JESUS, ME & ANXIETY: New Year. One Goal.
Episode #12 – After a year of putting “New Year pressure” on myself (unhealthy pressure at times), I made a decision this year to have one goal. It’s definitely the best one I’ve ever had.
Episode #12 – After a year of putting “New Year pressure” on myself (unhealthy pressure at times), I made a decision this year to have one goal. It’s definitely the best one I’ve ever had.
When I bring my complaints to God, He gives me so much more perspective about my part in every problem.
In the same way, we have seasons in life. We’ll have the occasional wintery day with
grey clouds and cold, but we serve a God who promises that spring will be on the way.
Future faking, like all tactics of abuse, is a demonic tool and it creates terrible heartbreak, damage to the soul, instability, and disillusionment.
Sometimes God allows us to face our greatest fears so we see that there is no fear greater than his love.
The best choice is leaning back into the waters — entrusting my life and those I love into the hands of God, who loves me and will work everything out for my good.
I still believe we are masking far more than we realize, and it is revealing much more than meets the eye.
I would suggest we are hitting the limits of what we can handle as a nation without displaying moments of significant regression.
As the Lord removes and separates you from some people in this season,
He is making room for the new people and the new things that He is bringing into your life to come in.
I told a friend earlier that my goal was to travel into the new year with as little weight as possible.
No, I’m not talking about a diet resolution. I’m talking about the weight of this world that we often carry.
I know it’s all part of the human condition, but we don’t ever want it to be part of OUR condition!
At any moment in time, we pass hundreds of people who are going through all sorts of things in life. We just never pause to give it much thought.
As governments around the world scramble to figure out ways to allow people safe reentry into society in tandem with the Covid-19 vaccine rollouts,
the alarm is being sounded against measures that may take away the rights of some all in the name of public health.
If you’ve been experiencing despair, I want you to know this season is not the end. You have a hope and a future.
When we can’t look at our circumstances and say they are good, we can look at our God and say He is.
Most of us find it much easier to speak up for others, and many people won’t even do that. It takes enormous courage and vulnerability to defend ourselves — especially as Christians.
Those who have acknowledged their need of God, their need for forgiveness, those who have repented; these we call believers.
If we are good about getting physical checkups, maybe we should also be good about conducting spiritual health checkups.
We have realized just how frail life is, and that has an impact on how we see everything else.
I don’t want to buy into the lie that external appearance is the most defining feature of a person, or that aging is something to despise.
Life happens, and time ticks on. Yes, our bodies are getting older, but old age with wisdom is key.
When God doesn’t bless us in a way we’re expecting, we tend to ignore the other blessings He has given us.
Abuse occurs where a program of bias is deliberately entered into, affecting a person, people, or group, whether consciously or unconsciously.
It’s very easy to start feeling like the lack of forward momentum or breakthrough is because of something you are not doing…