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You Can Depend on God’s Everlasting Arms
Deuteronomy 33:27 promises that underneath are the everlasting arms. When you feel you’ve hit bottom, remember where you are resting.
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God Never Meant for Us to Fight the Enemy Alone
Like five-year-olds on a soccer field, we struggle when we fight alone. Why God gives us a team of people to pray and stand with us.
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Do You Understand Your Enemy?
From witch doctors in a Guatemalan village to a fear of the devil, why believers must know their enemy while keeping their focus on God.
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How Do You Prepare for Spiritual Warfare?
Lessons from missionary preparation in Guatemala on why believers need proven, biblical strategies for spiritual warfare.
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He Restores My Soul
Counselor George Stahnke on Psalm 23:3, how small burdens wear down the soul, and how God refreshes and restores us.
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You Are a Sharer in God’s Grace
Philippians 1:7 says you share in God’s grace, His unmerited favor. Reflect on what grace means and how it can change your life today.
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God’s Love for Us
Nothing can separate you from the love of God. Study Romans 8:32–39 and reflect on what His love means for you today.
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God’s Promise: God Will Direct My Paths
Proverbs 3:5–6 promises God will direct your paths. Explore the three conditions of trusting, relying, and acknowledging Him.
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You Are the Light of the World
Jesus says you are the light of the world. Reflect on how to let God’s light shine through you to the people around you.
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Dress for War
Before we put on our armor, we put on our spiritual clothes. Are you dressed and acting like a child of the King?
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Recognize What Holds You Back
Hebrews 12:1 calls us to lay aside every weight and sin that holds us back. Questions to help you run your race with endurance.
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Follow Your Leader
Like the childhood game of follow the leader, Jesus is our example for life and spiritual warfare, even when His ways seem unusual.
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God Will Never Leave Me or Forsake Me
God promises He will never, never, never leave you. Reflection, prayer, and an affirmation for times you feel alone.
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Are You Using Your Spiritual Warfare Weapons?
Pastor Steve Sherwood’s story of calmly using the name and blood of Jesus, and why anger is never an effective weapon against the enemy.
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Abounding in Love and Faithfulness
From Exodus to the Psalms, the Old Testament overflows with God’s steadfast love. Meditate on these verses and let them shape how you see yourself.
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Do You Struggle with Fear?
Isaiah 41:10 gives two commands and five reasons not to fear. How God’s presence and help can carry you through frightening seasons.
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Biblical Principles for Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual warfare isn’t only for “super Christians.” God has given every believer biblical principles, resources, and a team for the battle.
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Spiritual Warfare Boot Camp
No soldier should go to war without training. Why believers need to prepare for the enemy’s strategies instead of entering battle unprepared.
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Do You Know Your Enemy?
Our enemy wants to convince us we are defeated by our past and our habits. Why seeing yourself as God sees you matters in spiritual warfare.
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I Was Created in God’s Image
You were made in the image of God. Reflect on what that reveals about Him, and why putting yourself down also puts down His creation.
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What Is Spiritual Warfare?
Spiritual warfare is our battle against the enemy who comes to steal, kill, and destroy, and it includes Spirit-controlled thinking and attitudes.
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Christ, Our Passover Lamb
Jesus is our Passover Lamb. What the first Passover in Exodus 12 reveals about His sacrifice, and how His blood protects you and your family.
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How God Sees You: I Am Not Condemned
In Christ you are free from condemnation. Stop seeing yourself as a sinner and start seeing yourself the way God sees you.
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How God Sees You: I Am a Child of God
Whatever your earthly father was like, God calls you His child. Scriptures and reflection on what it means to belong to Him.
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How God Sees You: God Has Lavished Me with His Great Love
See what great love the Father has lavished on us! Verses to meditate on and memorize as you discover how much God loves you.
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How God Sees You: God Adopted Me as His Very Own Child
God paid the highest price to adopt you as His child. Scripture and questions to help you trade a slave mentality for a son or daughter mentality.
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God Knows You
God knows the way you take, the secrets of your heart, and how you are formed. Scriptures to help you grasp the depth of His knowledge of you.
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How to Get to Know God Better
Two simple practices that help truths about God move from facts in the mind to trust in the heart.
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Importance of Prayer
A reflection on praying for inner strength, deep roots in God’s love, and confidence in His power.
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Great Love Quotes from God’s Word
The greatest love letter is God’s letter to us. A few of the Bible’s great sayings about love, and Paul’s prayer that you would experience Christ’s love.
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What Is Love?
The greatest love we can experience is God’s love. Meditate on Ephesians 3 and the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love.
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The Riches
Paul prayed for believers to receive God’s glorious riches. How to pray Ephesians 3:16-19 for yourself and others, and experience Christ’s love.
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How to Say a Prayer
One of the richest ways to pray is to pray God’s Word. Begin with Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:14-15 and questions for reflection.
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Pray Bible Verses
A challenge to read, meditate on, and pray Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21 every day, and see what God teaches you through it.
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Put On the Full Armor of God
A walk through Ephesians 6: the belt of truth, shoes of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and sword of the Spirit.
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Be Strong in the Lord
Ephesians 6:10 calls us to be strong in the Lord, not ourselves. A vivid picture of choosing His mighty power every day.
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The Choice Is Yours: Sitting in the Pits or on a Throne?
You are seated with Christ in the heavenly realms. What Ephesians 2:6 means for your authority, your prayers, and how you face stress.
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Prepare Your Heart for Easter
Jesus was pierced for us. Reflect on what He and the Father went through for you, and remember what you are celebrating at Easter.
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Look What God Did for Us!
We often focus on what we don’t have. Ephesians 2:4-6 reminds us what God has already done, and that in Christ we live in His victory.
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Chosen, Holy, and Dearly Loved
Colossians 3:12 tells you who you are in Christ: chosen by God, holy, and dearly loved. Do you know deep down that it’s true?
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