Freedom in Forgiveness

Don't be discouraged if you find yourself needing to inwardly re-forgive the one who hurt you. Even though that person no longer has any power in your life, occasional reminders of the damage will try to drag your heart and mind back to the time when he or she did. Forgiveness is a powerful gift …

Checking Your Peace

Take some time to recognize if you’re letting what you believe in become more important than who you believe in. Your circumstances, struggles, and even your goals can control and redefine your life, far outside how God really sees you. Check your peace. Peace isn't just an absence of conflict. Peace is your powerful state …

Be Love

You are not what failure or "what-could-have-been" have accused you of. You aren't what's left after rejection, loss, and pain have assaulted you. And you're not what you've called yourself in your darkest moments. You are who God says you are. If you don't know who he’s been saying you are, start here: God is …

But God

Some days just hurt—intense physical pain, unhealed emotional wounds, unresolved circumstances, unfulfilled promises, and questions which have had no answers. But. Please don't give in. Don't quit. Refuse to agree with hopelessness and fear. Remember who you are—you’re God’s royal child, and his kingdom is made of joy (Rom. 14:17). Joy is your inheritance, part …

Perfect

“Be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). “Be perfect.” Jesus didn’t say that because you’re not allowed to make mistakes. “Perfect” (teleios) means to become complete, whole, mature, and to be filled with God's character. Every time you fail, it’s an opportunity to grow closer to Jesus by letting him …