Has anything painfully shocking ever happened in your life? Something that rocked you to your core? A moment or a season when all of a sudden life turned to death?

"[Leah] conceived again and when she gave birth to a son she said, ' This time I will praise the Lord.' So she named him Judah." (Genesis 29:35; italics mine) As a woman, my heart goes out to Leah. Her marriage to Jacob was contrived by her self-motivated father, Laban, through trickery and deceit, resulting in a union with a man who didn't love her as he did another. This upsetting reality couldn't be denied. If it's been a while since you've read this story, it's in Genesi

"Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her." Luke 1:45 Sister, there is profound blessing in believing without seeing. Blessing that supernaturally transpires from the deliberate rejection of natural doubting. Blessing that comes from knowing The Mighty One has spoken; therefore, faith will be made sight. Blessing that takes rattling shape from bones lain dead— dry, dormant, and deemed lifeless. Blessing that emerges from grave impossibil