How to Find Your Significance in the Only Thing that Lasts Forever
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How to Find Your Significance in the Only Thing that Lasts Forever

Do you ever feel insignificant? Do you feel like you’re trying hard to do your best yet you’re just not measuring up? Welcome to the club! The enemy of our souls wants us to believe that without popularity, possessions, prestige, and power . . . we are insignificant. But how did Jesus describe the enemy?…

2 Important Things to Remember As You Go Through Seasons of Change
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2 Important Things to Remember As You Go Through Seasons of Change

One thing is certain in life . . . things change. Some love it and others find it terrifying. I think most of us get excited about positive changes but just the thought of unpleasant changes can make us anxious. If the season is difficult, hearing the words “this too shall pass” may be encouraging…

5 Meaningful Steps that will Help You Heal from Painful Emotions
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5 Meaningful Steps that will Help You Heal from Painful Emotions

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could protect our children from difficult painful emotions? Fear Anger Grief Anxiety Frustration Heartbreak It would be wonderful if we didn’t have to deal with them ourselves. I imagine it was a very sad day for our Heavenly Father when Adam and Eve decided they wanted to know “good…

How to Trust God with Your Life When You Don’t Understand His Will
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How to Trust God with Your Life When You Don’t Understand His Will

I often hear from readers who are walking through heartbreaking circumstances. They share that although they have prayed and prayed, God hasn’t moved and it seems as though He may allow the heart-wrenching circumstances they feared. You may have been there or maybe you’re there now. You can’t find a job and your savings is down…

How Spending Time at the Foot of the Cross Helps Us Trust God
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How Spending Time at the Foot of the Cross Helps Us Trust God

Do you trust easily? For many, it all depends on the extent to which they’ve been disappointed and betrayed in the past. Trust is defined as confident reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, and promise of a person or thing. Trust relies on consistent reliability! Many of you shared Proverbs 3:5–6 as your favorite verses….

This Truth About “Wait Right Here” will Help You Live by Faith Today
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This Truth About “Wait Right Here” will Help You Live by Faith Today

Years ago when our son was little, I’d take him to the mall to burn off the fidgets on days he couldn’t run around outside.  I can still remember one particular visit like it happened yesterday… We were enjoying our time together when he looked up at me and said, “Wait right here Mommy, I’ll be right back.”…

How God will Help You Live with Faith and Faithfulness
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How God will Help You Live with Faith and Faithfulness

I’ve been wondering about the difference between faith and faithfulness. Faith is believing in someone or something. Faithfulness is consistently acting on that faith. We can have faith that we have the best job in the world but if we don’t faithfully fulfill the tasks of that job we probably won’t have it very long….

How God Will Give You What You Need When You are Suffering
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How God Will Give You What You Need When You are Suffering

It’s normal to complain when life doesn’t go the way we expect. But what if it’s not supposed to… In Henry Blackaby’s Bible Study, Experiencing God. He talks about the way we often make plans and then get upset when God doesn’t seem to cooperate and facilitate. He encourages readers to watch and learn what God is doing around them…

3 Positive Steps to Take that will Help You Live with Humility
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3 Positive Steps to Take that will Help You Live with Humility

What do you think of when you hear the word humility? Is it just the opposite of pride? Pride can be anything from self-respect and satisfaction in a job well done to arrogance and impertinence. Solomon wrote: Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 He also wrote: Pride ends in humiliation, while humility…

How Jesus is the Light Who Gives Hope and Defeats the Darkness
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How Jesus is the Light Who Gives Hope and Defeats the Darkness

Do you ever feel like the darkness is winning? Sexuality is confused, misused, and abused. Wars and rumors of wars lead our newscasts unless there’s a more titillating scandal to report. Respect for those in leadership seems to be the exception, not the norm. Addiction has filtered into every segment of society. Babies continue to…