7 signs of discouragement that we often miss, and how the Bible tells us to defeat them.
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.
The idea of control gives us the illusion that we can prevent, manage, and will our lives towards certain outcomes.
Change is difficult, and it only happens when you really want it.
3 qualities we can develop that keep us looking for God’s influence in our lives.
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.
True repentance involves allowing God to transform you from the inside out, and change your life completely.
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.
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.
God doesn’t want us to feel like we have to conform in order to be accepted, and wants to help us become strong enough to stand for what we believe and who we are.