When life is overwhelming, and you are enveloped in chaos how do you cling to your faith and find peace in the storm? Finding peace in chaos that is clamoring for our focus is so important. Resting in that peace when it feels like our lives and dreams are swirling the drain is vital.
Hearing God’s voice when we are in the midst of the storm is so important, tucking back into God and listening for His voice is vital. While the storm is raging around us and we can’t see the way out. As Christians every step we take needs to be led by God, we need to be so in tune with Him that it’s like a dance. To do that we need to be able to hear God’s Voice.
We’ve all bee there, caught in the storm watching the floodwaters rise and wondering how we got here. Where is God in the storm? When my arms are weary and my soul is battered when life stole from me and left me breathless with its brutality. It’s here, in the midst of the storm…
It’s easy to tout God will never give me more then I can handle, when life is great- but what about when the fire starts to burn? When your life is disintegrating in a pillar of smoke. When you stand as Job did with suddenly empty hands, and you feel all alone. Is God with…
It’s easy to trust God when you are on the mountain top, but what about when the bottom falls out for the hundredth time and you find yourself at the mercy of another storm. What about when you did trust God, but he remained silent and nothing seemed to change. How do you keep…
Trusting can be hard at the best of times, but trusting God in difficult times is considerably harder. Even when you’ve been a Christian for a long time, adversity makes the voice of doubt shout all the louder in your ears. The what if’s begin to rise until you find yourself drowning in the pain…
You’re here once more, your whole world going up in ashes and wondering where God is when you are engulfed in flames. He feels so far away, you struggle even to catch a small glimpse of Him among the shimmering waves of heat. ‘Has He forgotten me?’ you wonder, was my mess just too much?…
Leaning on God when life is overwhelming, what does that look like? How do you lean on God? And Why does it make a difference? What happens when you reach the end of your rope and you feel like you can’t go on. On our own, in our own strength, we can’t get through the…
In the darkness of Good Friday, it’s easy to ask why God has abandoned us -in the wake of broken dreams nailed to a tree, in the face of tragedy that struck out of nowhere in the breathtaking triumph of evil that leaves us speechless- as a hammer prepares to strike a nail that will pierce the Savior. The story of the birth of Christ that we just celebrated a few months back comes to a crushing, agonizing stop.
You’ve been in the storm for what feels like an eternity and you find yourself trying to find God in this place. Your soul begs for a reprieve for a moment of peace to catch your breath. You’ve nothing left to give, your arms are long since weary of the battle. You wonder if this…