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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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Guarding the Heart God Is Healing
Learning to Protect the Place Where Jesus Christ Wants to Bring Restoration Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) says, “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” That verse should carry a lot of weight with us because the condition of our heart affects everything that’s connected to our life. Our decisions,…
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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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Holy and Misunderstood
The Truth About Being Misunderstood as You Grow in God As I started to grow in spiritual knowledge and maturity, I began to understand why I outgrew certain people—and why some outgrew me. Have you ever heard the saying, “you can’t bring certain people where God is taking you”? It’s real. The reason we outgrow…
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When It Hurts and God Doesn’t Stop It
I think a lot of us have asked this question, even if we didn’t say it out loud: “God, if You knew this would hurt me, why didn’t You stop it?” That question doesn’t come from a place of rebellion—it comes from trying to understand how a good God allows something that feels so painful…
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Starve the Flesh of Fear, Feed the Spirit with Faith
Choosing faith when fear tries to take control We all experience fear. Healthy fear keeps us from danger and helps us make wise choices. If you’ve ever been burned on the stove as a child, your mind learned quickly not to touch it again — that’s healthy fear doing its job. But unhealthy fear is…
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The Partnership: Walking in Step With the Holy Spirit
Most of us drift through life without ever taking a hard look at the state of our souls—until a storm knocks the wind out of us. Suddenly, the cracks start to show, and we’re confronted with just how fragile our faith really is. In those moments, two things usually rise to the surface: We run…