Most people believe they have a right to feel bitter until their situations improve. But our heavenly Father wants us to enjoy peace and joy, regardless of our circumstances. Dr. Stanley discusses how to manage your anger God's way after listing out the benefits, aspects, and causes of anger.

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In this heartfelt conversation, Patricia Holbrook welcomes Brendt Blanks, author, content creator, and former marriage and family therapist, to share her powerful journey from counseling in hospitals to building a thriving faith-based lifestyle brand ("She Gave It A Go") and publishing her new devotional book, "Listen Closer." The episode dives into navigating grief, finding purpose in pain, and reframing negative thoughts with the truth of God’s Word.

Key Topics Covered:

- Navigating seasons of loss, grief, and family challenges

- The story behind "She Gave It A Go" and how a simple phrase and leap of faith led to a new career

- The importance of making meaning from pain

- Reframing negative thought patterns using practical, biblical techniques

- Examples from motherhood and daily life about changing your mindset

- How "Listen Closer" helps women identify and replace 31 common lies with God's truth

- The power of speaking and meditating on Scripture over your circumstances

- Overcoming fear, anxiety, and self-doubt in the pursuit of your calling

- Encouragement for listeners to take bold steps of faith ("Give it a go!")


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Brendt Blanks spent 17 years as a licensed marriage and family therapist before launching "She Gave It A Go," a home and faith-focused lifestyle brand with a major online following. Her experiences through personal hardship, professional burnout, and spiritual growth led her to write "Listen Closer," a devotional helping women fight the lies of the world with God’s truths.

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1. What does the average person think it means to "honor Jesus"?
2. What does it really mean to honor Him? And His finished work?
3. How do we honor the cross? The blood?
4. How do we honor God's grace? Our freedom?
5. How do we honor our union with Christ? Our newness? Our closeness?
6. React to this statement: Honoring Jesus means we stop asking for what we already have in Him.
7. React to this statement: Honoring Jesus is the secret to enjoying God's love.
8. What kind of confidence springs forth when we honor Jesus?

In a universe vast beyond imagination, God’s attention remains deeply personal. This Christian devotional reflects on the comforting truth that we are constantly on God’s mind and lovingly cared for by our Creator. Rooted in Psalm 8:3–4, it invites believers to marvel at God’s power while resting in His intimate, unfailing love.

Highlights

• God is mindful of every detail of our lives

• His love for us is constant, personal, and unconditional

• We are valued not because of our achievements, but because of God’s character

• Living mindfully of God means staying aware of His presence each day

• Noticing God’s blessings builds gratitude and trust

• God’s love frees us from the need for others’ approval

• Awareness of God’s care transforms how we live and love

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We’re on God’s Mind
By: Whitney Hopler 

Bible Reading:
“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” – Psalm 8:3-4, NIV

Do you enjoy looking up at the night sky? I love to look at the moon and stars as often as I can on my evening walks, and sometimes on clear nights, I’ll even go to a park away from city lights to get a closer look at the heavens. The beauty and vastness of space are awe-inspiring! 

In Psalm 8:3-4, King David considers our awe-inspiring universe and wonders: Why us? Why are we, these tiny creations on a small planet, the focus of the Creator of all that? The

Sometimes life’s challenges feel overwhelming—but God is always at work in us. This Christian devotional explores how trials and difficulties refine our character, strengthen our faith, and deepen our hope in Christ. Rooted in Romans 5:3–5, it reminds believers that endurance through hardship produces lasting growth and a confident assurance of God’s love.

Highlights

• Trials develop endurance and refine character

• Hard circumstances strengthen confident hope in salvation

• God’s love and the Holy Spirit fill our hearts even in suffering

• Endurance through trials brings glory and honor to God

• Faith is refined like gold through testing and perseverance

• God works in us even when we cannot see the outcome

• Scripture passages provide hope, purpose, and reassurance

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God Working in Us

By Lauren Fletcher

Bible Reading:

“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.” - Romans 5:3-5

Maybe what God is doing is working in you, I told my friend. I had run out of ideas. I didn’t know what to suggest. Her circumstances were not easy, and I could hear the frustration in her voice and tears on the other side of the phone. God must have a plan right now. In a season where she didn’t know what God was doing, I was sure He was doing something.

I had heard this idea at church recently, that during challenging circumstances, God works in us. He works things out in us and through us. Whenever I go through trials or hard times, Romans 5:3-5 have been my favorite verses. It says that when we go through trials, it develops within us endurance and strength of character. There is something good that can come out of our suffering.

One time, in particular, I can remember these verses speaking to me. During quarantine, sickness hit our home. At the same time, our air conditioner stopped working (it was late summer). I got a painful bite from what I guessed to be a horsef

Be still and know that I am God.