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Abounding Faith Book Giveaway!

ANNOUNCING A BOOK GIVEAWAY!!!  I’m delighted to be giving away 1 signed copy of one of Abounding Faith’s books. To enter, be sure to follow Abounding Faith on Instagram and check out today’s post with more details about the giveaway. The winner will be announced on Instagram on Monday, September 7th.

Abounding Faith’s uplifting books offer Bible-based hope, encouragement and inspiration. They have inspired ministry leaders, Bible school students, those just starting out on their faith journey and women living in shelters, etc.

If you know someone who could use a boost of faith, hope and love, please share this post with them so they can learn about the giveaway.

Please note: Instagram is not affiliated with this giveaway in any way.

Three cheers to the secret donor sponsoring this giveaway. God is Good! Blessings!

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Giving Honor Where Honor is Due

Countdown to Book 5: I’d like to take a moment to give honor where honor is due. I’m so grateful for these and other giants of faith God has allowed me to meet along my faith journey (pictured above). Their ministry helps to inspire me to keep fighting the fight of faith!

I’d also like to take a moment to honor the diverse group of ministers pictured below. I’m so grateful for the Pastors and leaders the Lord has surrounded me with, including the late and great Pastor Johansson (top left). Each of these leaders in the following pic have prayed for me, encouraged me and have cheered me on at pivotal times in my life. Walking by faith ain’t easy, but it helps to have godly men and women by your side.

May God continue blessing their ministries. God is Good!

I’m looking forward to sharing more news about Book 5. Please stay tuned. Blessings!

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Your Voice Matters

“Latinos don’t buy books.” I recently heard a legendary Latina author say she still hears this statement from major publishers. As a Latina indie author and former journalist, I find that quote upsetting. I’m so grateful that my diverse Readers include Latinas and Latinos.

As I gear up to release Book 5, I’d like to remind mi gente that your voice matters. Your purchases matter. Your Amazon reviews matter!

To all my Readers, I appreciate all of you who are encouraging me and praying for me as I live out the call God has placed on my life in this season and for such a time as this. If my books have encouraged you, please tell others about them and take a moment to leave a 1 – 2 sentence review on Amazon. It makes a huge difference in the book publishing world.

And please stay tuned for more info about the fall release of Book 5.

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

Abounding Faith’s books are available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

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Celebrating My Readers

Looking at these pics of my Readers makes me smile.

Working on books can seem glamorous sometimes, but there’s some painstaking work that goes on behind the scenes long before the book is released. I’m in the thick of the process right now with Book 5 and covet your prayers.

Why go through this arduous process again and again? Many times it can feel like an endless uphill climb.

But I write on!

Mainly because this is God’s call on my life in this season. He created me to create with words. He designed me to be a writer. And writers write. I’ve been writing since I was a child, eventually became a successful journalist and then God called me to lay down journalism and finally to pick up the pen to write for His glory. There’s a joy that comes from stringing words together that honor God.

The second reason I continue writing is because God has called me to encourage and exhort others. I’ve been walking with the Lord for quite some time now. I’ve learned a few things along my journey. God is asking me to share those insights with you, my Reader.

It’s a joy to encourage women and men of diverse backgrounds and ages. I love how my Readers represent different nationalities. This pic is just a snapshot of the lovely women and men who read Abounding Faith’s books and have attended various events over the years. I’m so touched that my books have blessed ministry leaders, Bible school students, those newer on their faith journey and women in shelters and nursing home residents, etc.

As I gear up to launch Book 5, I’m already praying and looking forward to all those who will read this latest book.

Will you pray for me as well? As Book 5 enters the production phase, I could use extra prayer support in this leg of the journey.

I look forward to sharing more news as the release date gets closer.

If you’d like to get sneak peeks at the cover and be among the first to know the title and other Book 5 news, you’re invited to become an Abounding Faith Dream Team member. You can learn more here.

Thanks for your continued support and prayers. Blessings!

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Reflecting on Past July Missions Trips

Three of the 5 short-term missions trips I’ve been on took place in the month of July. My missions trips have taken me to the Amazon Jungle in Brazil, the Andes Mountains in Ecuador (left pic) and the streets of Ethiopia, Honduras (right pic) and Peru (bottom pic). Missions trips weren’t on my radar when I was growing up, but when God calls, it’s best to listen. He knows what’s on the other side of our YES!

I share many miraculous and lovely testimonies from these trips and more in my book, By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad. By Faith will stir your heart to follow God’s plan for your life. It includes a chapter on how to live your God-given dreams and a discussion guide you can use with your small group or book club. By Faith is available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

Here’s a short excerpt from By Faith:

“I must say I am an accidental short-term missionary. At least in my eyes. I never grew up wanting to go on missions trips. I certainly didn’t know any missionaries. Over the years, I did discover that I enjoyed traveling. My goal years ago was to travel to the cities that hosted a certain major sporting event. And God allowed me to go to stadiums in Athens, Greece, Sydney, Australia, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. Not bad! I am so grateful for all the wonderful places I’ve gotten to travel to over the years.

But God had different plans for me. After years of traveling for vacation and for work and after my amazing time in Israel, I knew it was time to give back.

All this talk about traveling can sound kind of glamorous to some, but it’s not always easy to get on a plane, leave all your loved ones behind, and go to some foreign country. There are shots to take beforehand (and sometimes gigantic malaria pills to swallow during the trip!), money to raise, vacation time to be used. There’s also lots of prayer and fasting to get ready for the spiritual battles that will take place.

Surprisingly enough, sometimes the toughest battles are fought long before even setting foot on the plane!”

May you be encouraged, empowered and inspired by reading By Faith. Blessings!

P.S. – All these pics were taken at such pivotal moments in those trips. That stadium experience in Honduras (top right pic) was incredible! I felt like an Olympian for Jesus. God is Good!

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Forward By Faith Week

Walking by faith isn’t easy, but I think many would agree it’s been especially challenging during this year. As you look ahead to the rest of 2020 and beyond, are you feeling tempted to stay frozen in fear or paralyzed by panic? Are you resigned to just go through this season or are you ready to grow through it? God has designed you for a specific purpose and for such a time as this. I’ve dubbed this week Forward By Faith Week. I’d like to share five different tools and resources to help you grow deeper in your faith and to live with passion and purpose.

Get Reading – You can grow deeper and stronger in your faith this summer by continuing to read your Bible and by reading other inspiring books . Abounding Faith’s books are perfect for your Summer Reading List. These Bible-based books will empower, encourage and inspire you as you walk by faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! By Faith, Crossing Your Jordan River, Waiting on God Well and Abounding Faith have been inspiring Pastors, Pastor’s 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 great to read on your own or with your online small group or book club. Abounding Faith’s books are available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

Get Learning: – Do you believe that God has designed you for a specific purpose and for such a time as this? Now is the perfect time to explore what God has in store for you. The “Discovering Your God-Given Purpose” online course will help to stir your heat to dream big and say yes to God’s will for your life. This short and easy-to-follow 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.

Learn more about this empowering online course by clicking here.

Get Guidance – It’s important to surround yourself with people who will help encourage you on your faith journey. If you’re fretting about your future and things seem a bit fuzzy, I’d like to help bring some clarity to your life. I’d like to help you go from feeling:

  • frazzled to focused
  • frustrated to fruitful
  • fearful to fierce

As your personal life coach, I would prayerfully help you set goals, hold you accountable and help motivate and inspire you along your journey. Learn more about private life coaching by clicking here.

Get Moving – So many people dream of writing a book one day. Are you one of them? If you’re feeling called to honor God by writing a book but you’ve hit a brick wall and could use some guidance from someone who has been down that road before, I’d be delighted to answer your burning questions and help you break through that specific area you’re struggling with. Learn more about the “Write that Book” Strategy Call by clicking here.

Get Connected – If you appreciate and value Abounding Faith’s books and other projects and you’re looking for a way to be part of Abounding Faith’s community and to join forces and SHINE together, I’d like to invite you to join Abounding Faith’s Dream Team. Let’s continue to encourage, empower and inspire women and men near and far as they walk by faith and live their God-given dreams, The different levels have just been updated. You can learn more by clicking here.

Many blessings to you as you live by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams.

Stay Well. Stay Encouraged. Let Your Faith Arise!

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Reflections on Teaching the Abounding Faith Class During Such a Time as This and an Announcement

“This class has uplifted my faith.” – Abounding Faith Online Class Student, NYSB

“The class gave me the opportunity to explore how God is faithful in every area and aspect of life.” – Abounding Faith Online Class Student, NYSB

What a delight and honor it’s been to teach the Abounding Faith: Choosing Faith Over Fear online class during this historic and unprecedented time in our nation and world!

We prayed for the students who would sign up for the class. God assembled a lovely group of people in New York, North Carolina and even Taiwan. The class included Sunday school teachers, an outreach leader and a deacon. God is Good!

What an honor to get to teach my second class at the New York School of the Bible! And what a blessing to get to teach a class based on one of my books! The Abounding Faith devotional is dear to my heart. I’m grateful I get to encourage, empower and inspire people in their faith in God.

As the pandemic, protests and other drama was raging, our class faithfully met online and dug into God’s Word and found the hope, inspiration, instruction and fellowship that was so needed at this time.

“Your book is really encouraging.” – Abounding Faith Online Class Student, NYSB

If you couldn’t join us for this class, you can get the uplifting and challenging Abounding Faith devotional in print or on Kindle on Amazon. It’s perfect to read on your own or with your online small group or book club.

And please mark your calendars. I’m thrilled to announce that I have been invited back to teach another online class for the NYSB next June. I will have the honor of teaching from my book Crossing Your Jordan River: How to Posses and Prosper in Your Promised Land. You won’t want to miss it.

Blessings to you as you continue walking by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams.

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Book 5 Update

“You did a stellar job with uplifting, encouraging, and inspiring the reader.” – Book 5 Editor

I’m thrilled to share that Book 5 has entered the editing phase. The quote above is just part of the lovely feedback my editor recently sent me.

God is Good!

I’m so looking forward to sharing more details with you about my upcoming book.

God willing, Book 5 will be released in the fall. Please stay tuned!

And please pray as Book 5 goes through the editing and production phases. Even now, please pray for all the readers who will be touched and encouraged by Book 5.

If you’ve been blessed by any of Abounding Faith’s books, I’d love to know. Please feel free to leave a short and kind review on Amazon or to email me at info@aboundingfaith.com.

If you haven’t had the chance to read any of Abounding Faith’s books, now is a great time to pick up copies of Waiting on God Well, Abounding Faith, Crossing Your Jordan River and By Faith for you and your friends. The books are available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.

Abounding Faith’s uplifting books will encourage, inspire and empower you as you walk by faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams. Blessings!

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7 Bible Verses to Help You Abound in Love

During these trying times and days of civil unrest, let’s continue to look to the Bible for direction and guidance on how to treat each other. The Bible, God’s love letter to us,  admonishes us over and over again to love one another.

God is the epitome of love. And love is one of the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

This passage from 1 John 4:7-12 spells things out so clearly and so profoundly:  

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

God’s love for us is Miraculous and Lovely. May we allow God’s love and grace to flow through us.

Here are 7 Bible verses to help you as you grow and abound in God’s love for others:

  1. Love is the mark of a true disciple – “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34-35)
  2. Love means caring for others – “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’” (Matthew 22:37-40)
  3. Love brings unity  – “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  (John 17:20-21)
  4. Love is crucial among God’s children – “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. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:26-29)
  5. Love is to be shared generously  – “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.” (Romans 13:8)
  6. Love should extend even to your enemies – “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)
  7. Loving God means loving others – “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” (1 John 4:20)

If all this loving others seems hard and overwhelming, fret not. Ask God to fill you with His love, grace, mercy and compassion for others. 

If you’re grieved and appalled by all the sin and injustice going on, remember that we live in a fallen world where hate and violence and sin run rampant. But where sin abounds, grace much more abounds (Romans 5:20).

We’re called to love one another and overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21). 

Blessings to you as you walk in abounding faith, hope and love!

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)

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 Bible Verses to Help You Move Forward By Faith During the Pandemic

As we slowly navigate through this “new normal” and carefully enter different phases of reopening during the pandemic, it’s natural to feel worried, afraid and a mix of other emotions about these uncertain times.

But God doesn’t want you to stay frozen with fear.

God can help you move from fear to faith, worry to worship and panic to praise.

This transition time, that includes the civil unrest and protests going on nationwide, can be an opportunity to  drawer closer to and trust God in a deeper way.

This new season can be a fresh start for you.

May you move forward by faith! And may you be filled with God’s love, joy, peace and boldness.

God is speaking during these trying times. May you take the time to really listen to what He is saying and draw strength and hope from Him.

It’s so important to continue reading the Bible and to keep praying and praising.

May you take courage knowing that as a believer:

1. God’s Holy Spirit Empowers You  – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7 KJV)

2. God Can Handle All Your Burdens – “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:6-7 NIV)

3. God is Working things out for Your Good – “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NIV)

4. God Will Provide for You Day by Day – “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:33-34 NIV)

5. God is in Control from Beginning to End – “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

The road may be rocky now, but it won’t stay that way forever. May you take heart and keep your eyes fixed on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of your faith (Hebrews 12:2 NIV).

Stay well. Stay Encouraged. Choose Faith Over Fear and Move Forward By Faith. Blessings!

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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