Category: Spiritual Growth & Guidance

  • When Your Mind Won’t Shut Up: Finding Stillness

    When Your Mind Won’t Shut Up: Finding Stillness

    The content explores the concept of stillness in a spiritual context, emphasizing that being still is an intentional choice to trust and surrender to God rather than a passive state. It highlights biblical references to stillness as restorative, urging individuals to prioritize quietness and awareness of God’s presence in their lives.

  • How to Enter into Rest with God

    How to Enter into Rest with God

    The post explores the concept of rest from a biblical perspective, emphasizing its significance in Genesis and its commands in the Ten Commandments. It highlights how true rest with God involves faith, ceasing from worry, spiritual disciplines, and cultivating hope. Ultimately, entering God’s rest means trusting Him and finding peace in His presence.

  • 7 Steps to Cultivate the Fear of the Lord

    7 Steps to Cultivate the Fear of the Lord

    The author shares their journey of participating in the Bible Recap, reflecting on the transformative wisdom from Proverbs. They emphasize the importance of fearing the Lord, which entails reverence and obedience. The post outlines seven steps to nurture this fear, highlighting prayer, worship, scripture study, and fellowship as essential for strengthening one’s relationship with God.

  • Going All In with God: A Journey of Surrender and Faith

    Going All In with God: A Journey of Surrender and Faith

    Going all in with God involves total surrender, obedience, and love. It requires prioritizing God’s will, embracing self-denial, and engaging in prayer, worship, and kindness towards others. Though challenging, this commitment leads to a fulfilling life grounded in faith, transforming us through God’s presence and support on our spiritual journey.

  • God’s Promises and Character: A Path to Trust

    God’s Promises and Character: A Path to Trust

    The future presents a path obscured by uncertainty; while we may glimpse short-term clarity, long-term outcomes remain unknown. Trusting God is essential, grounded in His unchanging character and fulfilled promises. By understanding His nature and relying on prayer and biblical teachings, we can cultivate trust and find hope amidst life’s unpredictability.

  • Understanding Surrender to God: A Guide

    Understanding Surrender to God: A Guide

    Surrendering to God involves letting go of control, past grudges, and selfish desires to embrace a better future promised by Him. It requires sacrifice, self-denial, and recognizing that life is a spiritual battle. True fulfillment comes from dedicating our entire lives to God, trusting His plans over our own.

  • Reconnecting with God: The Importance of Confession and Repentance

    Reconnecting with God: The Importance of Confession and Repentance

    Summary: The post discusses the struggle of drifting from God, the importance of confession and repentance, and other ways to reconnect with God such as gratitude, spending time in nature, reading the Bible, and worship. It emphasizes the necessity of consistent confession and repentance to strengthen one’s relationship with God.

  • Finding Joy: Committing to a Positive Outlook

    Finding Joy: Committing to a Positive Outlook

    It is hard to be positive when we are spammed with constant negativity. But if we are to follow Jesus being positive and choosing joy is something we must try to do. And it begins by keeping our focus on the one who gave us life. “But seek first the kingdom of God and his…

  • Springing into Change: Embracing the season of renewal and growth

    Springing into Change: Embracing the season of renewal and growth

    Spring has brought renewed hope and the opportunity for change and growth. It’s a time for reflection, creating a spring bucket list, and initiating a thorough spring clean. This includes evaluating mental wellbeing, decluttering, and deep cleaning every area of life, from home to digital spaces, to bring life and hope back into spring.

  • Letting Go & Moving Forward: The Importance of Forgiveness

    Letting Go & Moving Forward: The Importance of Forgiveness

    It’s hard to let go, of grudges, of people we no longer talk to but still think of, of the shame of our sins even though we’re forgiven. It’s not easy and it was never meant to be. The pain we feel, the grief, even the good stuff we have to release for the greater…