“My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak.” (2 Corinthians 12:9a TEV) As a pastor, I meet hurting people all the time. You can take two people, put them in the same difficult
Work brings about so much stress. After a long work day, the day closes, and if you are being overworked you will know it because you will feel drained physically, mentally, and emotionally. When you are overworked you feel totally drained out
The Bible says in Matthew 5:8, “God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God” (NLT, second edition). To “see God” means to experience the presence of God. Believers who have a pure heart get to feel
Give your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you. (Psalm 55:22) Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7) Anxiety and stress bear down hard on our bodies
Sometimes we have to dig around the dirt in order to plant something new, beautiful and well-rooted. This post is the first of two parts of a teaching on healing the past. Before you go forward, stop and pray. Ask
“Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14 NLT, second edition).When people are hurting, they need simple truth, not simplistic truth. It’s not enough to tell someone to
Dear child of God, how’s your prayer life going? Is the busyness of life taking up all of your time and draining all of your energy so that you do not have time to pray? Praying very early in the
God gave us the word “may” as a gift to be able to see and impact the future for good and God. It is a word of opportunity, of blessing, of hope. Depending on who speaks the word or who
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