The Psalms are a collection of prayers from people who felt strong emotions and let God turn their darkness into light.
Understanding the way we handle the storms of life can help us recognize what we’re building our lives on, and learn how to trust God and his way instead.
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.
The condition of your faith and heart will determine whether you enter the presence of God or the realm of religiosity.
If you want to learn how to reconnect with God when you’re feeling spiritually disconnected, start by asking yourself these three questions.
Do you understand yourself? God knows who we really are and can help us get to the root of things. We just have to be willing to let him.
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.
God wants us to have friends we can be completely ourselves with, but this can only happen if we let go of control.
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?
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.