It’s Christmastime and the pressure is on to be joyful! Retailers can feel the need to even guarantee joy! What???
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It’s a beautiful, soul-cleansing process: Repentance. But might we be doing it in a way that is less than effective for keeping us from repeating the sin again?
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It’s great to have faith to obey God. But how do you hold on in the middle of a storm?
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When David is attacked by the Philistines, he does two critical things that go hand in hand with one another and neither should be neglected.
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Are you experiencing a sudden surge of attacks in your life? This may be the reason (and I hope it IS the reason)!
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Why would God tell Jeremiah to purchase a field that was under enemy control? What significance does this hold?
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Chapters 4,5 and 6 of the Gospel of Mark are put together to communicate something very definite. Have you ever noticed? And what should we change about our beliefs so that we conform to what God is communicating here?
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Every believer has authority given to them by God (Matthew 28:18-20, Mark 16:17-18, Luke 10:19). So how are you using your authority? Are you taking the responsibility that comes with that authority?
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That thing - you know, that thing you are the most afraid to do! That very thing is likely exactly the hurdle that you need to jump in order to reach the goal set before you. Stop viewing it as an opponent and see it as your opportunity!
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Fall is here! And it may be time for you to let go of some things. But what about GOOD things? What about things GOD led you to do?
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If you’re standing in faith for something, I can almost guarantee that the enemy has tried planting seeds of doubt. How does he do it? And what are we to do?
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The Lord desires a unique and personal relationship with each and every one of us. It is a relationship that is too multifaceted for one descriptive word, but in the word I discuss here, we find beautiful truths.
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The painful things we go through are valuable for our personal growth. But the tears we shed in hard times have value beyond ourselves. In Scripture this place of weeping is called the Valley of Baca and our tears are transformed there.
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It seems to me that there will always be something out of my reach. But sometimes my attitude implies I think I have to persuade God to come through! Recently He told me, “Ami, this is not a tug of war! We’re on the same side!”
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Defeat. It may be part of everyone’s story from time to time, but it doesn’t ever feel like PART of the story — it feels like the END of the story. How can a story about a headless and handless idol tell us otherwise?
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Our busiest times can make it difficult to keep priorities straight. Often we think this is problem reserved for modernity, but we see this trap even in the times of the Old Testament! When did this happen and what was the result?
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