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January 3 - April 11, 2018
You were always meant to be brave.
Courage is doing things even when you’re scared. Being brave isn’t something that happens when you’re not scared anymore. Brave people don’t stop hearing the whispers of fear.
Brave people don’t stop hearing the whispers of fear. They hear the whispers but take action anyway.
God is the only thing that is absolute,
Sharing your story takes guts.
Seeing other people be brave makes me want to be brave too. It’s a domino effect.
We can be brave because we were always meant to be brave.
It is scary to be who you’re meant to be. It doesn’t feel easy because it’s not. But we were made for this. Like today’s scripture says, we have holy work. Why be brave? Because when we’re brave enough to share the God stories in our lives, it changes the people around us. It changes us to share them.
I never felt brave. But day after day, I just did the next thing, took the next step, said the next yes.
When we see brave out in the world, it inspires us, doesn’t it?
I think when you hear other stories, they will sound like your story, and you will realize you are braver than you give yourself credit for.
we will cheer for each other and see courage in each other, and we will all be braver for it.
BE BRAVE: When you see brave, say so.
The moment you take that first step, little seeds of courage begin to sprout in your heart.
It’s time to get quiet before the Lord and ask Him what it looks like for you to live a life of courage today.
The planet just really needs you to be you, okay?
It’s hard to believe truth if your mind is flooded with confusion and false stories.
You hear a lie, you treat it like truth, and it begins to define you, like a label. And then you act out of that label.
If you fill your mind with His words, that truth will make you brave.
Page after page, verse after verse, God has already said who you are. You are released to believe that you are who He says you are.
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Believing truth is always a choice.
where I find my courage—knowing that while I am making mistakes, I am not a mistake.
While I am making mistakes, I am not a mistake.
We can be confident in how God made us because His Word says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. But we can’t do this life—or be brave—on our own.
But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. —PSALM 86:15
Our God, the One who is breathing life into your life, is full of love for you—no matter what you have done or where you have been.
The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. —PROVERBS 18:21 NIV
Speaking kindly to yourself will make you brave.
It’s not that you have earned the love of God or that you deserve love. God loves us, even though we don’t deserve it (1 John 4:19).
That as you grow to love yourself more and more, you will feel brave enough to love the things you love instead of altering them because you think that’s what it will take to be accepted.
You are accepted by God. And hopefully you accept you too.
God made you once. You were worth the work that first time. Then He threw away that mold because one of you is enough for Him. You’re enough. You are the sacred painting, the original. God made us this way on purpose.
If we are each as unique as the Bible says we are, then our calls to courage are each equally unique.
Sometimes we avoid asking God things because we fear what the answer will be.
It takes bravery to ask the hard questions and listen for hard answers.
Even if and when things are hard, you can always ask God, What’s Your plan for me? What am I supposed to be learning right now?
“And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” —MATTHEW 28:20 NIV
Even when you feel alone, you actually aren’t.
Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us. —2 TIMOTHY 3:16–17 MSG
The more you dig into the Word for yourself, the more you will hunger for it.
If you set out to read your Bible as if it is something you have to do, you will miss out on the supernatural power it can have in your life.
GOD IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? —NUMBERS 23:19 NIV
You are deeply loved and called to be courageous by a God who is perfect and perfectly trustworthy.
You are deeply loved and called to be courageous by a God who is perfect and perfectly trustworthy. If you feel stuck looking at your own shortcomings, look upward to your Jesus, who is exactly who He says He is, who defeated death itself, and who empowers you to be brave.
When you spend time with God and immerse yourself in the truth of His Word, you will easily notice the lies and the things you hear in your head that aren’t really you. You will hear the truth of who God says you are much more clearly, like how you are dearly loved.
All over His Word, God says that you are strong and important on this planet. You are who God says you are, and you can be brave.
And if you are single and want to be married, or wishing you could have kids, or wanting a better job or home or city, I want you to know that you are going to make it too.
God has not forgotten you.
