Weekly Magazine | God’s Promises Are Always Kept
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Dear Friends,
Have you ever held onto a promise so long it started to feel like maybe you’d misheard God?
Most of us have been there. Waiting past the point where it made sense to keep waiting. Wondering if God forgot, if we got it wrong, or if the window somehow closed while we weren’t looking. That quiet uncertainty is real, and we don’t want to rush past it here.
But these stories won’t let us stay there, either. This week, you’ll meet a woman who spent years chasing her calling, only to find it in a season of failure and flour. You’ll hear from Lysa TerKeurst about a pumpkin that showed up uninvited and became a parable. And you’ll follow a family who said yes to moving across the globe when yes made no earthly sense.
None of these stories are tidy, but running through each one is the same conviction: God does not make promises He intends to abandon. He doesn’t waste a single season, a single surrender, or a single moment of faithful waiting.
Encouraging you in God’s truth,
Purpose-Fool: Finding My God-Given Purpose | Lisa Banirian
What does baking bread have to do with discovering your calling? Lisa Banirian traces a journey of surrendered dreams and hard-won clarity, learning that purpose isn't found in striving but in trusting the One who designed us for it. A beautiful meditation on timing, obedience, and becoming who God made you to be.
That’s How Seeds Work | Lysa TerKeurst
Lysa TerKeurst reflects on a surprising pumpkin growing in her yard to illustrate a deeper truth: what we plant in our hearts matters. Spiritual growth takes time, but God faithfully produces fruit when we stay rooted in Him.
God's Mysterious Ways | Nancy Kreitzer
Why would God call us away from everything familiar? Nancy Kreitzer reflects on her family's move to South Korea and what it taught her about surrendering her own map for God's. An honest and ultimately freeing look at what it means to trust a God whose ways are higher than ours.
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Purpose-Fool: Finding My God-Given Purpose
Finding Your Calling by Trusting God’s Timing.
By Lisa Banirian
I spent most of my adult life chasing my calling in a wayward pursuit. But if God had handed me the roadmap of my purpose in life, I would have missed the privilege of knowing and walking alongside Him through the masterful journey He designed for me.
My journey toward God’s purpose for me did not begin with clarity, but with the scent of bread.
An Early Gift
There is no scent quite like freshly baked bread or the sweet, intoxicating aroma of pastries drifting through the air as you step into a bakery. That smell has the power to transport me into a memory. Since I was a young girl, I always felt an uplifting joy walking into a bakery and seeing the beautiful variety of pastries through the display glass. Baking was always there, quietly woven into my story.
Yet that gift lay dormant for years—not forgotten by God, but held in reserve for His perfect timing. Though I worked in my neighborhood bakery in high school, I never imagined it becoming more than a summer job. What I didn’t know then was that God would later use that very gift to reveal a hidden dream—at the most unexpected time of my life. During COVID. On maternity leave. With a newborn in my arms. In between moving houses.
This was not the season I would have chosen, and it certainly wasn’t the success story I had imagined. In fact, my greatest spiritual breakthrough came not from achievement—but from failure and despair.
