Happy Birthday Yes, No and Maybe
Ya’ll!!!! I am SOOOO exited about today. The release of Yes, No and Maybe Living With The God of Immeasurably More is finally here. The Holy Spirit wrote this book girls, I am only the messenger. He has a good good word for you, waiting to be uncovered… oh don’t miss it! God gave His Son to give you a life better than anything you could ask or imagine. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us (Ephesians 3:20).”
The immeasurably more life isn’t found in a bank account with more money, in a garage with a high-priced automobile, or house that Joanna Gaines designed. You can’t find it in another degree or a higher paying job. And you can’t buy it at a store. This life can only be found at the intersection of His Word and our obedience to it.
In Yes, No and Maybe, we walk through through the life of the apostle Paul, starting with his salvation experience on the road to Damascus. On the journey we discover how:
- Yes to cultivates trust in God
- No invites revelation from God
- Maybe welcomes friend with God
I invited my pastor, Chris Justice, to join me to celebrate this incredible day and to share his unique salvation experience. It’s a lengthy clip, but I promise it’s worth your time. God is the ultimate pursuer. He pursued Zaccacheus, Paul, and… well, my pastor and He is pursuing you. Have you responded to His pursuit? Have you said YES to Jesus, and invited Him to Savior and Lord of your life?
After watching, will you briefly share your salvation moment with us? I’ll pick a winner from today’s comments to receive a signed copy of the book.
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I woke in the middle of the night praying prayers to Him to pull me out of this dark place I feel caught in. I realize that I am in a spiritual battle, which means that God must have something wonderful just around the corner that satan wants to keep me from getting to! I received Christ when I was 18, but I truly began a relationship of following Him at age 26. Now, at 48, I am hungry to know Him even more. I would love to do that through reading your book. Congratulations on its release today!
I’m stuck. I’ve let my anger and disappointment overtake me. Childhood trauma and a failed marriage and no genuine family or support has me not trusting anyone or anything. I keep trying, but when a hiccup happens, I’m right back to the pit. I don’t want to continue this way. I want more and to be a better example. My head knows it, but my heart is still apprehensive.
I can relate. I just want you to know that I am sending hugs to you and prayers to God on your behalf.
It’s so true, living a mundane life. Sometimes it feels so hard to get out of the rut and into something different. Many times, my intentions are good but I still do the same thing day in day out. At my church we started a series called I quit. Both this mornings devotional and our series at church have been reminders I need to say Yes to Christ more than use excuses. Thank you!
At church yesterday, my pastor spoke on Luke 8, the parable of the sower. As he spoke, I thought about which soil I was and how I longed for Jesus in my heart, yet i have allowed all the thorns of life to get in my way. How hard was I trying to put Jesus first in my heart? Because if I pulled out the other weeds my garden would flourish with fruit!
Ephesians 3:20 has been the verse that I have made my default in every situation. Brain surgery? He can do exceedingly abundantly. Son’s addiction? Exceedingly abundantly (and btw my son is now an addiction counselor). They are words I’ve typed so many times on my phone it has them memorized. And those words keep me going in what may seem like the most impossible times. The enemy would love for me to forget those words. I cling to them all the more & His word and power that is at work in us makes all the difference every single day.
God has always been a part of my life. Although there are many times the world pulls me away and I don’t turn to God the way I should, he is always there waiting for me to return and each time I do I am struck at how far my relationship with Jesus has come and also how far it has to go. It is a peaceful, healing, and humbling realization everytime God brings me to a breaking point so that He can show me he is the way to breakthrough! May God lead you to bless the person who most needs to hear the message he has for them in your book. Thank you for answering his call.
Oh Wendy….so happy to hear about your new book. I read “Wait and See” which greatly helped me. There have been times I feel like I need to read it again. My salvation experience happened when I was 9 years old. I prayed the sinner’s prayer. As years went by, I knew I believed in God but I doubted my salvation at times. In my late twenties, I really started doubting my salvation which went on for about a year. I was miserable. I went to my pastor who said that I was concentrating on an actual date that I got saved and he explained, once saved, always saved. So I prayed the prayer again even though deep in my heart I knew I was saved all along. Now moving really fast forward to presently in my early fifties. I have no doubt at all that I am saved. Through those twenty plus years, I have sinned (and still do), disappointed God and made bad decisions. (some good decisions too). However, I cannot thank God enough for his Amazing Grace and unconditional love. During the last ten years, I have been going through a difficult time in my life. I thank God for it because it has brought me closer to God than ever. I cannot imagine not having a God in my life during this time to walk with me and carry me too. I have learned so many scriptures because of my experiences. I have learned to lean on his word and not let go of it. Some of this may not make sense to some people or sound like I am rambling. Bottom line….surrender your heart to Jesus because it is better than the alternative. Now, just because you get saved, your life will not be perfect. The Bible tells us we will have our struggles but thank God that he can walk with us and carry us through. When you are truly saved, you will always have the Holy Spirit’s conviction with you know you are doing something wrong. You will crave and hunger the word of God. It is like you can’t get enough of the Lord. I know without a doubt God is not finished with me yet. Romans 8:28 ~Lisa~
Every word of your devotion was a declaration of the life I am currently living and of the life I want to lead.
I was 11 when I accepted Christ as my personal Savior. I’m 54 now and have lived my life in and out of the light. I have fallen into the trap of the enemy that I’m not good enough so many times. The relationship with my aging parents is strained, my 2 daughters have disowned each other, and I struggle every day with unhappiness. I know God is working in me and my life situations. If only I could get this from my head and into my heart.
Praying for your families situation, Eleanor, as it resonated with similar problems with my own aging mother and five siblings. Being that I am the oldest I feel a strong desire to solve these problems but realize that only God can. Getting it from my head to my heart is a struggle here as well.
You are not alone. Bless you.
My life has been blessed in so many ways, yet I tend to focus on the unmet expectations. My husband tells me I’m the unhappiest happy person he knows. I go about my day with a smile on my face, but I struggle deeply on the inside. To others, my life is great. To my family, they suffer the brunt of my unmet expectations. I am seeking a deeper relationship with my Lord and Savior. I want to be happy on the inside and out.
What a beautiful devotion of how God turned your situation into good for his glory! My husband is always telling me I never see the good in life. I am a “glass half empty” kind of gal, and I am so tired of living this way! My hearts desire is to trust more! I’m always reminded of the song I learned as a little girl–Trust and obey, for there is no other way than to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey! So very happy for you! I love hearing news like this! It gives me hope that I can change and give all the glory to my God!
My moment of salvation wasn’t just a moment. I know others that have a specific date they can pinpoint, but for me it was more of a process – more off than on at first. Thankful for God’s patience. Now we are most often on though I do have times when I stray off the path. Still not where I want to be, but certainly not where I was.
I needed a rewind button. So many words of wisdom that I wanted to take notes. Thank you for sharing your journey.
I was 12 years old and I was so hungry for God. I was afraid to go home from church one night and a lady told me to take Jesus with me and he would keep my brother and I safe. My home life was a wreck and I found God to be my place to run when things got bad. I needed him more than anything or anyone up to that point in my life. I was saved that night and that dear lady “Sister Jerry” has gone on to be with Jesus. I still need him just as much to day as I did then.
After growing up in a highly dysfunctional family, with so much negativity and lack of love, all I wanted was to know what, “real honest love” was. It wasn’t until after I was married and had a beautiful little girl, that all I really needed was the love of God to fulfill my life.
Being invited to my niece and nephews Christmas program at their church was the beginning of my journey to accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior. It was on Easter Sunday in 1989 that God truly opened my heart and helped me to see the importance of raising our children up in God’s Word, and how much I wanted my daughter to be surrounded by His love as well.
It was a day that has forever changed me and Helped me to see that I deserve to be happy and have a good life.
Jeremiah 29:11 is a verse that I truly hold onto, to keep me focused when the devil whispers in my ear and tries to discourage me.
Congratulations on your new book, and I look forward to hopefully reading it. God’s blessings to all. ?
Wow!!! So excited about your new release…congratulations! Words can’t describe my emotions but hopefully after reading I will feel empowered to change for God, family and myself. Praying
O how I hated God and everyone around me. I thank God all the time for the darkest time in my life and that was the day I ended in a mental ward but it was what I needed God was showing me what was wrong in my life. I started slowly saying yes to God and I am so HAPPY because I am doing things that I never thought I would do.God allowed me to go through this to remake me it was scary but I am so glad I started listening. I am even finding joy in speaking. Thank you GOD.
Dear Wendy, Your devotional really struck me. Although I work now teaching at the same school where my husband teaches after years of being a homemaker, and, hionestly, like another commenter, God has truly blessed me in mayn ways. However, my years living overseas has seen Bible studies and friendships that enriched my life dry up until i’ve felt truly lonely andprayed fervently for female companonship for years, and my husband has begun keeping God at arms length only attending church but not participating in the spiritual upbringing of our children. He is a terrific man in many ways, but our marriage lacks intimicay and he is easily angered and uses the Lord’s Name in vain. I have begun to feel like God isn’t really interested in answering my prayers for a close relationship with my husband, close friends, a satisfying work environment and a less urban teaching location. I also lost my mom unexpectedly last November and she was one person I could talk to. I sure wish I could belive that God wants to give me immeasurably more. If He does, He sure is waiting a long time.
What a wonderful reminder of how God continues to pursue you wherever you are in life! I grew up in a Christian home learning about the Bible, but looking back, I can see it was very surface level. It wasn’t until I went to live in Washington for a few months in college that I realized I needed God more in my life than He currently was. I started feeling that what I knew wasn’t enough. It’s been a slow uphill climb, but my desire for learning more from the Bible and growing in my faith has continued to grow stronger these past few years. I’ve started listening more to the message on Sunday and doing more bible studies because I want to grow and learn as much as I can. I want to bring what I learn into my life so I can have a depth to my faith, not just a surface level faith. I am so excited to continue learning and I am so excited about your new book! Thank you!
I accepted Jesus at age 29, just before I got married to a ‘Christian’ man. 5 sons and 25 years later, our firstborn is an atheist (can’t wait to show him your pastor’s testimony! ) and our marriage is very close to ending in divorce. (I am the one who wants to end it)
For 3 years I have been, for the first time, Really seeking the Word and His wisdom … there are many, many questions and decisions that are not clear of how or what to do.
So I feel stuck and stagnant.
Please pray for guidance and wisdom….God will know your prayers are for us!! 🙂
THis is a powerful truth!! Set your mind on things ABOVE, not on things of this world. God’s plan is a good plan for us. Not always how we imagined our life, but He knows the plans he has for us 🙂 I think this book would be a great bible study for ladies I know. I would love to read it and share its treasure.
Such a timely word for me. Being retired changes your whole out look, at least for me anyway. My que was, do i need so many projects. Here’s where yes, no and maybe appear, right on time. So glad your book is available, love your pastor’s interview.
My salvation moment happened when I was 14 at a revival at my home church, Valley View United Methodist Church. I felt the tug of the Holy Spirit moving in my life, I went down front and committed my life to Christ. Since that time, I have walked with God daily and He has helped me through some of the darkest days of my life. Dealing with a broken marriage after 29 years, financial struggles and unemployment, broken relationships with siblings following our mother’s death, and caring for my youngest daughter with a chronic illness. God continues to love me in the details of my life.
It’s it amazing how God meets us at the need to our struggle. Every bit of what pastor had spoken on spoke the truth for my life here and now! My inner soul is weeping at the words still lingering in my heart from this interview. I went to sleep last night with an overwhelming panic like something was attacking at my spirit. Clammy, jumpy, restless, uncomfortable and lost completely lost. I love the Lord but lately been feeling so empty and alone. I couldn’t wrap my mind around what was happening to me. Then by the end not only were there amazing truth but there was confirmation being spoken to me after asking for something, anything this week I help me, to bring understanding and to bring help. I am a stay at home mother with an unbelieving husband. I try my best to seek the Lord but to keep him comfortable. I don’t have a home church or a faith to call my own because like pastor had asked the question, ”is it your faith or your parents?” with obvious cues its not mine, and my heart constantly battles with the war of my husband or my faith. Like escaping I can’t find myself to be an active member because if his disbelief. I’ve realized so much in this interview and I don’t even know where to begin. I’m do grateful that God has brought me here to help me. I pray for continued growth and soul fixing. I want to get this book so very much, and if it’s in Gods will financially for me then I will, or ill find w way or at least start praying for one. Thank you for todays message, it’s a beautiful start to October and imbin complete awe as I sit here and type out this comment. God is leading my heart, head and hands currently. May God bless you tremendously.
Mahalo Uilani Kumuhone
Wendy, you are running the race (so well!) that God has put before you. Yes, No and Maybe is another gloriously fulfilled promise to you from our Lord and Savior. Oh yes, He does immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine. I’m celebrating you and your YNM book baby today!! xo
I grew up in a Christian home and made a public profession of my faith at age 15. I have read the Bible and attended church and taken classes and prayed countless prayers from as far back as I can remember. I raised my family in the faith and my 4 kids attended Christian schools.
But my faith was really tested when my 27 year old daughter unexpectedly had a baby who has Down syndrome. WHY did God allow this disability in my precious granddaughter? My daughter was and is a believer. Was she being punished? All her friends were having typical babies. Why her? Why us? Had God forsaken us?! – our hearts cried, as my heart broke and my daughter spiraled into a deep, dark depression.
I was furious with God. As I was driving down to visit my daughter (2 hours away), I would scream at God with intense rage, until I would actually lose my voice. Because I had to put on a brave face in front of my daughter. I had to be strong for her.
How could God allow this? Why had He forsaken us? I lost the ability to pray. My faith was badly shaken. My heart was in pieces all around me. I was sinking, fading… If I couldn’t talk to God, who could I talk to?
My dear mom-in-law saw and shared my pain. We were sitting at the table, having tea, and I just broke down sobbing. I told her I could not pray, that my heart and faith were shattered.
She grabbed both my hands and said: “Oh, Sharon! When you can’t pray, the Holy Spirit prays for you!!” And then she prayed for me, too. And for my daughter. And for my sweet granddaughter.
Some time after this, I was with my daughter, and my darling granddaughter, and this unexplainable sense of peace came over me. I didn’t know how or when, but I just knew that somehow, it would be all right.
The challenges continue, most recently my daughter’s divorce from her cheating husband, my girls living with us for 2 years, and my sweet granddaughter (now age 7) having survived leukemia, now being bounced back and forth and abused by her father’s girlfriend.
While the courts have failed us in so many ways, God has not. He has helped us through.
It is still a daily struggle to trust God and not worry. To pray and not let doubt and fear take over my heart. To choose joy over anger and bitterness and worry. To count our many blessings and be thankful.
Oh how God works in my life. As I listened to the part in the beginning where the pastor say he was doing the right things in church and that he was a part of his parents faith, not his own, I could relate. I slipped away from religion during my twenties. I did not have a personal relationship with the Lord, until later in life, when the Holy Spirit descented upon me, while visiting a church in Texas with a friend and as I came to the altar, people layed hands on me and I started talking gibberish. It freaked me out big time, as I thought a demon had possessed me. It took me five years, before I would let my tongue speak it to God. Sorry I’m squirreling a bit here. Back to the subject at hand.
I was thinking about all this when I opened my devotional book by Chris Tiegreen today and read these words: “It’s entirely possible for us to appear lively–busy, enthusiastic, even “on fire” for the Lord–and still not be operating from the life of Jesus within us.” It gave me wonder, how many Christians are operating like this. And then I thought wow, I love how God connects other Christian’s thoughts and words (to deliver His message to us) and then confirms it again in another’s entity.
Hi Wendy, it’s nice to “meet” you.
I look forward to hopefully reading ,and especially sharing , your book.
I was/am blessed to have been born to Christian parents who chose to start out as missionaries. I prayed, with my mother, asking Christ to be my Saviour, at the age of 4, in a hilltop mission station house in South Africa .Very soon after, God chose to make Rev.22:20 very real to me. That was 44 years ago. I identify with many aspects of the other commenters before me, particularly chronic illness,(mine and my daughters’s) loss and seperation, friendship , marriage and family issues…I married a new, but committed, Christian auto mechanic who, despite my strong petitions to my God, became a pastor!
Above all , God is faithful and so infinitely able!
A major “Damascus Road” moment for me was the death of my dad from cancer when he was just 54 and I was 26. I didn’t expect it to happen. Until the day of his death I didn’t think he would just be allowed to die. After he passed away there was a lot of questioning and doubting but God revealed himself through the next weeks and years to develop my faith into a much richer, fuller faith. He is a God who can handle the tough questions and embrace us with a never stopping, never giving up kind of love.
I was saved by asking Jesus into my heart at a very raw age of 12 years old. Although I have certainly not stayed on the “straight and narrow”, I have always come back to Him. Even when I thought He was not with me, God never leaves my side. I do relate with some of the other comments made on here, as I have a hard time getting my head and my heart on the same page. I walk through such difficult seasons that it sometimes feels like I’m drowning. But I still know His truths. The struggle is so deep.
Thank you so much for your kind reminder today!
I grew up with Christian grandparents and my uncle was a pastor in the Assembly of God church. I remember asking Jesus into my heart around the age of 8 but didn’t understand at the time what it meant to be a Christian. I went through the motions then turned away from God as a teenager. I believed at the time if He really loved me, He wouldn’t let bad things happen to me. I was 20 years old when I felt the conviction of the Spirit. I realized something was missing and I gave my life back to the Lord that summer. It’s taken me time to pursue and grow in my walk with God but I am a new Creation and won’t go back to my old self. Thanks be to God for forgiving and saving me!
I was 14 when I came to Christ and got baptized. But he started working in my life years before that. I was 8 years old when my sister passed away. After she did my family and I saw many signs that would be more than coincidence. The biggest one was my sisters grave stone had the first three verses of Psalms 23. Which described the accident site where my sister passed away. We had a hard time going to church for years after losing my sister. When I did start going back I felt Jesus working in my life. He placed great friends and a confidence in myself that I didn’t have previously. I got baptized in the 10th grade and reconnect my committment often. I’ve had a lot of experiences throughout my life and the God experiences are incredibly powerful. I am thankful for my salvation.
I could feel your heart as you told your story. Thanks for sharing!
I would love to read your book/ books. I am doing my best to get out of a rut, brought on by becoming unable to work. I am fairly healthy, have a good mind, a huge faith, I love my family and love being supportive and helpful to anyone I can. I suffer with pain, anxiety. I live below poverty and have had very big challenges that I can’t seem to overcome. Would you please pray for me? Love & Peace