The Connection Between Pain and Spiritual Power
Let’s ask God to help us view suffering not as something to avoid or escape but as the portal through which we must pass to experience spiritual power.
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Hold Onto Hope: God Does His Best Work in Caves
Life’s caves become classrooms where we learn deep spiritual truths. Let’s view them as places to experience God in rich, unique ways.
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How to Find Hope in Crisis
We find hope when we place our confidence in our unchanging God. Choosing to trust His wisdom, sovereignty, power, and goodness soothes the soul.
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Finding Calm in Chaos
Fixing our heart on God leads us to a safe place, a place where peace and clarity reign, a place where we find calm in chaos.
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Finding Hope When Tragedy Strikes Again
I hold messy reality in one hand: Uvalde, Ukraine, inflation, family and ministry concerns. I hold God’s spectacular promises in the other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hurting? Afraid? God Knows Your Situation
The enemy may be trying to defeat you through difficult or painful circumstances, but he’s fighting a losing battle because God is on your side.
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The Name of Jesus–Our Key to Victory and Hope
He often works through people–professional counselors and support providers–in the healing process, but ultimately, lasting victory comes from Jesus.
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How to Experience Peace Amidst of Chaos
We yearn for peace, especially when evil happens as it did this week in Boston. Is peace possible? Yes. By admitting that we need God’s help.
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Peace is Possible When Our Story’s Difficult
“I listen carefully to what God the LORD is saying, for he speaks peace to his faithful people” (Psalm 85:8). What is the Lord saying to you?
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What Not To Do When Feeling Discouraged
Isolating ourselves for the wrong reasons when feeling discouraged puts us into a bad place emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
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Kissing Self-Reliance Goodbye
Many times, when we’re walking an easy path, we tend to grow confident in our abilities and know-how. We think we’re able to manage on our own, thank you.
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What to do When Your World Falls Apart
David and his men had traveled for three days without food or water. They were exhausted, and now they were faced with their loss.
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