Author: Leslie Newman

Leslie is a wife, mother to two, writer, teacher and friend. Currently, she spends her days home educating, reading, writing, and being a full time household manager. Drop by and visit her at her blog, www.journeytoimperfect.com, where she’d love for you to join her in conversations about faith, prayer, and letting go of perfect.

How to Pray Scriptures During Times of Transition

Published by Leslie Newman Praying Scriptures 4 comments
Do you need some specific prayers in a time of transition? Check out these powerful verses you can pray to help you through times of change!

If you are going through a lot of changes in your life, you may be dealing with uncertainty about the future. The steps ahead may not be easy for you to see. But we know we have a God who never changes and can see the big picture a whole lot better than we can. The best way for us to see that picture, find some assurance, and gain strength for the journey is to meet up with God in prayer and in His word. If you are going through a transition, here is a prayer plan you can use. It’s based on the word REST Finding rest in life, physically as well as spiritually, is what we need in order to make it through times of transition.  Click through below to read more and pick up your {FREE PRINTABLE}.

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How to Find Wisdom For Life

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Would you like more Godly wisdom in your life for making tough decisions and navigating sticky situations? You’ll find it inside the book of Proverbs. Click through to take a peek at God’s roadmap! #wisdom #guideforlife

What if you had a travel plan – one that would allow you to move forward in life? And what if the places you were going would lead you to wisdom? Would you want to travel those roads? I imagine a lot of us would like to take a trip like that!

Fortunately, we have a Heavenly Father who saw fit to provide us a guidebook for traveling down such roads. He gives us direction for life inside the book of Proverbs. Proverbs is a guide that can help us navigate every area of life – relationships, family, work, government, community and more.

Find your roadmap here!

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Three Verses to Pray When You Want to Trust God More

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Do you ever struggle with trusting God? Join us to discuss a key element that is the beginning of trust. Find three verses to pray that will help you develop a trusting God mindset. [Free Printable!]

Do you ever struggle with trusting God? Most all of us have at one time or another, maybe more often than not. Trust can be hard.

Perhaps you’ve been hurt in the past, and this makes it hard to trust anyone, including God. Maybe it’s hard to trust in someone you can’t see. Maybe your situation makes no sense, and neither does the time that goes by as you wonder what God is doing.

Join us today by clicking below to learn more about a key element in trusting God. Find three Bible verses you can focus on and pray that will help you build your trust. [FREE PRAYER CHALLENGE PRINTABLE!]

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How to Make This a Year of Powerful Prayer

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Prayer is our lifeline to God, a connection we need to hold on to with all our might. Step into a powerful prayer life and know God in a deeper way. [FREE PRAYER GUIDE]

Prayer is our lifeline, an absolute necessity in our daily life, the breath that sustains us whether we realize it or not.

But prayer can be hard. We can’t see it. We can’t touch it. We can’t hold in our hands. Perhaps it’s hard to understand, or we feel discouraged about it. Maybe the busyness of life makes it hard to find the time.

We all have doubts and misunderstandings about things and prayer is no different. To some, it comes naturally. To others of us, it’s been a learning curve, something that’s developed over time, something we’ve had to work at and learn about. Find out more and pick up your FREE PRAYER GUIDE by clicking below.

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Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned

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Does life look different than you though it would? Are you facing fear and doubt? Take a peek inside this true adoption story to find a living hope!

Today I’m delighted to share a post with you written by my friend, Lori Schumaker. Lori shares an incredible story of love and hope inside the pages of her book, Surrendered Hearts. If you are journeying through a difficult situation that is not turning out as you expected, you’ll find that you are not alone when you read the book or take a peek at parts of her story below.

Today Lori is sharing her own true story that points to our real source of hope when life doesn’t go as planned – Hope that came to us in the form of a tiny baby, born in a manger so long ago. It’s Jesus’ love that reached out clear across the world to bring a family together.  And this is the love that reaches out to you today, no matter where you are, no matter what you are facing.

From Lori’s post: “Hope is something we cannot live without. In order to walk through this life, we must believe in what may come and we must believe in the good that is just around the next corner. Without hope, we don’t find joy nor do we experience peace. Without hope …

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How to Have a Grace-full Thanksgiving

Published by Leslie Newman Powerful Bible Verses 4 comments
Is discouragement leaving you looking for a grateful heart? Even in difficult times there is a way to be genuinely thankful.

Thankfulness can be such a powerful thing, but sometimes it’s hard to come by. Discouragement and the trials of life can leave us wondering how in the world we can find any sincere way to be thankful in the midst of the difficulties we are experiencing. But as ironic as it seems, being thankful is powerful and can bring relief during hard times.

As humans, we are only able to see things from a very small perspective. God, however, sees from above which gives Him a grand view. Our little perspective makes it difficult to find those moments of hope when times are hard.  And unfortunately, we have an enemy who does everything he can to turn our focus to all the wrong places.

But because of Jesus in us, we can overcome the wrong perspectives and find the hidden treasures God has for us. We can reach down into the power of a thankful heart.

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How to Navigate Suffering Like Jesus

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Suffering isn't easy and can be so hard to handle! But there is help for us when we look to Jesus. He navigates suffering in a good way, and we can too!

Suffering isn’t easy. Whatever we are going through often seems to make it harder to have the right attitudes and do the right thing, doesn’t it?

If you are going through a time of trial and suffering, you’ll find a lot of wisdom in this guest post from my friend, Beth Steffaniak. Beth’s words have always been an encouragement to me, and today is no exception. In her post below, she shares a verse with us that can make all the difference in how we handle suffering. I was encouraged by this verse, just has Beth has been, and just as I feel you will be, too! 

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Are You Looking for the Joy of the Lord?

Published by Leslie Newman Equipping the Believer 11 comments
Do you want to find joy again? There's a joy of the Lord that is possible even in spite of our trials, and it just may not look exactly like what we think!

The joy of the Lord is my strength. Have you ever wondered about this verse? I’ve often thought about it and felt a little bit like I wasn’t doing something right. I’m sorry to say, but when life is hard, I don’t feel happy.

Have you ever been there? Have you ever asked yourself the question, “I wonder what I’m doing wrong?” Me, too.

It’s taken a long time, but in all my wrestling around with trying to find the joy of the Lord, I’ve realized there are quite a few things that hold me back. They are concepts about joy and happiness that I’ve struggled to make sense of.  Understanding them (or not) makes a big difference. Take a look at my list of these concepts and see what you think. 

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