I’m excited that you want to find out more about what we do, what we believe, and my testimony! Researching the people you follow (or will potentially follow) is EXTREMELY important, especially in today’s world where so many claim to be Christian and are not. It’s not ours to go around judging who is who, but we do need to be aware of who we follow in order that we are not led astray! I’m so glad you’re here!
On this page, you will find:
- About This Blog (how it got established and why)
- Our Mission (what we are called to do)
- My Testimony (how I became saved)
- My Training and Upbringing in the Lord (my spiritual growth)
- What We Believe (our statement of faith)
About This Blog
I started this blog because God put it in my heart to do so. At that time, I didn’t even know what a blog was! Or that I could make money from it.
There were a lot of questions from friends about my life and how I was able to live so well on so little. A lot of the questions were the same and so in order to save time, I felt like God wanted me to have a place I could put all the information down.
A place to send the people when they asked the questions. I could then just email them a link to read all about it, I could go deeper than I could in passing or in an email or in an in-person conversation and I could save time that way, instead of constantly repeating myself to multiple people.
God used one of my Christian friends at the time, Julie, to make me realize I needed a place to put all the information online. She was asking a lot of great questions, very direct questions and it helped me be able to think and know what people wanted to learn from me.
I started the blog and it was, at first, not open to the public. Just a password-protected site just for my friends. I didn’t want it public, because I was speaking more intimately (about my life, etc.) and didn’t want the whole world to know my life.
Unbeknownst to me, my friends started sharing that password with others. Although I didn’t intend for them to, they didn’t know I didn’t want it shared, and I feel like it was God-ordained they did.
I started seeing 100 people a day come to my site within a super short amount of time and so I opened it to the world and thought, “Well, I’ll just open it to everyone, whoever wants to see it.” I didn’t promote it or try to get traffic. I was just taking one step at a time, obeying God, helping my friends, serving others.
One thing led to another and I realized that a blog could be monetized. I remember thinking, “If I could replace my ebay income (profits were around $18k/year at that time), then I could do this and stop having to ship/sell ebay all the time.
Eventually, this blog and in turn my printables shop and my courses site, would become the backbone to my income online. I’m so thankful where God has brought me and all He’s taken me through. I am here today, only because He brought me here.
What started as a tiny little blog, built by someone who had no clue what they were doing, God has grown it to have served millions of people, and to not only replace my ebay income, but to provide an amazing life for me and my kids as well as those around me that I have opportunity to serve.
Our Mission
Almost every day that I wake up, I open up my Bible that day and ask God to show me what He wants me to do for that day. What is His objective, His task for me.
With that in mind, I know some of His mission for me. Some I don’t and can’t know. We can’t know everything.
What I DO know is that He wants me to serve on and through this blog and in person. Lately, He’s been calling me to create MORE Christian blog posts, more faith-based trainings, and to delve into a deeper knowledge of Him in order that I am able to share that.
I know that one day He wants me to be a public speaker. I do believe that He’s called me to impact and help strengthen families and marriages. How He wants me to do that, I’m not exactly sure yet.
I think it’s very important to be honest and not pretend that I have everything together or know everything. I’m learning about God WITH you. I’m studying my Bible, listening to sermons, deepening my knowledge of God WITH you. I’m walking with you. I’m not a Pastor (I believe women Pastors do not line up with the Bible). It is okay for a woman to teach the things of God outside the church, if God has so called her, and to her family, but not within the church walls.
With that said, God has called me to be like Moses in that I am to spend an immense amount of time with Him (and I do) and He will show me what to tell my audience and how to lead them in the way that He wants me to lead. It is very much a daily thing. 🙂
My Training and Upbringing in the Lord
I grew up in a home that used God to “feel good about ourselves”. No spiritual fruit was present and God was just something my mom leaned on to get through life and be around nice people. There was no spiritual fruit present, no hunger for the Word of God, and no desire to be well pleasing to Him or obedient.
When I gave my life to God at the age of 28, my entire life changed. God and His Word are the forefront of my entire life. It is the authority IN my life on how to live a godly, well-pleasing life centered and focused on God.
It was very apparent for me from the very beginning that God couldn’t only be a Sunday thing, but a daily, an hourly, a minute by minute relationship with the One I loved.
Outside of church and being involved in that, I personally follow God-fearing Pastors online such as Alistair Begg and Charles Spurgeon. This means that I am listening to multiple sermons every week and studying the Word of God in depth.
Now, I am presently working through all of Alistair Begg’s. It will take me some years to get through them, but this is my commitment before the Lord, to stay heavily devoted to Him in all ways, including knowledge of Him.
People often ask me how many times I have read through the entire Bible. To date, I have read through it three times, but I tell you, that every time I read it, it expands my knowledge and I never get tired of it. It is my greatest joy in my day, to spend several hours (in increments throughout the day) pouring through the Word of God.
Other Christ-centered teachings I read (books): Jim and Elizabeth George, A.W. Pink, J.I. Packer, A.W. Tozer, Jerry Bridges, and The Valley of Vision Puritan Prayers are my favorites.
I have all of Ray Vander Laan’s videos as well and love to study the Bible in historical context. This is something my son and I love to watch together. However, I do not know if my son is saved yet. He wants to be a Pastor when he grows up (he has since he was 3) but he is not walking near to the Lord at this moment. My daughter on the other hand, is a very new Christian and she is trying her best but her desire for the Lord and His Word is not where it should be.
All in all, I am trying my best to raise my children in a godly home, one where they know they can choose God for themselves. It’s not some mandate placed upon them, but their own choice as individuals. I’m here to guide them and love them, but ultimately, how they choose to live is their own responsibility.
Along with being taught personally by God all these years, these are the trainings that I have utilized, along with being shepherded weekly for three years, in a one-on-one relationship with my Pastor’s wife of a church I attended a long time ago, mostly on the topic of marriage and then on godliness.
How do you know all this that you are posting on your blog? You’re not a Pastor or elder. Did you go to seminary? Did you have any formal training?
Wow, I’m shocked and incredibly humbled to receive this question. I never saw that one coming. 😊 Especially that it’s coming FROM an elder, someone I greatly respect!
There’s so many things I want to say.
I don’t have any formal training. I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the idea of going to seminary. I believe that men should lead in the church (Pastors, elders, etc.) I can lead on the BLOG, it’s not in the church, and my focus is women. It always has been. I don’t stop men from reading my stuff, but it is and always has been geared toward women (that’s one reason you see pink and multi-colors everywhere!) 😆 I don’t have a problem with men reading my blog, but MY focus is women and the people in general, not specifically teaching men.
I will say very clearly and confidently, that I am convinced God has called me to be like Moses, leading a great nation (through this blog) and sharing with them what HE wants them to know (making Himself known to the people). In that way, I become His mouthpiece, so He fills me with His spirit and convicts/leads me what to say.
Honestly, sometimes, as I’m writing, after I’m done, I’ll go back and research it. I didn’t know that! So in a way, I’m learning sometimes too! I do a lot of studying on my own (sermons, reading the Bible and studying it out in-depth, etc.) I do secretly watch Pastors give sermons TO Pastors. 😆 I’m not a Pastor, but I am a shepherd to the people for Christ, so I love to watch that stuff the best. It fulfills my soul the most (don’t give me milk, I WANT MEAT!!!) 😊
One of the things I really have a passion for is teaching the gaps. What I mean by that, is there are a lot of verses that aren’t covered by godly men. I heard a well-known Pastor today during a sermon say, “I don’t know what this verse means. I researched it, no one else knew, and I just don’t know, so I’m going to try my best.” I read the verse and within seconds, I knew exactly what it meant from God’s angle. Not because I’m so awesome or anything, but because God enlightens me. It’s those verses that I really want to teach on, the gaps, so Pastors have a solid resource to help them with their sermons and so that the people (the flock) can learn more and grow together more in Christ. 🥰
The other thing I would say is that for marriage, I was in a one-year discipleship with a Pastor’s wife at one of my churches in Oregon. We met weekly and it was one-on-one, and I learned a lot about how to be a good wife. I had asked her to do this type of training and she agreed, and I’m very thankful for that time with her to teach me. She definitely knew how to be a godly wife and it blessed me greatly. I was in that a long time ago, back when I was married.
In fact, my ex-husband continually tries to be with me again. He just hit me up again a couple weeks ago. I just ignore him, I never even respond to him. His request is beyond ludacris, but it does go to prove that I wasn’t a bad wife. I was godly. He left because of HIS sin, not mine. Not that I’m perfect, I’m not, but that I have a good handle on marriage and I really love to teach it to others! It’s a passion of mine. 🥰 I would love to, one day, if my future husband is interested (and we’re called to do it), after we’ve been married a while, to maybe start a marriage group and teach that or something in person. I really do enjoy it.
So I don’t have any formal training, but I do study a lot (doing my part of things), and God speaks through me through the Holy Spirit.
I remember when He first convicted me He wanted to use me for His purposes in this way, I ran. I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t feel qualified or good enough. I tend to be shy in person and I feel like He wants me to be speaking with my future husband on stage one day somehow and it freaked me out. I’m the girl that stayed home “sick” to get out of speeches in school. I run from the lime light. But He got His way. 😆 You don’t, uh, argue with God.
The COOLEST thing about being like Moses is really getting to know God more than I used to before. There’s a direct line that is not available to most others. It’s a special type of thing where He speaks through me, as His mouthpiece. So He will explain something to me, He gives me like an instant knowledge of something, like when I read a verse, I’ll just instantly understand it from HIS point of view.
The trouble I have sometimes, is in my human flesh. I understand Him, He’s done His part perfectly, but then trying to translate GOD to someone else.
It’s LIKE He speaks in a foreign language. Everything WE understand is worldly, it’s coming from living in the world, seeing the world. That’s NOT where HE lives! He’s coming from a whole different world than we are. So I get to peel back the curtain and kinda see Him (His attributes, what He’s like, things like that, or instant knowledge of verses, etc.), but then translating it to human terms for the world, can be tricky sometimes and that’s where I struggle. Trying to explain God and HIS world, HIS point of view, it’s difficult. His point of view is SOOOOOOO different from ours!!!! It really is like Moses when he says he can’t speak.
Seeing it from God’s angle and then translating it to the people so they can understand, is challenging at times. So I always would love prayer for that, that I would become better at explaining and translating things because His angle is so vastly different from ours! It’s beautiful. It’s breath-taking, but it’s challenging for a human.
The second thing I’d love prayer for is help on the blog (volunteer work). I have so much that I want to get out of me and onto the blog to help the people, but there’s not enough time to do it all (because each thing is so detailed). I definitely need help. I need Aaron and Hur. 😆
What’s your favorite verse in the Bible?
I have two. My #1 favorite passage is Isaiah 40-65. It’s about comfort and being done with a massive trial. 😊 Justice and deliverance. In chapter 61, is my God-given mission statement for this blog.
God had laid the verses on my heart (Isaiah 61:1-3) as being my mission statement and without telling anyone about it, already knowing it was from the Lord, I had two DIFFERENT people come to me within the span of a month and tell me that God convicted them to tell me those verses! 😆
He’s made it plenty clear that, that’s His will for this blog and for me in my life. To give people hope, to show them comfort, to help them line up with His will, to show them that He’s there for them, hasn’t forgotten them. That’s my mission statement to all of you. ❤️
My second favorite verse is Psalm 37:23. There’s so many jewels wrapped up in that verse. First, that God orders our steps. They’re numbered. We can’t fast-forward or skip ahead, as much as we want to. We have to go through all the steps one at a time, like He’s the playwright and we act out the play. It’s all sequential and necessary.
The second part of that verse says WHEN we delight in His way. We only do things right and are on His path, when we delight in Him. When we delight in Him, it’s like He gives us the script of the play.
Without the script, we don’t know what to do. We need the script in order to live life pleasing to Him, and finding delight in Him and His ways, is pretty easy the more you get to know Him. He is VERY loveable! 😍
Since you know the message of God and He is enlightening you with His wisdom, will you teach in the church?
No, I don’t think I will at all. I feel like my place is here on the blog. He has called me to lead and shepherd the people online. The main reason for that would be that in person, I would want to fully support my husband, shining the light on HIM.
In person, HE would be the “main” person and I would be the helper to him. I would help build HIM up, this is his place of ministry and I dare not step on his toes or take away from what is his. My role is to be supportive and encouraging HIM, building HIM up in person.
Perhaps one day he would become an elder or even preach sometimes. But he would be the leader and main focus in person amongst us. It’s his area.
My area is online, so I would hope that he would help me shine online and I would be the main person online and he be the helper to me online.
Your next question was, “Will you do a couple’s blog together or will it still be your name after you get married?”
So, again, his area is in person, fully his, I support him. Online, is fully mine, he supports me. We each have our place where we shine and the other supports that and helps them shine.
It wouldn’t be a couple’s blog, God is very clear to me that it will always be just my name. I am to build it because God enlightens me. I am His mouthpiece.
That doesn’t mean God couldn’t give him his own ministry online as well, but I just don’t foresee it. Mostly because I think that both he and I will want to spend a LOT of time together and so him serving in person and me serving online will be the max of what we could do.
Otherwise, it can very easily choke out our together time (spending time together in our marriage) and you always want to have a balance. You don’t want to work too much or too little. I think this is the perfect combination.
I really look forward to supporting him in person, and my helping to build him up and shine light on him in church, making him the man and just adoring him, letting him lead. It’s SUPER exciting to me! I can’t wait for God to lead me to the right guy for me!!
After you get married, will you stop blogging? Seems like you wouldn’t have enough time to do both.
So, the godly priority list goes like this…
- God
- Husband
- Kids
- Outside family
- Friends, extra church functions/activities, service to the Lord
- The world at large
In that order. Blogging is what God has asked me to do. I highly doubt He will just want me to stop when I get married. With that said, I will have time for both. For me, it’s easy peasy!
I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to be super productive with my time. Most of the time right now, I’m bored, 😄 and that’s okay. I’ve created my life to be as such, not filling it with time sucks (wood, hay, stubble).
I’ve created space in my life ALREADY for a husband, for dating, so I will absolutely have time for a guy, should God decide to bring me one.
AFTER I’m married, I think that God would want my husband to work with me on the blog and us both serve in this ministry.
Maybe he can help write blog posts. Maybe he can work the technical aspect of things. Whatever it is that he’s good at (his skills, what he’s gifted at, his spiritual gifts, his personality, and what God has called him to do), but for both of us to work the blog and serve others in this way.
I do believe that’s God’s will for my life. To work, hand in hand, serving others for Christ WITH my husband in this ministry, but then also one day, maybe my husband having a ministry of his own (maybe in person, maybe it’s him being an elder in the church, maybe he starts up courses online to teach a topic he’s passionate about that is attached to this blog) that I help HIM with, whatever that is, if he should so desire it. 😊
We also may start up a gifting group in the area? It’s really just something to be talked about with my future husband and both of us letting God lead us and obeying Him in our lives, together combined with what WE want to do. ❤️
Idk how all that will look or what God has called us to do as a couple, but I do know this. God always expects us to serve and serving is one of my spiritual gifts. If I’m literally NOT serving in some way each and every day, I get super SAD.
But it really is all about balance.
Our day could look something like this:
We work 4-6 hours a day in the morning (maybe 9 am-1 pm), and then the rest of the day is ours to do with what we want. So, if he is working the blog as am I, that’s a good 8-12 hours combined on the blog each day. For sure, we could make a LOT of waves in the world with working hard like that, for kingdom purposes. And still have the rest of the day to do what we want, spend time together, etc.
Then, on Saturday’s, I have devoted to my husband, all day. It’s HIS day, fully and completely (I’m a VERY romantic person!) We connect, we spend time, we are raw and intimate (cuddling, etc.) with each other, deeply talking, getting to know each other more, investing in each other.
On Sunday’s is church and a day of rest, so we don’t work. We go to church, am involved in that, and just rest all day, hanging out or doing whatever. I also use this day to clean. So I pick up after myself instantly and am super organized in my house during the week and then on Sundays, I usually spend an hour or two cleaning (dishes, etc. are done more than once/week, but I’m talking about the deeper cleaning type of stuff).
In that scenario, we (combined) work the blog 40-60 hours a week and still have a TON of time spending together. I don’t have kids at home with me, so for me, it’s a lot easier to create time for my husband and I want to! He and God are my priority on earth, so I’ve already accounted for that and have plenty of time to balance everything. 😊 I’m already prepared!!! I’m ready!
The one thing I DO know, that God has told me specifically already, is that the first two years of marriage, God has given me the gift of spending that time with my husband, intimately, so we wouldn’t start up any major ministries until AFTER the first two years (honeymoon stage basically). 🥰 We would just spend a ton of time together (continue this blog, of course, but not starting up more things until after we have had ample time to really be together).
What We Believe
1- I believe that being close to God DAILY is the most important thing we can do as Christians. In a busy world, we must absolutely DEMAND our time FROM the world, with Christ. We must make it our priority every day.
2- Second to that, we need to invest time with our spouses (if we have one) and then our families. Our model as women is the Proverbs 31 woman. Our family must NOT be compromised in order to work online or make money, but that we can make money online, if desired or necessary, WITH our family. This blog and my platforms, are very much a family business.
3- It is the highest priority of our lives to become who God has called us to be as women. We should learn to think Biblically and the Bible should frame our entire life, our emotions, mind, wills, and convictions. Walking in the spirit and understanding that our home is not of this world is how we should maintain our daily lives and conduct.
4- Scripture is inspired by God, inerrant, and infallible in the original writings, and they are of final authority. We cannot make the Bible say what we want and we must do our due diligence to study it out, as God intended it to be read and understood, and then to obey according to the Scriptures.
5- In one living and true God, all infinite, all-knowing spirit, perfect in all His attributes, eternally existing in one essence, yet co-equal persons, the Trinity: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
6- Jesus Christ was begotten by God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary.
7- Mankind was created in the image of God but sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death as well, which is separation from God. Human beings are since then, born with a sinful nature.
8- God created humans to be male and female as He designed (“she” and “he” cannot be redefined for the believer). Likewise, God instituted the relationship of marriage in the beginning with Adam and Eve and set forth it to be, as a standard, one woman and one man for life, and that due to sin, things like divorce, homosexuality, and polygamy have entered into the world, but is not a part of God’s will or His desire for us.
9- The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the basis of His blood. However, believing that He exists is not enough to be saved (the Bible says even Satan believes God exists; surely Satan is not a Christian). Therefore, we must come to an understanding and obedience to make God LORD of our entire lives. Not hiding or withholding any portions of ourselves to Him, for His service.
10- Election is the act of God by which He chose (before the foundation of the world) those whom He graciously regenerates, saves, and sanctifies. Sovereign election does not contradict or negate the responsibility of men and women to repent and trust Christ as their Lord and Savior.
11- In the resurrection of Jesus’ crucified body, His ascension into heaven, and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.
12- In the hope of the imminent return of our Lord, Jesus Christ who will return to receive the church, unto Himself at the rapture.
13- That all who receive Jesus Christ by faith, are born again by the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and heirs of eternal life. This means that every true believer on Earth, is a part of the family of God. We, being brothers and sisters in Christ, should maintain ourselves as such and treat each other with dignity, respect, and love.
14- Every believer is sanctified (set apart) unto God by justification and is declared to be holy. This sanctification is positional and instantaneous and is not be confused with progressive sanctification, which we strive for, running with all endurance until the day we meet Jesus face to face.
15- All the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are secure in Christ forever. You cannot lose your salvation once truly saved.
16- In the existence of a personal devil, Satan, who is still working in the world to destroy the souls of men, and that he and all his angels and all who do not receive Christ as their personal Savior will eternally perish in the lake of fire. Satan and all fallen angels are the direct enemy of God and man.
17- In the Church, whose mission it is to preach the Scriptures to all the world, all of its endeavors being guided by multiple leadership and supported by the wise stewardship of God’s people. That the ordinances of the Church, given by the Lord, are Baptism and the Lord’s Table (Communion).
18. Women Pastors or women who purposely lead adult men in Biblical matters are not Biblical, nor God’s design for women. We should stay far away from such leaders because if they cannot determine God’s will in such a clear case as this, how can they rightly determine the Word of God on other areas. Women can, of course, lead children, both male and female.
19. God Shepherd’s His flock and speaks to us by His Word (the Bible), through our moral convictions/consciences (which He gave to every human), through circumstances and situations (opening and closing doors according to His will), and through godly men and women (such as seeking godly counsel, and through Pastors, Elders, and the like).
20. God never asks us to do something contrary to Scripture and so knowing His Word, thoroughly inside and out, is one of the best uses of our time here on earth, in order that we may not be led astray by the devil or false teachers and spirits and in order that we may become an effective tool and witness for our Lord Jesus Christ.
I’ve been asked what religion I am. That’s great! We are to be like Bereans and really make sure the people we are following are genuine born-again believers!
What religion is Sarah Titus?
I am a non-denominational, Bible-believing Christian.
Not sure if you are saved? I struggled with that too! Here’s how to know if you’re really saved.
If you have any other questions, not already answered in here, I’d love to hear from you. You can contact me here: Sarah (at) SarahTitus DOT com