Arise Like Esther

Author: Julianne Clark

  • Am I in God’s Presence?

    Am I in God’s Presence?

    Hello beloved,

    I just wanted to share real quick on how to know if you are in God’s presence.

    People talk about it all the time, and honestly it’s taken me years to come to this point. It’s worth sharing. I’ve learned so much from watching my husband. He is a gift.

    In His presence is everything we want, safety, provision and alignment.

    Out of it is certain death.

    Just because we love God doesn’t mean we are in His presence.

    I love going to the book of Galacians as a general guide.

    5:22 the fruits of the Holy Spirit

    22 ¶ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.”

    You can go down that list.

    Ask yourself…

    Am I in God’s supernatural peace?

    No peace? = you stepped out of His presence and possibly into fear and it could also be He trying to get your attention to tell you the cloud is moving or something else. That’s a great time to start praising Him. A great man of God once said “praise will keep you on your path.”

    I am I joyful? There is NEVER a reason for any lover of God to EVER be sad and sorrowful- that’s not to confused with a holy grieving for the loss of a loved one.

    Am I acting gentle? Or is there anger, irritation and bitterness in the heart?

    So as you go down this list, you will know and God will show you.

    If you are walking in offense … you have stepped out of His presence and have left the door open to the enemy.

    If you are feeling sad and down… that’s not God.

    Anxiety= not Holy Spirit.

    The fruits of the flesh…

    19 ¶ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,fnfornication, uncleanness, lewdness,20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,21 envy, murders,fndrunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    Such a great scripture on how to know where your heart is at and how to CONSTANTLY be evaluating it.

    I pray this blesses you.

    Also, there’s a righteous anger and an unholy one. There’s a righteous grieving and an unholy one.

    💜💜💜 stay in His presence, JC

  • The Hidden Reason You Can't Sleep (And Why "Sleep Hygiene" Isn't Fixing It)

    You’ve done everything right.

    Phone charging in another room. Bedroom temperature set to arctic levels. Blackout curtains creating cave-like darkness. No caffeine after 2pm. Melatonin bottle on the nightstand.

    And yet… there you are at 2:47am, eyes wide open, mind racing, watching the ceiling fan spin while calculating how many hours you have left before the alarm goes off.

    Here’s what most people don’t realize: Sleep hygiene only works if your body’s stress-response system is functioning properly.

    And after months or years of chronic stress, it’s not.

    Your Body Is Stuck in “On” Mode

    Think of cortisol—your primary stress hormone—as a light switch that’s supposed to dim at night and brighten in the morning.

    But when you’re chronically stressed, that switch gets jammed in the “on” position. Your body literally forgets how to power down.

    No amount of room temperature adjustment or blue light blocking can override a hormone system that’s stuck in survival mode. You’re trying to fix a software problem with hardware solutions.

    That’s why you can be absolutely exhausted and still unable to fall asleep.

    Your body wants to rest. Your brain is begging for it. But your stress-hormone system won’t allow the transition.

    The Real Cost of This Dysfunction

    Sleep deprivation isn’t just about feeling tired.

    Every night you don’t sleep properly, you’re accumulating damage:

    • Your cardiovascular risk climbs with each restless night
    • Your brain’s ability to form memories and think clearly deteriorates
    • Your metabolism shifts, making weight gain almost inevitable
    • Your immune system weakens, leaving you vulnerable to every office cold
    • Your emotional regulation crumbles, turning minor annoyances into major conflicts

    The scary part? Most of this damage happens silently. You don’t feel your heart health declining. You don’t notice your cognitive function slipping until it’s significantly compromised.

    You just know something feels fundamentally wrong.

    What Actually Works: Addressing the Root System

    Here’s what changed my understanding of sleep completely:

    The solution isn’t forcing your body to sleep. It’s removing the obstacles that prevent your natural sleep mechanisms from functioning.

    Your body already knows how to sleep. It’s been doing it since you were born. The problem is your stress-hormone system has been hijacked by modern life—constant notifications, endless deadlines, financial pressure, relationship stress, global anxiety.

    Adaptogens work differently than sleep aids.

    Instead of sedating you or artificially inducing sleep, they help regulate your body’s stress-response system. They teach your cortisol patterns to normalize. They support the natural transition from “awake and alert” to “calm and ready for rest.”

    Most people don’t realize that quality sleep isn’t about quantity of hours. It’s about your body completing proper sleep cycles without constant cortisol spikes waking you up.

    The Solution That Addresses This Properly

    After researching adaptogenic approaches to sleep regulation, I came across something that brings these concepts together in a practical format: Solle Naturals’ SolleReNūe.

    What makes this approach different is it’s specifically formulated to target the stress-hormone dysregulation that’s preventing sleep—not just mask the symptoms with sedation.

    The adaptogenic blend works with your body’s natural cortisol rhythm, helping restore the patterns that chronic stress has disrupted. You’re not forcing sleep. You’re removing the obstacles that have been blocking it.

    This is the tested approach that focuses on the root cause rather than applying another band-aid solution that stops working after two weeks.

    Everything We’ve Discussed Comes Together Here

    The sooner you address the hormonal dysfunction keeping you awake, the faster your body can return to its natural sleep patterns.

    See how SolleReNūe works to restore your body’s natural sleep rhythm →

    You’ll find the complete framework for supporting healthy cortisol patterns and reclaiming the restful sleep your body is desperate for.

    Because you deserve to remember what it feels like to wake up actually rested.

    Your body wants to sleep. Let’s remove what’s stopping it.

  • Saved!

    Saved!

    Hi beautiful sister,

    Do you remember the moment you were saved?

    I sure do. To His glory, I share part of my story.

    Sister, I WAS A MESS! Total misfit. The black sheep of the family. The outcast. The rejected one. The SUPER lost one.

    A broken young woman.

    I still remember being at the Lifeway Christian store and my spiritual mother was about to buy me my first bible.

    We got down on our knees. God bless her heart, she’s now with Jesus.

    She held my hand and asked me if I wanted to accept Jesus into my life.

    All I knew was I was in so much pain and I wanted help and I’d tried nearly everything else.

    I thought what do I have to loose?

    I said yes. Nothing crazy happened. That was it.

    But it was the PEACE OF GOD THAT CAPTIVATED ME.

    You see I had been tormented my whole life.

    Then after receiving an invitation to home church, I finally accepted it. Years later.

    Then I felt this PEACE that I never knew before… I thought WHAT IS THIS?!!!!!

    But it was as soon as I left that it seemed all hell was waiting for me.

    So I was desperate for Sunday church.

    Then the peace came back when I read the bible.

    So I spent HOURS soaking in the word daily. Then it got to the point where I’d read the bible for like 8 hours a day and anytime I could.

    But when I stopped reading… the Supernatural peace left.

    It wasn’t until I met my husband that he taught me how to have peace always.

    It came through fighting the spiritual battle and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and only thinking on Him and His promises and goodness. CASTING DOWN THOUGHTS NOT OF GOD.

    Doing the basics, praying, anointing, fasting, using scripture to silence and win the battle. Refusing to sin in my heart or with my words.

    Fighting the good fight and never settling for anything less than His peace. Super imperfect but never quitting.

    So years later, here I am and I tell you that God is real.

    And if you have never said His prayer you don’t need anything fancy, just a repentant heart

    You can say this prayer: Jesus come into my heart, I make You my Lord and savior, help me, I turn from my old ways. I am Yours, save me.

    And with a grateful heart I AM sooo excited to share our NEW- SAVED COLLECTION!

    It’s the beautifully hydrating Lip Salve in a beautiful mini compact.

    So every time you apply Saved to your lips, you remember that YOU ARE HIS and let that speak to your deepest core knowing that the words on the compact which say Seint remind you that you are a Saint of Jesus Christ.

    See SAVED here

    I pray that blessed you.

    May God get all the glory.

    💜

    Stay in His presence, JC

    “by grace you have been saved through faith – Eph.2.8.”

    For, we are unto God, a sweet savor of Christ, and them that are saved. Second Corinthians chapter 2, verse 15. 

  • Depenency

    Depenency

    Sister,

    It is our dependency on the Lord that will sustain us during the hard times.

    I heard someone say this today and it was soooo good!!! I had to share it.

    Are we dependent on the Lord our God. These are questions I ask myself?

    Or are we dependent on the internet? Are we dependent on our next financial check? Are we dependent on ourselves?

    Brother John said, (paraphrased) “many seek His will but NOT His face.”

    It’s in the present moment that HE IS FOUND.

    So when the bible says… pray always.

    God means what He says.

    It’s a constant communion. As my beloved husband says, “nanosecond by nanosecond.”

    And it’s when we take our eyes off Him that the focus changes. Only one thing can have our focus.

    Then the doubts, fear and hell is allowed to creep in.

    Today I found myself at a place where peace was gone. And I had it allowed it for more that I ought to have. But by His grace He made me aware and I KNEW it was because I took my gaze off of Him and was staring at the problem. Then it seemed to grow instantaneously.

    I repented and dropped to my knees. Physically and in heart posture and repented. He so lovingly embraced me. His unshakable peace returned.

    I pray sister, that we are so hyper aware of His peace and His face that when He moves His eyes, we see … because our focus in always on Him.

    In Jesus name. Love you. JC

  • The Viral Defense Most People Are Ignoring (And What Actually Works)

    The Viral Defense Most People Are Ignoring (And What Actually Works)

    When another wave of seasonal illness sweeps through your community, you probably reach for the same solutions everyone else does. Vitamin C. Zinc. Maybe some herbal tea your neighbor recommended. And yet, somehow, you still end up missing work, canceling plans, and wondering why your immune system can’t seem to keep up.Here’s what most people don’t realize: your body isn’t just fighting the presence of viral invaders—it’s battling their ability to multiply and spread. That’s the real war happening inside you. And unless you’re addressing viral replication at the cellular level, you’re essentially bringing a butter knife to a gunfight.

    The Hidden Battlefield Inside Your Body

    Every time a virus enters your system, it immediately hijacks your healthy cells and turns them into replication factories. Within hours, one infected cell becomes hundreds. Within days, thousands. This is why you can feel perfectly fine one morning and completely wiped out by evening.

    The conventional approach focuses on symptom management—reducing fever, suppressing coughs, easing discomfort. But while you’re treating symptoms, the virus is winning the actual war by continuing to replicate unchecked. You’re bailing water from a sinking boat instead of fixing the hole.

    What if there was a natural compound that didn’t just support your immune system, but actively inhibited viral replication at the cellular level?

    The Banaba Leaf Discovery

    Researchers have been quietly studying a botanical solution that most people confuse with the common banana fruit. Banaba leaf (not banana—completely different plant) has demonstrated something remarkable in clinical settings: the ability to protect human cells from viral destruction in the early stages of infection.

    But here’s where it gets fascinating. A 2014 study compared Banaba leaf’s antiviral properties to pharmaceutical antivirals, and the results were striking. This natural compound didn’t just compete—it actually outperformed certain antiviral medications in inhibiting virus replication.

    Think about what that means for your body’s defense system. Instead of simply supporting your immune response, you’re actively preventing the virus from creating the army it needs to overwhelm you.

    The Dual-Action Advantage

    Most natural remedies offer one mechanism of action. Banaba takes a different approach. While the leaves target viral replication, the flowers of the same plant demonstrate powerful antibacterial properties. Your body faces both viral and bacterial threats, often simultaneously. Having a solution that addresses both is like having a security system that guards all the doors, not just the front entrance.

    This is especially critical during the vulnerable window after viral infection, when bacterial complications often develop. Secondary infections are what turn a manageable situation into a serious health crisis.

    What Experience Teaches Us

    The principle here is straightforward: prevention at the cellular level beats symptom management every time. When you stop viral replication early, you’re not just reducing symptom severity—you’re potentially preventing the illness from fully developing in the first place.

    Consider this scenario: two people are exposed to the same virus. One takes conventional symptom-relief remedies. The other uses a solution that actively inhibits viral replication. Who recovers faster? Who experiences milder symptoms? Who avoids complications?

    The research suggests the answer is clear.

    The Solution That Brings It All Together

    Everything we’ve discussed comes together in one comprehensive approach. I discovered something that combines the viral-inhibiting properties of Banaba leaf with synergistic ingredients designed to support your body’s natural defense mechanisms: Solle Naturals’ CinnaMâte.

    This isn’t just another immune supplement sitting on a shelf making vague promises. This is a tested approach that addresses viral defense at the cellular level—exactly where the real battle is being fought.

    You’ll see exactly how to apply these insights to your specific situation. The formulation is designed to be preventative when you’re healthy and supportive when you’re fighting something off. Either way, you’re giving your body the tools it actually needs to win the fight, not just mask the symptoms.

    The sooner you implement these strategies, the faster you’ll experience the difference between managing illness and actually preventing it from taking hold. Your immune system has been working overtime with inadequate support. It’s time to change that equation.

    Because here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud: waiting until you’re already sick to think about viral defense is like waiting until your house is on fire to buy smoke detectors. The time to strengthen your cellular defenses is before you need them desperately.

    What would it mean for your life if seasonal illness stopped derailing your plans, your work, your family time? That’s not wishful thinking—that’s what happens when you address the root cause instead of chasing symptoms.

    Stay in God’s presence, JC

    * This statement and this product have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to prevent, treat, or cure disease. This website does not provide medical advice. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a qualified healthcare provider before using any new product, especially for children.

    Studies and Research

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3705663/

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