Perhaps you’ve heard about Jesus for years, or perhaps you’re just beginning to ask who He is. Wherever you are starting, you can bring Him your questions, your hurts and your hopes.
I wrote Meet Jesus to help you discover who Jesus is and how you can come to know Him for yourself. When we look at Jesus, we see the Father’s heart. He noticed people others overlooked, welcomed those who were weary and offered forgiveness to people who needed a new beginning.
In this short, illustrated booklet, I share why Jesus died and rose again, what it means to receive salvation as a gift, and how you can begin walking with Him. There are Bible passages to read at your own pace, a simple prayer to help you put your trust in Jesus, and practical steps for getting to know Him day by day.
You don’t have to have all your questions answered before you begin. You can start with a simple prayer today: “God, help me know You.”
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My prayer is that as you read, you’ll discover how deeply God loves you and how warmly Jesus welcomes you.
“Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee.” — Psalm 55:22, KJV
Sometimes the heaviest things we carry cannot be seen.
Concern for someone we love. A decision we are afraid to make. An unanswered prayer. The quiet pressure of trying to keep everything together when our own hearts are tired.
We may be so accustomed to carrying these burdens that we forget we can bring them to the Lord.
His invitation is still open.
You can come to Jesus with the concern you have prayed about many times. You can tell Him what frightens you, what hurts, and what you cannot work out. You do not need polished words. A whispered, “Lord, help me,” is a prayer.
Psalm 55:22 gives us a precious promise: when we cast our burden upon the Lord, He will sustain us. That does not mean every circumstance changes immediately. Sometimes His sustaining grace comes as strength for a difficult conversation, wisdom to seek help, or peace that allows us to rest while the answer is still unfolding.
Entrusting someone to God does not mean we stop loving them. It means we acknowledge that our love has limits, while His wisdom and care reach beyond what we can see.
There may still be a practical step for us to take. An apology to make. A boundary to set. A phone call asking for support. We can take that step prayerfully, without demanding that we solve everything today.
Grace for today
Pause for a moment. Name the burden that has been weighing on your heart. Bring that specific concern to the Lord.
You are allowed to receive care, too.
A moment to reflect
What am I trying to carry alone, and what would it look like to entrust it to God today?
Let’s pray
Father, You know the concerns I struggle to put down. I bring them to You now. Give me wisdom for what is mine to do, courage to ask for help, and peace as I entrust the outcome to You. Thank You for sustaining me with Your faithful love. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
May you find a quiet place to rest in His care today.
There is a place in our journey with God that I call the in-between. It is the place between the promise and its fulfilment. Between the prayer and the answer. Between what God has spoken and what we can presently see. And sometimes, the in-between can be a difficult place to live.
We pray. We believe. We stand on God’s Word. Yet nothing around us seems to be changing. It is easy in those moments to wonder: Did I hear God correctly? Has He forgotten me? Why is this taking so long? But throughout Scripture, we see that waiting was often part of God’s preparation. Abraham waited for Isaac. Joseph carried a God-given dream through betrayal, slavery and imprisonment before he saw its fulfilment. David was anointed king long before he sat on the throne. And even Jesus lived quietly for many years before the season of His public ministry began. The waiting wasn’t wasted. And neither is yours. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” — Proverbs 3:5
🌿 God is working where you cannot see One of the greatest lessons of faith is learning that God’s silence does not mean God’s absence. There are things He may be arranging that we know nothing about. There may be people He is preparing. Doors He is positioning. Things He is changing within us. Sometimes we are so focused on what we are waiting for that we don’t notice what God is doing in us while we wait. The in-between can become holy ground when we stop asking only, “God, when will this happen?” and begin asking: “Lord, what are You teaching me here?” Perhaps He is deepening your trust. Perhaps He is teaching you patience. Perhaps He is loosening your dependence on circumstances and drawing you into a deeper dependence upon Him. Don’t dig up the seed When a farmer plants a seed, he doesn’t dig it up every morning to see whether it is growing. He waters the ground. He tends the soil. And he waits. There is life beneath the surface long before anything becomes visible. Some of God’s work in our lives is like that. Just because you cannot see it yet doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Keep praying. Keep believing. Keep obeying the last thing God told you to do. Keep loving people. Keep walking faithfully through today. And leave tomorrow with Him.
🌿 A thought for your journey Is there something you have been waiting for God to do? Instead of allowing the waiting to become a place of anxiety, perhaps today you could turn it into a place of worship. Say: “Father, I don’t understand everything You are doing, but I trust You. I know You are faithful, and I will walk with You through the in-between.”
🙏 Prayer Father, thank You that You are working even when I cannot see what You are doing. Help me not to become discouraged in seasons of waiting. Teach me to trust Your heart when I cannot understand Your timing. Use this season to strengthen my faith, deepen my relationship with You, and prepare me for everything You have ahead. I choose today to trust You in the in-between. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Grace for the Journey Walking together, one step at a time. — Sylvia Suhr Sylvia’s Dream
Today, take a moment to simply rest in this truth:
You are deeply loved by God.
The greatest revelation we can ever have is not simply that God exists, but that God loves us.
His love is not distant, uncertain, or based on our performance. It is steady, personal, and transforming.
When we begin to truly understand the love of God, fear starts to lose its hold. We stop striving to earn what has already been freely given. We begin to see ourselves differently, see others differently, and walk through life with a deeper sense of peace and security.
The love of God is not just something to believe with our minds. It is something to receive, live in, and allow to shape every part of our lives.
“We love because He first loved us.” — 1 John 4:19
With love and blessings, Sylvia Suhr Christian Author • Speaker • Missionary www.sylviasdream.com
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” — Proverbs 4:23
We often think of the heart as the place of our emotions. But in Scripture, the heart reaches much deeper.
It is the inner place from which our thoughts, beliefs, choices, words, and responses flow. What takes root within us eventually influences the way we live.
That is why God is so interested in the condition of our heart.
We may ask Him to change our circumstances, fix a relationship, remove a difficulty, or open a new door. Yet sometimes the deepest work God wants to do begins not around us, but within us.
A wounded heart can influence how we see ourselves and others. Fear can shape our decisions. Disappointment can gradually harden us. Words spoken years ago can continue to affect the way we think about ourselves.
But this is not where the story has to end.
God Gives Us a New Heart
One of the most beautiful promises of the Gospel is that God does more than improve our behaviour. Through Christ, He brings new life.
Jesus spoke about being born again.
This is not simply adopting a new religion or trying harder to become a better person. It is a work of God within us — a new beginning, a new identity, and a new relationship with Him.
And then begins the journey of learning to live from that new life.
God patiently renews our thinking, heals wounded places, exposes beliefs that are not true, and teaches us to recognise His voice and His ways.
Transformation happens from the inside out.
What Are You Allowing Into Your Heart?
Guarding the heart does not mean becoming closed, suspicious, or afraid.
It means becoming aware of what we allow to influence our inner life.
What are we continually listening to?
What are we believing?
What words are we speaking over ourselves?
What are we allowing fear, disappointment, or the opinions of others to tell us?
And most importantly: What does God say?
The more His truth becomes established within us, the more our lives begin to reflect His peace, freedom, love, and grace.
Grace for Today
You do not have to transform yourself.
Invite God into the hidden places of your heart.
Ask Him to show you anything that needs healing, renewing, or releasing. Allow His Word to become stronger than the voices of fear, rejection, or disappointment.
Sometimes the breakthrough we are looking for begins with a quiet work of God deep within us.
Guard your heart — because from it flows your life.
🌿 From Sylvia
This message is at the heart of my book Guard Your Heart: Understanding the Heart, the Inner Life, and the Miracle of Being Born Again.
I wrote it as a gentle, Scripture-based guide for anyone who wants to understand the inner life more deeply and discover how God transforms us from the inside out.
There are seasons in life when we cannot see what lies ahead.
The road feels unfamiliar. The future is uncertain. We may have experienced loss, disappointment, or a change we never expected.
Ruth knew what that felt like.
She had lost her husband. She was leaving behind her homeland, her people, and everything familiar to her. When she chose to remain with Naomi and travel to Bethlehem, Ruth had no idea what was waiting for her there.
She simply chose to be faithful.
She chose love.
She chose commitment.
And she kept walking.
“Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.” — Ruth 1:16
Sometimes the hardest part of faith is not taking the next step.
It is waiting.
Waiting for the answer. Waiting for the door to open. Waiting for something you have prayed about for a long time to finally change.
But waiting with God is never wasted time.
There are seasons when we cannot see anything happening on the surface, yet God is quietly working in places we cannot see. He may be preparing circumstances, changing hearts, strengthening us, or arranging something far beyond what we could have planned ourselves.
A seed beneath the soil may look like nothing is happening.
But life has already begun.
Perhaps today you are standing between the promise and its fulfilment. Don’t mistake God’s silence for His absence.
Keep trusting. Keep praying. Keep walking with Him.
You don’t have to force the next door open.
When the time is right, God knows how to open it.
“Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him.” — Psalm 37:7
🌿 Grace for today: Rest in what God is doing, even when you cannot yet see it.
The God who has been faithful behind you is already waiting for you ahead.
Thank you for being part of my little community and for allowing my posts to come into your inbox.
Each time I write Grace for the Journey, my prayer is simple: that the words will bring you a little encouragement, strengthen your faith, and remind you that God is with you in every season.
Sometimes we want to see the whole road ahead, but God often gives us just enough light for the next step. We may not know what tomorrow holds, but we can trust the One who is already there.
This week’s thought is:
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” — Psalm 119:105
Whatever you are facing today, you do not have to work everything out at once. Take the next step with God. A prayer, a decision, a new beginning, or even a quiet “yes” can become the beginning of something beautiful.
A Testimony of Faith, Purpose and New Possibilities
At eighty-one years of age, I sometimes stop and marvel at the unexpected journey God has led me on.
I was born in post-war England, the youngest of six children, and grew up in circumstances that did not appear to promise an extraordinary future. Yet through every season—marriage, motherhood, heartbreak, restoration, missions, ministry and writing—God has continued to reveal that no life surrendered to Him is ever wasted.
I came to know Jesus personally at the age of thirty-eight. That decision changed the direction of my life.
Since then, God has taken me to nations I never imagined visiting. I have ministered in Africa, Asia and the United Kingdom, worked alongside pastors and missionaries, taught the Word of God, prayed for the sick, encouraged children and families, and helped establish ministry among vulnerable communities in Kenya.
In recent years, another unexpected door opened.
Technology.
There was a time when I was afraid even to use a computer mouse. One day, I made a decision: “I am going to learn computers.”
Today, I have written and published around twenty books, created ministry resources, prepared teachings, translated material, developed a website and shared messages of hope with people around the world.
Much of this work has been completed with the help of ChatGPT, whom I affectionately call Grace.
Grace has not replaced my testimony, my faith, my voice or the leading of the Holy Spirit. Instead, this technology has helped me organise my thoughts, shape my stories, prepare manuscripts and communicate the message God placed in my heart.
My latest book, When the Word Becomes Life, grew from a revelation that changed me more than forty years ago: God’s Word was never meant to remain only in our heads. It was meant to become a living reality within us.
Recently, I also travelled to Indonesia with a mission team, proving once again that age does not have to determine purpose.
This new season has shown me that we are never too old to learn, create, travel, dream or obey God.
Artificial intelligence can never replace genuine relationship, spiritual discernment, prayer or the work of the Holy Spirit. But when used wisely, it can become a valuable tool for sharing testimonies, writing books, translating Christian resources and carrying the message of hope across nations and generations.
Imagine the possibilities:
Missionary stories preserved for future generations. Christian books written by people who never thought they could become authors. Scripture teachings translated into other languages. Testimonies shared through videos, songs, podcasts and audiobooks. Older people discovering that their wisdom and experience still have great value.
My journey is not finished.
There are still books to write, people to encourage, young lives to inspire and nations to reach.
At eighty-one, I am still learning.
Still growing.
Still following Jesus.
And I believe the hand that led me yesterday is the same hand leading me today.
