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1. How Jesus Wants to Calm Your Personal Storm Right Now

Have you ever longed for peace? Searched for joy? I love to sit on the balcony during our family beach vacation. I am always mesmerized by the ocean crashing against the shore. I have said on numerous ...

Created on 06 November 2018

2. 4 Choices to Help You Cultivate a Resilient Heart

Discouragement hits all of us at times. The disappointments and challenges of life leave us feeling drained and dismayed. We've all been there. The question is, how do we bounce back from discouragement? ...

Created on 29 October 2018

3. In Times of Trouble, Are You Learning to Lean?

Ever hear someone refer to God as a crutch? Something only weak people need to lean on to get through life? I've always found that argument irrational, all the more so when promoted by people who practically ...

Created on 25 October 2018

4. Your Isaiah 61 Encouragement to Persevere Under Trial

... pressure drives us to the one who is our refuge. And the sense of loneliness in the face of our trials helps us appreciate the intimacy of our relationship with the one who created us, saved us and in ...

Created on 18 October 2018

5. Why God Is Testing You Right Now

"You must remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments ...

Created on 15 October 2018

6. 3 Practical Ways Job Can Teach You to Respond in Tragedy

... f causing people to either turn from God (by becoming bitter or blaming Him for their misfortunes) or to turn toward God (by seeking His help and discovering His purpose in their trials). When God brag ...

Created on 11 October 2018

7. The Secret to Powerful Peace in the Midst of Your Swirling Storm

During a recent trip, I held the arm of the flight attendant guiding me to my seat inside the airplane. "Here's your seat, Mrs. Eckles," she said. Not the Bulkhead Seat! After I settled in, I realized ...

Created on 05 October 2018

8. How God Can Use Your Mess to Bless You

Why are we discouraged? I submit there are two main reasons. We are too focused on ourselves and not on God and/or the devil has his weapon raised and we are in his sights. Both are actually reasons to ...

Created on 02 October 2018

9. How Your Terrible Trials Can Become Your Teacher ...

"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of." —Charles Spurgeon I agree with Charles Spurgeon: Trials are indeed a revelation. They are meant to be our teachers ...

Created on 28 September 2018

10. The Hidden Opportunity Outward Pressure Offers You

...  adversity or challenge. When confronted with hardship, the normal tendency is to find the quickest route of escape—choosing rather the path of least resistance. However, what if our trials and challenge ...

Created on 12 September 2018

11. Why This Common Mindset Among Christians Is Totally Wrong

...  the number of trials or tribulations we experience, but we count it an honor to hope in a mighty big God. Hope is anticipating the goodness of God Himself to intervene in your circumstances. When you re ...

Created on 12 July 2018

12. Your Pain Can Become Your Beauty—Here's How the Apostle Paul Did It

We've all seen them—people who look like they've had a hard life. Pain and disappointment weigh so heavily upon them that they've become hated friends that never leave. Weary ones dragging their feet; ...

Created on 29 June 2018

13. The Next Time You Want to Scream, 'That's Not Fair!'

Come on. Admit it! We've all shouted this phrase at God at one time or another, right? I've just finished Bob Goff's new book Everybody, Always. It's fabulous! One of the most profound comments in the ...

Created on 11 June 2018

14. Your Powerful Key to Embracing the Seasons of Your Life

God created us to grow, to change and learn in our seasons of life. As I look around at the beauty of God's handiwork in nature and the different seasons of the growth cycle, I can relate to the seasons ...

Created on 04 June 2018

15. Practical Keys to Keep Your Heart Soft Toward God in Hard Seasons

Have you ever gone through a hard time that lasted more than just a day or a week? Maybe you've been in the middle of a battle for a whole season, or perhaps even years. I know that these times can suck ...

Created on 21 May 2018

16. Truth-Filled Tips to Help You Find the Treasure in Your Times of Trouble

Think back to the times you've made some significant step forward—overcoming a bad habit, developing a new skill, learning a significant new insight, or breaking free from something negative in your past. ...

Created on 13 May 2018

17. 4 Wondrous Ways God Turns Terrible Trials to Tremendous Triumph ...

...  Own Trials But, amigos got to spill it all. This brought to mind the yucky droppings of trials that had paraded through my days—blindness, my son's death, the struggles of sorrow—all gave my life a bad ...

Created on 02 February 2018

18. Why Your 'Dark Night of the Soul' Is Actually a Gift From God

Believers use the dark night of the soul to refer to a time when God seems distant and faith feels difficult. But Streams Ministries' John Thomas says this alienating season is actually a gift from God ...

Created on 26 January 2018

19. 3 Building Blocks to Help Your Kids Stand Tall When Life Knocks Them Down

... ike that child, looking about to see something to be thankful for, wanting an answer that didn't come and not seeing anything but sorrow. But, in darkest trials we learn thankfulness, praise and worsh ...

Created on 25 January 2018

20. The Place of Warfare: Where You Find Your Psalm 2 Inheritance

"Your greatest places of warfare will become your greatest places of inheritance!" This is the phrase the Holy Spirit spoke to me in the fall of 2014 while I was meditating on Psalm 2:7-8. In Psalm 2, ...

Created on 21 January 2018