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Infertility Devotional: Watered in the Wilderness

How Gratitude is the Wind Before the Rain

Growing in God· Motherhood· TTC· Uncategorized

Ann Voskamp says, “Gratitude precedes the miracle.” Just like the breeze precedes the rain.
Because as we thank God for what He has already abundantly given, we see and remember what He has already given us. And we see that He is enough. He does something in our hearts. He prepares us to receive His rain.

Why It’s Okay To Just Be Broken

Infertility· to the barren soul· Trying To Conceive· TTC· Uncategorized

“Isn’t it about time for you two to start having kids?” came the question. I looked up from fixing my…
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Little Boy,

boy mom· Motherhood· Uncategorized

I still remember when I saw it. The blue dust that burst out of the sealed container, and fell on…
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This Is The Greatest Show

Motherhood· Uncategorized

I didn’t enter motherhood easily. I had to wait for it. I cried and wept for my babies, before they…
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How God Has Been Moving at Barren to Beautiful

About This Blog· Uncategorized

Things have been a little quieter on my blog this month–and I want to share why. Behind the scenes, God…
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Hi, I’m Rebekah Fox.

I was once a barren woman. I had a barren womb, and a very barren soul. But God saw me in my barrenness--and He delivered me. Not only of a barren womb, but a barren soul, too. He opened my eyes to His beauty all around me. And every day, I need Him to do it again, in my heart, and in my spirit. To take me from Barren to Beautiful. Because I am weak, and broken, and sinful, but He--He is beautiful. If the Spirit has led you here, perhaps He wants to take your barrenness away--and birth something more beautiful than you ever imagined.

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I help women struggling with infertility to hope in God and allow Him to transform them from barren to beautiful—on the inside. 🌸
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Day 5 //WATERED IN THE WILDERNESS// "Remember not

Day 4 //LIVING WATER// 🌊

“Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(John 4:13-14)

Jesus does nothing by coincidence.

He is intentional to pass through this specific region, at this exact time of day. Have you ever wondered why He “has” to go this way—even breaking cultural norms by doing so?

A thirsty woman is there.

And Jesus goes out of His way to meet her.

She is simply at the well to fill her bucket—but He offers her “living water.” Something she never even knew existed.

She’s a normal woman—like us. Just doing her thing. Just filling her bucket.

Until Jesus gives her a wild invitation--to drink. To quench her thirst. Forever.
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At first she doesn't even recognize her soul's thirst--but Jesus does.

And that’s why He invites her to ask Him for a drink. Because He is the only one on Earth who can actually quench her. He is the only one who can give her “living water,” that will become in her, “a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

When I was experiencing infertility, I was seeking water. I was seeking answers. I was chasing my dreams, and desires, and doing everything to achieve them. I knew I was thirsty—I just didn’t know how thirsty I was.
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But Jesus did.

And He offered me more than the physical water I was seeking. He offered me “living water,” springing up into eternal life. And He quenched me in a way nothing else could.

I don’t know where you are at today, But I want you to know something:

Jesus is still seeking out thirsty women.

He’s seeking you.

And He invites you, like the woman at the well, to ask Him for a drink.

Not merely for physical water. But for something other-worldly.

Living Water—that will become in you a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14)

So, come thirsty.

Come, broken.
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And drink.
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Kneel at the River’s edge and drink. Lap it up, like you never have before. Because His water is alive, and if you drink of Him you will never be thirsty again.

Full devotional download in my BIO! 🌊

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Day 3 //QUENCHED// ⠀ “Blessed is the man who

Day 2 //PARCHED// 🌵
Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-6
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“Thus says the LORD:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man⠀
and makes flesh his strength,
whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He is like a shrub in the desert,
and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in an uninhabited salt land.” (ESV)

We hear messages like “Believe in yourself,” or “Trust in yourself,” all the time in our culture.

While they might sound like "good" messages, God solemnly warns against this kind of trust--trust in ourselves.

Instead, He says that person who trusts in man, or looks to their own strength will be cursed.

Cursed.

God uses some powerful language in this passage.

But He is not overstating this. He is warning us in love.

He is telling us the truth: if our hope is in anyone or anything besides Him—we are literally “cursed.” Think about this.

If our heart “turns away from the LORD," then....

We will be like “a shrub in the desert.”

We “shall not see any good come.”

We “shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land."

Is this the kind of life you want to have? I know I don’t!

And yet, I choose this.

I choose this every single time I shift from hoping in God--to hoping in man, or myself.

It's easy to let our hope shift away from God and into ourselves without even realizing it.

That's why it's so important to spend time in God's Word, and allow Him to search our hearts, to test where we are putting our trust.

When we stake our hope in other things, aside from God, we become like the cursed, living in the wasteland.

We become parched inside—because our heart moves away from the Lord, and seeks to be satisfied somewhere else.

And as we do, God says that we will be like a shrub in the desert, like someone living in the wilderness.

Dry, hot, thirsty, and so very unsatisfied.

Because the only one who can satisfy us—is Him.

Thanks for reading Day 2 of "Watered in the Wilderness" Full devotional pdf can be downloaded in my BIO! 🌊 Join my FB group in BIO for more discussion on this devotional this week!

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Day 1: SOUL THIRST ⠀ Today's Reading: Psalm 63:1

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