Faith

I really, really needed to relax, unwind, and recover. I desperately need a vacation. I am in deep comatose. Yes spiritually i am in a very deep comatose. I felt angry and confused at why God would allow this. Didn’t he care? Do I believe God is good by what I see or do I […]

God has planted eternity in the human heart. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11 This life is not all there is. Life on earth is

Your choices are far more powerful than your circumstances. You may not like how complicated your life has become. But with few exceptions, no one is forcing you to keep your life complicated. You have the power to simplify your life. In fact, God expects us to assume responsibility for our lives and to carefully

When God wants to remove the defects in my life, he doesn’t just snap his fingers so that it happens instantly. He does it gradually. When God wants to make a mushroom, he takes six hours, but when he wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years. Do you want to be a

When God gives me a mission, I can be sure I’ll run into delays, difficulties, detours, and dead ends along the way. They are a natural part of life. But can I be ready for them?  Don’t give up on our dream, either. Don’t give up on our relationships. Don’t give up on our health.

Change requires making choices. It’s not enough to dream of changing. It’s not enough to desire change. In order for us to change, we will need to make a decision. We must choose to change. Change is intentional. Are we going to be any different in six months? Are we going to be better a

Fellowship – it’s a wonderful word. It’s what we were made for. It satisfies the deepest longings of our heart. It is the answer to loneliness. Nothing in this life compares with it. It starts now and goes on forever. There is no greater joy in life than fellowship. It expresses a relationship of great

You can live beyond regrets permanently. The starting-over process is not just a one-time fix, but rather a skill you can employ whenever you need it. When something goes wrong in life, you can recover your momentum quickly and keep moving forward. Living beyond regrets can become a way of life.  To help you in

The apostle Paul tells us in Romans 8:28 that all things work together for good. Notice Paul doesn’t say that all things are good, but that all things work together for good. Paul also tells us in Romans 12:16 to “readily adjust yourself to [people, things].” The idea is that we must learn to become

Have we ever taken time to consider our own emotional patterns? Consider the repeated thoughts that create recurring emotions and therefore yield habitual actions. Understanding those patterns will require opening the dark closets of our heart and dissecting the memories we thought were buried. We must begin to ask ourselves: Why did this happen to