Live The Life God Created You For
When you feel your heart racing and you know that God is leading you to pursue something; do you go after it with the perseverance of a kid chasing an ice cream truck or do you get stuck in analysis paralysis? I think we often get stuck in a cycle of questioning whether it
Are you loving those around you in the best, most amazing way that they could be loved? Today I’m going to share some tools on how we can love better, but first a reminder on how much emphasis there is in the Bible on the need to love each other as Jesus loves us.
If your closest mission field is your family and they haven’t received salvation, do you feel like a failure? From time to time I hear a sermon stating if anyone in your own family isn’t saved then you shouldn’t be in ministry. It is so defeating because it is such a sensitive, tender hurt
What if the insignificant details of your life are part of God’s master plan for something EXTRAORDINARY? I don’t feel like we think of our lives like that. We are doing the best we can and maybe trying to do better than the day before, but sometimes it is hard to believe that there
Why don’t we have faith like David’s when he took down Goliath? After all, we serve the same God. We are children of the Most High King, just like David was. Why do we fall short and behave timidly instead of being fierce warriors for our faith? Most of us are probably familiar with
Was there a time where you felt like it was possible for you to achieve ANYTHING for God’s Kingdom? Just let you at it and you could move mountains, slay lions and nothing was impossible with God on your side? I hope that you are living that out now or you have at least
I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. – Mark Twain Mark Twain’s words are definitely worth a moment to ponder. How many of your worries have ever actually become reality? It isn’t as if we can change ANYTHING by fretting about it. Maybe you are like me
Do you love your enemies? Do you pray for those that have caused you difficulties? I remember the first time someone asked me if I prayed for the people in my life that were causing me terrible pain. Honestly, in that moment I remember thinking that the thought had never occurred to me before.
The following story is based on an excerpt from the book, The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change By: Jon Gordon and Damon West The Story of The Carrot, The Egg, and The Coffee Bean A young girl went to her grandmother and told her about her life and how things
Do you ever hear something that convicts you so deeply that it disrupts your entire day? The other day, I was listening to a radio show where they were discussing a couple that had recently been handling some very difficult health issues. The wife had been hospitalized for cancer treatment and then a week
Insanity….the best single incident of insanity that I can recall was when I was in what could have easily been a fatal accident. I won’t get into the messy details of how I got into this situation at the age of 19, but here’s the rest of the story….. I was driving over a
Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. Do you pray with the authority that God has given us? We must always pray with the power given to us by Jesus Christ due to his
Are your days filled with butterflies and rainbows or does despair sneek in when you least expect it? Has darkness consumed portions of your life that you wish it hadn’t? Oh how I wish I lived a life that was filled with ease and joy, but that is apparently not to be. I have
Do you look back at what has passed by? Have you walked away from situations, but can’t quite quit dwelling on or reassessing how it could have been different? I was listening to the for King & Country song called Burn the Ships and it hit me so hard how often we continue to look
The story of Joseph is my very favorite story of unending perseverance. Through every trial Joseph never lost faith in God. I would like to think that I would respond the same, but I’m fairly confident I would fall miserably short. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that if I had been