Jesus Time With Emma

                Happy New Year! I am so excited to see everything God has in store for 2023. This may also be my last blog for a hot minute because I will be heading back to college shortly for the second semester, but before I take a break from blogging I want to finish the second half of my devotional on forgiveness!     In part one I covered the fruits of the spirit, the different levels of forgiveness, what God says about forgiveness, my personal experience with forgiveness, and what we should do when forgiving just feels too impossible. Part one focused a lot on the forgiver, this blog I want to focus more on the person being forgiven.     I want to start off by sharing these verses:                 ¨Why do you see the speck that is in your brother´s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ´Brother, let me take out ...

       This topic has been heavy on my heart lately. I actually had an entirely different blog devotional written and almost ready to post, but these last few days I have really REALLY needed to focus on the concept of forgiveness. I thought I would share what the Lord has been showing me in two parts.     Galatians 5:22-23 lists the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. These are qualities a person who claims to follow Christ should possess. Depending on their situations in life, some may struggle with one or more fruits than others. Now, I´m not going to get much into my personal life because I´m not ready to make a lot of my struggles public, but the category I stumble the most in is forgiveness, which I believe would be connected to the fruits: peace, gentleness, love, and patience.      I´m sure most of ya´ll have been told the importance of forgiveness since ea...

              Hello everyone! I am overwhelmed with excitement to share with ya´ll my very first blog! I am currently a college student working to pursue a career in Christian counseling (it´s not decided for sure yet, but I want my career to focus on sharing the love of Christ!). One spiritual gift that I have possessed since I was a small child is my gift of writing. Spiritual Gift: Abilities  that God gives me so I can glorify him              ¨To each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good.¨ (1 Corinthians 12:7)       I feel like the Lord is calling me to use my gift of writing to glorify him, and I plan to do that through writing novels, devotionals, and anything that people can read and take God´s love from. My hope is that my blogs or anything that I post online for others will do the same.:)     For my first blog, I want to talk about a common ...