You may be thinking, I don't feel like all the spiritual blessings of heaven are mine. Satan works hard to make you feel that way. We take hold of God's promises by putting them in our hearts and our minds. We renew our minds with God's Word, and God changes us from the inside out by changing the w…
What voices are you listening to? We all have negative voices in our lives. Maybe an overly stern father, a local bully who terrorized you as a kid, or your own voice relentlessly tearing down your self-esteem. Satan uses those voices to steal our identity and deny us our, uh, destiny.
If you list…
Can you imagine going into a nursing home and visiting an old friend, only to find out that she had more joy than you did? We didn't need to worry about Esther—we needed what she had. Esther had discovered that the secret of true, lasting joy is not seeking joy for yourself but for others.
Matthew…
What voice are you listening to? We all have negative voices in our minds, voices that must be overcome for us to walk in the fullness of all that God has already given us. How can we replace the negative voices some of us have heard all our lives with God's truth and live from that truth?
That's …
Mr. Woodson prided himself on making chemistry the hardest class. In my high school, he gave tests most of us could barely pass. He was a teacher many students feared.
Despite hours and hours of trying to memorize the elements and so many other facts, I still hadn't mastered it. So, I went to clas…
The human mind cannot understand spiritual things. Paul explains this in
1 Corinthians 2:14 (NASB):
"But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
No one can understand…
A lot of people are sitting back, waiting for God to change them, and that's just not going to happen because God isn't making robots. God wants sons and daughters. He wants friends. He wants us to love Him the way He loves us. And love demands a response. So, what is the secret of growing Christia…