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What Can You Do When You Feel Rejected?
What do you do when you feel rejected? What do you do when people say you don’t measure up to their seemingly unmeasurable standard? Do feel everything you say or do is being rejected? Feeling rejected is a real emotional disturbance. It can make us feel like...
Why Are You Afraid?
We’ve all met people who seem fearless. They don’t seem afraid of anything. Then there are those of us who are afraid of certain things more than others and those who are afraid of everything. God doesn’t want us to be afraid. He didn’t create us to be afraid because...
Crisis of Faith Driven by Anxiety
When we don’t trust God to be our defender, protector, provider, healer and comforter. This is when we feel like we are all alone and have to attack every problem by ourselves, but we can’t figure out how. That’s where the disciples were when they couldn’t heal a...
Worry Does Not Help
What problem has you up at night fretting about how to fix it? What thoughts keep tumbling around and around in your head? What do you worry about? The most debilitating thing about worry is it keeps me stuck in an endless cycle of rehashing and rehashing whatever...
Pretensions and Strongholds
If pride is not dealt with, it will introduce into our lives, a bolder and more arrogant emotion called pretension. It’s what pride becomes when we start believing we are invincible and don’t need God. Pretension is when an inflated sense of self-importance takes over...
Exchange Pride for Humility
Being prideful is not just an attitude. It’s also an emotion God hates. It’s the emotion that He wants us to ditch, and He tells us exactly how to do that in His Word. Pride is the foundational emotion on which all other emotions, which lead to sin, are built. Pride...
What Emotions?
Many of us don’t know what to do with our emotions so we just try to ignore them. My cure for not feeling my emotions was to overeat foods made with sugar flour. I didn’t want to feel my emotions. I was running from my emotions because I was sure I would be crazy if I...
Scared to Death, Invited to Life
I’ve been scared to death, but thankfully I have also been invited to life. I much prefer the latter because God is the One who invites us to live a full and abundant life. The Bible says a lot about this. “God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that...
Hungry for God
How can we be as hungry for God as we are for sugary treats and junk food? How can we crave God instead of the things we know we shouldn’t be consuming in huge quantities and causing damage to our bodies. By looking at two contrasting stories in the Bible about food,...
Created for a Higher Purpose
God tells us that we are wonderfully and fearfully made which basically means we were created for a higher purpose, for His purpose. “I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very...