Weekly Magazine | Strengthening Your Walk with Jesus
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Dear Friends,
What a joy to welcome more than 500 new women who’ve joined us since the New Year! We’re truly grateful you’re here and can’t wait to walk alongside you.
Walking with Jesus is a journey, not a sprint. We often wish for instant strength, deeper faith, or immediate clarity—but the truth is that a strong walk with God develops slowly, with intentional steps, quiet moments, and patient surrender.
This week, our focus is on strengthening your walk with Jesus. Whether your faith feels steady or fragile, these articles invite you to train your heart in the rhythms of grace, rest in His promises, and root yourself deeply in His Word.
Too often, we put pressure on ourselves when it comes to growing our relationship with God. This week, we’re exploring what it truly looks like to build a strong spiritual foundation. Not through striving or perfection, but through slow training, daily abiding, honest surrender, and the kind of rest that transforms us from the inside out.
Wherever you find yourself today—steady, shaky, weary, hopeful, or somewhere in between—may you sense Jesus gently leading you toward Him, one small step at a time. And know that you aren’t alone! We are walking alongside you as we all learn to strengthen our walk with Jesus.
Encouraging you in God’s truth,
Slow Steps Toward a Stronger Faith | Alyson Pryor
Explore what it means to make practical steps in your walk with Jesus. Through rest, obedience, and hidden moments with God, we learn how a deep and steady faith is formed over time, not in a hurry.
The Long Soak | Sandy Mayle
Sometimes spiritual growth comes not through covering more Scripture, but through lingering in one passage. Sandy shares how soaking in God’s Word can bring deep healing, clarity, and peace.
What Moses Taught Me About Staying Faithful | Laura Sandretti
What do we do when long-term faithfulness leads to exhaustion or doubt? Laura walks us through Moses’ journey—honesty, reminders, humility, discomfort—and how God meets us in our valleys.
Also:
Journey with Jesus
Slow Steps Toward a Stronger Faith
Training to Rest.
By Alyson Pryor
After giving His lengthiest recorded sermon, Jesus closes with “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock” (Matt. 7:24). Jesus clarified that those who want to build a solid and worthy life must not merely listen to His teachings, but put them into practice. Those who have tried find this an incredible endeavor. Love your enemies? Pray for those who persecute you? Forgive, then forgive again? It seems impossible to build a life that will hold up when we cannot even bridge the gap between our own fallen natures and the words and commands of Jesus.
In my work as a spiritual director, I see many who have tried to build their lives on the rock. People come into my office nearly every day telling me how they have tried to wake up early and read the Bible, develop a discipline of prayer, or commit to a practice of worship or tithing. Many of us are tired of the spiritual disciplines being one more thing on our plate to manage, one more piece of the pie chart of our time. We are, as a whole, exhausted and overwhelmed by our attempts to build a life worth living. We have tried, and often, we have failed.
