When our relationship with him is close, courage comes naturally because we trust God to protect us
What matters is we have a God who can always lift us out of the pit
By staying close to God and following his guidance, we can fill our homes with joy, love, intimacy, and resilience.
Jesus endured the pressures of sin, and we can learn from him how to do the same.
In our moments of frustration and failure, we need to turn to God and his Word to find the strength to keep going.
Through prayer, we can give God our stressed, afraid, and burdened hearts and find relief.
God commands us not to give into our fear and reminds us that he will never fail us.
We have dreams we want to see happen and visions we want to accomplish, but it takes a lot of energy to keep running toward them.
We can open our hearts up to him by listening, talking, turning, and committing to being close to him.
Vulnerability is usually not the first thing we associate with being strong, but the Bible tells us true strength actually comes from embracing our weaknesses.
In today's Mini Quiet Time we'll look at Psalm 13, one of the psalms where David talked to God about some tough things but comes out closer to God as friends.
Check out our new Mini Quiet Time, where in Psalm 32, David comes to God to help him deal with the clutter of his heart.
