One of the enemy's biggest traps is tempting you to fixate on lost time—anguishing over mistakes, bitterly holding on to offenses, obsessing over what might have been. There may be areas of your past God wants to heal, and forgiveness you need to give to get beyond an offense. But he doesn’t want you to …
Hitting the Renew Button
There’s a big difference between managing your mind and renewing it. Managing is seeing and dealing with life from within the constraints your own strength and experience. For most, that’s eventually overwhelming, exhausting, and unfulfilling. Renewing your mind is letting God transform the way you see your relationships, circumstances, and yourself as he does. It's …
Payback
"All who hate me are plotting together to break me. They're saying things like, 'God is punishing him with a terrible disease, and he deserves to die.' Even my most trusted friends seem bent on destroying me. Lord, be merciful to me and raise me up, so I can repay them" (Psalm 41:7–10, paraphrase). The …
Strengthen Yourself
For me, one of the most powerful verses in the Bible, is 1 Samuel 30:6. This chapter recounts David doing his best to protect everyone, even those who hate him, but when he returns to camp with his fugitive army, they find all their families have been captured. The men were in such despair, they …
Thanking Your Way Out
When you're stuck in a thought swamp, obsessing over what’s wrong, what's missing, what you wish would’ve happened, and anxious about what might, let thankfulness to God for the good things in your life overwhelm all the difficult ones. I know how overly simplistic this seems. But God never leaves you without a way to …
Equip Your Spirit 