Jackie's Journey "Audacious Courage!"

How did your Christmas holidays go?  Was it all you expected it to be? New Years Day  is a mere two days away!  How can that be?  Another year has passed and the exciting prospects of the year 2026 are crouching at the door! At the beginning of December, we purposed to focus on the character of each of the five princesses in “A Royal Christmas to Remember”.  The last princess of the five is the youngest and most adventurous princess of them all!  Her name is Charity and she is lion-hearted and bold!

 Always daring, in “Princess Charity’s Courageous Heart”,  Princess Charity takes her horse for a ride to Pinnacle point.  She is careful to obey her father’s instruction to stay within the castle’s boundaries for her safety.  Suddenly, from her vantage point she witnesses a grave accident and is faced with a choice:  should she risk her father’s anger to save the injured boys life, or should she pass by, as if she did not see it?

 Charity’s choice, just like the one Jesus talks about in the “Good Samaritan” story, could impact her entire kingdom!  Lost in her quandary, she recalls her father telling her that a true princess shows love and mercy for those that are hurting and reaching out to help them was real “charity”- in-action.  (Luke 10:30—37)

 Princess Charity did not always make the right decision, but on this she was firm.  She was frightened and unsure, but in the end, she chose the charitable action and risked herself to save the hurt boy, Jack!  Never dreaming she would receive anything in return, her courageous heart was rewarded with peace between her kingdom and Sir Richard’s opposing kingdom…and she gained a new friend!

 As we face the coming year with its challenges,  we rehearse the last few weeks and the opportunities we were given to be charitable and kind, investing whatever we have to help those in need.  How did we do?  After all… this is the test of true charity and our calling!

 Let’s face the New Year with a “Courageous Heart”!

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights. 

Jackie's Journey "Danger Zone!"

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Winston Churchill

We live in a world of conflicting ideology and duplicitous standards and convictions.  The world’s view is “conforming” with an independent spirit, wrapped in a “me first” attitude, with a demanding and rebellious entitlement issue. A godly worldview is just the opposite.  It calls for spiritual-mindedness, the focus on the success of other’s and a mighty spirit dependent on someone bigger than ourselves.

 God wants each of us to be mighty in spirit…”To be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.”  One of the purposes in writing “The Princess Parable Series” was to help equip young moms to know how to build courage and “might” into the lives of their little princesses.

 To be mighty in spirit means we have a sense of our relationship with the God of the universe and we know His presence.  We are continually developing a fear of Him, which is a healthy understanding of the consequence of wrong choices and sin.  There is a requirement, with no compromise, to instantly respond to the initial promptings of God’s Spirit and to be alert to temptations and spiritual danger. 

 Learning to build our lives around basic scriptural principles and convictions is a given, no excuses; and knowing how to “bind Satan” with the springboard for prayer and rescue others from his grasp is a basic necessity.  When we teach our children to become wise and “mighty”, we realize the intense responsibility we have to be wise and mighty! 

 Are you “mighty in God’s Spirit”?

 We are in a battle for the minds and hearts of our children. 

Today is the day the battle stage is set for definitive action. 

Are you ready?  What will you do?

 “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty.”

Zechariah 4: 6

~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America.  Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California.  My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.