Browsing: inspiration

If you’ve ever been in a tough situation and wondered… “How Can God Forget About Me?” I have the answer for you. God can not and will not forget about you. Why?… Because He created you, which means He wrote the book of your life at the moment of creation. Every detail of your life, God knows about. So that creative idea you’re afraid to start working on, He knows about that. The desire in your heart that you’ve been carrying around for years, that you feel God hasn’t acknowledged, He is totally aware of that too. He knows. God is…

Read More

Hunting for a job can be difficult, especially when the search drags on for weeks, months or even years. Here are five tips that will help you remain positive as you look for the position that will be just the right fit. A job search is a swirl of resume preparation, networking, research, and interviews. But when it stretches from weeks to months, it can be hard to stay fresh, sharp, and motivated. It’s normal to have periods of discouragement during your search. Read on for five strategies to bolster yourself as you search for your dream job. 1. Be Your…

Read More

Married life not only impacts you, it touches your children. By allowing issues to grow and by not solving them in your relationship, they could really hurt and in some cases damage a child’s view on relationships as an adult. Things like not showing affection, calling each other names, avoiding discussions, or giving your spouse the silent treatment all can negatively impact children. By not addressing these issues, children could grow up doing the same things in their relationships and in life like being distant, not communicating, or becoming abusive. If you are in a toxic marriage where there is…

Read More

Have you ever been paralyzed by fear of making the wrong decision? Maybe it’s a choice between two jobs, quitting a job, moving out state, or even courting or marrying someone. We are all faced with life altering decisions that requires us to have faith. Faith in the sense that we have to trust that our decision is right, and that it is the will of God. When facing difficult dilemmas, there are ways for us to know if our decision making is truly a leap of faith. Likewise, we can know if our decision making is based on…

Read More

Have you ever experienced praying to the Lord and then having to spend a long time waiting for His reply? Worse, it’s as if He never listens and everything just seems to ‘hang?’ If you say yes, this article is for you. I once experienced my laptop freezing in the middle of writing some articles. Boy, I tell you that if your computer gets stuck when you’re in the middle of your job you’ll be very frustrated. You get irritated and impatient, even probably tempted to manually restart your computer by pressing the reset or power button. It was during…

Read More

So you’re frustrated in your job, ministry or organization. I believe that many people leave their jobs for the wrong reasons. In fact, I think many people leave before their critical breakthrough. And I strongly believe that people who don’t persevere never break through the wall that most limits their personal growth: themselves. Staying somewhere for five years or longer forces you to change the only thing left to change after a while: you. So I believe there’s tremendous benefit both personally and organizationally in long term tenure. And please know I write this from a place of bias. I’ve been working…

Read More

Here are six habits that will draw you closer to God. Submitting to God James tells us, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:7-8). Step one is to submit to God and to His Word. Then resist the temptations cast at you by the enemy, …and finally he will flee from you and you won’t be as easily influenced by the demonic habits that so easily beset you. Being Broken…

Read More

Most conflicts can be solved rather easily, but unfortunately most conflicts are exaggerated or blown out of proportion just as easily. What may start out as a small disagreement, can easily turn into pure utter turmoil if we’re not careful.   So before you allow conflict to ruin a relationship, take a look at these five helpful ways to handle conflict: 1.       Get a grip on your emotions Emotions can be deceiving as Jeremiah 17:9 reminds us, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” It can ruin relationships easily once you allow your negative emotions to control you.…

Read More

3 Questions to Ask Yourself When God Asks You to Give up Something Has God asked you to give up something? You’re not alone. All Christians will have to face this prospect in their lifetimes. And it’s made even more difficult when you’re called to let go of something you really don’t want to. But it’s comforting to know that if God is asking you to give up something, He’s going to have something much better in store for you. It might mean that it’s something similar – a job you really like and lose replaced with a job you…

Read More