Concerning transition, what happens to you is not as important as how you respond to what happens to you.

Are you going to keep moving forward, or are you going to let your fear of the unknown hold you back?

Are you going to make excuses for yourself or are you going to press through the emotional storms until you reach the other side?

Sometimes you may feel that change has mowed you down because life as you knew it has ended. But if you pay attention,...

2 Corinthians 10:4 - "The weapons we use in our fight are not the world's weapons, but God's powerful weapons with which to destroy strongholds."

WE DEAL WITH THE DEVIL BY DEALING WITH THE CARNAL THOUGHT SYSTEMS, THE STRONGHOLDS, THAT PROTECT THE ENEMY. THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS BEGINS WITH REPENTANCE.

THE ENERGIES WE EXPEND IN KEEPING OUR SINS SECRET ARE THE ACTUAL "MATERIALS" OF WHICH A STRONGHOLD IS MADE. THE DEMON YOU...

When you start living out of the new creation nature you will discover that your desires and God's purpose for your life are intertwined together.

To live the good life God has for you, you must have an aggressive go-for-it faith - the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force.

A passive faith will never lay hold of the good things of God. Faith doesn't just give you the courage to stay stuck where you are and be happy about it.
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I don't talk about my feelings much....

Primarily because most people won't get it and I've always been someone who tries to "figure it out."

All my life I have been reminded in more than a few ways that I am different. Whether it's people making comments about the way that I speak, think, or how my life seems to be playing out in a way that is the opposite of what they expected. Either way it goes...it translates to one thing....not really being seen. ...

"Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, 'Look now, the place where we live near you is too small for us. Please let us go to the Jordan [River] and let each man take from there a beam [for the building]; and let us make a place there for ourselves where we may live.' And he answered, 'Go.' Then one said, 'Please be willing to go with your servants.' So he answered, 'I shall go.' So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down [some of] the trees. But it happened...