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  • Bible Truth for Everyday Life

    A Free 2025 New Year Devotional to Help You Connect With God

    December 26, 2024 /

    Do you want to start 2025 by renewing your commitment to spend time with God?  Today, I have a free 2025 New Year devotional for you.  Mornings With Jesus will help you connect with Jesus every morning for the next 31 days! I originally wrote this devotional several years ago, but I have updated it once again.  If you are looking for a devotional to help you start the new year with God, this is a powerful tool to lead you into his presence. Why I Wrote This 2025 New Year Devotional I spent years reading my Bible and practicing a morning devotional routine without regularly encountering God in the…

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  • Purposeful Living

    An Online Advent Devotional for Less Stress This December

    November 22, 2024 /

    Last year, I released an online Advent devotional to help others slow down, cultivate wonder, and connect with the Lord.  After receiving wonderful feedback, I made a few updates and am excited to release a second edition this year! Here’s a glimpse into this new online devotional.  I pray it blesses you deeply. Still My Soul: An Online Advent Devotional for Deeper Peace I sit with the dawn and let my thoughts gather.  The grey morning light lifts her sleepy head, and the thin air is embroidered with a crimson cardinal’s song.  My mind is scattered, and I feel like a woman who is stretched too thin.  I’m thinking about…

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  • Overcoming Trials

    15 Bible Verses About the Presence of God

    April 3, 2024 /

    Mirrored on sleek water, the expanse of sapphire sky comes down to touch us.  My little boy presses a delicate fingertip into its blue, and it feels like heaven has come to dwell among us.  God’s Word has a great deal to say about the presence of God.  Today, we’ll explore 15 Bible verses about the presence of God.  Then, we’ll learn how to apply these verses to our lives. Let’s dive into God’s Word. Bible Verses About the Presence of God According to God’s Word, we cannot escape God’s presence.  God wants this assurance to be a source of comfort to us.  He is always with us, caring for…

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  • Overcoming Trials

    7 Bible Verses About Being Stuck (and Tips for Breaking Free)

    March 6, 2024 /

    Somewhere along the thin line between night’s inky darkness and the hoary glow of daybreak, I place a flat palm on the frosted windowpane.  It’s late winter in our world.  I feel stuck inside and stuck in life today.  Opening my Bible, I begin my search for Bible verses about being stuck in life. We all feel stuck at times. We feel stuck in habits we cannot break, jobs we don’t enjoy, and callings that suck the life from our bodies. During these times, God’s Word offers encouragement and inspiration.  Today, we’ll explore seven Bible verses about being stuck.  We’ll also look at five practical ways to get un-stuck! Let’s…

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    How to Hope in God When He Makes You Wait

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  • Bible Truth for Everyday Life

    14 Free Devotionals for Women Who Want to Grow With God

    November 15, 2023 /

    Would you like to connect with God in deeper ways and experience his presence like never before?  I hope to help you encounter God in ways that transform your life forever.  For this reason, I have written a collection of free devotionals for women.  I pray these devotionals bless you deeply and lead you closer to God’s heart of love for you. Free Devotionals for Women Below, you will find a collection of free resources to help you connect with God in your daily devotional time, bolster your prayer life, and provide healing in difficult seasons.  I pray these words bless you and lead you straight into the arms of…

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    10 Replenishing Bible Verses About the Goodness of God

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    Feeling God’s Presence: How to Connect With Him

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  • How to Be Still and Listen to God
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    How to Be Still and Listen to God: 7 Practical Tips

    October 25, 2023 /

    Daylight finds us with an unseasonable chill, and we close the windows and wrap ourselves in fleece blankets. Pulling out my Bible, I flip to a familiar Psalm.  It reads, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).  I’ve been learning how to be still and listen to God for decades and have yet to master the practice. My mind has been racing again lately, and silencing my thoughts today feels next to impossible. Instead of being critical of my racing mind, I am kind to myself today.  I lean back and let the thoughts pass like clouds in a sapphire sky.  Finally, after several minutes, my mind…

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    A Surprising Reason You Might Feel Spiritually Stagnant

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    How to Have a Closer Relationship With God: 8 Ways

    November 21, 2018

    Feeling Discouraged? This Is for You . . .

    July 14, 2021
  • Purposeful Living

    16 Practical Ways to Keep Your Heart on Fire for God

    August 30, 2023 /

    We gathered around the campfire as fireflies illuminated the hoary breath of dusk.  As I watched the flames dance, I thought about my walk of faith and felt a deep desire to fan the flame of my passion for God.  I want to be a woman who is on fire for God, and when I feel the flame dwindling, I come back to today’s list of practices. On Fire for God Let’s get right to the heart of the matter today. I pray these practices will help you fan the flame, too. 16 Ways to Stay on Fire for God 1. Stay on fire for God by seeking him for…

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  • Purposeful Living

    How to De-Stress, Rest With God, and Cultivate Whimsy

    July 26, 2023 /

    Not long ago, our family went to the cabin because we needed space to rest with God. We needed to break away from household projects and craved downtime for sitting beside smoldering campfires and soaking in the afternoon sunshine along the reservoir. My right shoulder blade had been twitching for days—a sign that I’d been pushing too hard, running on fumes, and succumbing to worry and anxiety. The Importance of Resting With God After 48 hours spent climbing muddy mountain roads, dipping nets in swampy bogs in pursuit of red-spotted newts, eating sandwiches beneath open skies, and bathing in mountain spring water, I noticed a shift in my body.  The…

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    How to Change the World From Hidden Places: 5 Bible Verses About Leaving an Impact

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    How to Step Out in Faith When the Next Step Feels Scary

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  • Purposeful Living

    Spiritual Renewal: 5 Fresh Ways to Connect With God

    July 19, 2023 /

    A rumble of thunder pulled us from sleep, and we spent the morning in stillness while God washed the world with warm, summer rain. The thin pages of his Word rustled in the breeze while the rain crackled like fire licking up dry grass.  Something about a slow morning felt like an invitation to encounter God for spiritual renewal. Summer tends to be a full season for our family. The kids are home from school.  Days fly by quickly.  My time with the Lord is often short and almost always interrupted. Maybe you can relate.  Perhaps you want to connect with God, but you’re pulled in so many directions that…

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    December 8, 2017
  • Bible Truth for Everyday Life

    How to Be Still Before God When Your Mind Is Racing

    July 5, 2023 /

    After a few dry days, the rain returned this morning.  Torrents fell in silver swaths that drowned out the melody of birdsong and swept us into the synchronous song of the sky.  I sat by the window and let the crackling hush of falling water wash over me as I resisted the urge to begin the work of the day.  It felt like an invitation to learn how to be still before God all over again. Being still before God has never come easily for me. I find a quiet place to sit, and within three minutes, I’m writing my grocery list or planning dinner. Perhaps you know how it…

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Welcome to Encountering God in the Ordinary. I'm Stacey Pardoe, and I hope to help you connect with God in ways that refresh and restore your soul. I warmly invite you to get started by checking out my library of free devotional books on my “Free eBooks” page.

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Lean Into Grace

Are you tired of feeling stuck in some area of your life? God wants to work in your life to accomplish what you've been unable to achieve through willpower alone. Let Lean Into Grace lead you into God's love as he heals your heart, refreshes your soul, and sets you free.

A mother-daughter shared devotional journal just for teen girls and moms!

This mother-daughter devotional helps moms and daughters discuss tricky topics, including purity, peer pressure, dating, and more, while also leading them both closer to God.

I also offer more than a dozen free eBooks and online devotionals!

Check out this link to view and download more than a dozen free eBooks and online devotionals.

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  • 12 Ways to Destroy the Works of the Devil
  • 10 Spiritual Reflection Questions for Growth and Renewal
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  • A Free 2024 New Year Devotional to Help You Grow With God
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