After Over 10 Years of Blogging, It’s Finally Here!

Friends, I have been blogging for over 10 years….TEN! That is a lot of words, and questioning, digging, and Scripture sharing!

Over the years, my writing has grown from short, few-line, poetic prose, to long, often 1,000 word posts, sharing what God has deposits in my bones, hours and sometimes days earlier.

(I have been trying to make the posts shorter, I promise….I just can’t. It’s like 1,000 words is what God gives me, & I can’t get up from my laptop until He squeezes each & every word from me.)

Then, peace floods me, and I know….I just know. It’s done. It’s time to post what He has given me.

But then, in 2020, I felt this urge to take some words God shared with me, and add them to a devotional; concluding with “Thoughts/Questions”, a “Remember” section, a “Prayer” & a “Verse”.

When God gives me what to write, often it’s like words are deposited, dump truck fulls, into my heart….Then, the next few days I work frantically, until I can rest…

Until I have peace from my follow-through of obedience.

So, this day, two years ago, and the next, I gathered my first ever book in Kindle version, “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Greater Faith”. 

I felt peace, and rested.

However, in recent weeks, God prompted my heart a bit further, and nudged me to publish this Kindle book, into a paperback.

So finally, the “Faith Rising” devotional is here!

It’s not your typical devotional. It doesn’t “tell” you what you are doing wrong, or “how you NEED TO” do something. Instead, it invites you into my journey, my story, via short, easily read, poetic-style prose…

I share about foster children, a time at swimming lessons when I witnessed a girl almost drown…But most of all, I share how God has invited me into a deeper relationship THROUGH the hard stuff around.

It is the glimmering light of His radiance, shining as if reflecting Him, the Jewel of Great Price, amazingly, His Light cast into the crevasses of my own brokenness.

And now through that journey, those thoughts, that call He has initiated to me…

I invite you. 

I invite you to recollect what faith is and how He might be leading you, to not only exist on the shores of our own complacency, waiting for Jesus to come…

But to swim deeper, more faith-filled, walking in the call of all He has made and designed you to do and be.

As I published the paperback of this book, I began to quickly realize, those who purchased the Kindle version didn’t have space to work through the 14 days of reflection, introspection, and leadings God was inviting them into.

Shortly after, I published the, “Faith Rising Journal”, to accompany, “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Greater Faith.”

The Journal is a resource designed to give you space to think, reflect, join the call of God as He directs your life and leads you through the pages of the devotional.

No one becomes a bodybuilder overnight. No one runs a marathon in a day. And in the same way, we don’t just “Grow Faith”. It is given to us in measure, by the grace of God…

At the same time, it is my belief that we need to “work out” & exercise our muscle of faith.

He calls us to be faithful with what He has gives us, and to steward it well.

We can have a measure of faith, but if we don’t “practice faith” by pressing into Him in deeper trust, obedience and abandonment, will that faith ever bloom?

As a result, here is my devotional. Would you be so kind to consider purchasing it on Amazon? It would also help me so much, friends, if you would consider leaving an honest review. 

Both would be such gift to me, after blogging ten years.

Click here to purchase, “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Greater Faith”. – https://amzn.to/3HYeR85

Click here to purchaes the, “Faith Rising Journal”, which accompanies “Faith Rising”, the devotional. – https://amzn.to/3GRMPcN

I will also add the Amazon description of the book below. Thank you for joining my journey these past 10 years. What a gift to leave you with a tangible tool you can pick up, put in your hands, and read over and over again.

AMAZON Book Description

In a day where hope seems fleeting, questions and desperation can plague even the once most faith-filled among us, “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Greater Faith” offers 14, short, faith-infused readings that unknowingly spark the embers inside those seeking to burn ablaze with more depth, substance, and enrichment to their relationship with God and other people.

Book Details
Each short prose, easily read by the busiest person, ends with a “Thoughts/Questions” section, to ignite further contemplation and deeper engagement. Each reading also includes a “Remember” section, highlighting the theme of each days reading; easily referenced back to.

Lastly, each individual devotion concludes with a “Pray” section, along with that days own specific “Verse” to consecrate your heart to lasting change and deeper transformation, resulting from what you’ve just read.

This 14-day devotional is not just another superficial read, but instead a tool to help you more deeply direct your heart, mind, and soul into a lasting transformation.

Take one step further forward, towards fuller hope, deeper healing, richer health and greater faith. Come join the journey and see lasting change in your life as you read, “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Great Faith”.

Additional Resources
“Faith Rising Journal” is an additional resource to accompany, “Faith Rising: A 14-Challenge to Greater Faith”. This journal will give you space to write answers to the, “Thoughts/Questions” section of the book, as well as journal introspections in response to the daily “Remember”, “Pray” & “Verse”. section.

The “Faith Rising Journal” is an especially useful resource, to aid in your personal growth, if you have purchased the Kindle version of “Faith Rising: A 14-Day Challenge to Greater Faith”.

This additional tool, created for your growth, “Faith Rising Journal”, can be purchased at the following link. https://amzn.to/3oThhx9

About the Author
Jen Avellaneda has been a well-read faith blogger for over a decade. Her writings have been featured on popular websites, including, “[In]Courage”, “Missional Women”, & “Charisma”, just to name a few. Jen has been published in the book, “Misisonal Life; A Pracitical Guide to Living in Light of Eternity”.

Jen speaks, as well as advocates for the orphan globally. Married over two dozen years, Jen & her husband have been licensed foster parents for 16 years. Together, they have six children, including four adopted daughters.