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Stories have a way of capturing our imagination, making their way into our hearts and forever marking our lives. This is true of the bible—the greatest story ever told. Written by the God of the universe, the bible tells the dramatic tale of relentless redemption.

And God’s story completely transforms our stories. The bible brings clarity, conviction, wisdom, purpose, and freedom—it teaches, trains, equips, and renews our minds. Most importantly, it reveals Christ.

But it can be intimidating.

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Numbers is a book that, in my opinion, suffers wit

Numbers is a book that, in my opinion, suffers with a less than stellar name. Perhaps a better name would have been “Wilderness Wanderings.” It details the years the Israelites spent wandering in the wilderness before entering the promised land. They had gotten out of Egypt, but God needed to get Egypt out of them.

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We are so prone to forgetfulness, just like our an

We are so prone to forgetfulness, just like our ancestors.

Hosea 13:6
But when they had grazed, they became full. They were filled and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot Me.

When our egos are full, we forget God.
When our calendars are full, we forget God.
When our bank accounts are full, we forget God.

But when we intentionally empty our hearts of these distractions, we are ready to receive the fullness of God. When we thank God for rescuing us from our past life of destruction, we remember our desperate need for Him for the future. God is so faithful, often through difficulty, to remind us of our constant need for Him.

Let’s be careful not to forget God.

TELL ME: How do you keep God’s presence, His goodness, and His call on your life in the forefront of your mind?

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I read this line in a book right before I closed m

I read this line in a book right before I closed my eyes on another day, and I couldn’t write it down fast enough:

✨The spiritual life is all about being awake and attentive to God.✨

Yes—awake and attentive to an ever-present God.

We can sleep-walk through our days, lulled by the predictability of rhythms that once were life-giving and now have become empty ritual.

The reality is, there are bushes a-flame all around us, but when our eyes are fixed on one foot in front of another, we miss them.

It’s only when we slow to notice the activity of God that we experience the glorious in the mundane.

God speaks through the things that stir us, both the things that excite and energize us and the things that depress and deplete us. So pay attention to both and ask God what He is saying to you through them.

Let’s wake up and pay attention. We are children of light.

📖1 Thessalonians 5:5-6
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

💬TELL ME: How do you keep yourself awake and attentive to God?

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Sometimes it’s the little disappointments in lif

Sometimes it’s the little disappointments in life that cause us to start thinking that God’s not quite as good as we had imagined Him to be.

My dad gave my sisters and I a very generous gift for Christmas last year: it was an all-expenses paid vacation for us and our families to the Smoky Mountains to stay in a beautiful log cabin. We planned this vacation for seven months, and in the week prior to our departure, as excitement mounted, I glanced at the long-range weather forecast for Pigeon Forge, Tennessee: there was a ninety-percent chance of rain for all six days that we were going to be there. I’m not kidding. Now, I should tell you that I’m an avid sun-seeker. Thirty-degree weather feels like perfection to me, and the more direct sunlight that I can recline in the better. Needless to say, I was more than a little disappointed. And since God invites us to come to Him with anything, I made it a matter of prayer in the days leading up to the trip.

But it rained. It rained for three days straight. Does this mean that God is not good to me? He could have swiped away the clouds and blessed us with gorgeous sunshine every day, but He chose to send rain, which confined us indoors. Does my experience alter the goodness of God?

Little disappointments are one thing, but big disappointments can shake us to the core of our being. We pray and pray, and the child dies anyway. We believe God for a breakthrough in the relationship but the silence remains. We long to be married but we celebrate another birthday alone. God, I believed you for this, but it didn’t happen. This kind of disappointment can destroy our faith in the goodness of God, for although God’s goodness doesn’t change, our perception of His goodness can.

When we find ourselves starting to doubt God’s goodness, we need to seek to know Him better. He will always prove Himself to be exactly who He claims to be. And the best way to get to know God is though His Word. Our faith must be rooted in God’s unchanging character—His goodness.

❔ When are you most tempted to doubt the goodness of God?

Seven years ago, as the last bit of winter was mel

Seven years ago, as the last bit of winter was melting into spring, I was sitting around a table enjoying a conversation with the other staff members at a church that we were serving at together. I loved those weekly meetups when we would dig into God’s word and discuss faith in daily life. On this day we were discussing God’s foreknowledge and the freewill of man. This is no small topic, and my contribution to the conversation was a question: “If we believe God is sovereign and if we believe He is good, does it matter whether ultimately He decides or we choose?”

Little did I know that God was going to present me with an opportunity to test my words in just a few short days.

That same week, my mom was admitted to a hospital with a kidney stone, and three days later she died. She had contracted a rare infection that spread like wildfire through her body and shut down her organs in record time. The infectious disease specialist told us afterwards that he had never seen a case as bad as hers.

Feeling shell-shocked and grief-stricken, the morning after she died, I posted the news on Facebook. After a brief announcement of her death, I typed these words: But God is still sovereign, and He is still good. It wasn’t until after the funeral that I remembered how I had flippantly said the same words at staff meeting. Now, my so-called faith was meeting reality.

In the hazy months of grief that followed, God gave me a supernatural, unwavering faith in His sovereignty and goodness—despite the searing pain, I knew that my God was good. How just like God to use an excruciatingly difficult circumstance to convince me of His infinite goodness.

To move forward in faith, we must believe—to the core of our being—that God is entirely good. God’s nature does not ebb and flow with the constant, shifting tide of our circumstances. He is the same today as He was yesterday, and as He will be forever. This is exceedingly good news for us!

*To read more about faith, download my Bible study called Relentless Faith (link in bio).

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Leviticus is a book we love to avoid. But it conta

Leviticus is a book we love to avoid. But it contains such powerful imagery of Christ. Check out what’s in Leviticus.

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When we have a physical issue that’s causing us

When we have a physical issue that’s causing us pain, we want to know why. Understanding why the pain is there is the first step in fixing it. Similarly, when we have a spiritual problem, we need to ask ourselves why.

Unbelief—like pain—is crippling. It keeps us from the best God has planned for us. It limits His activity in our lives and causes us to shrink back from what He calls us to do. Unbelief is a spiritual problem. So why do we fall into faithlessness so often?

4 REASONS WE FAIL TO BELIEVE GOD

1️⃣ We minimize God. When we are not walking in unhindered faith, somewhere along the line we make one of two incorrect assumptions about God: either He is not good or He is not able. Both false beliefs shrink God in our eyes and faith flies out the window.

2️⃣ We focus on circumstances. Limited faith also comes from wrong focus. This happens when we focus on what is happening around us instead of lifting our eyes to God. God beckons us to fix our eyes on the unseen because faith quickly evaporates when our attention is only on what we can see.

3️⃣ We fail to immerse ourselves in the Word. The Bible is an incredible faith-builder and when we don’t accept the invitation to meet with God on its pages, we’ve missed the opportunity to grow our faith. Our faith diminishes instead.

4️⃣We misplace our trust. We can’t possibly walk in faith with God when we are continually putting our faith in other people or things. Whether intentional or not, when we place our trust in anything or anyone other than God, we have failed to believe Him, and we are on the road to disappointment. Anything less than the all-powerful, all-knowing name of Jesus will eventually fail us. When we claim to trust God and then make back up plans in case He doesn’t come though, we weaken our faith.

What are some other reasons we fail to believe God?

(Excerpt taken from Relentless Faith Bible Study - link in bio).

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We all have a circle we’ve drawn around ourselve

We all have a circle we’ve drawn around ourselves, and we sit comfortably in the middle. The people we know, the places we go, and the habits that are familiar to us all live inside that circle. Life is cozy, pleasant and predictable in the circle.

Beyond the circle lurks the unknown. People are different, places are unfamiliar, and new ways of doing things are foreign. Fear keeps us safely in the circle.

But as a follower of Christ, we are called to step out in faith beyond our comfort zones as the Spirit leads. In fact, we can’t grow to spiritual maturity unless we are willing to step beyond what is comfortable into the unknown, hard places.

Walking by the Spirit means stepping beyond the familiar into the land of faith. We walk by faith and not by the familiar.

I’m preaching this to my own heart today and trying to muster the courage to step beyond the comfortable.

TELL ME: Where in your life is God calling you to step out in faith?

Here are some verses to strengthen you as you follow the Spirit beyond what is comfortable:

2 Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self control.

Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

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Sometimes we divide over things that ought not to

Sometimes we divide over things that ought not to divide us.

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking (insert any other area of conviction here), but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

We must focus on what unites us: The name of Christ. The mission of making disciples. The hope we have or eternity with Him.

The kingdom of God is represented by the people of God and is characterized by righteousness, peace and joy.

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