Against The Odds Ministries

02/04/2026

Good Morning ATO family! Courage is born through our trials and tribulations.
It’s forged when we stand firm on what we believe in—regardless of the odds stacked against us.

Understand this: “the odds” are often just an illusion in our minds.
They’re the made-up scenarios that tell us why we can’t do this or can’t do that. Those fears once consumed much of our lives. And if we don’t face our fears, we can never overcome them.

But we are not alone.

We trust in God and cast all of our insecurities, anxieties, and fears onto Him. With God, anything is possible. Just look at where we started… and look at where we’re standing now.

Standing tall.
Living proof that the odds can be beaten.

Hope to the Hopeless! 💙💙

02/04/2026

HE MEETS US RIGHT WHERE WE ARE AT!

02/03/2026

02/03/2026

No livestream today! Hopefully be on tomorrow. Here is Our Daily Bread 🍞

Focus on God

My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear. Haggai 2:5

Haggai 2:1-9

Today's Devotional
At least he passed, Jess thought, holding the test paper. He’d been helping his son with math, but with house chores and extra work from his boss lately, studying together had been tough. Discouraged, Jess thought of his wife, who’d passed away: Lisa, you’d know what to do. I’m not as good a keeper of the home as you were.

On a bigger scale, such discouragement may well have been what Zerubbabel felt. The governor of Judah had been called by God to lead the Israelites in rebuilding the temple after captivity in Babylon. When they’d laid the foundation, “many . . . who had seen the former temple, wept aloud” (Ezra 3:12). The memory of Solomon’s glorious temple lingered again now, as construction of a smaller structure resumed. Ours isn’t as good, everyone, including Zerubbabel, must’ve thought.

“But now be strong, Zerubbabel,” God said, as He did to all involved: “I am with you . . . my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear” (Haggai 2:4-5). Zerubbabel could take heart in God’s guiding presence, bound by His covenant with them (v. 5). Also, “The glory of this present house will be greater,” God said (v. 9), pointing to when Jesus Himself would visit the temple (John 2:13-25).

We may feel discouraged in a task God calls us to do, comparing our results with those of another season. Let’s focus on His plan for this season, because the work and its purpose are His, not our own.

Reflect & Pray
What task has God given you? How can You focus on Him while carrying it out?

Our Daily Bread Ministries helps people grow closer in their relationship with God, become more like Jesus, and respond to God’s Word through the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

02/03/2026

Beautiful girl, when you are finished falling, after you hit rock bottom and watch yourself come apart into a million pieces, no one is staying to help you collect yourself, no one is sticking around to pick through your pieces to decide which parts of you are worth keeping. That’s for you to decide. So stay down for as long as you need to. This is the most important part. Take your time. Pay attention. You already broke. So the easy part is over. Go slow.... I know, you thought the breaking was the most painful chapter. It wasn’t. Turn the page. The next part is much longer. It’s the healing. The rise. The comeback. It’s the birth of the new you. And it’s not easy. But you are strong and brave and worth it. You’ll have to leave a lot of yourself behind, you’ll have to let go of all the parts of you that you’ve outgrown. We’re not making ourselves small anymore. We’re not bending to fit where we don’t belong anymore. Do you hear me? We’re going all in. Count your wounds, every scar ripped open, every drop of blood you bled like a promise, every tear you cried like a bet in the name of crossing your whole heart, your whole soul, was all for this moment. Right here. Right now. You had to hurt like that to get here to this version of you who knows exactly who she is, who she’s not, who she will never be again. Drop the apologies, babe. We’re not sorry anymore for who we are, we’re not sorry for what we had to do to get here, and we’re not sorry for the time it took to learn our worth. Step out of the box of all you were supposed to be, according to everyone who wasn’t you, and walk into the you, who’s comfortable in her own skin. It’s time. You earned it. We no longer wear the expectations of anyone else and we no longer let anyone else decide what we’re worth. Because we know now. We finally know.
And now it’s time to celebrate it.
Get up, babe. It does not hurt anymore.
Now go show YOU what you’re made of.
-Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Hope to the Hopeless!! Love Meighan.💜💙

02/03/2026

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02/02/2026

Asking for prayers for healing and restoration for my family and myself! 🙏

02/02/2026

Unfortunately No livestream today. I am currently not feeling the greatest but will post Our Daily Bread below!

Following Jesus in Humility

Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3

Matthew 18:1-4

Today's Devotional
Near our home is a famous garden where we often take walks with a young boy our family cares for. His favorite area is the Children’s Garden, which has a small door large enough for him to run through but small enough to force me to crouch. He laughs as I drop to my knees and wiggle through the small opening to chase him.

The small garden gate reminds me of Jesus’ object lesson in Matthew 18, where He calls a little child to His side to explain the type of person who will enter the kingdom of heaven (v. 2). It was a bold example, for in Christ’s day to be a child was to be inconsequential and overlooked. Unlike today, their opinions and desires didn’t matter. Jesus uses this description to highlight our human tendency to be noticed and seek power and influence.

Of course, Jesus wasn’t asking His disciples to become children again but rather pointing to the traits that mark those who serve him. The biggest marker is humility—the person who “takes the lowly position” (v. 4) and serves others.

The small garden door is a reminder that humility doesn’t come naturally to us. Believers in Jesus, however, are to be this way. We’re to follow our Savior, who modeled this way of living by making “himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant” (Philippians 2:7).

Reflect & Pray
In what areas of your life do you thrust yourself to the forefront and seek to be noticed? How can you learn to live more like Jesus?

Our Daily Bread Ministries helps people grow closer in their relationship with God, become more like Jesus, and respond to God’s Word through the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

02/02/2026

Good Morning ATO fam!

Step 5 is all about courage:
“We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”

This step can be scary because shame keeps so many of us hiding. For years, shame and fear kept me stuck in the same destructive cycle. But real freedom begins when we bring our secrets into the light.

In John 8, when the crowd wanted to stone the woman caught in adultery, Jesus said, “Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.” One by one, the accusers walked away. That’s the heart of Jesus. He doesn’t expose us to destroy us; He covers us to restore us.

We need safe, trusted people in our lives who will handle our confessions with grace, not condemnation. Not writing our failures in stone for the world to see, but in soft dust, covered by love and mercy.

Pray and ask God to show you who you can trust. Step 5 takes real courage, but courage is exactly what we’re called to live out in recovery.

Step into the light. Freedom is there.

Hope to the Hopeless! ☀️✝️💪🔥🙏

02/02/2026

MY POSTS ARE NOT FOR EVERYBODY, BUT THEY ARE FOR SOMEBODY, AND WHEN THEY REACH THAT SOMEBODY, IT'S GOD THAT GETS THE GLORY.

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