We all want a good reputation and to have a positive influence on those around us…but what we find in Scripture is that our reputation and our circle of influence is protected and assigned to us by God Himself.

We all want a good reputation and to have a positive influence on those around us…but what we find in Scripture is that our reputation and our circle of influence is protected and assigned to us by God Himself.

We all want a good reputation and to have a positive influence on those around us…but what we find in Scripture is that our reputation and our circle of influence is protected and assigned to us by God Himself.

Encouragement to keep taking steps of faith to grow and seek the Lord—even into new territory and out of comfort zones. By faith we can go and do what God asks of us—but by fear we shrink back.

Encouragement to keep taking steps of faith to grow and seek the Lord—even into new territory and out of comfort zones. By faith we can go and do what God asks of us—but by fear we shrink back.

Encouragement to keep taking steps of faith to grow and seek the Lord—even into new territory and out of comfort zones. By faith we can go and do what God asks of us—but by fear we shrink back.

There are many times in life when we need to stay and endure what we’re facing in life—especially when it would be easier to go. Trusting God under pressure would enrichen the story God wants to tell through us.

There are many times in life when we need to stay and endure what we’re facing in life—especially when it would be easier to go. Trusting God under pressure would enrichen the story God wants to tell through us.

There are many times in life when we need to stay and endure what we’re facing in life—especially when it would be easier to go. Trusting God under pressure would enrichen the story God wants to tell through us.

For us to live the new story that a new life with Jesus brings—we have to recognize choices we make that create real obstacles for us, and also to stop certain ways of thinking and patterns that keep derailing our progress in life.