Kim Butts

“‘With what should I come before the Lord, and bow down before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’ He has told you,

“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near” (Is. 55:6). Do you find that you are sometimes easily sidetracked from the importance of an issue at hand by small, insignificant things that can cause you to lose your focus completely?  I am very susceptible to such distractions, especially

I pondered over Christy’s dilemma: “How do I maintain a disciplined devotional time with God when I work full time and care for an infant?” She was exhausted after several days of travel to a conference for her work and her struggle was palpable, even over the phone. Uttering the simplest of prayers was difficult

I am on a journey to narrow the gaps of unawareness of Christ’s presence within me so that the truth of 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 can take root in my spirit and grow to fullness. “Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” 

Every morning, I try to pray, “Father, show me how to be more like Jesus Christ today so that You will be glorified!”  Knowing that every day I will fall short of this goal, I take joy in the smallest victories to this end. My flesh loves to be in control and clings to anxiety

I read and pray through the Psalms almost every day. Sometimes I get stuck. I’m sure you have experienced it too. There are certain verses that stop me in my tracks, even when I have read them many times before. A few days ago, I had one of those experiences. I love Psalm 25 because

“The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When he returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent” (Ex. 33:11). It is always amazing and such a blessing to read over a passage of Scripture and see

The past several months have been personally difficult and discouraging due to some pressing and very serious issues in our family. I’m sure you have all experienced such struggles. And if you are like me, the almost overwhelming weight of the temptation to “fix” everything in the lives of those I love threatened to undermine

My poor husband! I can sometimes be one of those “squirrel” people—you know the ones. You may be having a conversation, and in the middle, the person to whom you are talking or who is talking to you gets suddenly and radically distracted by something completely off topic. Dave can be talking, and out of

Your kingdom come, Your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven! We have all made this declaration thousands of times, and yet, there are so many insidious ways that the enemy of our souls finds to take our hearts off of God’s heavenly will for His kingdom on Earth. When I first

“Nothing but the knowledge of God, as the Holy One, will make us holy. And how are we to obtain that knowledge of God, except in the inner chamber, our private place of prayer? It is a thing utterly impossible unless we take time and allow the holiness of God to shine on us.”  

Many churches struggle with helping people to connect with kingdom ministry when they are unsure of what God wants them to do. Training the church in the intercessory ministry of Jesus can help most people gain a crucial connectivity to the power of God no matter what life stage or circumstance they are in. We

Recently, I prayed with a young woman I had not previously met who was suffering many stresses in her young life: a struggling child, her grandfather’s recent stroke, a difficult ex-husband and a lack of peace. She is a born-again believer and deeply desires God to move in her life. As we prayed through these

“When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.”—Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude Jesus would regularly separate Himself from the crowds, and even from the disciples, to go off to lonely, quiet places to

A few weeks ago, my younger sister went through a major health challenge. She walked through a lot of darkness and difficulty. Yet, in the midst of her struggle, she said to me, “I would not have chosen to miss going through every bit of this struggle because of all God did in and through