When You Feel Like Giving Up: What God Gave Elijah First
God answered Elijah's despair with bread, water, and sleep before He said anything else.
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For the seasons when hope feels far away. Reflections, prayers and Scripture for waiting, grief and weariness, written to sit with you rather than rush you.
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An Anchor for the Soul
An anchor is useless in the boat, it only works attached to something else.
Worried About Your Children? God Never Promised Them a Safe World
If you are worried about your children, the fear is not irrational. God never promised them a safe world, but He did…
Replaying Conversations in Your Head? What Psalm 42 Does Instead
If you keep replaying conversations in your head, the replay is not solving anything. Psalm 42 shows a man who learned to…
Though I Have Fallen, I Will Arise
This is not the kind of hope that asks you to deny the facts.
Afraid of Dying as a Christian? Even Jesus Asked Three Times
Fear of death is not proof your faith is broken. Jesus felt it face down in Gethsemane, and Psalm 23 shows what…
Do Not Lose Heart
He is not denying the decline, he is describing two processes running at the same time.
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Bible Verses
- “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.”Lamentations 3:25
- “And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.”1 Peter 5:10
- “Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!”Psalm 27:14
- “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”Matthew 5:4
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