Welcome to Growing Your Faith

Do you want to live a faith-filled, peace-filled life where God is at the head of all that you do?

Then you have come to the right place!

Hi, I am Amy, and this is my blog, my story, and my prayer for you.

Here at Growing Your Faith…

I want to help you to experience all that God has for you by encouraging you to grow a deep and intimate relationship with Him through the pages of Scripture, Bible Studies, planning and journaling, the wonderful pages of faith-filled books and creative outlets such as art and Bible Journaling by walking with you through stories from God’s work in my own life along with blog posts, How-to’s, videos, Bible studies, journaling, ebooks and courses.

I want you to know:

• You are loved by your Heavenly Father
• He wants to have an intimate relationship with you
• He gave you your passions, talents, and gifts
• You can use your creativity to deepen your relationship with God
• You can use your creativity to glorify God in many different ways

My Promise to You

I promise to provide content that will encourage and uplift you by maintaining a Christ-focused environment. Always holding onto the main focus of this blog, to share God’s message, for God’s glory.

I promise to always provide content that points you to a deeper relationship with God and to encourage all women to embrace a deep and intimate relationship with God the Father, opening themselves up to all that He has to offer.

My Journey

I want to start by saying I have not yet arrived. I still have a long way to go to be all that God has created me to be and lay down all the burdens that I carry. Some I have worked through, but every now and then the past re-visits and I have to team up with God and fight yet again.

It is as simple as recognition of the problem and trusting and leaning into Jesus.

It is as complicated as depression, anxiety, and fear.

With God by my side and fighting for me, I have been set free of these giants and many others.

Through a series of years God has led me on a path to freedom. And I know that He wants the same for you as well. I pray that you will allow me to walk alongside you on your journey to freedom.

As a child, I had read about and seen a love that I did not feel in my own life. But as far as childhoods go, mine was not that bad. As I grew, though, I felt that something was missing. I felt that I was not good enough, and most of the time I suffered from anxiety (though I had no clue what that was at the time) worried that I had done something wrong.

In my young adulthood life this transformed into anxiety, depression, fear, and fear of rejection. This leaked into every part of my life, my very young marriage, my parenting, my other relationships, and my health and sleep. I had a hard time submitting to my husband. I felt that my children did not love me when they misbehaved. I was depressed for days because of a harsh word or thoughts of my family.

I tried medication and doctors, but knew that I really did not want to go that route.

As things got worse, I felt the whole world was out of control. I had many thoughts about how much better everyone would be without me. I knew deep down that this was not the life that God had for me, but did not know how to change it. There were times when I could not even pray!

But then God…

On one of the worst days, three little words written on my hand changed my life.

And God began a new work in me and my heart. This blog is a manifestation of that change. My journey, my heart, is here in these pages. I pray that if you have a story like mine or know someone who does, that these pages will bless and encourage you. I pray that God’s light will shine through each word and open your heart to all that He has for you.

I am still chipped and broken. I still have work to do, trusting to do, leaning in to do. The enemy knows my weakest spots and tries to weasel his way in, but that giant is already defeated.

Meet Him where you are right now. Learn to spend time with him through the pages that call to you. Learn about His love in Scripture and great books. Learn how to fight giants through studies and words of those who have been there.

This blog is possible only by the grace of our Heavenly Father and His love. I can share my story, my creativity and my silliness with you only because of His grace and mercy for a broken young girl. His love astounds me still. I am so in awe that He can not only use this broken girl but if I allow Him to, He can also heal my broken places.

And this girl, she is a child of the Most High, loved and treasured, just as you are. I pray that my journey and this blog will be a blessing to you.