Sometimes Faith Means Releasing What You Wanted to Keep Letting go is hard. Especially when you really wanted something to work. Maybe it was a relationship, a friendship, a job, an opportunity, a dream, or even a version of your life you had already pictured in your head. We can spend a lot of time asking God to fix what may be something He is actually asking us to release. And if we're honest, sometimes we already know it isn't for us anymore. We just don't want to accept i

When You Don’t Understand What God Is Doing There are some seasons in life when believing that God is faithful is easy. Things are working out, prayers are being answered, doors are opening, and you can look back and say, “Wow! Look at God!” But then there are those other seasons. The ones where you have prayed and prayed, and nothing seems to be changing. You are doing your best to trust God, but if you’re honest, you have questions. You may even wonder if God has forgotte

When Your Confidence Is in God, Not the Result When we hear the word faith, many of us immediately think about believing God for something. We have faith that God is going to open a door, heal someone we love, provide what we need, restore a relationship, send a spouse, change a situation, or answer a prayer we have prayed for a long time. And there is nothing wrong with bringing our desires to God and believing that He is able to do what no one else can. But biblical faith g

Is This Relationship Helping You Grow Closer to Jesus...or Pulling You Further Away? Relationships are a gift from our Heavenly Father. They capture our hearts in ways we could never have imagined. When someone makes us laugh, when they listen to us, and they remember those little things that are really special to us—it makes us feel seen and valued. If those meaningful boxes are checked, it’s easy to believe we’ve found exactly what we’ve been praying for. Those feelings are

Talk to almost any believer who has been walking with Jesus for a while, and they will tell you the same thing: after some of the hardest seasons of their lives, they witnessed some of the greatest moves of God. That doesn't mean the storm was easy. And it doesn't mean they understood what God was doing while they were in the middle of it. When you're walking through deep pain, you are usually not thinking about promotion or what God might do next. You're trying to survive. Y