Why Does God Discipline?
Whenever we go through a hard time, we automatically think “God is punishing me!” As we saw in previous posts, discipline is not punishment, but reminds us that we are loved. This is because discipline [...]
Stop Pushing
I do a lot. Too much actually. My plate has always got more on it than I can cope with. I am always pushing, always tired. There is never time to slow down and rest.
Everybody Needs Compassion
We may think of ourselves as compassionate, but is it not empathy or pity? What does compassion really look like? Jesus had compassion, so what would we be our characteristics if we were a people of compassion?
The Conversation in my Head
Are the thoughts in our heads and what we think of, really relevant to how our lives turn out? What we say to ourselves in our minds, shapes our lives.
Be Kind to the Future Me
How does God help us to deal with criticism or negative feedback from other people? What dangerous mistake should we watch out for when we are receiving negative feedback?
Bippity Boppity Boo
Do you ever pray: "Please God will you just fix this?" Or even, "Please God, let it just not happen?" Then nothing happens, or the exact thing you feared, does happen. What was the point of prayer then, when God seems to do nothing?
Dealing with the Voices of Failure
The thing with failure is the longer you stay in failure the more it gets a grip on you. The longer you fail to make a new start, the harder it is to move on [...]
Reasons We Don’t Pray
I wish I did pray as often as I would like to. Wouldn’t you? To be characterized by prayer and to be totally confident that when I say to someone “I will pray for you,” [...]
The Voices in My Head
The voices in my head compete for my attention. They can be quite demanding and extremely vocal at the most inconvenient times, like the middle of the night, when I am busy with a new [...]
Consistently Counted On
I personally would hate to be described as inconsistent. Simply because someone had observed that what I say is not consistent with how I live my life, my words are not always truthful, or I pretend to [...]
