Our Inability to Trust God
Your first step toward trusting God may be this simple: focus your attention on Him. When you shift your focus to God, you’ll begin to experience hope, confidence, gratitude, and love. God gives peace…
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Fight Like Jesus Fights
Say this as a prayer – In faith, I know this to be true: By God’s grace, I am able take control of my thoughts, weeding out the ones that don’t belong—those that might…
A Resolution Worth Keeping
"This year I resolve to know nothing but Christ and Him crucified." May your new resolution for the year be nothing but Christ and Him crucified. It's simply Christ. Christ plus nothing.
Do Not be Afraid
The shepherds were afraid when the angels appeared to them. Luke 2:8. Have you ever noticed God is always telling us to not be afraid? The Bible teaches...
God’s Strength Covers Me
Say this as a prayer – In faith, I know this to be true: I know my God goes before me and comes behind me (Psalm 139:5). He is “my refuge, a...
Make Your Prayers Other-Centered
God calls us to a violent form of intercession, where we take on the spiritual forces of darkness on behalf of our race, once invaded, now occupied by the prince of darkness.
God is Stronger than We Think
“I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13 We’re not as strong as we think we are, but God is stronger than we think.
Engineer at Work
Divine Encounters. Are you available for them? Do you expect God to be at work in your own life?
God Covers Your Faults with His Perfect Love
The reality is, God’s love is perfect, and he wants to cover our faults with Jesus Christ. The more we’re conscious of God’s love, the less self-conscious we become about ourselves.
God Requires Risky Obedience
God uses risks, large and small, to push us into a deeper faith. And so he wants us to step forward in faith, even if we don’t know where the second step will take…
You Are Unique
We shouldn’t waste a precious minute of life doing things that don’t matter if that means the most important thing we can do is left undone.
Confident In God’s Promises
What giants are you facing today? Meditate on the greatness or "bigness" of God. How do your problems compare?
Love in You Proves Jesus in You
Becoming portraits of Jesus – involves God-Love cleaning the clutter we’ve hidden in the cupboards and corners of our being.
Be Confident in God’s Ability More Than Your Own
Our confidence is not in our ability but in God’s ability. How would things change in your life if you traded self-confidence for God confidence?
No One Can Stop Your Love
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17
What Do I Do With This, God?
If we want to make a significant contribution to the Kingdom of God, we cannot sidestep the difficult seasons of life.
Christ in You Gives You Confidence
Our confidence is not in our ability but in God’s ability. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. Galatians 2:20
God, We’re Desperate for You
“Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.” Psalms 4:1 (NASB) Lord, we’re desperate for you. We’re…
God Can Speak into the Chaos of Your Life
God spoke the world into existence, and He spoke you into your mother’s womb. Even now, He can speak into the chaos of your life to bring it shape and form (Psalm 51:10 MSG).
You Are God’s Great Idea
You are a masterpiece created by God! Oswald Chambers wrote, “Individual lives are the expression of a pre-existing idea in the mind of God.”
Jesus Desires Mercy, Not Sacrifice
When you feel condemnation coming at you like a furious flood, look to Jesus, who says, “I no longer condemn you. Go and sin no more”
You are Defined by God, and God Alone
Your faith will grow stronger as you focus on your identity in Christ (Galatians 2). What this means is that you abandon any image of yourself that is not from God.
The Cost of Discipleship
“Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of