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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Your Supernatural Solution for Days of Deep Disappointment With God

You know better, or at least you think you do. Your head, your Christians friends, the things you recall from the Bible tell you that God is good and He is for you. But your prayers don't seem to accomplish ...

Created on 19 January 2018

13. Joyce Meyer's Best Advice for Your Painful Struggle

We all have times in life when it seems like we've hit a dead-end or things aren't turning out the way we hoped or expected. However, I've learned from experience that when we feel stuck, discouraged or ...

Created on 03 January 2018

14. The Thessalonian Church's Secret to Joyful Hope in the Midst of Excruciating Trials ...

The Christians at Thessalonica were experiencing tremendous hardship when Paul sent a second letter to them. They were undergoing trials that threatened to break their faith. But despite these pressures, ...

Created on 18 October 2017

15. The Biblical Strategy for Passing Your Fiery Trial With Flying Colors

...  little while, you have had to suffer various trials, in order that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire, may be found to result in ...

Created on 28 September 2017

16. Perseverance in the Midst of Perplexing Pain

...  find that trials and pain are not uncommon in this life. The sinful world we live in is rife with its clear indicators of that disobedience that occurred so long ago. Now the serpent was more subtle tha ...

Created on 27 September 2017

17. How Your Excruciating Labor Pains Are Bearing Incredible Spiritual Fruit

... ou when you come through the fires of refinement. It is a joy that cannot compare with mere happiness. It's deeper. It's richer. It's more intense. Trials come. Tribulation comes. However, as believers,  ...

Created on 15 September 2017

18. This Dangerous Prayer Changed Lisa Bevere's Life

There was a time as a young Christian, I would have argued with you about the purpose of trials. I believed if you were living according to the Word, nothing bad could happen to you. This thinking was ...

Created on 17 July 2017

19. The Beautiful Reason God Is Letting You Endure This Trial

... e're doing something right—seeking Jesus (John 15:2). God's plan for the testing is to use it to draw us closer to Him, to increase our dependence on Christ. Without the wilderness and trials, it can be te ...

Created on 04 July 2017

20. Conquer Mightily in the Midst of Stormy Seasons With These 3 Biblical Reminders

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. We know this. The most direct route? The fastest way of accomplishing tasks? We like this. Efficiency and speed make us happy. But life moments ...

Created on 30 June 2017