What do people who connect on a deep level have in common?  TRUST.
When you eliminate trust, you eliminate love (agape love).  When you eliminate trust, you eliminate grace.  

1 Corinthians 13:1-7 MSG
2 Corinthians 4:7-8 
Exodus 18:13, 19:9

Do you create safe spaces and a home in your mind for fear, anger, lust, doubt, etc.?
We should be be creating spaces for faith, hope and optimism.

Hope is the eternal optimist.  Fear is the eternal pessimist.  Hope believes God will come through.  Do you have hope?

Mark 5:21-35 
Luke 4:24
Psalm 31

Have you positioned yourself to hear?  Or are you positioned to notice the distractions all around?

1 Kings 18:41-46 KJV
Ephesians 5:15-21 KJV
Ephesians 6:17 KJV

Is your giant so huge it's unslayable or is your giant so huge the target is unmissable?  How's your perspective?  

1 Samuel 17:32-33 KJV
2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV
Ecclesiastes 11:1-4 MSG

What do you need?  What do you have?  
Even a drowning rat needs hope. 

2 Kings 4:1-7 KJV
Jeremiah 29:4 KJV
Jeremiah 31:17 KJV
Zechariah 9:11-12 KJV

Romans 12:18 KJV
Proverbs 29:18 KJV & MSG
Ecclesiastes 10:2 MSG

Where's your focus?  Are you on a launching pad or stuck in reverse?  You choose if the best is yet to come.

Philippians 3:12-14 KJV
Joshua 3:14-16 MSG & KJV

Has the breath been knocked out of you?  Take a minute, then try again, dream again, expect again.  Expectation is the breeding ground for miracles.  

Genesis 4:25 MSG
2 Corinthians 4:13 KJV

Is the river in you toxic?  Fruit can't grow in a toxic environment.
What's in your flower bed?  Weeds grow on their own, flowers need to be planted.

Proverbs 25:26 KJV & MSG
John 15:1-14 KJV
Galatians 5:22-25 KJV

When life encounters death, one has to give.  Life always wins!
When you encounter death, pray desperately, specifically and instantly!  

Acts 20:7-12 MSG
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 KJV