Kim McKenzie -Global

10/09/2026

You don’t become more spiritual by becoming less honest about what is happening inside you.

A difficult thought is not automatically a dangerous thought.

An uncomfortable feeling is not automatically something you need to silence.

And a question does not mean your faith is failing.

Sometimes we are so determined to have the “right” response that we never stop long enough to understand our real response.

But God already knows what is there.

David understood this:

“Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.”
Psalm 51:6 NKJV

God desires truth in the inward parts.

Not the edited version.

Not the spiritually acceptable version.

Truth.

So bring Him the thought.

Bring Him the feeling.

Bring Him the reaction you don't understand.

Bring Him the question you're almost afraid to ask.

Then stay long enough to explore it with Him.

You don't have to believe everything you think.

You don't have to obey everything you feel.

But you can stop rejecting yourself long enough to discern what is actually happening within you.

That's not moving away from God.

That's learning to remain with Him in truth. 💛

09/09/2026

This is an important part of learning to abide.

You don't have to reject what's happening inside you in order to remain close to God.

A difficult feeling surfaces.

A thought makes you uncomfortable.

Something someone says triggers a strong reaction.

A question appears that doesn't fit neatly inside what you've always believed.

Our instinct can be to deal with it quickly.

Suppress the feeling.

Reject the thought.

Find the correct answer.

Quote a Scripture over it.

Move on.

But look at David's prayer.

“Search me… know my heart… know my anxieties…”

He isn't hiding his inner world from God.

He's inviting God into it.

That's very different.

Your feelings don't automatically tell you what is true.

Your thoughts don't automatically need to be believed.

But they don't automatically need to be rejected either.

You can notice them.

You can become curious.

You can ask what they are revealing.

And you can do all of that while remaining in relationship with God.

This is where discernment begins to mature.

I can remain with God AND remain present to what is happening within me.

I don't have to abandon one to have the other.

And when I stop being frightened of what I might discover inside myself, I become increasingly available for God to show me what is actually there.

Abiding gives me somewhere safe enough to look.

STAY CONNECTED YOURSELF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS!💛

08/09/2026

You don’t have to keep finding your way back to God.

You can think, mess up, fail, feel, question, explore and even wrestle
while remaining with Him.

That’s the beauty of abiding - remaining.

You’re not visiting His presence.
You’re learning to live from it. 💛

07/09/2026

We can make abiding sound beautifully peaceful.

And sometimes it is.

But the Greek word menō, translated abide, carries the idea of remaining, staying and continuing.

That matters because remaining becomes much more revealing when staying is difficult.

When you're disappointed.

When God feels silent.

When something you believed is being challenged.

When you're angry.

When you've prayed and nothing seems to have changed.

When you simply don't understand.

These are often the places where we feel pressure to resolve something quickly so we can feel secure again.

But you don't need everything resolved in order to remain.

You can say:

“God, I don't understand this.
I don't like this.
I feel awful today.
I don't know what You are doing.
But I am staying with You here.”

That's not weak faith.

That's relationship strong enough to hold an honest response.

Abiding doesn't require you to pretend everything is fine.

It gives you somewhere to remain when it isn't.

And sometimes trust looks much less like certainty and much more like this:

I'm still here.
And I'm staying with You. 🕊

💛 If you're learning to trust God when you don't have all the answers, my FREE eBook Trust – Faith's Foundation will help you explore this more deeply.

Link in bio.

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

Yesterday we looked at the Greek word Jesus uses for abide in John 15:

menō — remain present, stay, continue (Strong’s G3306).

Today I want you to notice the word remain.

Because remaining matters most when you don’t know.

When something doesn’t make sense.

When a prayer hasn’t been answered.

When an uncomfortable feeling surfaces.

When something you’ve always believed is being challenged.

When you simply don’t know what God is doing.

This is often where we rush in and try to make ourselves feel safe again.

Find the answer.
Fix the feeling.
Reject the thought.
Decide whether it’s right or wrong.
Put it back in a box we understand.

We Christians can be remarkably uncomfortable with “I don’t know yet.”

But Jesus gives us another option.

Remain.

Stay connected to Him while you explore.

Stay while you question.

Stay while you listen.

Stay while you test what you’re hearing.

Stay while you notice what is happening inside you.

You do not need to manufacture certainty in order to remain secure in Christ.

And you certainly don’t need to leave His presence to investigate something difficult.

Abiding gives you somewhere to remain while you don’t yet know.

That is where discernment begins.

Not with a hurried answer.

With the security to stay long enough to discover what is true. 💛

01/09/2026

I used to hear the word abide and think it described something I needed to achieve spiritually.

Then I began looking more closely at Jesus' words.

“Abide in Me, and I in you.”
John 15:4

The Greek word translated abide is menō.

It means to remain.

To stay.

To continue.

And suddenly Jesus' picture of the Vine became beautifully simple.

A branch doesn't produce life.

It receives life because it remains connected to its source.

It doesn't manufacture fruit.

It doesn't strain to become more fruitful.

It remains.

And from that relationship, something begins to grow.

Trust.

Peace.

Discernment.

Desire.

Joy.

Fruit.

Perhaps we've made spiritual formation more complicated than Jesus did.

The invitation isn't always:

Try harder.

Sometimes it is simply:

Stay with Me.

Over the next two weeks, I want to explore this little word ABIDE and discover just how much Jesus packed into it.

Because I increasingly believe that learning to remain may change the way we understand almost everything else. 💛

30/08/2026

There’s something rather lovely about Sundays at home. Good food, nowhere we need to rush off to, and Basil making absolutely certain nothing edible goes unnoticed.

He may not be much help with the cooking, but enthusiasm certainly isn’t the problem.

Sometimes joy really is found in the simplest, most ordinary moments.

Good food. Good company. A slower day.

And a very hopeful dog waiting for something to fall on the floor.

Happy Sunday!

28/08/2026

There is something about the phrase “his heart is established” that I love.

This isn't describing someone who has finally managed to control every outcome.
Bad news can still come.
Life can still be uncertain.
There are still things we won't understand.
But something has become established within them.

Their heart has learned where to rest.
Trusting in the Lord.

For me, this is a much bigger vision of trust than simply trying harder not to worry.

Trust is foundational.
It affects how we respond when we don't know.

How we make decisions.
How easily fear takes over.
Whether we can surrender control.

Whether we believe God will still be there when the outcome isn't what we hoped for.
And ultimately, whether our hearts can remain with Him when life becomes uncertain.

That's why understanding trust matters.

Not because mature Christians should never struggle with it.
But because God wants to establish something deeper within us.

A heart that increasingly knows where it is safe to remain.

That's why I wrote Trust: Faith's Foundation.

It isn't simply about telling you to trust God more.

💛It's an invitation to understand what has shaped your trust, recognise what may still be influencing it, and make room for God to establish something deeper.

👉If you're ready to explore the foundations of your own trust, download Trust: Faith's Foundation free through the link in my bio.

27/08/2026

That’s how I sometimes approach the fact that many Christians don’t want to actually deal with the past. They would rather say, “I’ve forgiven it. Why would I dig it all up again?”

We don’t want to look at what happened anymore.

So we bury it.

We forgive.

We pray.

We move on.

And some of that is good and sincere.

But if it’s still influencing how you respond to love, authority, vulnerability, yourself. Or God. Then perhaps it hasn’t disappeared simply because you don’t look at it anymore.

Sometimes the body needs to be exhumed...

not so we can keep staring at it, but so we can finally give it a proper funeral.

There is a difference between living in your past and allowing God to help you understand what your past produced in you.

💛David actually invited God to search what was inside him.

That’s not spiritual regression.

It can be part of spiritual maturity.

Perhaps we don’t revisit the past to live there. We allow God into those places so they no longer have to remain buried.

👇Save this one. I’m going to talk much more about this distinction.