Why Our Morning Thoughts Matter
If we train our minds on gratitude, our brain responds by releasing hormones related to pleasure and contentment. Our day assumes a tone of joy.
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The Purpose for Suffering
How do we respond to suffering? Do we get angry or fall into self-pity? Or do we allow God to use our pain to refine us and make us more like Jesus?
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5 Practical Ways to Care for Your Soul
Soul care matters. If we’re in a healthy place, then we’re better able to help others who are struggling. So be good to yourself.
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How to Give God Your Concerns
Take a moment to thank Jesus for His invitation to give rest to the weary and burdened. Come into His presence quietly and with no agenda. Exhale your worries.
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Keep Hope Alive: Host a Celebration
In the wake of all the negative stuff happening, I want to suggest doing something to keep hope alive: host a celebration.
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3 Truths about Finding Joy
Praising God shifts our focus from our fears and failures to the character of the One who never disappoints or abandons us. And joy is born.
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5 Promises God Will Always Keep
God will never make a promise and then forget to honor it. He’ll never commit to doing something and then procrastinate. God always keeps His word.
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Are You Fighting a Battle Today?
Trusting God means yielding our desire for control to the One who is in control. It means admitting our understanding of a troubling situation is incomplete.
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How’s Your Heart Today, My Friend?
His intent toward us is always good and never meant to harm or destroy. We find rest for our souls when we rest in Jesus.
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We’re Dependent Like a Newborn Baby
Every moment of every day we need God’s presence in our lives. And every moment of every day our heavenly Father hears our sighs and cries.
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Fighting our Battles by Focusing on Truth
The truth is, Almighty God is on our side. The enemy wants us to believe otherwise, so he whispers lies intended to lead us to believe defeat is imminent.
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Choosing Joy in Life’s Hard Places
When weariness drains us dry, joy is ours if we want. When burdens threaten to crush the life from us, joy is available as a supernatural gift of God’s grace.
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Remember This When Facing Giants
We can either let them intimidate us, or we can choose to believe and live from the truth that the Lord of heaven’s armies rescues His people.
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Running to Our Good Father
God cares deeply about what concerns me and you, and he invites us to come to his throne room anytime day or night. We needn’t fear interrupting him.
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What is Your Hidden Strength?
God sees strengths in us that we fail to recognize. Perhaps we need to ask the Lord to help us view ourselves as He does.
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God is Always on Time
I pray that today’s post will encourage and inspire you. It’s an excerpt from my devotional book Finding Hope in Crisis: Devotions for Calm in Chaos.
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Prayer: What Works, What Doesn’t
Asking with humility and recognizing our needs and Christ’s ability to meet them, works. He may or may not answer with a yes but He recognizes humble faith.
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Why Our Thoughts About God Matter
We’re faced with a choice. We can camp our thoughts on lies or we can secure them on truth. Our choice influences our behaviors and determines our destiny.
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Why We Should Learn to Say No
If we’re too busy to acknowledge God’s presence, then we’re too busy. Let’s be alert to the devil’s efforts to derail us using busyness as his weapon of choice.
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How to Respond to Unmet Expectations
Let’s take the high road. Let’s follow Christ’s example. And get on with the work of sharing Jesus love with others as He sacrificially shared it with us.
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5 Ways to Find Calm in Crisis
Crisis changes life in a nanosecond. It can rob us of routine, ruin our ability to sleep well, and remove our capability to think straight.
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Bad News, Good News, and Hope
Life is really hard sometimes. But suffering is temporary. Let’s neither run from it nor resist it because it refines us and strengthens our faith.
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The Significance of an Overlooked 3-Letter Word
“All” tells us to seek God’s will in everything we do. Our human bent is to seek our own will, to secure our own personal interest in everything we do.
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How Having a Focus-Word Helps Us Grow
This year, the word “praise” jumped off the page as I read Psalm 146. The chapter begins, “Praise the LORD. Let all that I am praise the LORD.”
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When God’s at Work but We Feel Angry
When Jonah spilled his frustration, God asked him a pointed question: “Is it right for you to be angry about this?” It’s important we ask the same question.
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How to Remain Hope-filled and Thankful
Let’s put our hope in God’s word. He vowed to never forsake us. He promised to be our refuge, our guide, our wisdom, and our provider
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God Still Speaks to Us Today
Our role in our relationship with Him is to tune our ear to listen so we can hear it above the din of so many other voices calling for our attention.
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Remember These Truths When You Feel Depleted
I find renewed hope when I cling to the truth that God will never let our pain go to waste. He will always make it beneficial to us when we work with Him.
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A Prayer to Pray on Election Day
Grant us a renewed understanding of Your sovereignty over the nations. Give us faith to believe that the man who wins does so by Your appointment.
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A Key to Working Through Grief
We can walk this path well by looking at Jesus’s example. A man acquainted with grief, He neither fell into despair nor did He use sorrow as an excuse for sin.
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There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel
We grieve our loss but we celebrate her gain. And we see light at the end of the tunnel of sorrow knowing we’ll someday celebrate a great, grand reunion.
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Spiritual Distancing and How to End It
Spiritual distancing ends the moment we declare it over through our actions and heart attitude. All we have to do is humbly admit our need for God.
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4 Truths to Remember When the Wind and Waves Rage
Keep your minds focused on the Truth as we ride out the storm. None of this has taken the Lord by surprise. He sees us and He prays for us.
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My Friend, You Matter to an Amazing God
Take a few moments to reflect on this life-changing truth. The same God who crafted the heavens knows your name. He knows where you are this very moment.
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Hanging onto Hope Like a Knotted Rope
Life with its uncertainties can feel scary at times, but I hang onto hope by focusing on God’s promises, His faithfulness, and His sovereignty.
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How the Pandemic is Offering Us a Fresh Start
A human perspective thinks the pandemic has taken so much. In many ways, it has. But God’s thoughts are higher than ours, and His perspective renews hope.
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