50 day devotional to help you discover hope and healing from life's difficulties.
When a water vessel is filled with dirt and stones, it cannot be used to quench a thirst. But, when this vessel is emptied, there is an opportunity to fill it until it overflows with fresh, cool, life-giving water. Water that quenches. Refreshes. Soothes.
Our souls are the same: filled with fear, doubt, and disappointment. Running over with unanswered prayers and lingering questions. When we empty the mess of our lives in the presence of God, we're offered an invitation to come. An invitation that allows us to come empty - so that we can be filled until we overflow.
Come Empty - Pour Out Life's Hurts and Receive God's Healing Love guides you through fifty days of experiencing the fullness of God's love and His ability to overcome life's hurts. Each day, you will receive assurance of God's presence in your difficult situations. Each devotion gives new vision and perspective when you're hindered by emotional blind spots, and leads you to experience God's peace and wholeness. When His invitation is accepted, He will set your captive mind and heart free to live fully by His grace. The question is not if you will get an invitation. The question is, will you come?
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For the Spiritually Thirsty
Come Empty is a beautiful, thought-provoking, life-changing devotional that has helped me on my journey closer to the heart of God. I especially found Day 19 "Fellowship of the Beloved" to be encouraging when I was experiencing some difficulties in my church. For those spiritually thirsty, Come Empty points the way to be filled in Christ.
If You Love Devotionals, Come Empty Satisfies
Come Empty is the latest book authored by Saundra Dalton Smith. The author is transparent and real as she explains her own feelings of spiritual emptiness that led to the writing of this book.
Come Empty is more of a devotional and journal than a standard non-fiction book for Christians. The author challenges her readers to roll-up their emotional sleeves and invite the Lord into the empty, broken, and painful crevices of our hearts.
The challenge is to find fifty (50) devotionals that speak to whatever your need for the day may be (e.g., relationship with God, change, illness, etc). In total, the author provides the reader eighty (80) devotionals to choose from.
Each day's topic includes a journal entry, a response from the Lord, a Scripture reading for your own meditation as you answer the questions posed, and a simple prayer at the end of the day's reading.
I love to journal and the challenge to draw nearer to the Lord through the daily devotional readings is utterly irresistible to me. It may be to you, as well. Like the woman at the well, I have laid aside my water pots to say to you, "Come Empty!" and quench your parched soul.
Great Devotional To Allow God To Heal Our Hurts
Saundra Dalton-Smith in her new book, “Come Empty” published by SonRise Devotionals gives us Pour Out Life’s Hurts and Receive God’s Healing Love.
From the Back Cover: When a water vessel is filled with dirt and stones, it cannot be used to quench a thirst. But, when this vessel is emptied, there is an opportunity to fill it until it overflows with fresh, cool, life-giving water. Water that quenches. Refreshes. Soothes.
Our souls are the same: filled with fear, doubt, and disappointment. Running over with unanswered prayers and lingering questions. When we empty the mess of our lives in the presence of God, we’re offered an invitation to come. An invitation that allows us to come empty – so that we can be filled until we overflow.
Come Empty – Pour Out Life’s Hurts and Receive God’s Healing Love guides you through fifty days of experiencing the fullness of God’s love and His ability to overcome life’s hurts. Each day, you will receive assurance of God’s presence in your difficult situations. Each devotion gives new vision and perspective when you’re hindered by emotional blind spots, and leads you to experience God’s peace and wholeness. When His invitation is accepted, He will set your captive mind and heart free to live fully by His grace. The question is not if you will get an invitation. The question is, will you come?.
If we are carrying something in our hand then we have to let that item go if we expect to pick up and carry something else. Ms. Dalton-Smith has given us a devotional that is designed to put down the hurt and pick up God’s healing for that hurt. Ms. Dalton-Smith has grouped her devotional into eight sections: Relationship With God, Relationship With Others, Negative Emotions, Identity, Change, Illness, Emotions, and Gratitude. We all get hurt in one of those categories this devotional is designed to help us allow God to heal our wounds. At the end of each chapter there are Going Deeper Questions and then a Simple Prayer. I believe this book is a resource that will be used over and over again. I also think it is a great gift to give to friends and family who might be hurting as well. I recommend this book highly.
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