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Start Thinking Like the New You
Do you like yourself? Here’s a better question: are you comfortable in your skin? As Christians, we are new creations, but someone didn’t send that memo to our brains. We don’t think like new creations. In fact, we still think like worldly Christians.
Filling the Empty Parts of Our Marriages
Most couples begin their marriage at a climatic peak and full of joy, but this couple’s wedding day had some major problems. Mary, the mother of Jesus, told Him they had run out of wine. Mary went straight to Jesus with her dilemma, and I love that she didn’t tell Him what to do.
This is Your Promise
Have you found yourself in a situation where you wish God would descend a divine staircase, pull up a chair, sit down, and give you clear direction, like when He talked to Abraham? Was it so easy for Abraham to believe God’s incredible promises because he spoke to God as a friend?
Tapping Into the Resurrection Power
I’ll never forget that warm autumn day when I got that text. I held my phone as if it might leap out of my hands. After eight painful years, I had heard from my daughter. Joy, unbelief, and astonishment blended together in my heart as crimson leaves fell to the ground.
I’d prayed for this every day since she left us. I knew this would be the beginning of a difficult rebuilding process, but I accepted that challenge just to hear from her again.
Our focal verses come from Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian church. Paul didn’t pray for God to fill them with power. We have all received His power at salvation. Instead, Paul wanted the Ephesians and us to realize His power flows through us by the Holy Spirit.
The Enemy’s Attack on Our Marriages
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 NKJV
What is the one word in the above verse that has triggered Satan’s attack on marriage from the Garden of Eden until now? Dominion. God gave Adam and Eve authority overall creation, and that same authority extends to us today. God created mankind in His own image, blessed them, and put them in charge.
Hope in the Face of Disappointment
Have you ever faced great disappointment like when Mary and Martha lost their brother when Jesus delayed? We can learn how to handle our...
Helmet of Salvation
Are you excited to continue building our prayer strategy with the armor of God? I desperately need the helmet of salvation. Sometimes, I forget to...
Is God Pleased with Our Marriages?
“For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.
Mark 10:7-9 NKJV
Months ago, I pictured my marriage as a game of tug-of-war. Each of us pulling against the other.
Accepting the Unacceptable You
Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit in? Like a round peg trying to squeeze into a square hole. No matter how hard you try, it never works.
That was Gomer, the former prostitute who became Hosea’s bride. Why would a prophet marry a woman of such low degree? And that name! Just the mention of it might send men running.
reigniting Your First Love
Do you recall when you hungered to feast upon the Word of God at length? Do you remember the excitement pumping throughout your body as you shared the gospel with someone? How did it feel when His strength carried you through the impossible?
Do you remember where you met your spouse? What was your first impression? Do you recall the warmth of his hand or the butterflies in your stomach on your first date?