Send us a text Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace seems like the last place you would look for a message about marriage, but the recent Marriage Retreat Christina and Melissia went on with their husbands talked about just that. One speaker mentioned the fire being turned up 7 times, but it would be. The fire was so hot. How hot a…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. In our lives we have to be able to let God interrupt us, change our path even. The same thing goes for people we encounter throughout our day. We have to remain interruptible. Many of the miracles Jesus performed were done when he was interrupted. God can do big things in the times between, when we …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Psalm 105:1-5 ' Oh give thanks to the Lord ; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence cont…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. When we are trying to please God and our families, we are never going to be perfect. we are going to "fail" at some point. We have to remember to give ourselves grace. God gives us grace, and we often forget that he knows we are not perfect. We need to learn from what we are struggling with and move…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Zephaniah 3:11-20 ' “On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain. But I will leave in your midst a people humble and low…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. To look at all God created and not to see that indeed it had to have been created by a higher power, but instead created by happenstance is such a leap of faith. It takes more faith to be an atheist than the see what has been created and recognize there has to be a creator. God did create the earth …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Knowing our worth as adults is hard enough, being a teenager doesn't make it any easier. In this episode Christina and Melissia talk about how hard it is to get through those times in our lives when we forget where our worth comes from. Genisis 1:26-27 "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends! Keywords Faith, spirituality, community, obedience, worship, life changes, God, support, prayer, personal growth Summary In this episode of 'Christians in the Gritty', Christina and Melissia discuss the challenges of navigating life changes while maintaining a strong spiritual connection. They explo…

Send us a text Our good friend Carolyn has stepped in to help out while Christina is sick. She guest hosts with Melissia for this episode about God's glory. A video version of this episode will be available on our YouTube Christians in The Gritty Find us: https://christiansinthegritty.buzzsprout.com Our Facebook Page TikTok: christiansinthegritty I…

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Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Everything happens in God's timing. He will lead us to something and often we have to wait for our next steps. BUT in the meantime, don't wait around. Go do the work. Be sharpened. Ask God to search your heart, to refine you. So, in a way, while you wait for God's timing on what he is calling you to…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best friends. Micah 6:8 ESV “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” Find us: https://christiansinthegritty.buzzsprout.com Our Facebook Page TikTok: christiansinthegritty Instagram: christians.in.gritty…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. As humans, we want all the creature comforts. As Christians, we don’t stop wanting that and we know what our God can do. He can take our pain and He can heal any of our sorrows. But often we need the pain. Pain sometimes helps us; to be alarmed to a problem in our bodies, to help us through emotiona…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Full surrender comes from trusting God. Our obedience of what the LORD is asking of us shows God that we love him. Not obeying God completely, is not being truly obedient. “Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home w…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Melissia and Christina talk about God‘s provision and putting their trust in Him. Sometimes we try to take control of our lives and the situations we are in rather than letting God take care of us. We want to keep our worldly comforts, but God often calls us to more so we will rely on Him more fully…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God often calls us to things that we are afraid to do or we just plain don’t want to. Melissia was feeling led to speak about the rebuilding of the temple in the book of Haggai. When God‘s people finally surrendered in obedience, they were able to feel a fullness and joy from God. Christina talked a…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Baptism is the outward expression of faith. It’s your Testimony! We are not saved with baptism. We are saved only with the blood of Jesus! We are then sealed! The Bible talks about the importance of baptism, and we should be obedient to that. However, only our faith in Jesus will save us. It’s Jesus…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The greatest gift is Jesus! We get the spirit of God to dwell in us being our guide. We are HONORED with the opportunity to share the greatest gift WE can give to another person, the gift of sharing the gospel! Praise God for trusting us to be part of His message! Isaiah 52:13-15 ESV “Behold, my ser…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God’s plans for us are beyond our scope. It’s hard to know why we are going through the things we are. While we are still in the midst of it, it’s especially hard to know of what good is going to come from it all. We have to know that God sharpens us and He uses all things for His glory and for our …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. In the book of Ezekiel it talks about leaders who were benefiting from those who they were to care for. The people they were to lead. They were not taking care of the sick, the poor, the lost, or the hungry. God calls us to love one another. We have to be taking care of each other. Ezekiel 34:1-10 E…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. When we are thankful we don’t have room for worry. God did not wire our brains that way. Being thankful in prayers and remembering who God is and what He has done and can do strengthens our faith. Faith is everything! Faith is our salvation. Faith is how we have healing. Through faith we do God’s wo…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Teaching comes with great responsibility. The Bible talks about how people will be held to what we teach others, especially when it comes to children. Jesus says in Matthew 18:6 "but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a millstone fast…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We had our first speaking engagement! Oh, how we were blessed! It was a great event and we are in awe of the fact that God used us for this. We were able to hear from women who were talking about the battles they were going through. How they could relate to the message we were giving. We prayed so h…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We are not the ones who were called to convict others! We are called to love. We, as Christians, are to keep each other accountable, but God does not want us to attack each other for our choices. We let God do the convicting! The Holy Spirit will start working on us for our own refinement. It’s not …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. To paraphrase Lysa TerKeurst, who said it well, “The gap between our expectations and reality is where our disappointment lies.” It’s natural to expectations in life and have a picture of how things are supposed to be, but when those things don’t happen we get disappointed. We as Christian’s need to…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The question in our hearts should always be, “What is God asking from me”. Sometimes that means, what is he asking us to give up. Christina was contemplating this in this episode. She was feeling a personal conviction to not celebrate Halloween anymore. Now we are not saying you should do what she i…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We all try and find our worth in worldly things or achievements at some point in our lives. Often people will search after success in a secular way. I’ve been there. Do I have a good enough job yet, do I make enough money, have a husband, a home? These things can all be great but we will never get t…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. The book of Revelations seems like a very scary book, but it is a book full of hope and mercy! One day, there will be a rapture of Christians. People will be together and one person will get pulled up and off the Earth and one will get left. God is going to collect His people. So what does that mean…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God often uses the unlikely people to do his will. Those who are considered less in society and in a worldly sense. These are often the people that God rises up to do great things! In the Bible, God uses prostitutes, the sick, the poor, and woman! He uses those the world sees are less than. God take…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We as Christians should not be storing up things for moths and rust to destroy. We have to trust that God will provide what we need without having to hoard things. This only causes things to get dusty and clutter things up, or even to be ruined. We have both struggled with this and in our walk with …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. "The Kingdom of God has come near to you" It is our obligation as Christians, yes obligation, to be strong for the weak. We spread the Gospel to others with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Not everyone will accept being told about God. We cannot allow that to deter us, and we cannot take it persona…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. What legacy do you see that you are going to leave behind? Some may say money, others will say my success, and some might say my knowledge. The legacy above all, is to leave a legacy of our testimony of Jesus. How we lived our lives and how that influenced those around us, especially our children! D…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. God says he will leave the 99 to come and find the one! As the song, “Rescue” by Lauren Daigle says, “I will send out and Army, to find you in the middle of the darkest night. It’s true, I will rescue you.” One day, as Melissia was listening to this song, it clicked with her about just who is enlist…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. It went and happened. Shealyn, the one who made Melissia a mom has grown up! She is 18 and graduated high school. Off to college and in love. As our first guest ever, Shealyn talks to her mom and aunt about trusting God. Being a part of a young couple, she talks about the importance of looking to Go…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. No church is perfect, because imperfect people are there. Just because we are Christian, does not mean that we won’t mess up. We will! Then what? We need to be accountable to each other and work it out. If you are being called to a different church, then follow that. Don’t allow people to get in the…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Remember, God is always with us. Melissia and Christina talk about how God has been moving in their lives lately. How God shows up even for the mundane of life. God knows our needs and He loves us! They have a chat about the kids going back to school and about some interesting ways of studying the B…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Even as God following Christians, we have to overcome fear and anxieties. We are called to persevere not only through our struggles with these, but also to have the courage to answer God's calling to us. To be able to get up on that stage when needed. To make a podcast if that's what he is asking of…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. There is a great quote from Christian author, Jennie Allen that says, “Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people.” If we want to walk in the path God has for us, it takes surrender! We as Christians need to die to self. Which means that we are not the impo…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We need to be firm in our Faith. Not to be afraid to share the real Gospel Truth with love! We are not loving someone when we ignore our sins. Allowing others to believe false doctrine can be the difference in their Salvation. Our sins also hurt our relationship with God. We are not loving fellow Ch…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Sometimes as Christians it feels like God is punishing us or as if God doesn’t love us because of the struggles we go through. God is there for us, even in the struggles. He has an understanding that is not for us and He has the best plan for us. We can’t know the ways for God as he tells us in the …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. What does it mean to remember the Sabbath? God rested on the 7th day after 6 days of creation. Do you think the maker of the universe needed a break? Probably not. God reflected on all he had made. We need that time in our week to recharge. We need to remember who God is and regain the strength to c…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Proud to be an American. How many times have you said this in your life? If you are from America, I'm sure you have said or thought similar. If you are not from America, it is the same for where you are. Where is your allegiance? Is your allegiance to your country about that of the allegiance you gi…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Oh, to be remembered like Tabitha a woman in the book of Acts. Those who knew her, not only mourned the loss of her, but the loss of all she did for everyone. If we could only be remembered that way, what a great compliment that would be! “She was full of good works and acts of charity”. She was a d…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Life can be overwhelming, Christian or not. Although, as Christians we have the advantage of having God to look to for help. God is faithful and will help us through any overwhelming times or heavily burdened times we will have. We need to remember to look to him. Read the Bible and seek his guidanc…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. No matter where we are in life, we as Christians are called to love those around us, to be in community and to share the love of Jesus. When we feel like we are not in the place where we might end up, our own personal exile you might say, just keep loving. Keep building each other up. Make a life wh…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. We raise our children in hopes that when it’s time for them to go, they are ready. Ready for the world and ready to serve God without you. Did we teach them enough? Did we share enough of our wisdom? Even when we believe they have a good start, it’s still hard to let them move on to the next step. W…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. I’m sure we all have experienced someone not liking them. Some people may not like the way we look, the way we talk, our religion. Christina and Melissia discuss how it feels when someone attacks your character. How that can be the worse of all attacks. It’s like they are saying something is wrong w…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Parenting can be so hard. Anyone who’s done it, knows that. Christina and Melissia talk in this episode about how parenting kids that have had significant trauma in their lives can leave the child with behaviors that are not typical of other children. Often self sabotaging their own wellbeing instea…

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Have you ever thought, “Where do I belong?” Chances are, that you probably have. It’s a longing we have inside of us to seek others and have a need to belong and be liked. In the book by Jeannie Allen, “Find Your People”, she talks about how we are physically, emotionally, and spiritually hardwired …

Send us a text Christians. Sisters. Best Friends. Christina and Melissia talk about the Marriage Retreat that they just went on with their husbands as well as just marriage in general. The theme of the marriage retreat was running your race. Marriage is hard and if we are not putting God at the center of it, it can lead to the end for many. God wan…