What matters is we have a God who can always lift us out of the pit
Everything in our lives—the good, the bad, and the ugly—is part of the process of becoming who we are meant to be.
While it isn’t wrong to feel angry, God can give us the power to handle this emotion in a spiritual and helpful way.
One of the many great things about having a personal friendship with God is that he satisfies.
Through prayer, we can give God our stressed, afraid, and burdened hearts and find relief.
The morning is a precious time to connect with God.
It helps to remember an important quality of Jesus — that he is always with us.
What is influencing you the most during this pandemic? Has it been the news, discouragement, your emotions, or God, the Bible, and spiritual friends?
In the midst of dealing with the ongoing stress of 2020 and the pandemic, it can be easy to just want to run away and hope all of our problems will be magically solved. But no matter where we run, our stress doesn’t leave us.
For such a time that we are in, we are given an incredible opportunity to not tread water spiritually, but to take advantage of everything that’s going on - to learn and to transform.
By digging down deep, we start the process toward having a faith in God that is not easily shaken. However, depth takes work. It is not a personality trait or a natural talent, but rather a skill that must be worked at and developed over time.
Though in the moment our difficulties may feel like they are too much we can handle, God uses them as opportunities for us to grow.