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.
The Bible says that when we find our delight in God, he will give us everything our heart really wants.
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.”
If you want to learn how to reconnect with God when you’re feeling spiritually disconnected, start by asking yourself these three questions.
When understood and taken to God, emotions create an intimate relationship with God and friends like no other.
When we feel alone and isolated, we can become afraid that if we really let people in, they won't accept us for who we are. But God wants fill the hole that loneliness creates.
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?
How are you handling the predominant stresses and emotions in your life? Are they overwhelming you or are you overcoming them?
Resist the temptation to let fear induced stress make us quit for relief. Instead, rely on God to get through, realizing fear is an emotion we can conquer especially when it is based on tomorrows that may never come.