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1 Corinthians 9:24 AMP - Do you not know that in a race all the runners run [their very best to win], but only one receives the prize? Run [your race] in such a way that you may seize the prize and make it yours!

Are you in it to win it? Even when life's not working out the way you planned it?

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Psalm 34:18 NIV - The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Has God ever broke your heart?

14 years ago, I experienced the tsunami of setbacks in my life.

– our 10-year-old son Alec died unexpectedly

– my wife was diagnosed with a form of breast cance...

Psalm 138:8 TPT - You keep every promise you’ve ever made to me! Since your love for me is constant and endless, I ask you, Lord, to finish every good thing that you’ve begun in me!

As this year comes to a close, your circumstances may scream LIAR LIAR LIAR.

Perhaps this year you prayed and plea...

Psalm 37:4 NIV - Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

If you had a magic wand you could waive over your life, what what you change?

I love this question and every year for the past three decades I've asked myself this question towards the end of each year as ...

Deuteronomy 28:7 NIV - The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

If you are pursuing a God-planted dream, enemies will attack you. They did it to Jesus, the disciples, and they wil...

Zechariah 9:12 AMP - Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope; Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].

Are you enduring a season of financial hardship? Maybe you can't understand...

Ephesians 2:10 AMP

For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [livin...

Matthew 19:26 NIV

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

I can't stand the phrase "I'm just being realistic". The problem with this saying is it doesn't make room for God.

For most people, things only seem realistic ... when what's po...

Luke 10:19 AMP

Listen carefully: I have given you authority [that you now possess] to tread on serpents and scorpions, and [the ability to exercise authority] over all the power of the enemy (Satan); and nothing will [in any way] harm you.

As a disciple of Christ, you have power and authority...

Nehemiah 8:10

It is a time to celebrate with a hearty meal and to send presents to those in need, for the joy of the Lord is your strength. You must not be dejected and sad!”

When everything is going great, it's easy to feel happy.

Because happiness is an emotion that's driven by your outside c...

Matthew 7:9-11 NIV - Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

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Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].

Many years ago during a time of adversi...