We can learn something very important about God from each of these stories, something that will give us the strength of heart we need to “get back up again” no matter what comes our way.
What King Ahab can teach us about navigating the emotional disruptions that are necessary parts of the process of change.
Jesus’s disciples found the emotional strength to carry out their incredible task by being in prayer continually.
What is influencing you the most during this pandemic? Has it been the news, discouragement, your emotions, or God, the Bible, and spiritual friends?
Life is unquestionably a roller coaster reaching great heights and then sudden, dizzying falls. Without convictions to anchor and stabilize us, we can begin losing faith in God and become unsteady.
Through music, we can go from being absent and distant to loving and attached. In other words, we can go from “MIA to present.”
When understood and taken to God, emotions create an intimate relationship with God and friends like no other.
Sometimes we can get stuck in our feelings, and it can feel impossible to understand and move past them. But God can help us work through them and move forward.
How do you respond when you go through storms in life? Emotional storms? Do they drive you closer to God and make you stronger in your convictions? Or do storms leave you shaken and weakened in your faith?
The goal for today is to prepare your heart and mind to let go, whoever it is against, whatever was done, and wherever it happened.
We can be sure of is this, no matter how far we run or how much we sleep, God will keep waking us up.