Quotes from Sharon Jaynes

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.

Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: … "In quietness and trust is your strength." Isaiah 30:15

So as you come to this final landmark of prayer—your husband's feet—you'll be praying for where his feet take him on the journey of life, what paths he chooses along the way, and how he keeps in step with God.

We naively repeat the words "for better or for worse" and then are shocked when the first hint of "worse" rears its ugly head.

James reminds us: "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up" (James 4:10, NKJV).

I don't know if you have ever experienced the suffocating confinement of others' expectations on your life, but it is a very difficult burden to bear.

flesh is the way we program our minds and actions to get our God-given needs met apart from Christ.

Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered with yours. –MARY ALLETTE AYER

You were created to make God recognizable to others—to show others what God is like.

The way you think about yourself will become the way you see yourself, whether it's true or false. Eventually, you'll believe what you tell yourself. If you tell yourself negative, distorted statements about yourself, you will act in negative, destructive ways. If you replace the lies with the truth about who you really are, then you will begin to walk, talk, and live like the child of God you already are.

Prayer is a means of relinquishing control of your husband and asking God to shape him into the man that He wants him to be.

He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection. Psalm 91:4, NLT

As God told the Israelites, "If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all" (Isaiah 7:9).

The Bible has a lot to say about our mouths, our lips, our tongues, for our speech betrays us. What is down in the well will come up in the bucket. –VANCE HAVNER

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Dear God, Help me build up and not tear down, to encourage and not discourage, and to fan the flames of hope rather than extinguish the sparks of a dream. Amen.

Theologian Rubem Alves once said, "Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it."6

We live in the in-between space—between when all that was right went wrong, and when all that is wrong will be made right again.

Goethe said, "Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Colossians 2:2-3 as my personal purpose statement, and I believe it is the purpose for women's ministry as well: "My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.