve.com Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:53:00 -0500 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/truth-to-remember-when-the-new-year-brings-new-fear.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/truth-to-remember-when-the-new-year-brings-new-fear.html Renee Davis So at the risk of being labeled a hypocritical scaredy-cat, I’m going to be bold and fully transparent, confessing to you that this encourager of yours feels fear as I stick a toe in the choppy waters of 2017. Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:54:53 -0500 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/expecting-god-to-run-alongside-you.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/expecting-god-to-run-alongside-you.html Renee Davis Maybe it’s just me, but I can remember a time when I was complaining to God because He wouldn’t reveal His plan for me and my life. I was frustrated because I wanted to know Him on a deeper level. However, I was so busy and rushed that I wouldn’t have heard Him speak to my spirit anyway. These past few months I’ve allowed this to happen all over again... Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:25:15 -0500 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/turns-out-you-can-learn-a-lot-from-a-half-naked-christmas-tree.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/turns-out-you-can-learn-a-lot-from-a-half-naked-christmas-tree.html Renee Davis While hot tears stream down this tired, wrinkled, forty-something face of a mom who wants so much to be seven again, I struggle to complete my thoughts. I pray somehow He will make sense of meager words when He sends them to your heart, dear sister. Because… Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:37:08 -0500 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/httpthestayathomescribecomsaying-goodbye-to-our-dream-home.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/httpthestayathomescribecomsaying-goodbye-to-our-dream-home.html Renee Davis When I told my husband that all I really wanted wasn’t, in fact, a dream home but for him to be less stressed and at home with us more (which means changing careers and most definitely means a much lower paying job), the relief was evident. It was as if I had unloaded a truck from his shoulders. In the sweetest voice ever, my husband thanked me. That big wrinkle in his forehead instantly seemed to fade... Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:19:31 -0500 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/the-time-my-best-effort-looked-like-sketch-comedy.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/the-time-my-best-effort-looked-like-sketch-comedy.html Renee Davis Huffin’ and puffin’ like an old wolf from a fairytale. I wiped the perspiration from this 40-something-red-hot-face as my lungs finally allowed themselves to take in a deep one. I let it out, along with a sigh of relief. I had done my best! Yes, a two-and-a-half-mile-summertime-run in Florida will make you feel both alive and dead Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:09:53 -0500 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/hold-on-hunker-down-hear-god.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/hold-on-hunker-down-hear-god.html Renee Davis Life is so incredibly hurried and scurried. Some days most days we’re just operating in a flurry of motion and emotion, so hyped up on schedules and busyness that we’re left caught off guard. That means we’re less instinctual, more tired, and super sluggish. Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:36:48 -0400 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/finding-time-for-gods-word-help-for-the-busy-believer.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/finding-time-for-gods-word-help-for-the-busy-believer.html Renee Davis SPENDING TIME IN THE WORD IS REALLY A MATTER OF THE HEART AND NOT A MATTER OF THE AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT. Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:24:06 -0400 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/claiming-freedom-when-the-trap-is-set-summer-post.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/claiming-freedom-when-the-trap-is-set-summer-post.html Renee Davis Don’t underestimate our clever opponent, the great deceiver, friend. He’s studied each of us and knows our every weakness–and is always upping the stakes in the game. He’s patient and doesn’t mind the extra effort of trial and error to ensure his win. Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:41:32 -0400 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/identity-found-finally.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/identity-found-finally.html Renee Davis When this damaged, limited, broken world fills a hurting, fearful mind and heart with a lot of the stuff it feels the need to offer—brokenness, fear, and plain old junk, well, it’s pretty easy to believe that you’re not good enough, special enough, smart enough, woman enough…that you’re a failure, nobody, and worthless... Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:26:07 -0400 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00 https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/5-ways-i-help-my-stressed-out-husband-cope.html https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/renee-davis/5-ways-i-help-my-stressed-out-husband-cope.html Renee Davis While we recognized that we are in fact blessed that he has a job, I still wish there was something I could do to fix things. The only way I can help is by concentrating on the things I do have control over. So while we continue waiting and remaining faithful in the belief that God will work a miracle, here are: 5 Ways I Help My Stressed-Out Husband Cope Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:37:57 -0400 2023-12-28T23:53:00-05:00