One of the enemy's biggest traps is tempting you to fixate on lost time—anguishing over mistakes, bitterly judging offenses against you, 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 God always wants you to …
Grace, Grace
In Zechariah 4, an angel brings encouragement from God to a man who is completely overwhelmed. He tells him to stop focusing on dealing with his difficult circumstances in his own strength, and instead see and overcome them with God’s Spirit. He then tells him something strange—to shout "grace, grace" at the impossible in order …
Managing vs Renewing
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 …
The Language of Love
"Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, and his love endures forever" (Psalm 136:1). The word for "love" in Psalm 136 is "hesed,” which is love to the nth degree. It means loving kindness, compassion, goodness, mercy, favor, faithfulness, and more. It repeats 26 times in this one psalm, declaring over and over …
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 …
Equip Your Spirit 