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Hey there! I’m Jodie, and I’m glad you’re here. I’m a wife, a mom, and a writer who thinks God is infinitely tender, infinitely strong, and infinitely the reason we can lives marked grace, purpose, and joy. He’s pretty amazing, and nothing make happier to talk about him with friends like you! Read More

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prayer bookmark - Isaiah 44:3

A (Printable) Prayer for the New Year

January 8, 2022

O Holy Night lyrics

O Holy Night: The story behind the song

December 17, 2021

Advent Cards on table

DIY Advent Printable to Ignite Praise

November 26, 2021

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Feeling weary or like your faith could use some fr

Feeling weary or like your faith could use some fresh fire? 🔥 Join me over on the @momsinprayer podcast - link in bio!
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#podcast #prayer #momsinprayer #parenting #faith #gamechanger

Making prayer hands ✋ and bookmarks 👉 for 202

Making prayer hands ✋ and bookmarks 👉 for 2022. If you want to join us but aren’t sure what to pray for, I’m sharing a few ideas + a printable bookmark on the blog. ✍️ Link in bio.
(And P.S. Noah likes @rbtberndt the best so he got the hand-tracing job! 😊)
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#prayerhands #prayer #familyprayer #prayingthescriptures #newyear #prayersforchildren #howtopray #bookmark #printable #freedownload #lovemygrandkids

(Post Update: Oops! It’s Isaiah 44:3! Old eyes a

(Post Update: Oops! It’s Isaiah 44:3! Old eyes and tiny Bible print!! 😂 Thanks to those of you alert enough to let me know!!!)

If you’ve been around this space for awhile, you know I like to pick one verse every year to pray over each of my kids. I think about where they are—spiritually, socially, emotionally, physically—and I ask God to help me “lay the track,” through prayer, for what he might want to do or accomplish in their lives in the coming year.
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Once upon a time I wrote each child’s verse on their “hand” (see IG highlight HANDS for the recap), but now that the kids are older, I make bookmarks. And in recent years, I’ve added one “all-family” prayer that I put on the back side 👉 of each person’s bookmark. I guess I see the two-sided version as a way of asking God to work in our individual lives, even as he grows us as a family. 🙏
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Our 2021 family prayer was based on 1 Thessalonians 3:11, “May our love increase and overflow for each other and everyone else.” (That seemed like a good one, especially as we welcomed a new son- and daughter-in-law in 2021. 🥰)

Our 2022 prayer is from Isaiah 44:3, “Pour out your Spirit on our children, your blessing on our descendants.” When I read that verse a few weeks ago, I thought: That’s it. That’s all I could ever want for my kids and grandkids: 🔥 More and more of God’s Spirit, along with his blessing. Yes and amen. 🔥
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I like this long-term approach to prayer for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is that extending our time horizon equips us to wait well, even when it looks like nothing is happening. Plus, the watchful prayer posture can open our eyes to God’s answers as they unfold—answers that might look nothing like we expected!
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Want to join me? If you aren’t sure what to pray, help yourself to Isaiah 44:3 (I feel like it fits all of us!), or pick a short verse from one of the prayer calendars you’ll find under RESOURCES at JodieBerndt.com. ☺️ Happy Almost 2022!

“Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we;

“Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we; let all within us praise his holy name!”
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Merry Christmas from our crew to yours!

Love O Holy Night? 🎵 Same. What could be more c

Love O Holy Night? 🎵 Same. What could be more captivating than a “thrill of hope” for the weary soul, or the promise of a once-and-for-all end to oppression? So good.

It’s a magnificent song—as is the story behind it. Which begins in France in 1847, when a wine merchant, a guy whose church attendance was spotty at best, was asked by a parish priest to write a poem for Christmas mass….

You can read the whole tale on the blog (link in bio). And in the meantime… Let all within us praise His holy name! Merry Christmas!
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#OHolyNight #Christmas #christmascarols #merrychristmas #songs

Happy birthday @rmberndt_jr 🎉🎉🎉 Last week

Happy birthday @rmberndt_jr
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Last week, I pulled out the prayer hand 🖐 I made for you back in 2001, when you were just 5 years old. And oh my. God is so good.

You are indeed the righteous man who brings us great joy, the wise son in whom we delight. I love how the answer to this particular prayer has continued to unfold and take shape over the years, in ways beyond all we could ask or imagine.

Your sisters would say you’re a pretty great little brother. Three months in, and you seem to be getting the hang of the husband thing, too. ☺️

It’s been a good year—a good 26 years, actually. And we could not love you any more.

Where do you need to know God as your Comforter? H

Where do you need to know God as your Comforter? He hears your heart’s cry and longs to enfold you in his embrace. Bring him your cares and concerns as you reflect on his character. God is called the Father of COMPASSION … let’s come and adore him today.
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Download the collection of Advent Adoration cards on the blog - link in bio - or follow along in my Stories, where we’re highlighting a different attribute of God every day, with a question or two to ponder as you praise! 🙌

(Missed a day? You can find the whole series in my “Advent” highlight.)
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#AdventAdoration #Advent #PraiseGod #Christmas #Printable #FreeDownload #Comfort

An “immeasurably more” weekend celebrating the

An “immeasurably more” weekend celebrating the new Mr. + Mrs. Kuipers!🥂 Weddings are always a joy, but when you’ve known the bride her ENTIRE life and God brings along a man who loves Him as wholeheartedly as she does (and whose pickup line was “I like your Bible” 😂), all you wanna do is put on your #WarEagle sunglasses, pretend they are @UVA orange, and say THANK YOU, JESUS! 🧡
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#herecomesthebride #DearFutureMan #Charleston #Charlestonweddings #OldStAndrews #MagnoliaPlantation #Stunning #MOB #Marriage #ringbearers #dancemoves #sweethomealabama #wde #powercouple #tanzania @fad.east.africa #greatfriends #foreverlove

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