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 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

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

As followers of Christ, we can be sure of one thing: saying goodbye to our comfort zones is often necessary. God moves us from season to season, bringing us to a place where we release what no longer serves our spiritual growth and embrace what does. The routines that feel safe, the circles that make us feel seen, even the paths that seem widely accepted may need to take a backseat. When God begins to call us out of what’s comfortable, what’s predictable, or even what’s popul

In Psalm 51:12 (MSG), the psalmist, King David, pleads for the joy he once received after he repented of his sins: “Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails!” This verse is about restoration, but it also powerfully speaks to the joy and freedom that salvation brings. That moment when God lifts the weight off your soul, fills you with His peace, love, and power through the Holy Spirit, and gives you a clean slate—it’s unmatched. There’s nothing like it. And

A Forgiving Heart and A Renewed Mind Matthew 6:12 (NLT): “As we have forgiven those who sin against us.” When our Lord and Savior taught His disciples to pray, He didn’t give them a lengthy speech or a complex ritual. He gave them a simple, powerful framework that is packed with eternal truth. Forgiveness is in the middle of this prayer, and its simplicity conveys both importance and direction. This one sentence, “And forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin ag

When life gets really tough, everything can seem overwhelming. Our sense of peace is more challenging to maintain, our focus on our faith in God is not as steady as it once was, and we may simply feel lost. Whether it’s financial struggles, problems at work or at home, loss, or another issue that is robbing us of our overall well-being, our emotions can become tangled as we try to navigate it all. We might feel as though everything is falling apart, including ourselves, and w

Louisa was thirteen when she gave her life to Christ. Things were so bad at home that she said if she hadn’t accepted salvation at the very moment she did, she would not have made it. Her dad was very strict on her and her younger siblings, and when he drank, he would be mean to her mom. Louisa often prayed that she would be the one who would stand up to her father and give her mother and siblings some peace. She studied the Bible relentlessly and by the time she was eighteen

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Holiness is a quality that is unique to our Heavenly Father. Since we were created in His image for the purpose of having relationship and fellowship with Him, we must conclude that we have no other choice but to be holy too. We can't make ourselves holy. That's an impossibility. God, our extraordinarily loving and all-powerful Heavenly Father who is full of mercy and grace, has made us holy through Jesus Christ. 1Corinthians 1:30(NLT) tells us, "God has united you with Chris

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