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Ever since we bought our house a couple of years ago, I’ve developed an interest in DIY projects. I’ll never forget this one particular weekend when I decided to work on one particular DIY project, which required drilling holes into two-by-fours. Now, while my drill had quickly become one of my best friends, I had never drilled through wood before, but I’d seen it done on HGTV a million times and figured it couldn’t be that hard.
Read MoreLet me ask you a question. When you pray and ask God for something, how do you go about asking Him? Do you beg Him over and over to give you exactly what you want? Do you try to negotiate with God saying, “If You do this for me, then I’ll do this for you”? Or do you pray with a submissive heart, asking that the Lord work out His will in your life?
Read MoreThe Lord is fully capable of carrying out His will and His plans for us without our help. He knows exactly what it’s going to take to give you His best and to bring Himself the most glory. We get into trouble when we think we know better than God and when we think our plans and our timing are better than His.
Read MoreWhat if the reason you didn’t get that job is because God’s glory will be better displayed through the job you’ll end up in later on? What if the reason you’re not in a relationship right now is so that God’s glory can be displayed through you ministering to your friends? What if the reason your life doesn’t look the way you thought it would right now is because God’s glory will be better displayed through His plans for you than your plans for you?
Read MoreIsn’t it good to know that the God we serve is able to give us whatever we ask for? He’s able to open any door, answer any prayer, lift any burden, heal any hurt, and make any way. But how many times have you asked God to give you something, only to realize it wasn’t what you really needed all along?
Read MoreI was reading back through one of my journals this morning, and as I was, I came across a prayer. It was a prayer I heard Lysa TerKeurst pray on a podcast she appeared on as a guest. And I remember loving the prayer so much when I heard for the first time that I set an alarm on my phone to go back and write it down when I got out of the car.
Read MoreA couple of years back, I went to watch a few of the girls I coached in basketball play in their district championship soccer game. While I was there, I was talking to one of my player’s moms, and we got into a conversation about basketball tryouts from the year before. As it turns out, this player, who we’ll call Grace*, almost didn’t try out for basketball that year. We had heard from over 20 girls that they were interested in playing basketball before tryouts, so Grace was hesitant to try out because she wasn’t sure she would make the team.
Read MoreIf there was ever an example of complete submission to God’s will, it’s the story of Mary that we read about in the gospel of Luke. Here was Mary, a teenager, engaged to be married, ready to start a new and exciting chapter in her life when an angel shows up and tells her she is going to be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. Talk about an interruption.
Read MoreWhen you open God’s Word and begin searching for insight and direction, you will sense the Holy Spirit giving you understanding and discernment of Scripture. God will speak to you through His Word in order to show you what you should or shouldn’t do. And as you’re reading, you will sense the tug, the affirmation, the confirmation, or sometimes even the conviction from the Holy Spirit who is at work through the Word and in your heart.
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