Tidings of Great Joy A holiday devotional from Pastor Brooke As a child, I remember sitting for hours amongst the winter’s chill, beneath the starry skies. Like every year before, there I sat, adorned in a long blue sheet, held up by an old rope belt, reciting lines as Mary, the mother of Jesus. The hills of our church didn’t stretch too far, so, while we children sat in the tiny manger, three men also hung on a cross directly in front of our eyes. As I held the tiny baby, I

Brooke Keith Ministries • Pastoral Letter Do you feel like you should be further along than you are right now? Yea. I hear that a lot in my office. Behind. My best friend felt behind. This accomplished, gorgeous woman felt behind. She’d tell me over dinners, over her lobsters and her steak, and I’d always tell her she was wrong. (Did she see the lobsters and steak?) I think about it often as I grapple with my grief over losing her. Now? I too feel behind. Sometimes? I still f

EDITORIAL & SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS Four Powerful Insights to Mature the Prophetic Have a God-given gift you are still maturing with the Lord? Here are four of my go-to lessons that come with the maturing of your gift. I pray they help you to grow in yours. 01 Sometimes God isn’t telling you to “go tell.” He is telling you to go pray. One mistake we all often see in the prophetic is the ideology that if God told you… then you must be tasked to do something with that knowledge. It’

PASTORAL REFLECTION How to Take Your Thoughts Captive to Christ Worry is an issue I see in the office everyday and worry always reminds me of the first time I held a chicken. I was scared to death! But with the right hold? It was just a chicken. To this day? It’s just a chicken… and worry? It usually is. From the simple worries of everyday life to being completely consumed with fear, worry can steal our joy, keep us stuck, and prevent us from seeing things the way God int

By: Brooke Keith “PUSH!” Long before I knew that nurses will quite literately SCREAM at you to up your adrenaline to push when it is medically necessary to speed up delivery, I was a 15-year-old girl with braces on my teeth thinking to myself how “mean” this nurse in the purple lipstick was as she held up my bony leg. I can still see her in my mind. My mouth was cut up from the specialized hee hee who who’s of it all. Gums on metal. And my little hips? Not developed all the w

By: Brooke Keith Chronic health issues… I’ll take things I don’t care to talk about for $1,000, Alex. This week has brought its own set of reminders for me that I still have to be a good “patient.” That one has always been hard for me. When I was diagnosed with MS 14 years ago, I remember hating that sudden feeling of being a patient. Ew. It wasn’t fun. It wasn’t comfortable. And I was constantly having to do things that I didn’t want to do… to ensure I was up and at ‘em. The

By: Brooke Keith (Excerpt from upcoming release) There’s a hallway I’ve been in my whole life. And it’s not success I’m waiting on. The Lord has been so faithful to open doors. Doors to ministry. Doors to heavenly riches. Doors to service. Doors. I doubt Dorothy’s farmhouse was large enough to include a hall. Not if we are being time period specific. When you read the book, it sure feels like home girl was running awfully fast to get away from it. So fast she left during a to

The Carpenter’s Daughters Oil of Joy My father was a master carpenter. Although much of my childhood was marked by pain and brokenness, one lesson he taught me has stayed with me… in the right hands, and with the right oil, almost anything can be restored. Years later, that lesson pointed me to an even greater promise. Jesus is the Master Carpenter. He doesn’t simply repair what is broken… He redeems it. The Hebrew suggests it translates as “better than new.” He takes ashes a

By: Brooke Keith “Now we know faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 Dear friend, Did you know that when you see nothing that you are actually better positioned for a miracle than ANYONE else?! It’s true. And usually it isn’t when everything is falling apart that people come to me and say they are struggling to believe. It is actually when NOTHING seems to be happening. Good or bad. Spiritual warfare often remind

By: Brooke Keith Feel like you just don’t know the next step? I’d say that puts you in fine company. That would make up quite a gift portion of the population! You’ve tried it your way. A million times, perhaps. Have you tried it God’s way? Do you know how to find out what that is? When I think about Kingdom strategy I can’t help but think about Kingdom helpers. One of my favorite instances of Kingdom strategy and the helpers appointed to a season is in the story of the wido

What is a soul tie? Let me instead answer another question that is just as profound. How do we undo the intertwining of the countless moments we gave ourselves away to people who would not even give us the satisfaction of knowing we were too precious to lose. Corey Asbury came out with a really great song a few years back and while I know it is not a song about soul ties when I hear the word unraveling I can think of nothing else, no word quite as descriptive, to descri

By: Brooke Keith I hope that you know that in this great big vast universe With stars suspended on silken strands of spider webs That we cannot see from the concrete That somewhere up there in this great big sky Is a great big God with an eye for beauty. How lovingly He must have dipped his fingers into eternity To mold the hollows in your face. How busy His mind must have been with who you would be. What color would your eyes be painted? Oil based autumn leaf brown? Watercol

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