About the Author

From This Heart Of Mine …

I have set at the feet of many faithful preachers and Bible class teachers and pray to be able to sit at many more.

I have many notes in the margins of my Bibles and plan to continue studying and making more.

I have written a few Bible studies for women along with devotionals.

I am not a Bible scholar; I am a student of God’s Word.

I love studying God's Word, I mean I really love it. 

I pray for a continual hunger for God's Word.

I strive to teach the things that Jesus and the apostles taught when the Church was first established in the book of Acts and all throughout the New Testament. 

I have taught ladies Bible classes, spoken at ladies' events, taught teen girl's Bible classes, children's Bible classes and am currently teaching a 'tween/teen' Bible class and a young wives and mother's Bible class.

I believe that the Bible is God's inspired Word and that Jesus Christ is God's Son.  I believe that Jesus Christ willingly died on a cruel cross so that I would/could have the opportunity to choose Him.

I believe that love grounded in the truth of God's Word is the vehicle by which we reach and teach others.   Love cannot be grounded in false teaching and be pleasing to God.

I love the Lord; I mean I really love the Lord and I ask Him continually to help me love Him more.

I trust the Lord and I continually ask him to strengthen my weak faith.

I strive to memorize Scripture.

I pray for protection from Satan and his evil deeds.  I ask you to pray for me too! 

I get discouraged.

I am an introvert who strives to find ways to serve the Lord that fit being an ‘introvert.'

I pray for a gentle, meek, quiet, humble heart and spirit, I pray for wisdom, guidance, and discernment and at the same time I also pray for courage to lovingly stand firm on the truth of God’s Word regardless of what it costs me.

Does all this mean that I am something special, that I think I am perfect, absolutely not!  Don’t put me on a pedestal, you will be disappointed!  I am very much aware that I am a sinner, a sinner saved by the grace of God, a sinner that strives to be pleasing to God.  In my striving I acknowledge that I cannot earn my salvation, my love for Him compels me to do everything I can to be pleasing to Him though.   When we truly love someone, we want to be pleasing to them, don’t we?  We know how to be pleasing to God through the study of His Word.   I am also aware that I can be nothing or do nothing for Him without His help and guidance.  I cannot get to heaven without going through Jesus either!

Why am I starting this site?  With all the advancing evil in this world, I need to be doing what I can to show others that all is not lost, that there is hope in God, the God of creation that stands with outstretched hands pleading for us to open our eyes and choose His path.

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”  Isaiah 6:8

What can you expect from my writings? Devotionals, Bible studies and Bible lessons written for women and children by me.  Excerpts from the notes in the margins of my Bibles, thoughts from my heart and words of encouragement.  Occasionally, I’ll share links to devotionals, Bible studies, Bible lessons and words of encouragement from other faithful Christian women.  You can expect and be assured that everything I have written or will write will be and has been prayed over and scrutinized through God Word’s before it's sent out.  There is a terrifying warning in Revelation for those who would dare to tamper with God’s Word, whether through false teaching or twisting it to change its meaning.

Revelation 22:18-19  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

One of the first few things I’ll be sharing is the Bible study I’m in the final stages of writing titled, ‘Knowing Our Enemy.’

After that I want to share how I use and have set up a prayer journal and then after that I want to give you a peek at my faith journal.  I am getting older, yes, I am in the fall/winter season of life and am slowly realizing that I can’t continue to serve the Lord in some of the more physical ways that I have in the past, but I am not ready to retire from God’s Work.  When I get really discouraged and allow the retirement attitude to creep in, I pray that God reminds me of the urgency of keeping on keeping on.  A quote from Carol-Dodd Smith, whom I was privileged to hear and be in the audience of in the fall of 2021, sums up what I want the rest of my life to be, “Lord, use me until I’m all used up and then take me home.”  Mrs. Carol-Dodd Smith was called home to her reward in 2022.  She worked tirelessly doing what she could for the Lord even as she battled the cancer that would end her life sending her to her heavenly home, what a legacy she left!

As evil ramps up, I need to do more for the Lord.  I need to continue working for Him in this fall/winter season of life!  I too want the Lord to use me until I’m all used up and then take me home.

Patsy @ From This Heart Of Mine