Drenda Keesee's blog

What would you do if God asked you to do something that you knew you might get made fun of for doing? What would you do if you felt the Holy Spirit prompting you to speak up in an uncomfortable situation? What would you tell your child if you found out she was embarrassed to admit she serves God?

As I gear up for the launch of my first book She Gets It, along with Faith Life Now’s first-ever “So Get This” Women’s Conference in March, I find myself on my own journey down memory lane. Reliving my life lessons so I can share them with others has been both amazing and painful, invigorating and vulnerable.   But more than anything, I know this message must get out.   While I relive my past, I am also struck by the present circumstances women today find ...

We’re all busier than ever, and especially when you are raising children, there just never seems to be enough time. However, as a mom, I want to stress how important it is to have time alone with God, time for your husband (apart from your children) and time to serve others.   Many days I would sit in a rocker soothing one of my babies while I listened to a Bible teaching on tape, meditated on scripture, or prayed in the spirit over my husband’s work, our children’s ...

Years ago, we began to tithe, giving ten percent of our income to the church we attended, but we did not see God working in our finances. We started to do as Jesus instructed in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.” Although we started to pay off some debt, we weren’t seeing the “running over” portion of this promise in our lives.