Setting and achieving spiritual goals can either sound very easy or very hard. Somewhere in between, are some steps to set spiritual goals you can actually attain and that will have meaning to you. I believe that setting any type of goals – personal, spiritual, health, work – requires the same foundation. That foundation is ‘why?’ As we go through…
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Do you often feel that your spiritual wellness is a bit out of whack? Do you sometimes feel more susceptible to enemy attacks? Do you sometimes feel like you may be falling away from God instead of growing closer? It’s a good idea to do a spiritual wellness checkup each year to see if there are any areas of your life…
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My dad quotes this periodically, and it really gets me thinking about the future. About what I am doing with it. Hopes, dreams, goals… As a Christian, I want to be sure that I am using Biblical goal setting principles and stay focused on the important things. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” Charles Dederich…
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Are there situations in your life that are hard? If you have been a believer for very long I’m sure people have told you to pray when life is hard. Yes, prayer is the way we take our burdens to God, but did you know there is a way to pray harder and get to a place of a spiritual…
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The spiritual benefits of fasting are all throughout the Bible. Powerful breakthroughs happen during or after times of fasting. Moses fasted for 40 days and experienced the finger of God writing down the Ten Commandments (Exodus 34.28). Jesus fasted for 40 days and started a ministry that would forgive the world’s sins and reconcile all the earth back to God…
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Praying for a rebellious teenager can make all the difference but we can often get lost in the emotion of it all that we forget how to pray when under spiritual attack or don’t know where to start. Teenage prayer ideas can help as prayer starters so when your home gets hit in a way you never thought it would,…
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Have you ever noticed how often our opinions of people change? One day we think they are great, and the next day we can’t stand them. Then we allow our fleeting emotions to burst free from our thoughts, and we gossip about them. But what if our desire to think about the people around us is not necessarily wrong? What…
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The Bible tells us to give thanks in everything. Having an attitude of gratitude is easier said than done though. When life is hard I struggle to be grateful. How about you? What is your response when life is hard? Today we will look at 38 Bible verses about gratitude to help us cultivate a thankful heart. This post may…
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New mom anxiety, especially first-time mom anxiety, is often joked about. People characterize the helicopter parent, the worried mom who never lets her child out of her sight, as someone who just needs to let go. Many new moms, however, experience legitimate fears. During both an adoption and a pregnancy, I found myself plagued by fears and new mom worries. This…
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Paul says to “throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles us” (Hebrews 12.1 NIV). Every day we have a chance to renew our mind in Christ. This allows Him to take all that hinders us so we can run “the race marked for us.” These hinders become sin that trips us up and slows…
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