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Tuesday Thoughts (Part 4)

I’ve recently started sharing some Tuesday Thoughts on Abounding Faith’s social media. From time to time, I’ll share some of them here. If you’d like to see them as they’re released, be sure to connect with Abounding Faith on Instagram. Blessings!

How diverse is your bookshelf, church or social circle? If everyone you interact with looks and thinks exactly like you, maybe it’s time to prayerfully widen your circle.

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s continue to learn from a variety of brothers and sisters in Christ as we walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26-28 NIV) 

God is more interested in building your character than building your platform 🔥

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s remember to remain humble before the Lord as we dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” (James 4:10 NIV)

Don’t shrink back … let your light SHINE 🔥

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s remember to shine for Christ as we dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16 NIV) 

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.comThe “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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Ladies, Join Us for the Abounding Faith Online Class through the New School of the Bible

Ladies, I so hope you’ll join us for the Abounding Faith: Choosing Faith Over Fear online class through the New York School of the Bible this September!

This empowering class will help you grow in your faith and will encourage and inspire you to choose faith over fear and believe God for the impossible!

I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of teaching this class, which is based on my book Abounding Faith: 30 Bible Heroes Who Will Inspire You to Believe God for the Impossible, in person pre-pandemic and online during the height of the pandemic during the summer of 2020. That time we had a student from Taiwan join us.

Registration for the Abounding Faith course opens Monday, August 1.

Class starts the evening of Tuesday, September 13.

You can learn more about the class here.

Don’t miss this class that you can take from the comfort of your own home wherever you are in the world.

I hope you and your friends will join us.

Here’s a few pics from a past class.

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Keep Shining – Monday Motivation with Coach Nancy, Abounding Faith Coaching & Consulting

Hey Audacious Dreamers and Doers, I hope you’re having a wonderful summer!

How are you using your gifts, talents and abilities to continue to SHINE for Christ?

What do you feel God calling you to do in this season?

I’d like to help you live God’s call on your life and SOAR!

If you’re feeling stuck or unsure about what to do in this season, I’d be delighted to come alongside you and coach you through your process to help you reach your breakthrough.

As your Life Coach, I’d be honored to prayerfully help you gain the clarity, confidence and courage to say yes to God’s call on your life.

I can prayerfully help you:

  • Discover your God-given gifts
  • Develop your unique giftings and skill set
  • Dare to live your God-given dreams

Let’s SOAR together this year!

Be fierce. Be faithful. Be fruitful. Be who God is calling you to be!

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16 NIV)

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.comThe “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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5 Ways to Show Your Support for Abounding Faith

I hope and pray Abounding Faith’s content is inspiring and encouraging you as you walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams.

As you may know, Abounding Faith has tons of uplifting and empowering written, video and audio content available for FREE including the:

If Abounding Faith is helping you grow in your faith and love for God, wonderful! I hope you’ll like, comment, share, and subscribe wherever you’re reading, watching, listening or following Abounding Faith.

And I’d love to hear your feedback. Feel free to leave a comment here or on social media.

If you’re looking for ways to show your support for this Christian Latina Author, Creative & Communicator, I would appreciate your prayers and for you to prayerfully considering the following ideas:

1 Grab copies of Abounding Faith’s FIVE inspiring and encouraging Christian living books and devotionals on Amazon for you and your friends, small group, local nonprofits or libraries, etc… and leave kind ratings and reviews to let others know about these uplifting Bible-based books.

Positive Amazon reviews help encourage others to buy these edifying books.

And your purchases make a huge difference in the book publishing world. If you’d like to see more authors of color, especially in Christian publishing, it’s vital to support those of us already writing Christian books.

Note: Amazon Prime Day is July 12-13.

2. Find Abounding Faith on social media and like, follow and comment on posts. I’d love for you to be part of Abounding Faith’s online community. Abounding Faith is on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Your follows, likes, comments and shares are greatly appreciated and make more of a difference than you realize.

Looking forward to getting to encourage you as you scroll throughout the week.

3. Sign up for Abounding Faith’s FREE email list. If you’re looking to grow in your faith and would like a dose of inspiration delivered right to your inbox, I invite you to sign up to get my weekly emails.

When you sign up, you get immediate access to the FREE 5-day Feisty Faith Devotional Sampler PDF. The sampler gives you a taste of the inspiring and empowering 365-day devotional, Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day devotional (available on Amazon).

I look forward to sending you uplifting emails on Monday afternoons with info about my latest encouraging blog posts, upcoming books and other projects or events.

4. Buy this writer and creative a virtual coffee (or too or three). I appreciate your generous support as I live out God’s call on my life in this season and continue to create content that encourages, empowers and inspires people of diverse backgrounds, ages and life stages who live near and far.

5. Join Abounding Faith’s Dream Team! Let’s SHINE together and continue inspiring women and men, young and older and those of diverse backgrounds to grow in their faith and love for God.

You can learn more about all the benefits that come with joining Abounding Faith’s Dream Team on Abounding Faith’s Patreon page.

No matter where you are on your faith journey, I hope Abounding Faith’s inspiring written, audio and video content is helping you as you travel from your wilderness into your Promised Land.

Blessings as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams!

May the rest of the year be the best of our year!

Let’s SOAR together in 2022 and beyond!

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5 Ways to Grow in Your Faith this Summer and Beyond

It’s no secret that we’re living in trying times. It seems like everything that can be shaken is being shaken.

No matter what’s going on in the world, isn’t it great that we don’t have to drown in doubt or despair or discouragement?

We have a Savior who calms the sea and walks on the water. Glory!

If you’re looking for ways to grow in your faith in God, be sure to keep reading your Bible, praying and worshipping.

I also hope you’ll check out Abounding Faith’s inspiring and uplifting written, audio and video content.

Abounding Faith is here to help empower and equip you to stand firm in your faith and help your faith be fueled, your hope ignited and your heart set ablaze with the love of God!

Here are 5 ways you can boost your faith this summer and beyond (plus a bonus at the end).

May you be encouraged and inspired as you walk by faith, prepare for your breakthrough and dare to live your God-given dreams.

And thanks for continuing to show your support for this Christian Latina Author. We’re still pretty rare.

GET READING: Abounding Faith’s FIVE Christian living and devotional books are a perfect addition to your Summer Reading List.

These edifying books will help strengthen your faith and are great to read solo or with your small group or book club.

Abounding Faith’s empowering books have been inspiring Pastors, Pastors’ wives, missionaries, evangelists, chaplains, Christian counselors, ministry leaders and Bible school students as well as people just starting out on their Christian walk or living in women’s shelters and nursing homes.

These edifying books are filled with inspiring Bible verses, action steps, prayer prompts, space to journal and more. Three of the books are the inspiration for three of the classes I teach at a Bible school. God is Good!

Feisty Faith, By Faith, Crossing Your Jordan River, Abounding Faith and Waiting on God Well are available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

While you’re on Amazon, please take a moment to leave a kind rating and review for Abounding Faith’s books. That helps to spread the word about these uplifting Bible-based books to others.

KEEP READING: If you’re looking for an inspirational blog to help boost your faith, you’re welcome to check out and catch up on blog posts right here at MiraculousLovely.com This blog is updated every Monday.

I pray you’ll find encouragement and inspiration in each post and it’s a great way to find out about some of my new and upcoming projects. The more times you visit this blog, the merrier.

LISTEN UP: The uplifting Abounding Faith for Today podcast has 40 short and encouraging episodes that will help bolster your faith.

I’ve shared some of my favorite Bible verses, excerpts from my five Christian living books and devotionals, thoughts on grief and loads of encouragement and prayers in the different episodes and during my Feisty Faith Chats. I’ve also delighted in sharing empowering messages during my Motivational Monday Coaching Messages.

If the podcast is inspiring you, please subscribe, leave a kind review and rating and share the podcast with others who could use this Bible-based encouragement.

You can listen to the Abounding Faith for Today podcast wherever you listen to podcasts including:

WATCH THIS: Looking for inspiring videos to help fuel your faith? There are 155 encouraging and uplifting videos on Abounding Faith’s YouTube channel The short videos are shot near and far (including during past short-term missions trips, vacations, around NYC and trips to my bday castle…).

Check them out and be sure to subscribe, like, comment and share the site with others.

GET LEARNING: Longing to live with passion and purpose? The “Discovering Your God-Given Purpose” online course will help empower, equip and encourage you as you discover the call of God on your life and dare to live your God-Given Dreams.

This short and user-friendly course will help you:

  • Uncover your unique God-given purpose
  • Identify action steps you can take to live your God-given dreams
  • Develop a lifestyle of living out God’s call on your life

This online course is short and sweet and packed with valuable insight. You can take the course at your own pace and from the comfort of your home. I pray this online course will help you SOAR!

God knows what’s on the other side of your YES!

BONUS – STAY CONNECTED: I’d love to continue encouraging you on your faith journey. If you’re looking to grow in your faith and would like a dose of inspiration delivered right to your inbox, I invite you to sign up to get my weekly emails.

When you sign up, you get immediate access to the FREE 5-day Feisty Faith Devotional Sampler PDF. The sampler gives you a taste of the inspiring and empowering 365-day devotional, Feisty Faith: Trusting God Day by Day devotional (available on Amazon).

I look forward to sending you uplifting emails on Monday afternoons with info about my latest encouraging blog posts, upcoming books and other projects or events.

There’s plenty of ways to grow in your faith this summer and beyond. I hope you’ll make Abounding Faith’s inspiring written, audio and video content part of your faith journey.

Let’s SOAR together in 2022!

May the rest of the year be the best of our year! Blessings!

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Tuesday Thoughts (Part 3)

I’ve recently started sharing some Tuesday Thoughts on Abounding Faith’s social media. From time to time, I’ll share some of them here. If you’d like to see them as they’re released, be sure to connect with Abounding Faith on Instagram. Blessings!

Live for the audience of the One who truly matters 🔥

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s keep our eyes fixed on Christ as we dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” (Mark 8:36 NIV)

Are you choosing Purpose over being Popular 🔥

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s stay Kingdom-focused as we dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:33 NIV)

Let’s Choose Worship over Worry and Faith over Fear 🔥

Christian Creatives & Communicators and Audacious Dreamers & Doers and Ministers & Leaders, let’s remember who we are and Whose we are as we walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live our God-given dreams 🙏

Tuesday Thoughts 🔥

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NIV)

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.comThe “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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“In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16 NIV)

Hey Audacious Dreamers and Doers, I hope you’re gearing up to have a blessed summer and second half of 2022!

I also hope you’ve been using your gifts, talents and abilities to continue to SHINE for Christ!

If you’re feeling stuck or unsure about what to do in this season, I’d be delighted to coach you through your process to help you reach your breakthrough.

As your Life Coach, I’d be honored to prayerfully help you gain the clarity, confidence and courage to say yes to God’s call on your life.

I can prayerfully help you:

  • Discover your God-given gifts
  • Develop your unique giftings and skill set
  • Dare to live your God-given dreams

Let’s SOAR together this year!

Be fierce. Be faithful. Be fruitful. Be who God is calling you to be!

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.comThe “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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Reflecting on Crossing Your River Jordan Online NYSB Class

“Thank you for this class. It’s helping me see my life differently.” – Crossing Your River Jordan NYSB Student

“Thank God I got to be in this class. It lifted up my spirit.”- Crossing Your River Jordan NYSB Student

What a delight and honor it’s been teaching the Crossing Your River Jordan online class through the New York School of the Bible! God has been meeting us in such special ways.

The empowering class is based on the story of Joshua and my book Crossing Your Jordan River: How to Possess and Prosper in Your Promised Land.

Can’t join us for class this month? No worries. You can pick up a copy of the inspiring book for you and yours on Amazon. If the book encourages you, please leave a kind rating and review.

P.S. Stay tuned for info about the online classes I’ll be teaching in the Fall. Registration opens Monday, August 1st.

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Celebrating My Dear Late Dad – Father’s Day 2022 Edition

I recently found this precious photo while organizing more pictures. This is MY DAD in his element! I don’t remember ever seeing this pic before so it’s such a gift.  I love how my Dear Dad is beaming and looking up and waving. I’m not kidding when I say my Dad LOVED marching in parades here and abroad. Here he’s representing one of the institutions he helped found and lead for some 20 years. He loved doing community work and being among people… Yup, That’s My Dear Super Extroverted Dad 💖

When my Dear Dad liked a picture, he made sure to print it out and have it enlarged. He did that with both pics in this post. Here’s a photo of me with a bouquet of flowers I picked while visiting my Dad’s childhood home. (I felt like Dorothy among all the poppies in “The Wizard of Oz” lol) .. .What joy my Dad had showing me around his hometown and what joy I had exploring where my Grandparents lived with their seven kids! So grateful for my trips with my Dad to his beloved Ecuador. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s eternally Spring in my Dad’s hometown. (Did ya notice my colossal sunburn that I mentioned I got from being at the parade during that visit? Yup, being by the equator without sunscreen will bake you in and instant if you’re not careful…)

So grateful for so many photos, videos, writings, sweet memories and more!

I’m amazed that my Dear Dad’s legacy lives on through my sister and me and mi familia … that’s part of the reason why I delight in sharing all these tributes to my Dear Dad.

If you’d like to learn a little more about my Dear Dad and some of our travels, check out, By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad.

If you’d like to read some more of my tributes and learn about some of what’s helped me through this grief journey, check out the blog post links below or Season 6 of the Abounding Faith for Today podcast. I pray you’ll be encouraged on your own grief journey.

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Be Encouraged and Inspired by Abounding Faith as You Walk by Faith, Hope and Love

People are hurting and need hope and encouragement. Abounding Faith is here to edify, encourage, empower and inspire you as you walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live your God-given dreams!

Be sure to check out Abounding Faith’s uplifting content including:

If you’re being blessed by Abounding Faith’s content, I’d love to know.! Please like, follow, share, leave a kind rating and review and feel free to leave a comment here or DM me on Instagram with your feedback.

I appreciate your prayers and support as I continue to walk by faith, hope and love and dare to live my God-given dreams!

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