by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Dec 6, 2025 | Facing fears, Ministry
“Names of Jesus used by the demons: Son of God (Mt 8:29) Jesus of Nazareth (Mk 1:24) Holy One of God (Lk 4:34) Son of the Most High God (Lk 8:28) Even the demons recognize Jesus as incarnate—truly God, truly man.”Posted @ Twitter by Dustin Benge Today a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Apr 17, 2025 | communion, culture, Facing fears, Suffering
In a recent webinar on spiritual conflict resolution, the facilitator referenced A.W.Tozer who observed that our necessary task in spiritual conflict is to keep Christ at the center of our vision. When we do, if the devil is lurking, he will only be seen at the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 22, 2023 | Emotional Literacy, Facing fears, God's attributes
From July 23,2021: “FEAR GOD AND YOU WILL FEAR NOTHING ELSE,” GOV. RON DESANTIS I’m always surprised when I discover that many Christians don’t understand the biblical call to fear God. It doesn’t mean quake and quiver with trembling anticipation of being struck by a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2023 | Facing fears, spiritual battle, Worldview, worship
It seems that this is the second time in this Lent series that Dan Wilt, author of Jesus in the Wild, has referenced a personal experience of being on a high place, a tempting prominence where the view is breathtaking, and the heady (and frightening) feeling it can...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 29, 2023 | dreams, Facing fears
The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. I talked to someone who told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jan 21, 2023 | Facing fears
From my journal on this day 2014… Most of the time the things one fears the most fail to materialize. And the ways in which one anticipates obstacles simply fail to appear. Thank God that He runs before us more than we can ever realize and clears the path for us...
