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.
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.
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.
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.
Have you ever had that feeling? Everything is going about as well as it can go, and then you begin to wonder, “how long can this last?”