When you think of “fasting,” what comes to mind?
Maybe you envision people willingly starving themselves. Maybe you picture a monk living off of dry bread. Or maybe you’re someone who prefers not to think about fasting … ever.
Fasting is a powerful way to redirect your attention. A redirection to what is truly important: your relationship with God. As you fast, you can use the extra time gained to spend more time with God.
It’s important to fix your mind on what matters by centering your heart on God’s truths. Being someone who constantly deals with feelings of uncertainty, this devotional really spoke to me and today’s reading gives the final step and practical tips of what to do with these unwanted feelings. Practice Being Still “The Lord will […]
400 years. That’s how long the Israelites waited for God to deliver them from slavery. But after they left Egypt, God didn’t take them directly to Canaan. Instead, they camped at the base of a mountain while God instructed Moses.
New year, new me, right?! With each new year comes a new chance for a fresh start. But how do we not let this be just another year with failed resolutions? This plan really spoke to me on how to make that happen with a fresh perspective on navigating walking into this new year. It […]
Paul says in his letter to the Galatians, “Let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” (Galatians 6:9). Those last five words are the key to the whole thing: if we don’t give up. That’s a big […]
DAY 1 Each day begins with noise. The sound of an alarm, quickly overshadowed by the voices of children or roommates. Not long after, our phone starts buzzing: emails, texts, notifications from Twitter or Facebook, or Instagram. Even when the noise is not audible, we hear it in our souls-the push and pull of tasks, […]
The Bible tells us that our debt of sin has a serious consequence. “Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear” (Isaiah 59:2). Our sins have separated us from God. The realization of this moral debt sends some people into a […]
One of the most powerful ways we can pray is with others. In the very beginning, when it was just Adam walking with God in the cool of the day, even then, God recognized that it was not good for man to be alone, that we were created for community and relationship. So often in […]
Most people struggling to overcome their fears have had an encounter with disappointment so great that every dream they can conceive is
contaminated with the toxic anxiety of failure.