What do you do when you want to turn it all off and not hear another news cast, another opinion, read one more negative thing? Did you know there is a way to escape the chaos that this world has to offer that is healthy physically, emotionally and spiritually…a way that has so much eternal value while living in a crazy world?
 
Welcome to Faith Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes United. May today’s love letter turn off the chaos and help you find that peace that transcends all understanding.
 
~Love Letter~
My dear one, because of Me, you know the path of life, as you taste the fullness of joy in My Presence. At My right side you experience divine pleasures forevermore.
 
It is such a wonderful thing to know and follow the path of life, that you can actually taste the fullness of joy in My Presence. Come and spend time with Me. Come and be filled with My fullness. Come and receive of Me, for isn't that what your spirit longs for, cries out for? In all that you get or all that you do, your spirit continually cries out for Me.
 
I am the only thing, the only One that can satisfy your spirit. You can fill your life with many things, but they will never satisfy you like I do. All the emptiness inside of you is crying out for Me, to be filled with My love, My goodness. Come and enter into My presence. Bring your praise to lift to Me, to glorify My Name. Bring your thanksgiving and enter into My courts.
 
Meditate on My Word, take hold of it and make it yours. Beloved, put My Word into practice; learn to stand on it. This is the walk of faith. 
 
~DebraDolce

Thanks for joining me for Thursday’s Trench Truth….
As you watch this, pretend it’s you being asked…what’s your greatest fear.

So not only are fears false expectations appearing real, but they are feelings erasing all rationale sneakily. Fears scream at us, pull us from our faith.
So, friend, let me ask you: what’s your biggest fear? Would you like to learn how to feed your faith and starve your fears and live fearlessly? Plan on joining us for our next trench, Living Fearlessly, coming to a location near you.
 
For more information, go to www.trenchclassesunited.com/classes
 
Fearlessly,
Kim-Evinda

Did you know that you qualify as a witness? Yep, that’s right, a witness to what He has done for you, not what you have done!
 
“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and has made us kings and priests” – witnesses –to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.” (Rev. 1:5)
 
Thanks for joining me for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United.
As a court reporter, I have reported many types of witnesses, for example, hostile witnesses which are those who are angry at being called to testify about what they’ve seen, heard or experienced. There are third-party witnesses, those who say he said/she said, in other words, gossipers or unrelated parties.

There are those, what I call, unprepared witnesses, those whose answers are 90% of the time “I don’t remember or “I don’t recall,” or “I don’t know. Then there are expert witnesses, those called because of their expertise in the subject that the attorneys are there to fight about. But the most common witness is the percipient witness, or an eyewitness. This is a witness who testifies about what he/she actually has seen, perceived with their own senses.
 
As I was reading John’s first letter to the churches and to all of us, this thought hit me: if we all qualify as witnesses for Christ, what kind of witness are we? Are we the hostile witness, angry at or with God because of a tragedy and our need to understand everything?

Do we tend to slip down the slippery slope of gossip in the name of “prayer,” acting as a witness to someone’s misfortune or bad choice, or talking about our own mountains, making them bigger and bigger instead of looking to our Mountain Mover? Are we so focused on others that we are a third-party to our own walk and relationship with God? Or are we the type of witness who forgets all He has done for us, allowing our troubles to outweigh His triumphs in our lives, forgetting our attitude of gratitude?
 
But then there’s the expert witness, one who professes their faith and lives it and is paid by His provision, protection and promises, and guided by His principles. Oh, how I want to leave a legacy that proves she lived what she believed and she was so in love with Jesus that many considered her an expert in her faith, walking by His grace.

Love,
Kim-Evinda

Thanks for joining us for Tuesday’s Trench Truth....

Ah, fears are like waves of the ocean; before you know it, they can carry you out to a deep and dark sea. The more we feed our fears, the smaller our faith becomes.

What’s your greatest fear? We’d love to hear from you and if you’d like to learn how to live fearlessly, join us in our next trench, coming to a location near you.

Fearlessly,
Kim-Evinda

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We live in a culture
A time
Blessed beyond the benign
Everyday mundane doings of life
Yet, we get stuck
Feel in a rut
Like we are not given enough
 
Well I am here to graciously say…
Sister, wake up!
You are equipped with supernatural powers
To accomplish
To climb
To break ceilings
Of the highest towers
You are not locked up
 
While a prince lay in wait
For you to let down your hair
& wait for the brave
Darling, you are the brave
You are the meek
You are the wise
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For you were not given a spirit of fear
but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7)
And most of all you are the kind
 
The kind that gets it done
When the world says stand down
You stand up
For the ones that you love
For the One up above
Because there is no time like this
To be better equipped
With a multitude
A spring of ever flowing gifts
Darling, you are IT
He created you in the beginning
And He knows every plot,, every twist
Until the story ends
 
So go where you are called
Whether it be a mother
A coach
An entrepreneur
Or a do it all
 
But know that some seasons may be gray
The skies never clearing to show you the way
But He is there
Hand in hand
With grace
& by faith
 
Continue to walk
Continue to stand tall
Because even in the mundane
His Angels are at play
& you may be the donkey today
But that is all alright
It will all be okay

Because the grass will always be greener no matter where you lay

So relish in this
You are more than equipped
And most of all, daughter, you are His

-Abigail Rice

Have you ever been in a situation where you just didn’t know what to do? Or you didn’t know what the better choice was?
Thanks for joining us for Faith-Filled Friday with Debra Dolce and Trench Classes United.
 
I think we’ve all been in that situation a time or two, or more. What is wisdom? Where can we get it? How can we get it? Today’s Love Letter addresses just that, and though it’s not like going shopping and knowing right where something is and thereafter purchasing it, wisdom is priceless and found in that secret place.
 
~Love Letter~
 
My dear one, stick with wisdom and she will stick to you, protecting you throughout your days. She will rescue all those who passionately listen to her voice. Do you hear wisdom? Have you trained your ears and heart?
 
Study what the Scriptures say about wisdom. See where you stand in wisdom. Are you constantly seeking after Me for the direction you need, or the right decision to make? When I say I care about everything that concerns you, then I am ready and well able to help, to direct and to instruct you.
 
There is no greater wisdom than Mine, so seek after Me, devote yourself to Me and look to Me for your every need and I will fill the voids you have. Everything you've been longing for, searching for, can be found in Me. That should give you peace. No longer do you need to run here or there looking for what I have to offer you. There is nothing better than the wisdom that comes from above.
 
Beloved, My Word is full of wisdom and you will discover great truths as you study it. 
 
~DebraDolce

I don't think there's ever been a more relevant time to learn how to Live Fearlessly with so many things uncertain, so many changes that just don't feel quite right.

Below is a "fear test" to determine if this is something that could add faith and diminish fear in your life, and this one’s different from the test I gave on Tuesday so if you didn’t get a chance to take that one, scroll up to Tuesday’s Trench truth and take that one, too.

1. Do you fear being different?
2. Do you fear not being good enough…in and for any relationship?
3. Do you fear commitment?

Oh, friends, these three fears alone will have you living a fear-based life, surviving in relationships but not thriving in any relationship. They each have a genesis, a starting point and we’d love to help you determine it, that you may live a faith-based life and not a fear-based life.

If you’d like to know how you can change fear into faith, please, prayerfully consider joining us for Living Fearlessly, coming to a trench near you. We'd love to have you join one of our trenches (small groups) and get what you need from Living Fearlessly for such a time as this.

For more information, go to www.trenchclassesunited.com/classes for more information.

I hope to see you there!

Fearlessly
Kim-Evinda

Damon had waited for her to get her bag and then they ran through Dallas Airport to the skycap to get to their gate. She was determined to get on that plane, especially considering she was a day late in getting home.  They got to their gate with only moments to spare, boarded and made their way to their seats. “Do you want me to lift that up for you?” Damon asked. “Sure, that would be great,” but remembered she wanted her laptop to catch up on some work. She opened the front pocket, went to grab it and grabbed at nothing. The realization came super-sonically fast and as her heart beat out of her chest and the blood disappeared from her face, her world stood still for a second as she remembered that she had forgotten her laptop on the first plane.
 
Thanks for joining us for Wednesday’s Word with Kim-Evinda and Trench Classes United. Have you ever done something you wish you could take back, something that just no matter how much “faith” or “hope” one has, you just can’t make sense of it?  Come on in for an encouraging word for such a time as this.
 
The moments passed by in a blur, filled with tears that turned all-out sobs as she raced against the others who were trying to board the plane. She was met with a compassionate staff who called over to the other tower, unfortunately to no avail; they had already left. She made it back to her seat in total shock, numbed by her own self-anger and it wasn’t until they were already up in the air, well into the return home she remembered He was with her.
 
The hours and days that passed were a blurry mix of frustration, anger with herself, and hope. Hope revealed itself to her after buying a replacement computer after shopping a few times.  COVID had sent computers flying off the shelves with all the distance learning and there wasn’t anything similar to her long-lost laptop available without ordering. She wound up with a beast of a computer that was 17 inches versus her compact and powerful 14-inch but she finally had a computer.
 
As soon as she got home, she prayed over it, and herself as computer issues sent her to a not-so-good place. She signed into her Microsoft account, hoping against the dread that it was the right account, the right password. 😊 Suddenly her screensaver from her other laptop appeared and the shortcuts, too. And then documents that she was sure were gone forever began to appear as well. She sat and wept tears of gratitude, grateful for something to be thankful for.
 
Many of those closest to her shared their frustration over this latest attack in her life wondering why she continued to do ministry and put herself through this; or why hadn’t God just given her a break. Her faith responded: “But God did not make me leave that computer on the plane; perhaps I was more motivated by fear than faith when I ran without retrieving it. This is yet another opportunity for God to be God in my life. And perhaps the break I needed was to be further broken in another area of my life? I don’t know.”
 
My friend, how would you respond? How do you respond when unexpected crises happen in your life?
 
To this day, I don’t have answers – (and I still don’t have my laptop) -- I have hope that God will bring good from it because His Word promises that. His Word promises that He is concerned about all that concerns me. His Word promises that His plan is to lift me up, give me a hope.  Perhaps when crying for a break, we get just that, revelation into another area of life that needs to be broken that it can fully rely on and in the Hope of Christ.

Thoughtfully,
Kim-Evinda

I don't think there's ever been a more relevant time to learn how to Live Fearlessly with so many things uncertain, so many changes that just don't feel quite right.

Welcome to Tuesday’s Trench Truth.

Below is a "fear test" to determine if this is something that could add faith and diminish fear in your life:

1. Do you avoid taking risks because of trust issues?
2. Do you avoid telling someone how you “really” feel because you’re afraid of how it might make them feel?
3. Do you avoid change at all costs?
4. Do you worry about what’s coming next?

Friends, the answer to each one of these determines how much fear is in your life. What is absolutely true is we actually become immune to our own fears! In other words, many of us are functioning out of fear, in other words, making fear-based choices, decisions, speaking words out of fear, or not speaking words because of fear.

If you’d like to know how you can learn to Live Fearlessly, consider joining us in a trench near you beginning the last two weeks of April. We'd love to have you join one of our trenches (small groups) and get what you need from Living Fearlessly for such a time as this.

I can’t stress this enough: These trenches are a save was to unlearn fear-based thinking and replace it with faith-based actions that will starve our fears and fuel our faith.

For more info, go to www.trenchclassesunited.com/classes for more information.

I hope to see you there!

Fearlessly
Kim-Evinda

Wounds are slow to heal
and blood even quicker to spill
So how do we hold still
When moments like these feel too surreal?
 
Like salt being poured into a wound open wide
Despite the malice
Despite the strife
We still strike
 
With our words that slowly burn
Leaving fire and ash wherever we turn
We cannot hold on
We cannot hold still
 
Because the pain
Yes, that burning pain
is all too real
 
Like your heart being cut out
Leaving your soul in a wake of doubt
You pinch yourself
Only to wake up in sweats of shout
 
Because this
This is real
The wound is new
But you will heal
 
as time consumes
The space between you and gloom
Moments will fade
The black turning gray
 
and soon you will feel
That presence
To be still
To breathe in new life
As that scar tissue no longer bites
 
Yes, it's still there
The trigger is aware
But you are His child
Slow to anger
and Slower to strife
 
You forgive and let go
Leaving it all in His control
For this I do know
The nails that pierced His hands
Were driven for His plan
 
A new kingdom
A divine land
 
So when that wound cuts open
Remember His blood being poured
Our Savior's sacrifice
For a world no longer broken
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A Hope that heals
​-Abigail Rice