Pastor Eve Mercie

Guilt is not your enemy. Guilt that leads you somewhere useful is one of the most important signals the human conscience can produce. The problem is not guilt itself. The problem is guilt that has nowhere to go. The person who carries guilt without a mechanism for releasing it will eventually be crushed by the … Read more

Real change is one of the most honest things a person can pursue, and one of the hardest. It is honest because it begins with an admission: who I am right now is not who I want to be, or who I should be, or who God made me to be. That admission requires more … Read more

Prayer can begin to feel like sending letters to an address you are not certain anyone lives at. You pray. Nothing visibly shifts. You pray again. The situation continues as it was. The silence between the asking and the answering stretches long enough that the question begins to form: is anyone actually hearing this? Scripture … Read more

Refuge is not a passive concept. It is a decision. The person who runs to a refuge has assessed their situation, recognized that they cannot manage it alone, and chosen to place themselves inside something stronger than themselves. The running itself is an act of faith. It says: I am not enough for this, and … Read more

Angels in Scripture are not the soft, decorative figures that populate greeting cards. They are messengers who arrive at the most critical moments in the biblical narrative. They announce births that will change the course of nations. They close the mouths of lions. They strike armies overnight. They appear at tombs. They guide fleeing slaves … Read more

Standing firm is not the same as standing still. The person who stands firm is not passive. They are actively holding a position under pressure, refusing to be moved by what is pushing against them, maintaining what they know to be true when the circumstances are making it difficult to believe it. Standing firm is … Read more

A person’s love for animals is not a distraction from their faith. In Scripture, it is often a reflection of it. God made every animal before he made humanity. He looked at the creatures he had formed, the fish in the sea and the birds in the air and everything that moved on the earth, … Read more

The words you say about someone when they are not in the room are one of the most revealing things about your character. Not the words you say to their face, which have the natural regulator of their presence. The words that come out when the social pressure is removed, when the audience is sympathetic, … Read more

A sister knows you before you have constructed a public version of yourself. She was there in the years before the reputation, before the accomplishments, before you figured out which parts of yourself to lead with in a room full of strangers. She knows the original version. She has seen the unguarded moments. And she … Read more

The phrase “the anointing breaks the yoke” comes directly from Isaiah 10:27, and it is one of the most specific and powerful declarations in the prophetic literature. The context matters. Isaiah was speaking to a people under the oppression of Assyria: a national yoke, a burden on the shoulder, a weight being pressed down on … Read more