by Carolyn Rice | Aug 4, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I used to meet with people who came in for prayer at our former church. One day, this woman came in wanting prayer for her niece. This other lady and I were praying for her niece, but I just kept getting this feeling about the woman who brought her niece in, and it...
by Carolyn Rice | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Things had been busy. I had two kids, a husband, a job…I was going to school, and I had a home to take care of on top of everything. I could feel my spiritual strength dwindling. One day this emptiness was just too much. “What happened, Lord? I used to feel your...
by Carolyn Rice | Jul 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
I was about to interview for Bible college. But the night before it’s as if something had come upon me, I couldn’t stop crying. I felt this heaviness, the oppression on me. It continued through the interview, and for the next three days, just this...
by Carolyn Rice | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Have you ever followed God, thinking that you would walk directly into the good things He has promised for you, and instead you end up in spiritual battles? Have you found yourself in a place of crying out to God, wondering why He led you here, or wondering if you...
by Carolyn Rice | Jul 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Have you ever felt so broken, that you wondered how God could even give you beauty for ashes? The woman held up the $20 bill for the entire Bible study class to see. “How much is this worth?” She asked. The voices of the women rang out together “$20.” Then the woman...
by Carolyn Rice | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Have you wondered how to walk with God into His plans for you? As a young child, I lived on the edge of the Olympic national forest, which is miles and miles of forests surrounding a mountain and national park that is protected from ever being built upon. Often, we...
by Carolyn Rice | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?” Mark 8:17-18 NKJV...
by Carolyn Rice | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I remember it so clearly, days that I would come home and the pain would be so great that I just lay on my bedroom floor and cried. I would cry and give my heart to the Lord, I would cry and give my tears to the Lord. The pain was just too much that I held it together...
by Carolyn Rice | Jun 2, 2022 | Uncategorized |
I was in that place of discouragement. God had promised me healing, hope and that good things were coming. Yet, it seemed that the very opposite was happening. In the last seven years, we had experienced trauma after trauma, the death of my nephew and circumstances...
by Carolyn Rice | May 25, 2022 | Uncategorized |
What do you do when you realize it’s time to let an unhealthy relationship go? Recently, I was faced with the fact that a person would never be what I wanted them to be. Instead, I hoped I waited. I prayed, I tried to love them. I tried to make them like me. And...
