No one likes to suffer; however, it is needed in each one of our lives.  Watch this devotional on why suffering is necessary and how we can respond with the right attitude and make it through that trying time.  

     We may not like the truth sometimes, but it is the only thing that can help us see clearly.  

  The Blind Leading the Blind is a figurative statement meaning that someone who is clueless or unqualified is leading a group of people who are even less qualified.  When it comes to Christianity many people feel that they are suddenly qualified experts to jump into a leading position simply because they are a Christian!  Matt uses a great story about himself to demonstrate this, and then explains how to combat it.  

   There are times when we do not question what God has said because we heard Him. Sometimes the problem lies with us actually listening to what it was that God said. We heard it but we do not want to do it.  We can have selective hearing at times, where we don't even want to acknowledge that it was God who spoke the word.  It's easier for us to just dismiss it and then act like we never heard it!  Obedience is extremely important!  This is a great devotional on this very topic, you really do need to LISTEN to it!  

   When you say Big, you think one way; however, when God says BIG is a whole different matter!  When God tells you to enlarge your tent pegs, He means that you need to get ready for a huge blessing!

    There are times that God has given us a great dream, but then we seem to wait and wait.  Sometimes that wait is so long that it takes decades!  What do we do while we are waiting for the elongated waiting season?  There really are things that we can do and not waste that time of waiting.  

    Do you know someone who always gets the job done?  You know that if they start something that they will keep going until that job is done.  Jesus is that type of person but amplified!  Jesus will do what He said He will do in your life. If God made a promise to you then you can bank on Him fulfilling that promise. God will not leave you hanging out to dry, He will get you to the place that He needs you to be in life.  

    We all have regrets, pains, hurts, and horrible things that have happened to us in life but the difference is how we process those things. Do we allow it to ruin our lives, or do we look to God and ask Him to help us learn from these things in the past.  When God saves us there were things that we were doing that were not glorifying to God, sometimes our life style was so unpleasing to Him that He wants to send reminders into our life of what exactly it was the He saved us out of.  God wants us to move forward but also to be grateful, listen to this devotional to find the right perspective on past hurts. 

   When you come up against obstacles, opposition, and difficulty in your life what do you do?  Do you look around at all of your resources to figure out how to take down the problem, do you panic and become paralyzed with fear, or do you to God and see things from His perspective?!  Here is a great reminder of the strength of God and how that can make a difference in our lives.  

    When we look at the book of Hosea we can't believe that he would marry a prostitute and then forgive her when she would run off on him! We just don't understand how Hosea could be so forgiving of a woman who just didn't love him the same way he loved her.  We don't understand until we realize that this is how God sees us. We are Gomer, the prostitute wife, and God is Hosea, the forgiving husband. When we love other things, other people, other sins more than God we are behaving just as Gomer did in the story of Hosea. Watch this great devotional on how God views you, and how great His love is for you.