Salted Grace Ministries

10/12/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: Mirror of Mercy

📖Scripture Reflection: Jonah, Hebrews 4:14-16, Psalm 139, Matthew 5:44, 6:22-23, Romans 12:19, James 1:20

✨Weekly Reflection: This week’s Journey with Jesus takes us not only to Ninevah, the capital of Assyria, and a people known to be rebellious and in opposition to God, but also to Hebrews, where we receive mercy at God’s throne of grace.

When the Prophet Jonah became angry because God showed mercy to the rebellious nation of Ninevah, God asked him a piercing question: “Do you do well to be angry?” Through this question, God revealed His mercy in desiring redemption through repentance of all who are willing to receive.

In our journey this week, we find true healing begins when we step away from outward projection of unresolved emotional struggles and invite Jesus to guide us in honest introspection. We do well by not keeping a record of other's wrongs, but rather, by bringing our own hidden hurts to God’s Throne of Grace. We have a Great High Priest, Jesus, who fully understands our human weaknesses and stands ready to give us mercy just when we need it and grace to redeem us. Amen & Amen.

🙏🏽Prayer: Heavenly Father, search my heart and align my perceptions with the redemptive love of Jesus. Keep my eyes healthy so that my whole body may be filled with Your light and love. When I am tempted to hold records of wrongs or desire another's failure, remind me of the mercy I have received at your throne of grace. Teach me to react less and reflect more, and to extend the same unconditional grace to others that You have so freely extended to me. In Jesus' name, Amen.

📝Action Step of Faith: “Do you do well?”
Practice the discipline of introspection before outward projection with a prayerful pause. When you feel frustration, judgment, or resentment toward someone, do not speak, post or act immediately. Take a deep, steady breath, releasing tension from the body. Imagine Jesus asking you, “Do you do well to be angry right now?” Identify the any unresolved internal struggles. Invite Jesus to guide your response with grace and mercy.

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💜God bless you & keep you in all you do, Reverend Ericca Jones, Salted Grace Ministries

09/28/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: Mindful Heart Health

📖Scripture Reflection: Hebrews 1-3, Obadiah, Genesis 25-35, Ezekial 36:26, James 5:16

✨Weekly Reflection: In the Old Testament book of Obadiah, we gain insight about the downfall caused by human pride and arrogance and how it contributes to the hardness of heart. While the New Testament book of Hebrews provides a redemptive counternarrative. We do not have to succumb to a hardened heart. The good news is that there is still time for change. As long as it is called ‘Today,’ God can sovereignly transform a heart of stone into a heart of flesh (Ezekial 36:26).

Mindful heart-health requires complete honesty that surrenders our pride before God, practicing confession within safe relationships, and actively praying for one another. As James reminds us, the fervent, effectual prayers of the righteous carry great power (James 5:16)

Today, let us protect our emotional and spiritual well-being. Leave vengeance to the Lord, offer forgiveness to the hurting, and actively encourage someone else to seek the redemptive love of Jesus for their heart health while the window of "Today" is still wide open. Amen & Amen.

🙏🏽Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for new mercies daily and another opportunity to make heart changes from the inside out. Search me and make me aware of anything rooted within me that is not like you. Keep me unwilling to operate in opposition to you. Show me where I need change and how to make change. Help me to forgive quickly and lead others to do the same. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

📝Action Step in Faith: Protect the first 30 minutes of your morning and the last 30 minutes of your evening from social media, news feeds and notifications. Replace your morning phone scroll with a mindful "Today" affirmation. Create a peaceful space to share a mindful moment with Jesus and read a verse like Ezekiel 36:26. Ask God to keep your heart responsive to the immediate circle of influence right in front of you.

👇🏽How do you guard against a hardened heart? Leave a comment below.

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09/22/2026

09/21/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: Committed for Good Works

📖Scripture Reflection: Titus, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 109:4, Romans 7:15,17-18

✨Weekly Reflection: The condition of our heart, our mind, will, and emotions, is always revealed through our actions and how we respond in times of trial and temptation. This week on our Journey with Jesus, we considered how to protect our spiritual and emotional well-being by choosing a posture of absolute surrender instead of a fleshly response.

We looked at two powerful parallel paths of heart transformation:

1. King David (Psalm 109:4): Facing deep emotional distress from painful betrayals, David modeled a blueprint for emotional wellness. Rather than being enslaved to retaliation and bitterness, he surrendered to God in obedience and declared, “I give myself over to prayer.” By doing so, he was entirely released from the heavy burden of self-justification.

2. The Cretan Church (Titus 3:5-7): Paul reminded Titus that we are saved not by human merit, but by God’s unmerited mercy through the cleansing washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. This divine operation should naturally result in good works, but it requires our willingness to come into agreement with the Holy Spirit’s process of transformative change.

Whether we are tempted to respond to disloyalty with fleshly anger or face the pressure of cultural conformity, our immediate responses expose our hidden spaces. True well-being, peace, and good works come only when we deny ourselves daily, step into complete vulnerability before God, and align our inner life with a posture of prayer.

📝Action Step of Faith: Prayerfully consider how you can shift your heart posture toward surrender today?

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09/14/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: The Courage to Embrace Truth

📖Scripture: Scripture Reflection: John 18:28-38, Luke 23:1-5, Mark 15:1-5, Matthew 27:2, 11-14

✨Weekly Reflection: Truth is essential to the fulfillment of our God-given purpose. Yet, like Pontius Pilate, in this week’s Journey with Jesus, we often find ourselves aware of truth but totally unwilling to acknowledge it. As we have learned throughout our journey, when we ignore truth, about ourselves or our circumstances, we compromise our peace and hinder our freedom, often leaving us to make choices in fear rather than radically resilient faith.

When we lack courage to look inward with truth, we deprive ourselves of purposeful living, while permitting unsettled thoughts, pressures, and accusations to “crowd” and overrun our minds. Mindful well-being can only begin when we face our reality and receive the grace of Jesus that meets us there.

In Jesus, we find that walking in truth does not mean living a flawless life, nor does it mean living life free from painful realities, but rather it means living a truthful life fully liberated by the love of Christ Jesus, and a willingness to receive it. Thus, fulfilling our God-given purpose means confronting our realities with truth, the transformative truth of God’s Word which is Jesus personified. As we trust in Him, He bears witness of truth. Amen & Amen.

📝Action Step of Faith: Use a journal to prayerfully consider, in what areas of your life is the “crowd” of public opinion, unsettled thoughts, false narratives or unrealistic pressures dictating your choices? Write honestly and truthfully, allowing yourself to acknowledge where you feel helpless. Invite Jesus to be helpful in guiding one or two practical steps that will keep you aware of His love and guided by His truth.

🙏🏽Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your all-sufficient love and grace. Teach me to live in your love without compromise. Keep me aware of your desire to meet me in every aspect of my life. Help me to remember that you are with me in the difficulties and challenges and that nothing is too hard with you. Grow me in obedience that helps me pursue your heart by confronting my own internal realities with your transformative truth. Keep me willing to bear witness of truth in all that I encounter this week. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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09/11/2026

Today, we reflect, remember and mourn with one another, yet not as those who have no hope. May the hope we find in Christ Jesus keep our hearts and minds in His perfect peace, and lead us to live in His love. May it be well with you. (1 Thessalonians 4:13)

09/07/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: Relent, Repent and Return to the Lord

📖Scripture: Joel

✨Weekly Reflection: In this week’s Journey with Jesus, we find the Prophet Joel sounding the alarm, “Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?” (Joel 1:1-2). Much like an intense, unexpected crises we may sometimes face in life, they were dealing with an environmental invasion so severe it caused successive waves of destruction, systematically stripping away their livelihood and their joy. It was an invasion that came because of the turning from God. Joel warns that what one swarm of locusts left behind, the next wave greedily devoured through four distinct successions.

Joel’s warning to the people of Judah about the locust is a call to us still today. It is a warning about the "Day of the Lord.” A day that offers both judgment and redemption, disaster and intervention. Joel’s instructions were clear: consecrate a fast, gather the community, and cry out to the Lord. It is clear from Joel, that without an individual and collective turning back, the destructive forces of the crisis cannot be halted (Joel 2:8). Not then, and not now.

Yet, God’s grace is greater (Romans 5:20). This is not because God changes His mind; the Bible tells us He is completely unchanging (Hebrews 13:8). Rather, His unchanging nature means He always leaves the door open for us to move from the path of judgment to the path of mercy and grace in repentance and receiving Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior.

The Lord calls us to “rend your hearts and not your garments” (Joel 2:13) requiring of us internal transformation rather than outward signs of emotions. Just as the trumpet signified a call to attention and warfare for the people of Israel (Numbers 10), God uses Joel to blow a trumpet of warning and awareness for our souls today. What will your answer be?

📝Action Step of Faith: Prayerfully consider Joel’s call as you read the Book of Joel. What do the swarming locust represent in your life? What could you turn from to answer God’s call to repent and return? Invite the Lord to restore the Joy of His Salvation and renew you from the inside-out.

🙏🏽Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank you for your faithfulness in keeping me through all life’s seasons. When troubles arise help me to remain intentional in turning back to you. In moments that require patient endurance, remind me of the joy of your salvation and hope of life eternal through the redemptive love of Jesus. Then, when I have been restored help me to never go back and to be diligent in teaching your truth so that others will also be diligent in returning to you. In Jesus Name, Amen.

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09/05/2026

The Lord heals the broken hearted and He binds their wounds (Psalm 147:3).

It has been an amazing morning of trauma healing. The Lord connecting us across communities and continents! Locking arms of faith to create safe and sacred space for heart healing and transformative change through encounters with Jesus. No better way to spend the day. It is a gift to share in all God does through the ministry of healing.

Thank you for locking arms of faith and standing with us in prayer to integrate faith and mindful well being. Together we are impacting lives by sharing the redemptive love of Jesus, the truth of God’s Word and mental health resources. We look forward to others joining us in the healing journey! God bless you!

08/31/2026

🕊Journey with Jesus: Break Up the Fallow Ground

📖Scripture: Hosea 10:12

✨Weekly Reflection: Unforgiveness feels like a shield of defense, but it is actually a prison of despair. In Hosea 10:12, God commands us to “break up your fallow ground.” Fallow ground is soil that was once fertile but became rock-hard and unproductive because it was left unattended.

When we experience betrayal or trauma, our natural response is self-preservation. We build walls of resentment to keep from being hurt again. But behind those fortified walls, our hearts become a desolate wasteland. Bitterness chokes out our love, peace, joy, and emotional well-being. Often, without realizing it, our anger binds us to the very pain we want to escape.

God never asks us to do what He hasn't already done. The Book of Hosea shows a prophet called to forgive and buy back an unfaithful spouse. It is a vivid picture of how God pursues us when we are faithless (2 Tim 2:13).

Forgiveness doesn't mean excusing the offense or ignoring boundaries. It means choosing to let God plow up our hard, angry defenses so He can heal our minds and spirits. True emotional and spiritual wholeness only comes when we stop using human anger as a weapon and surrender our hurts to the Lord.

📝Action Step of Faith: This week, write down the specific grievance or name of the person you are struggling to forgive on a piece of paper. Acknowledge the pain it caused without making excuses for the behavior. Then, physically destroy the paper (shred it or burn it safely) as a tangible, mindful act of surrendering that person and offense to the righteous judgment of God. Commit to praying for your own emotional healing every time the memory resurfaces.

🙏🏽Prayer: Heavenly Father, You are gracious, righteous, and the Keeper of my soul. I confess that I have allowed painful experiences to harden my heart. Today, I choose to trust Your unshakeable faithfulness over fragile feelings. I invite you, Jesus, to plow through my defenses. Break up my hard ground. Help me to forgive the unforgivable, just as You have forgiven me. Rain Your righteousness upon my heart and soul, and restore the joy of your salvation, that in Christ Jesus, belong to me, and those to whom you are sending me. In Jesus Name, Amen.

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