If you have to lose yourself in order to secure that relationship, you may need change directions. Because you can't self-abandon your way into a healthy relationship.
A discernment deficiency will have you loyal to a counterfeit, but a discerning heart gives you the ability to see beyond presentation!
The survival tactics that you've learned in your "now," won't serve you to thrive when God gives you your "next."
Knowledge is applied information but wisdom is the ability to identify misinformation. You don't have to learn everything through experience, some things you can learn through wisdom.
In life, sometimes you must make a conscious decision to modify the level of access someone has to you. It doesn't mean that you no longer love them, but for the sake of your health, happiness or purpose, you must reposition them.
Anything outside of God that we worship and find identity in is an idol. God doesn’t do threesomes, He won’t be intimate with us and our idols at the same time!
We're so quick to say our cut off game is strong, but why isn't it that strong when it comes to cutting off that rudeness or any sin that offends God? It's a contradiction and this message is designed to help us cut off the branches in our life that are unfruitful.
Often times we sabotage the good things that God wants to provide for our lives due to the feeling of unworthiness. We must unlearn the idea that we do not deserve the blessings of God as we learn how to embrace happiness.
In Matthew 23, Jesus was criticizing the Pharisees when He said, "everything they do is done for people to see." They love attention, they love views and they love going viral. That's the infection - viral infection! And the danger is when we are a people who love attention, we'll mismanage pastures.
What God wants you to go through and what you choose to go through are not the same! Being offended is a choice, not a requirement.
Being hard on yourself and calling it perfectionism is really self manipulation, because the fruit of that behavior is anxiety, overthinking, stress, burnout, and depression. Those aren't fruits of the Spirit and the gift God has given you never requires your peace of mind!
While your hands aren't stronger than Pharaoh's, God's are. God is waiting for you to put it down, so He can pick it up.
Avoidance is a survival skill that is learned in an unsafe environment. When brought into a safe environment, the new space then starts to look like the one God brought us out of. There are five ways to change your behavior, but in order to do that, we must first address the fact that we are avoiding something.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and evidence is for the purpose of being persuaded. This is why so many people are disenchanted with Christianity because we claim to have this evidence, but with the way we treat people, it's not evident. Our love for God and His people should be evident, not mysterious.
There are a lot of things we can get wrong, but the two most important things we should get right are God's will for our lives and our eternal placement!
Most of us when we hear the word "naked," we think of the human body, whether male or female, being uncovered, stripped, indecent exposure; void of the appropriate covering. This seems to be an adequate estimation; however, there is a spiritual correlation that must be considered when we ask the question: "Why are you naked?"
An apology isn’t enough. What you deserve is changed behavior! Let's unpack the many questions we have regarding broken trust and how it can be recovered.
God is raising up a generation of kingdom men who will take their rightful position, in Jesus name! Featuring Jerry Flowers, Issac Curry, Will Jackson, Ezekiel Azonwu and Gabriel McKnight.
We have placed a period where God wants to place His comma. He is The Author and Finisher of our faith, but is it possible that you've given the pen to something or someone else in your life? It's time to fire whoever owns the pen!
Your process of dealing with conflict in your relationships could be why you haven't experienced the needed healing in your life. It's critical that we know the difference between an apology and accountability. An apology must be connected to curiosity and changed behavior.
It's the nature of a fire to go out and if the enemy can't take you out, he will wear you out! So how do we prevent spiritual burnout?
It's going to be hard to make destiny decisions when you haven't made a peace treaty with your past!
Nobody welcomes storms, and yet, whether we welcome them or not, they show up. Since we can be assured that storms will come, wouldn’t it be wise for us to prepare?
It’s possible that our mind is so crowded with worry, so crowded with fear, and so crowded with lies, that a word from God has to stand in the long line of our overthinking.
Every follower of Jesus needs community, but it must be one that's healthy and on fire for the things of God! Authentic Christian fellowship comes with heat, which is necessary in order to melt the frostbite of our struggles.
Many of us sabotage and walk away from potentially thriving relationships simply because we've never seen what it looks like up close to choose love without forcing love. While there are others who walk away from relationships because that's how we've been taught to cope with conflict.
At the end of the day, we have this choice when it comes to overcoming the lies of insecurity: choose what you believe, affirm what you believe and unlearn what you have believed.
Let us be people that experience what biblical love truly looks like, so that once we enter into relationships we do not repeat what should've been repaired.
Everything changes when Godly men are in position!
Before the start of Jesus' earthly ministry, He was first affirmed by The Father. We must be people who meditate on the thoughts of God, rather than the opinions of man.
