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Rachelle Antoine

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  • Change Chronicles:Week 4, The Real Me

    John 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I feel the real me emerging under the dross. The fire pruning the impurities I once imagined were me. I feel a grief creep up as I lose… Read.

  • Change Chronicles: Week 2, Why Am I Hiding from Me?

    Matthew 25:25–26“So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant…’” The Lord Speaking Last night, I came to a realization that led me into a 24-hour fast. I spent time with God journaling, praying, listening.… Read.

  • Change Chronicles: Week 1, Hannah’s Suffering & How It Shifted My Perspective of God—and Everything

    1 Samuel 1:7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. I sat with God the Monday after New Year’s. I spoke with Him, and He spoke back to me. It was an intimate and sacred… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 52, Grievances of My Mother

    Exodus 20:5b–6 “…punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” I was recently listening to voice messages I had sent to a friend earlier this year. In… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 51 — For Lack of Discipline

    Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid. The Meat of It I was sitting in Bible study as one of the men was sharing. On his lap lay his Bible, opened to Proverbs 12:1. As I read that verse, I was stunned. You see, I haven’t been very disciplined in… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 49,Facing Me

    Ephesians 4:22 You were taught , with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires’ to be made new in the attitude in your minds, and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 48,The Man I Ran From: How the Holy Spirit Revealed the Root of My Insecurity

    Proverbs 19:3 — A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord. I have been running for a long time.Running from my calling. Running from what I desire. Running from what feels difficult.Running has become so familiar that it feels natural—even when I’m running from the very things I long… Read.

  • Grief Letters :Week 47,Hope Cries Out

    Romans 2:5  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. HOPE CRIES OUT Hope has been calling out to me lately. It’s been beckoning me to believe—to stop dwelling on negative things and instead take hold of hope.… Read.

  • Grief Letters : Week 46, Why Me?

    Psalm 10:17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear My PSALM, a lament of the aFFLICTIONS OF my SOUL How Long O Lord? Why have you forgotten me Why are you so far away from my time of trouble? Why must I be… Read.

  • Grief Letters: Week 45, The Grief of Change

    Ecclesiastes 7:3,“Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. Shifting Towards Change I’ve been a Christian for over 15 years, and somehow I’ve never read the Bible cover to cover. For the longest time, that felt like a failure on my part. I always felt like I should be farther… Read.