Here is a spiritual checkup we can use to reflect on what our social media usage might be telling us about our hearts.
7 signs of discouragement that we often miss, and how the Bible tells us to defeat them.
Trusting God helps me lower my defenses and listen to him as he helps me become the person I’m meant to be.
Learning from Jesus to see past our failures and find our potential.
When we learn to make God a personal friend, he will become real to us, and in doing so teach us how to become a “true friend” to others.
Change is difficult, and it only happens when you really want it.
As long as our hearts have the entitlement mentality, personal growth in our relationship with God and with others will cease.
It is hard not giving up, but the Bible teaches us to fight the spiritual battle. Learning how to fight spiritually leads to stronger faith and deeper relationships.
Tests, pressure, setbacks, failure, and trouble can expose the condition of our faith. We need Bible verses about resilience to help us believe that those challenges don’t have to own us.
Learning how to deal with frustration Biblically is key to taming the anxiety that often accompanies anger.
Something we can all learn from basketball, that gets little attention when it comes to our relationship with God, is the importance of an offense and defense to beat burnout.
Jesus had the resilience to continually going back to God in prayer to face his fears of dying. He did not give up but kept fighting with God to get the faith to move forward.