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.
Spirituality and the Bible can help us redefine what being vulnerable should look like, and show us how it can lead to great power.
Change is difficult, and it only happens when you really want it.
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.
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.
Being vulnerable with God means being comfortable with our weaknesses because we know God’s power is greater than any of our weaknesses or flaws and that all our strength and courage comes from God. There’s freedom knowing that God loves us no matter what and can make us strong despite our weaknesses or insecurities.
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.
Fearless people have tenacity, which is the ability to keep fighting for something, and to believe you can win.