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Don’t Try & Pay for Your Past – Jesus Already Did That

Sometimes the worry and care that we carry has to do with sins from our past. We can think over and over again about them, and that burden we carry just gets heavier.

But we need to remind ourselves that the sins from our past are not just covered, they are judged, removed and cleansed. In the Old Testament, sin was covered, but it was not removed. The blood of animals did not remove sin. It did not wipe sin away. It just covered it. But Jesus’ death on the cross, His blood, made all things...

Make a Choice to Cast Your Worries on the Lord

When we are faced with problems—a lack of resources, a misunderstanding or some health problem—we have a choice. We can either give in and react through worrying and anguish or we can pray and ask other people to pray for us and leave the whole mess and all the worries with God, knowing that He is beyond time and space and is sovereign over all these things. Like it says in Psalm 55:22, “Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you.”

Literally, refuse to entertain cares and worries. Ma...

One-Minute Thought for the Day: ​Rest in Him

When we face difficulties and are tempted to worry, it is our choice as to how we will respond. I’ve been learning and relearning this. Like I shared the other day, we can worry and be anxious, or we can remember that God is working. He loves us and we can trust Him completely. We don’t have to let worry steal anything from us.

Think about Moses. When God told Moses to lead the people out of Egypt, Moses could have asked a lot of questions and done a lot of worrying. “Where is the water? Whe...

One-Minute Thought for the Day: Don’t Welcome in the Thief of Worry

Worry causes us to lose the opportunity to enjoy the present blessings. Are you able to enjoy life right now? The friends you have, the opportunities given you, your teachers, your living space, your family, are you able to enjoy these things that God has given you? Think about the opportunities you have to get to know people. Lifelong relationships are wonderful blessings. Look at the trees, the flowers, the friends and all the many blessings in life. Then smile, laugh and sing and go on wit...

One-Minute Thought for the Day: ​Don’t Welcome in the Thief of Worry

Worry causes us to lose the opportunity to enjoy the present blessings. Are you able to enjoy life right now? The friends you have, the opportunities given you, your teachers, your living space, your family—are you able to enjoy these things that God has given you? Think about the opportunities you have to get to know people. Lifelong relationships are wonderful blessings. Look at the trees, the flowers, the friends and all the many blessings in life. Then smile, laugh and sing and go on with...

One-Minute Thought for the Day: Living Lives of Victory

You can see what someone lives for and who a person is internally by the way he or she responds to problems and difficulties. Only when the storm comes, the rain falls and the earth shakes do we learn the true character of the person. When circumstances become adverse or severe tests and temptations are given to an individual, you see what kind of person he or she really is on the inside. In these types of situations, a lot of people fall into anxiety. But the Lord wants us to be different a...

Living Lives of Victory

You can see what someone lives for and who a person is internally by the way he or she responds to problems and difficulties. Only when the storm comes, the rain falls and the earth shakes do we learn the true character of the person. When circumstances become adverse or severe tests and temptations are given to an individual, you see what kind of person he or she really is on the inside. In these types of situations, a lot of people fall into anxiety. But the Lord wants us to be different a...

Enable Me

Enable me, Jesus,

to build faith for someone
to give hope to the hopeless
to create confidence
to generate enthusiasm
to spread peace
to turn dreams to reality
to turn problems into opportunities
to lift up the fallen
to bind up the hurting
to say a kind word
to let someone lean on me
to find joy in serving

and thus

I may become more like you.

Amen.

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Jesus Came to Be Love to a Broken & Hurting World

I once heard about a man who was adamantly against me and all I stood for. Though we had never met, I decided to seek him out and ask if he would join me for tea. I was glad when he agreed and soon the two of us were sitting together in a public place talking.

As we drank our tea, he told me with strong convictions about his own beliefs in his gods and what he looked to for salvation. I listened patiently as he shared his heart with me. When he was finished, I simply asked him, “Do you mind i...

Underneath All Our Studying & Reading & Serving Do We Truly Know God?

Recently, I picked up a copy of A.W. Tozer’s book The Knowledge of the Holy after many years since my first reading. Taking time to slowly read through the book, I’ve been challenged afresh by how deeply Tozer entered into the pursuit of knowing God. It’s been reminding me how important it is for us to deliberately take the time to grow in knowing God.

At the beginning of each chapter is a prayer. Read through this prayer from the book and seek to see the God that Tozer saw:

O Majesty, uns...