by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 22, 2022 | confession, healing
This is one of the primary principles of healing….Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed….as the Apostle James advises…. Honesty Outweighs Perfection – by Joyce Meyer We can care too much about what...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | recovery
From 11/21/2014 Allow me to editorialize about the reported new policy of a local recovery program of not allowing even commonly prescribed SSRIs for depression to be used by their clients in recovery…..This is, in my opinion, unfortunate and unnecessary and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | worship
Moments of worship can occur anywhere, anytime! one afternoon at a cookie swap, a young lady was sharing with me about a holy moment she shared with the Lord as she was getting dressed just that morning. We never know when Christ will choose to speak to our hearts and...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | homelessness, self worth, significance
Reflection from this date in 2015… “I am tired tonight, but it is a good tired….The day was fun and productive. Students are happy and safe. One young lady who has been with us a week told me tonight as she and I went to get her some groceries that...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | holiness, sanctification
In a recent gathering in which a group of women considered a Scripture reading, we were asked to listen for the Lord bringing a particular word to our attention. For me, in the passage from Ephesians 3, what struck me was knowing “Christ is in...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | ordination
From Nov 21,2017……. For those who have followed my ministry in Bay County over the last 10 years and longer, I am continuing my pursuit of deacon ordination through a non-UMC route. I am studying under an Ordained Deacon Ministry program by Christian...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | children's ministry, family
“Don’t feel sorry for or fear for your kids because the world they are going to grow up in is not what it used to be. God created them and called them for the exact moment in time that they’re in. Their life wasn’t a coincidence or an accident. Raise them up to...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | Faith
The ISAAC PRINCIPLE revisited: Several years ago I read Carol Kent’s book, “When I Lay My Isaac Down.” From that and other things God was using in my life at the moment, I discovered what I have come to call The Isaac Principle: It is in the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 21, 2022 | worship
Sabbath is for: -ceasing -resting -feasting -embracing I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul A Song of mAscents. Of David. 131 O LORD, my heart is not sliftedup; my eyes are not traised too high; I do not uoccupy myself with...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 18, 2022 | growth, love
…Deep, deep Love. Love IS the seed of the Spirit that is sown in our depth. Its origin and abiding place is in the depths of inmost being, at the level of human spirit. It germinates and gives birth in our spirit to its own kind in us and from our spirit, as the...
