A New Deal
So instead of God waiting for you to mess up, and we all mess up, he provided a way to forgive the mistakes and a Helper to guide your heart and mind to do…
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Spill Your Heart Before God
What is your mountain? What is the challenge of your life? Call out to God for help!
Refuse to Worry
God didn’t create us to worry. It is an acquired worldly skill. He says to trust Him and refuse to worry.
Humility with Faith Equals Breakthrough
Humility empowered by visionary faith equals breakthrough. Let us bow low, yet let us also stand in faith, for the mixture of humility and faith is a potent fragrance.
Our Incomparable Companion
If you are a Christian, you have a friend who will never leave you. How wealthy we are to have the Holy Spirit. He is a friend who truly sticks closer than a brother!
Saturated in God’s Love
“Where God’s love is there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear” 1 John 4:18
You can Know the Spirit’s Fullness
Jesus knew His disciples were fruitless, quarreling, ambitious, self-centered men, so - on the eve of His crucifixion - He told them,
The Roadblocks of Life
Roadblocks, whether placed by man or by God are for our protection. Sometimes God wants to protect us. Sometimes He wants to lead us in a different direction.
A Bitter Poison
Bitterness is a poison that we prepare for someone else but then drink ourselves. It is something we often carefully nurture and grow over the years.
True: God’s Love Fills Me
In faith, I know these things to be true: He will make my joy complete because I no longer live in darkness, but I now live in the truth and have fellowship with God.
One Step at a Time
Oh, how we like to know the details—where we’re going, which path we’ll take, when we’ll get there, and exactly what “there” is.
From Brokenness to Holiness
Who we are in God is more important than who we are to anyone else in this world. We are His chosen people, and we are His very own.
Building Muscles of Faith
"I wish I had great faith." These are words that almost every Christian has said at one time or another. But faith is like a muscle, which must be exercised in order to become…
God Never Sends You Out Alone
Are you on the eve of change? Do you find yourself looking into a new chapter? God never sends you out alone.
My Great Delight
God loves the aroma of his children's joy, especially when he is the source of its delight!
Surrounded by God’s Protection
Living in an increasingly insecure world has its real challenges. Dangers, terrorism, new strains of viruses, economic struggles and broken/displaced families surround us on all sides. In the midst of these tensions ....
Just Say the Word
And then this pagan, this man of the world, comes to him and simply says, “Just say the word”. That’s all it will take. That alone, he believed, would raise the dead, heal the…
God’s Help during Temptation
As we look back over our spiritual journey we see that the end of our way was the beginning of God's way.
A New Quality of Life
What is my number 1 priority as a Christian? The answer is simply: to glorify God.
Mercy for Judgement
The opposite of mercy is judgment. Mercy is not easy for me. My whole character leans toward judgment.
An Attitude of Gratitude
A grateful heart sees each day as a gift. Thankful people focus less on what they lack and more on the privileges they have.