Author: Jamie Ainsworth

I have a sweet friend who said, “I’m dry, and I know it. I keep asking the Lord to bring me out of this wilderness. I tell him, ‘Lord, I’m ready. I’m tired of wandering. I’m just ready to be done.’” I thought about what she said for a long time. 

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I ate really well on Sunday. It’s my day to rest and worship with my family, so I ate several huge, vitamin-filled meals. Someone served the food to me, too, so what’s better than that? I didn’t even have to make it for myself, so by the end of the day, I was fat and happy. Then Monday came, and even though I’m off on Mondays, I filled my day with a MILLION things I needed to do for the week. The hunger pangs started toward the end of the day, so I ate a little snack to get me by, and then I kept going full speed ahead. No slowing down, y’all! Continue reading

“Trust and obey, for there’s no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.”

I have some friends who have a “word of the year.”  It’s a word that the Lord has impressed on them, and He seems to be teaching them all the time about that word. Everywhere they turn, they are being shown a new thing by the Lord about their word of the year. I totally get that, because for about five years, God was impressing a word onto my heart. As in, it took FIVE YEARS for the word to truly sink in. And the word is….

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In Matthew 5, Jesus pulled away from the crowds that were following Him simply because they were curious or enamored with His miracles. He found a private spot on the mountain and sat down with His disciples to talk. And this is what He said… Continue reading “When I Grow Up”

I woke up one day somewhere in the middle of my twenty-ninth year a little panicked. I had been walking with the Lord about five years at the time. I had a comfortable life. I had married a wonderful man. I had a great job. Things seemed to be going so well. But somehow, Continue reading “Now That I Have Seen, I Am Responsible”