God wants to replace your pain with peace. He wants to replace your hurts with healing.
The solution to our hurt and pain must be a surrendered heart and the willingness to heal. To surrender our hearts to Jesus is to acknowledge Our Healer, Our Advocate.

No matter how old you are, no matter how long you have or have not been following the ways of Jesus, we have to daily choose to allow Jesus to renew and override our ways in order for us to continue to learn his. Worship isn’t just something we do. It’s something that transforms us.

As followers of Jesus Christ, our future, our eternity, is guaranteed with Him. He is our Living Hope and promises an eternal inheritance that will never perish, spoil or fade. It awaits us until such a time that God calls us home.

2000 years ago, Paul wrote a letter to the church at Philippi… from a Roman prison. At a time when most people would be in despair, Paul tells us to rejoice! Each of these words written are to encourage the church, and you and me: our circumstances do not have to control our inner thoughts and attitudes. Focus on God! He promises to never leave us. He is with us in ALL things!!

Moses was in the desert for 40 years. He was being pruned, refined, and humbled. So he really doesn't trust himself… at all. However, that's the best place for him and us, isn't it? The ideal posture of our hearts should always be: I do not trust myself, but I only trust in God. Yes, God can use me, but my faith is only in Jesus!

Titus 3 urges believers to use their freedom in Christ to do good, instead of getting lost in divisive arguments. 2022 Christians aren’t too different from Crete. God is inviting us to say no to “cancel culture” and choose to share truth in love.

Are you guilty of running out of patience for the impatient person in your life? Truly, we all struggle with patience in one form or another. Impatience produces irritability, but patience produces character. God doesn’t want us having patience for patience’s sake, He is actually developing us in the midst of our patience.

I’m sure today you’re looking for someone to notice how hard you’re working, how fast you're running, how long you’ve been pushing. And maybe you’ve told yourself you can’t rest until you feel satisfied? What if I told you the only satisfaction you’ll find today is in the rest that Jesus has for you?

God desires a relationship with us, which necessitates communication with us. It involves us both talking to and listening to Him. The more we do so, the stronger the connection and the deeper the relationship.

Paul talks about running a marathon - not a sprint. When we run a sprint and we slip and fall, we often have to wait for the next one to start over. But when I think about a marathon, I think about endurance. We want to know Christ more intimately. We have to stop dwelling on our failures, confess the sins of our past, pick ourselves up and strain ahead toward the goal!