Possessions aren’t bad, but it’s easy to let them define your identity. Hear Holy Spirit’s message for you today and learn to let Christ alone define your worth and value.

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What Shapes Your Identity? Letting Christ Define Your Worth

Jesus’ disciples weren’t superheroes. There’s nothing they did that isn’t possible for us, too. All it takes is overcoming fear so we can follow God and step into the calling He has on our lives.

Overcoming Fear to Follow God and Step Into Your Calling

The Bible says you have everything you need to live a godly life. Everything! The only time we lack anything is when we reject God’s gifts and provision. Learn how to live deeper in the kingdom.

Are You Unwittingly Rejecting God’s Gifts and Provision?

When we hear God speak to us about gifts He has given us, it’s easy to be a bit skeptical. We might doubt that we have gifts at all—at least of any significance. We live in a world that ranks gifts based on wealth, social status, power. So it can be easy to look around and feel like what we have to offer isn’t much. But that’s not what God feels out about us. That’s not what God thinks. Holy Spirit offers us a different perspective. Our unique personalities, our quirks, our ways of being in this world—these are our gifts. And they allow us to experience—and express—God’s love. They bring what He brings: hope to the trapped; healing to the hurting; direction to the lost; love to all He has created. And these gifts also bring him glory. They point to him, to who God is, to his strength and his plans for good in the world. For the restoration of all things. Holy Spirit, in this message, said, “The key to experiencing [our gifts] is knowing my love. They only exist in my love.” When we know God’s love for us, we move in the world in a different way. We are free to be ourselves. And that being ourselves? That is the best gift we can ever give to the world.

Receiving God’s Gifts: Why Your Unique Personality Matters

It’s one thing to know God loves you. It’s another thing entirely to experience it for yourself. If you find that you distrust his presence, it’s time to take a new approach to taking in the Word so you can receive God’s love.

How to Receive God’s Love When You Distrust His Presence

In this chaotic world, it’s easy to feel desperate and stuck. So what do we do? We try to trudge on alone, heads down. But God has promises for you when you’re in that difficult place. Will you let him speak to you?

Feel Desperate and Stuck? Listen to This Promise.

It’s so easy, with our strong human desires—desires to be liked, to be loved, to be accepted, to find comfort, to find peace and joy and security—it’s so easy to view God as something that can make us look good to other people, something that can allow us to think well of ourselves . . […]

No Time for Indifference: How Do You Really Feel About God?

I am going to be honest. When I hear Holy Spirit, the voice of the Father penetrating the darkness of our world, saying He knows our pain, my heart gets heavy. It brings back all the pain I’ve endured. It reminds me of all the pain the people I love have endured. It reminds me […]

Don’t Give Up: Your Life Is Just Beginning

Dry. Hostile. Desolate. In a desert, water is scarce; the environment is harsh and unforgiving; it’s intense in both its heat and its cold. There is little shade, little food, little protection. In a desert we’re exposed, vulnerable, desperate even. And abandoned maybe. Because few people choose to enter a desert. But sometimes we can’t […]

How to Drink When You’re In the Desert Place

We can be hard on ourselves. After all, we are taught, by this world of ours, to be always looking for ways to improve—because we are never good enough. Get in shape. Be more productive. Get better informed. Most of us are a million miles from imagining that we are ever okay, just as we […]

Why God Isn’t Worried About You Not Measuring Up

Jesus encourages us to approach Him with childlike hearts. With hearts that know they are loved. Hearts that trust they are safe. Hearts that are willing to take risks. Unguarded hearts that can grow and learn. When disciples asked Him, “Who is considered to be the greatest in heaven’s kingdom realm?” Jesus told them, “Learn […]

How To Get Your Heart To Change

When Solomon became King over Israel, he asked God for wisdom—and God granted it to him. “God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore, so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.” That’s […]

Your Strong Foundation

The book of John begins like this: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was […]

Standing in Storms

We don’t need to lie. We are safe in God’s care. We are not at risk—not the way we always think we are. We don’t need to twist truth to protect ourselves. We can trust our Father. We can trust our King. We can trust our Friend. The root of our duplicity is something to […]

The Duplicitous Heart and the Weight of Your Cross

God, three in one—Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit. He—they—epitomize community. Rich, complete, connection. Nothing is missing. They are never lonely. Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit each uniquely themselves and each uniquely One and the same. There is no enmity between them. There is no resentment. There is no competition. There is no one-upmanship. There is no indifference. […]

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