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There Is Nothing Like Knowing Him
Drawing Near to God Through Jesus Christ There is nothing in this life that compares to knowing God. We can experience His blessings, thank Him for the things He has done, and praise Him for the prayers He has answered, but there is something even greater than receiving from His hand—we have been given the…
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When You Know Better, But You’re Struggling to Live Better
When Knowing God’s Word Hasn’t Yet Changed How You Live There are some things we struggle with because we simply don’t know any better. We haven’t learned what God says about it yet. We haven’t grown enough to recognize what is happening. But then there are those other things—the things where we know what God…
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Learning Covenant Before Marriage – Part 2
Part 7: Building Your Marriage Under the Headship of Jesus Christ Learn why understanding God’s design for covenant is essential before making one of the most important commitments of your life. Jesus Christ Must Be Head of the Marriage When we understand the weight of covenant and what marriage will require from two imperfect people,…
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Learning Covenant Before Marriage – Part 1
Learn why understanding God’s design for covenant is essential before making one of the most important commitments of your life. Most of us don’t grow up dreaming about covenant. We dream about getting married. We think about finding someone who loves us, building a life together, having someone to come home to, and growing old…
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Learning Discernment Before Marriage
Learn why developing biblical discernment before marriage is essential for recognizing godly character, seeing clearly beyond your emotions, and making wise relationship decisions that honor God. You Need Discernment Before You Need an Answer Most of us don’t start thinking seriously about discernment until there is somebody to discern. Before that, we’re just living our…
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Are You Trusting God—or Trusting Him to Send You a Spouse?
Learn why trusting God for marriage means trusting His wisdom and His Will, even when His answer or timing may be different from what you hoped. When Your Desire for Marriage Becomes a Test of Your Trust in God There is nothing wrong with wanting to be married. If marriage is a desire of your…
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Pursuing God’s Healing Before Marriage
Learn why bringing your wounds, past hurts, and unhealthy patterns before God is an important part of preparing for a Christ-centered marriage. ________ Before You Bring Someone Into Your Life, Let God Work on Your Heart We spend a lot of time preparing for marriage by thinking about the person we want to marry, the…
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Learning Surrender Before Marriage
Before You Say “I Do” Series Before God Gives You a Marriage, He Prepares You for One Learn why surrendering your plans, expectations, and timeline to God’s Will is essential for building a Christ-centered marriage. Surrender Begins Before Marriage Most people think preparing for marriage means praying for the right person. That’s definitely part of…
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Learning Self-Control Before Marriage
More Than Waiting for the Right Person When it comes to marriage, just about every woman I know wants the whole package. And by that, I mean a man that looks the part, is financially secure, responsible, intelligent, and loves the Lord. He’s kind but firm, generous but not wasteful, and loyal to the core.…
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Learning Forgiveness Before Marriage
Before You Say “I Do” Series Before God Gives You a Marriage, He Prepares You for One Before you ever say “I do” to another person, God desires your heart to remain surrendered to Him. Not because He is waiting for you to become perfect, but because He loves you enough to continue shaping you…
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Not Every Husband Loves the Same Way
When the Man Who Loves You Doesn’t Always Understand You Sometimes the hardest part of marriage isn’t wondering whether your husband loves you. Deep down, you know he does. The hardest part is realizing he doesn’t understand what just happened. You walk away from a conversation thinking, Did we even have the same conversation? You…
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The Weight That Keeps You From Rising
Hebrews 12:1–2 (NLT) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this…
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Relationship Requires a Response
God Gives First. We Respond. Our Heavenly Father has established the universe according to His perfect order, and understanding that changes the way we see our relationship with Him. From the moment He spoke creation into existence to the way He calls us to worship and live each day, everything God does is intentional, purposeful,…
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When Loneliness Makes You Forget Who You Are
Don’t let loneliness rewrite what God has already declared Loneliness is something almost all of us experience at some point in life. It can show up after a divorce, the death of someone we love, children leaving home, a broken friendship, or simply walking through a season that feels different from everyone around us. Sometimes…
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What Does It Mean to Renew the Mind?
Understanding Why We Still Struggle With Old Ways of Thinking Romans 12:2 tells us to “let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.” Most believers in Christ have heard that verse many times, yet many of us still find ourselves struggling with the same fears, insecurities, discouragements, and emotional…
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Surrendering What You Cannot Control
When Trusting God Means Letting Go of the Outcome There are some situations in life that seem to take up permanent residence in our minds. We pray about them. We think about them. We revisit conversations we’ve already had and imagine conversations that haven’t happened yet. We replay scenarios, analyze possibilities, and mentally prepare for…
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Spiritual Warfare Is Real, But Jesus Christ Is Greater
Liz loves the Lord. She reads her Bible most mornings, is faithful to her church family, and genuinely wants her life to honor God. Yet over the past year, it seems like one thing after another has hit her. Problems keep piling up. Doors keep closing. Relationships are strained. Financial pressure is mounting. Some days…
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Loving Each Other Well
What It Looks Like to Carry the Heart of God Toward Others One of the clearest signs that God is truly working in us is not how spiritual we sound, how many scriptures we can quote, or how polished we appear in public. It is how we love people. Real love is not just smiles,…
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What You Learned Growing Up Around Chaos
When Survival Starts Teaching You Who To Be Some of us did not grow up in peace. We grew up in environments where tension sat in the room before anybody even spoke. You learned how to read moods, facial expressions, silence, anger, and emotional shifts because your nervous system was trying to stay ahead of…
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When Fear Starts Replacing Faith
Why spiritual maturity demands more than survival instincts in uncertain times. The Drift Happens Slowly One of the most dangerous things about spiritual drift is that it usually does not happen all at once. Most believers do not wake up one morning suddenly far from God. It happens little by little through fear, distraction, exhaustion,…
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How Wrong Believing Defeats Hope
What you continue believing inwardly will eventually shape what you expect from life. One of the most dangerous things a person can lose is hope. Because once hope starts dying, people stop reaching. They stop expecting. They stop believing life can truly change. And after a while, many people do not even realize how much…
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When You’re Being Blinded and Don’t Even Know It
Four signs the enemy is working to keep you from seeing clearly in Christ There is a kind of blindness that doesn’t feel like darkness at all. You can still function. You can still move forward. You can still make decisions. But something is off, and you can’t quite put your finger on it. There’s…
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Let Jesus Christ Shape What Lives in You
When Your Inner Life Is Surrendered to Him, Everything Else Finds Its Order Let no one tell you otherwise—your emotions matter. How you feel from one day to the next shapes how you move, how you respond, and what you build over time. But your emotions were never meant to lead you. God designed you…
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You Don’t Need Another Sign—You Just Need to Decide
There comes a point in your walk with God where the issue isn’t clarity anymore—it’s surrender. You’ve prayed. You’ve asked. You’ve waited. And if you’re honest, God has already answered you. Maybe not in the way your flesh wanted, but in a way your spirit recognized immediately. And still… you linger. Still… you ask for…
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When Weariness Tries to Set In—What You Must Remember in Christ
You’re Not Meant to Live Drained When You’ve Been Made Alive in Christ Galatians 6:9 (NLT) tells us, “Don’t get weary in doing good, for at the proper time you will reap a harvest if you do not give up.” That verse sounds like strength—it calls us to keep fighting the good fight of faith.…
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You’re Not Waiting on the Blessing—You’re Learning to Walk in It
When You Don’t Realize What’s Already Been Given Hebrews 11:6 (NLT) tells us, “It is impossible to please God without faith… He rewards those who sincerely seek him.” That word rewarder matters—but not the way we’ve sometimes looked at it. Because if we’re not careful, we’ll start relating to God like He’s handing out prizes…
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The Cross Was the End of Who You Used to Be
What Jesus finished didn’t just save you—it fundamentally changed you Romans 6:6 (NLT) tells us, “We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.” The cross was something Jesus endured, and it was something you were…
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Why We Hold on to the Excuse
Letting Go of Old Stories The Story Behind the Excuse We don’t hold on to excuses because we’re weak—we hold on to them because they protect something. And most of the time, what they’re protecting isn’t the situation… it’s the narrative we’ve built around our lives. Transformation sounds beautiful when we talk about it in…
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Walking in Power, Not Just Prayer
We pray. We fast. We lift our hands in the living room, in the car, even in the quiet of the night. But sometimes, after all that praying, life still feels the same. The bills haven’t disappeared, relationships are still strained, and doors we’ve begged God to open… haven’t. We begin to wonder: Am I…
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Asking Forgiveness for the Sin You Can’t Name
When Jesus Is Truly Lord of Our Lives Returning to God’s Original Plan When we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, we are returning to God’s original Will and plan for our lives. It is one of the most dynamic awakenings available to humanity because it changes our eternal reality. From that…