Pain and hardship will certainly cause us to pray; sometimes even more than our needs and wants. But why do we continue finding ourselves in hard places, difficult places, even addicted places? We experience pain and hardship because we live in a broken world, and in an unseen war where there is an “evil one” against us. What do we do? The fourth way Jesus told us to pray is found in Matthew 6:13, and that is to “lead not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Identity goes far deeper than what can be created by us and observed from the outside. Identity is something bestowed upon us by our...
The starting point for faith is not a Bible story. It’s not even the Bible. It's an event that leads to a question.
Gentleness preserves what we treasure most. Where in your life right now is God inviting you to replace harshness with gentleness?
