Shameless Audacity Jessica Fernandez, PhD

What do you do, when you believe the lies the enemy has told you about yourself your whole life? Yes, I said it….Your WHOLE LIFE!!!! It’s time to break the cycle of lies you’ve been believing and it is done by filling ourselves with God’s Word. When you start hearing the lies:CHANGE THE STATION!!!!! Remember what God says about you!Look at every situation through God’s eyes!Here are some questions to challenge you and encourage personal growth:What are some lies the enemy has whispe...

Church hurt is any type of emotional, spiritual, or physical harm that occurred by the church, its leaders, or its members. Maybe it was someone in your group that betrayed your trust. Maybe you feel you were wronged by the leadership in the church. Maybe you were even offended by something the pastor said on Sunday. What do you do with that? Everyone responds to church hurt differently. There are some things that I want you to consider if you are thinking about walking away from the chu...

What do you do when you are so complacent that you become personally unsatisfied and you know God created you for more? You are stuck in a place of mediocrity and you just don’t know how to get unstuck? Let’s talk about it. Here are some steps for not being complacent:Seek God with your whole heart! Level up your spiritual disciplines!Stop living off of yesterday’s victories and seek new ones! Here are some questions to challenge you and encourage personal growth:Have you been compl...

At some point during my childhood, I developed an addiction to approval that has carried over into adulthood. There was no pivotal moment. It was just a series of events throughout my life. We learn very quickly as children that if we get good grades, make the team, help others, do everything that is expected, then people will be pleased with us. So what has God been teaching me about breaking this addiction to people-pleasing?He taught me that people didn’t die on the cross for my sins. Only...

This week we’re talking regret. What do you do when you make a decision and after you’ve made that decision regret begins to overwhelm you? Unfortunately, there will come times when we will have regret, which If not managed correctly, becomes like an anchor that keeps us sinking to a bottomless sea of regret which then overcomes us with waves of grief. Grief?!?! Yes, I said GRIEF! When you’re drowning in regret:don’t get distracted by the “What ifs”!remember it’s not about you, it’s abou...

Have you ever felt frustration that builds inside because you know your calling and you know the promises in your life, but you’re not exactly living it out? The definition of frustration is “a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs” (Merriam-Webster, 2021). When you combine the promises of God and a deep sense of unfulfillment, I like to call it Holy frustration. I wonder if that is what David felt when he was ...