Sermon: Stand Up In It

The Holy Spirit showed up in a way I have never experienced before. My pastor gave me the opportunity to preach on Communion Sunday and I sharedn the sermon “Stand Up In It”, from Luke 13:10-13, about how Christ healed the woman who was stooped over for 18 years.

We may not be physically stooped over, but many of us are bound to our trauma, and we don't want to let it go. The wonderful thing about God is that the Lord sees us, the Lord calls us out of our trauma, and the Lord puts his hands on us so we can finally be free from the pain that has us bound.

The Holy Spirit showed up and washed us anew today and I am so very grateful.

Candance Greene

Candance L. Greene is a published writer, editor, and the founder of Cherishedflight, a ministry dedicated to helping women realign with the peace of God. She has produced over 70 episodes of Cherishedflight the Podcast where she shares biblical steps women can take to embrace the peace and purpose God has for their lives.

In the spring of 2018, Candance also released her book Inhale Peace: A 31-Day Journey to Realign with the Peace of God. The devotional was created as a daily guide for people to connect with the peace of God every month of the year. 

Candance is a graduate of Paine College where she earned a BA in English, and Goucher College where she earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She has been published in a variety of anthologies, scholarly books, and journals including: Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry; Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction; Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir; and the Huffington Post. A native of Nashville, Candance now resides in Baltimore with her husband and three children.