Brenda Rodgers

Tag: forgiveness

  • FREEDOM: For When You Awaken Love Too Early

    “I am guilty. Ashamed of what I’ve done, what I’ve become. These hands are dirty. I dare not lift them up to the Holy one. You plead my cause. You right my wrongs. You break my chains. You overcome. You gave Your life. To give me mine. You say that I am free – how can it be? How can it be?

    I’ve been hiding. Afraid I’ve let you down, inside I doubt that You still love me, but in Your eyes there’s only grace now.”

    The lyrics above are from a beautiful song by artist Lauren Daigle titled ‘How Can It Be’. Have you ever said those words?

    Have you ever felt so guilty that God couldn’t love you?
    Have you ever felt so dirty that you couldn’t worship our Savior?

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  • Can You Accept “Purity” as a Part of Your Name?

    My name is not an exciting conversation starter. It’s not linked to another name. There is no family history revealing quirky or interesting facts about how my parents came to name me. The name “Katie”, however, is a variant of Katherine. I learned very quickly that it means “pure”.

    For a long time I didn’t quite get the meaning of pure. I used to pride myself on being a good person. To me, “good” was close enough to pure. I knew that I sinned, but I never sinned “badly”, in my eyes. I rarely made my parents angry when I was younger. I was quiet, timid, shy and out of everyone’s hair. To me, that was important.

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  • Weekend Prayers and Links

    I opened the iPad, and the text message meanest text message stared at me. It cut to my heart, and I began to seethe with anger. My heart started beating fast and my whole body shook. I went straight to my phone to text a friend. “You should see the email I got! I’m done! Done!” Then I emailed my husband, who was at work. “You won’t believe the text message I got!”

    Over the next hours I calculated my response. All the while Jesus kept coming to my mind. I tried to shoo Him away. At that moment, I didn’t want Jesus. I wanted justice. Justice was my right.

    But He wouldn’t leave me alone.

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  • Breaking the Cycle of a Single Woman’s Tarnished Past

    The years right before being set free from the nest are crucial for a young girl. They’re the years that can bring her a lifetime of peace or set her up with unwanted consequences. Consequences that she did not mean to choose, but that simply came from not having Truth to guide her.

    Truth about her worth.

    Truth about her beauty.

    Truth about her purpose.

    Soon she thinks that there has to be a better way. But the voices of untruth continue to speak to her, and she has nothing to fight them with.

    Voices that say,

    “He’s too good for you. Your past is too bad.”

    “You will never be happy alone.”

    “If you don’t do this or this or this, then you will never get a man.”

    “I’m tainted. A good, Christian man would never want me.”

    “I’ll never find someone who will accept all I’ve done.”

    So she continues to believe them, and the cycle goes on. 

    Many single women find themselves in a cycle of defeat over their tarnished pasts. 

    But you can make a break-through. 

    Today I am honored to be a guest writer at Awakened Anew where I share how single women can break the cycle of defeat from their pasts. Will you join me there?

     

    Have you heard? My new eBook Fall for Him: 25 Challenges from a Recovering Single is now available on in Kindle, Nook, and PDF formats! With the holidays coming up this would be a great gift for either yourself or the single woman in your life – maybe a friend, sister, cousin, or niece. You know – the one we don’t see? It’s only $4.99. Give a gift of encouragement to this woman today!