Pursue God and his plans for your life

God will not just pick you up one day and put you into your destiny. You have to take steps toward it and know that God will direct those steps. He will teach us to number our days so that we may gain hearts of wisdom*. He promises to give us discernment and focus to...

Recognize, You Control Your Response

In the trials of life, you decide what your response will be—no one else can do that for you. When fear presents itself and that panic button pops up in your mind, remind yourself: I have a choice here. I can choose to panic or choose faith and peace and joy instead....

Don’t Let a Moment Become a Lifetime

The natural question, of course, is how? After a mistake, how do you continue on toward good things? What should we do when we fail? I’ve heard it said that strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit their...

Five Ways Fear Works

To grasp God’s victorious right hand, though, we must first get a grip on how fear works. Five facts about fear gave me that grasp: 1. Fear begins with a thought Fear enters with just one idea, one feeling. Whatever we think on repeatedly becomes a part of us....

Your assignment may change

Know this, however: Once you find your appointment, your assignment can still change. That’s why we must be willing to listen for God and move on to the next assignment. That’s a part of fulfilling your destiny. For seventeen years, I served my mother and...

Doing Right Helps God Get You to Your Palace

If you will trust God in the pit, God will bring you into the palace. He will bless and favor you. Remember Joseph in the Old Testament, whose brothers stole his coat, threw him into a pit to die, then sold him into slavery? He was brought as a slave into...
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