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Jennifer Eye

About Jennifer Eye

Jen is a part of the Pastoral Care team at Love Church. On a typical Sunday, you'll mostly find her serving with the Baptism and the Welcome teams. Some of her favorite things to do are going for long drives with the music turned up and the windows rolled down and just hanging out with her family and friends. 

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Keep Pressing

Keep Pressing

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I remember feeling so frustrated in the hospital as the doctors diagnosed my baby girl with Type 1 Diabetes. I knew that Jesus had already bore this awful disease so she wouldn’t have to. I knew that by Jesus’s stripes she was already healed and that no weapon formed against her would ever prosper. I stood on the Word, casted out the sickness, prayed and believed, but her condition didn’t change. It broke my heart to see my daughter lying there, lifeless, with IVs in both arms look up at me and say, “Cast it out, mom. I’m healed. Take me home.” But her body didn’t agree with what we believed, so we stayed. 

We’ve all been there, but it may not have been in a hospital room with a bad doctor’s report. It could have been sitting on the couch looking at an empty bottle, knowing you promised never again. It could be you crying in your closet after an awful fight with your family. Or maybe you’re staring at your phone digesting rejection. Maybe even, you find yourself sitting in your car wondering how you’ll make it another day. You’ve been praying, you believed, but something in you just wants to quit. 

Hebrews 11:1 tells us that, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” I would love to tell you that my daughter is completely healed and doesn’t need to take insulin, but that is not so. She is healed, but her healing has not been manifested at this time. We continue to use artificial insulin to help her body each day. I don’t know why she hasn’t received complete healing manifestation, but I believe God’s word to be true over what I see, hear, or feel. I choose not to get caught up in the whys; instead, I ask God, “What now?”

I don’t know what struggles you are going through, but I can promise you that God is faithful. God loves you and is for you.

Throughout my journey with God, I have learned that I receive healing or freedom when I seek the Healer, not the healing itself. I don’t know what struggles you are going through, but I can promise you that God is faithful. God loves you and is for you. As you seek the Healer, you will receive your healing, transformation, or freedom from whatever has you bound.  Depression, addiction, anxiety, and fear can no longer keep you captive as you seek God and build an intimate relationship with Him. Fix your eyes on Him, not your circumstances or setbacks. Allow Him to come into your life and trust Him completely.

Romans 10:17 tells us that, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” If you are struggling in any area of your life and doubt is trying to set in, I encourage you to get into the Word and find out what God’s promises are for your life. Believe Him over what you see, hear, or feel today.

My daughter may not have received manifestation of her physical healing yet, but what we did receive is supernatural Peace. God supplied us with His wisdom, His joy, and His peace. We continue to believe that she will receive complete manifestation of her healing, and until that day we will keep praising our wonderful Lord and thanking Him for all he has done.  

I don’t know why you haven’t received your breakthrough, but I know God is for you. So today, don’t give up, don’t give in, continue to press forward focused on God’s goodness. He is faithful and true to His Word. Choose to walk by faith and not by sight; so that you too can experience victory. 

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God’s Way

God’s Way

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What is God’s way you might ask? I believe that God gives us directions on how to love and operate with those in our lives. Throughout the Bible, we are told multiple times by Jesus that the two greatest Commandments are to love God and to love others. As Christians, we are blessed to have the wisdom of the Bible; it’s our guide to help us live successfully here on earth. God has already told us through the word what we should be doing in our relationships for success, but do we do it? Check it out for yourself:

Husbands– love, submit, and lay down your lives for your wife and do not be bitter towards her

Wives– submit to your husband in everything, and respect your husband

Children– obey and honor your parents

Everyone– be slow to speak, quick to listen, slow to get angry; give, forgive, help, encourage one another, pray, give thanks; and whatever you do, do it with all of your heart, as working for the Lord and not for men.

Jesus obediently did what God told Him to do and laid down His life so that you and I could be in right standing with God. That, to me, is the ultimate expression of love.

Although we have directions on how to do life with others God’s way, we still have the choice on how we are going to respond to and love the people that God has placed in our lives. When I think about love being a choice, I’m reminded of Jesus crying out to the Father in Gethsemane.   As He prayed, face down in anguish, “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from Me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine,” (Matthew 26:39) we see Jesus’s selfless act of surrendering His will to the Father’s. We know that God’s will was for Jesus to die and be the sacrifice for our sins. Jesus obediently did what God told Him to do and laid down His life so that you and I could be in right standing with God. That, to me, is the ultimate expression of love.

Knowing this truth reminds me that I too must sacrifice my own selfish desires, wants, and even needs in order to love the way God wants me to love and treat others. As I choose to do this and follow God’s directions on how to treat others in my life, not only will my relationships improve, but I will now be reflecting the Cross back to Christ saying, “God, not my will be done, but yours in my relationships.” This shows God that I love Him enough to trust Him and His will over my own will and ways. Yes, this is hard to do and even seems unfair, especially when we have been hurt by others. But, I can guarantee you that God is faithful and He is just. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.

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