Denise Mira - Author and Speaker

10/05/2025

Do you believe that the Lord has wonderful things for you, too?🤔

“And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord”.
One sentence. An entire message. I want this to be the story of my life. I want this to be the story of your life, too.

These words, spoken by Elizabeth about her young cousin, Mary, who was pregnant with the Son of God, can get lost in the Christmas story.
However, their application to us personally, as God-fearing women, is profound.
My concern is that we become so awestruck that we dismiss the fact that we, too, have heard things that were told us from the Lord! Significant things, with mind-boggling, long-range, implications.
You may relegate such Scripture to “someone else”—those “blessed ones” who did things right, those model families. After all, you’re living in the real world, created by all the choices you’ve made (some being tinged with bitter regret).
We’ve all felt that way. I haven’t been living on Easy Street either, since I began my journey of faith decades ago. At times, the remarkable answers to prayer I experience and the astounding, even flawless way life’s circumstances play out simply takes my breath away.
At other times, life hits like a punch in the gut, leaving me a different kind of breathless altogether.
But I refuse to lose hope, because I’ve found that a woman of faith is a woman who endures many difficulties and yet finds God in the midst of her troubles. With feet like a deer (Psalm 18:33), she climbs up and over the craggy rock boulders of tedium, trial, and temptation. She is not wafted away from her struggles by angelic beings. Trust me.
You may be hurting today. Suffering. Living with a diagnosis. Dealing with marriage issues (what married person isn’t?). Continually trying to blend a blended family. Perhaps your kid’s not exactly on the straight-and-narrow.
Whatever it is that you’re facing, you’re not alone. If we’re honest, all of us must make the best of some difficult circumstances on a daily basis, even though we love God and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). The rains will fall and the winds will blow (Matthew 7:25), but what will be the testimony of your life?
“And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord”.
One sentence. An entire message. I want this to be the story of my life. I want this to be the story of your life, too.

09/19/2025

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Mama, I think it’s wise to consider the words that have been carelessly spoken over our children.

“Oh, she’s my ‘wild child,’ that’s ‘my picky eater,’ she’s my ‘lazy one’…oh he’s my ‘oops baby,’ that’s my ‘electronics addict’…he is ‘so ADHD,’ ‘she’s a ‘late bloomer’…

I don’t care if they’re Down Syndrome, cross-eyed or if they walk with a limp. They may be foster kids, orphans, or truants.

Rip all those labels off before they become deeply ingrained in their psyche, eventually becoming their identity, their automatic assumption about themselves.

The cursed lid upon their destiny.

God makes only dynamic children with limitless potential, and it is up to us to unlock that potential and present leaders to God who will change our world.

Our words are power tools, whether we use them to build or tear down.

From “Advanced” to “Slow,” harmful tags put on our kids by systems instill in them a hierarchical mind-set. “Made in God’s Image” is the only tag our children need to reaffirm their brilliance!

It may not be brilliance for algebra, but it may be brilliance for multiplying finances, helping the poor, and loving the orphan.

It may not be brilliance for spelling, but perhaps it’s brilliance for winning the lost, homemaking, parenting, or growing vegetable gardens.

Let’s endeavor every day to make our homes into nurturing environments where our children will uniquely flourish in the gifts God’s given them, as we speak life-giving words to them.

Many, many children need to be told afresh that they are extraordinary.

May we look upon our children with new eyes, full of faith, because God creates no ordinary child!

09/05/2025