It's not always easy to admit to ourselves or others when we have given up on something
Negative thoughts about ourselves can be debilitating and discouraging
God's thoughts are higher than and completely different from ours
God wants to be real to us–he wants us to see him through our own eyes.
One of the many great things about having a personal friendship with God is that he satisfies.
God doesn’t want any of us to go through storms alone.
We have a God who always keeps his promises, and we can find those promises in the Bible.
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.
God wants us to both have our own happy and satisfying life and to help others have an opportunity for that life, too.
We all experience feeling stuck at times, whether it be in hardships, relationship conflicts, failures that follow us wherever we go, or guilt that feels too big for us to carry on our own.
It helps to remember an important quality of Jesus — that he is always with us.
The holidays are a time to celebrate hope, and there's nothing greater than the hope God brings with the birth of Jesus.