When you have cancer or a life-threatening illness or crisis, you tend to pay closer attention to Bible verses which once may have read like a nursery rhyme.
If we grasp both the heights of God’s holiness and the depths of our own sin, we will not approach God with a sense of entitlement. Instead we will humbly approach Him on the basis of grace – His unmerited favor.
Peter's mistake was he focused on the wind and waves and took his eyes off Jesus.
There is a strange sense of rest in trusting Him with our unanswered questions. And that’s an answer in itself – He will tell us everything soon enough.
If you could magically remove all struggles from the earth, would you?
Please note: the ability and power to overcome fear does not come from you – it comes from Him!
Enter 12-year-old Joey Norris, a cancer survivor currently undergoing treatment. He posted a picture of himself in the kneeling position while hooked up to his chemo machine. He called it “Tebowing while chemoing.” You have to love Joey's fight... and faith.
Our faith is just like a muscle. If we want to enlarge our muscles, we place them under the distress of additional weight.
One by one fears will lose their grip as every angle of their deceptions are held up to the light of God’s love and power.
Letting go of fear dethrones me from the center of predominance in my world, a stronghold which holds no real power.