Our Mission: Seek First the Kingdom of God

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Aug 4, 2021

Jesus uses very direct and clear language about pursuing our mission; He says to seek first the Kingdom of God and to live righteously as if it’s life’s highest priority. He also promises that our needs will be met when we do this.

Pursuing the Kingdom of God means seeking God’s authority being carried out in all areas of life. He has the authority to lead us in every facet of our lives – at home, at school, with friends, in the workplace, and in the community.

To pursue living righteously means seeking to please God with our lives. How we conduct ourselves can be pleasing to God, but only if we are in a relationship with Him through Christ. Our behavior towards our family, friends, co-workers, and strangers is pleasing to God when we honor Him and when we are loving towards others.

The wonderful promise of this verse is that our pursuit of living in God’s authority and living in a way that pleases Him has a reward that fulfills our needs. Jesus admonishes us to do so in the proper order – mission accomplished, then all things added. We can find great comfort and security in Jesus’ promise. Think about it.

So, What’s The Play Call?

What do people around you pursue as their life’s highest priority?
How would pursuing God’s authority as the highest priority change your daily lifestyle?
Are there people, things, goals that challenge God’s place as the highest priority in your life?

Overtime

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 NLT

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free…” – Luke 4:18

“For the Lord gave us this command when he said, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.’ ” – Acts 13:47

Prayer

“Father, I will pursue Your authority in my life as the matter of highest priority. I will pursue righteous living as the matter of highest priority. I will trust You to fulfill my needs as I stay focused on these priorities. I pray, commit, and pursue in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.”

Don’t Pick the Scabs: 5 Ways We Block Our Own Healing

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Kim Brightness

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Aug 2, 2021

Let Healing End.

I got into a fight in 1st grade. She pushed me down on the sidewalk; I got up and pushed her down on the sidewalk. We were both sent to the nurse (and detention) and ended up with almost identical scars that remained through high school. We later became friends and grew to laugh about our craziness.

But, before my scar came along, my skin grew this rough, bumpy scab. As a kid, I was intrigued by scabs: “How’d the body do that? And look how easily you can pick it off, see the dotted, white skin underneath, and then it grows back again…like magic.”

Needless to say, times have changed since 1st grade – including my outlook on wounds, scabs, and scars.

Life teaches us that some of the nastiest scrapes and deepest wounds never crack our skin, but they pierce our souls. And, while we can’t put a physical band-aid on our bleeding hearts, God in His infinite, healing love knows how to form an invisible scab to protect the healing process.

But sometimes, it’s still so tempting to pick at the scab. It’s not enough for us to move out of God’s way so healing can manifest – without meddling. We are strangely adept at finding ways to justify why the picking must begin.

Ways We Pick at Life’s Scabs

It’s not a healthy habit to admit, Team, but scab picking happens. Hurt from others, disappointments in life can wound you to the core. In the middle of your healing process, have you ever found yourself:

Constantly ruminating and re-living painful, past events that wounded you?
“Acting out” against the wound with more destructive behavior and patterns?
Living in excessive frustration over the how’s and why’s of the wound, because it didn’t make sense to you?
Obsessively wishing things had turned out differently; what could I have done to avoid the wound?
Constantly soliciting opinions, viewpoints, inspections, and “two cents” about the wound from others?
Blaming others for wounds you inflicted on yourself?
Seeking revenge and/or punishment to wound those who caused your wound?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, it’s time to move out of your own way. You are blocking the very healing that the Lord your God would love to give you (Exodus 15:26).

Set Your Healing Free.

Here are a few reasons why spiritual scab picking is so destructive and must be stopped now:

1. It represents disorder.

God is a God of order and peace (1 Corinthians 14:33). When God personally designed our healing, He set a predetermined order, structure, and peace intended for our healing process. When we pick at the scab, we introduce chaos and confusion that disses the order and design for our healing. Thoughts and actions that nourish grudges and unforgiveness set us “apart from” and are a “negative, reversing force” to our healing process.

2. It introduces infection.

The wound is already painful enough, right? By picking the scab, we add insult to injury, we enlarge and magnify the offense, and create additional pus and pain that were outside the scope of the healing process. Now, we not only have to heal from the original wound – but from the effects of the infection that we added to the mix – which can be much worse than the wound itself. The key point to remember is this: Wounds wound, infections can KILL!

3. It can increase the risk of disfiguring scars.

When we submit to our healing process, we can actually minimize the developing scar. For instance, why have to heal from a bankruptcy scar, too, because you started overspending to cope with the pain from the wound? God’s intended shape and size of your scar does not take your scab-picking into account – but trust that nothing catches God off guard. The larger wound can heal too!

4. It delays healing, which delays freedom, which delays…

You have things you want to accomplish in life, right? Well, when we’re wounded and healing, we are not as effective as our whole, healed selves envisioned by God. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to be wounded around people. It increases the likelihood of being misunderstood or lashing out at others for the pain they did not cause. Respect your healing time. There is an abundance that awaits after healing; don’t sabotage the time it takes to get there by picking scabs.

5. It disrupts God’s purpose: To move us from wound to scar

Team, this may be hard to grasp (depending on the wound), but the purpose of your wound was to HEAL and HELP others. Notice the wound didn’t kill you. Yes, it hurt like crazy, it left a mark, you had to compensate and somehow recover from it, but YOU’RE STILL HERE! The wound didn’t come to take you out, but the scar it leaves can bring others out of the same or similar situation. Your testimony will give others hope, determination, and inspire a healed scar of their own!

Note: Just as physical scab-picking can represent a deeper psychological disorder, so can the picking that goes on in our minds. If you’re unable to stop on your own, consider adding the help of a Christian counselor or therapist to your personal work of prayer and surrender to God.

So, What’s the Play Call?

During one of my greatest healing journeys, God whispered to me: “A scar is a story written by the wound and published by the scab.”

The wound came to be healed. So, stay on healing purpose, Team. The goal is a healed scar! Let’s give our scabs the freedom and space to do their part – knowing that God is protecting us while He heals us. Your wounds have awesome, victorious stories to tell. Don’t block them, set them free!

How the Critical Race Theory Debate Distracts from God’s Justice

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Christianity Today

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Aug 2, 2021

In the conflict over racial issues, “just preach the gospel” misses the gospel.

I remember the World War II stories I was told as a middle school student. Wearing secondhand clothes and sporting an unkempt fade, I sat in a hard wooden desk too small for my growing black body in a classroom full of distracted boys and girls. The air conditioning in Alabama classrooms was unreliable, which meant sweat was an ever-present companion to our education.

The teachers told us impressionable youths that the traumas of both world wars revealed American and British grit. These great nations set aside petty concerns and turned to the needs of others. I was told at that unforgiving desk that nations and individuals discover themselves under pressure. When the fervency of belief encounters the unforgiving realities of suffering, our deepest convictions are unveiled. When cancer invades a human body and stresses a marriage, the true depth of love and commitment becomes clear.

In more recent history, COVID-19 has been a similar pressure and a similar revelation for the United States and its churches. Just as there are tests that reveal a person’s character, there are national trials that make plain what a country is.

What has the COVID-19 pandemic said about the American church? Who have we revealed ourselves to be under pressure? I am talking not about the virus itself. I am talking about the social crisis of the pandemic, which brought to light the ongoing experience of racism and injustice by ethnic minorities in this country.

The church had an opportunity to lead in this area and show the world how our faith allows us to press for better treatment for all. Instead, some decided to litigate the validity of critical race theory. With Black and Asian blood drying on the concrete streets of American cities, some decided …

Social Media and Christians: How to Give Good Faith Answers

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Christianity Today

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Jul 28, 2021

In a June essay, celebrated Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourned the decline of good-faith conversation, especially online. The post, titled “It Is Obscene,” promptly went viral.

“There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness,” she wrote. “People who ask you to ‘educate’ yourself while not having actually read any books themselves,” Adichie continued. “People who depend on obfuscation, who have no compassion for anybody genuinely curious or confused. Ask them a question and you are told that the answer is to repeat a mantra. Ask again for clarity and be accused of violence.”

She should know. Adichie’s essay was the culmination of a feud that played out online and off, mixing personal slights and ideological debate. The substance isn’t relevant here, but the way the authors interacted is. And the result of that sort of pernicious atmosphere, as Adichie said, is that eventually, people become afraid to ask at all. They become afraid to say the wrong thing, perhaps unwittingly, in the deathless public record of social media: “The assumption of good faith is dead.”

I might qualify that a little—there are contexts, online and off, where I still assume good faith. But the assertion generally rings true.

Though it’s literally my job to air controversial opinions, I approach social media guardedly. I scrutinize my phrasing, not merely in pursuit of clarity for its own sake but also for possible lines of unfair attack. This ought not to be.

Christian engagement in public conversation should be distinguished by our thoroughgoing commitment to always speak in good faith, including when it may not be returned (Rom. 12:17–21).

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,” the apostle Peter advised, adding a classic scriptural admonition to good faith: “But do this with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet. 3:15).

Good faith is not the same as positivity. It’s not niceness. It’s not precisely the same as honesty, though certainly they’re related. To deal in good faith is to speak truthfully and read generously, giving grace for real confusion, because “gracious words promote instruction” (Prov. 16:21).

We show good faith when we don’t “repay evil with evil or insult with insult” (1 Pet. 3:9). Good faith makes space for people to

Why It’s Important to Honor Your Father and Mother

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Keiston France

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Jul 28, 2021

The fifth of the Ten Commandments reads: “Honor, your father and your mother.” This commandment is so important that it is one of the only commandments in the entire Bible that gives a reason for observing it – that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Many people read that part of the verse as a reward. But, while it may be regarded as a reward, the fact remains that it is a reason. If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is, a society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction.

Honoring Your Father and Mother Matters

In our time, this connection between honoring parents and maintaining civilization is not widely recognized. On the contrary, many of the best-educated parents do not believe that their children need to show them honor, since honoring implies an authority figure. And, that is a status many modern parents reject.

In addition, many parents seek to be loved, not honored by their children. Yet neither the Ten Commandments nor the Bible elsewhere specifically commands us to love our parents.

This is particularly striking, given that the Bible commands us to love our neighbor, to love God, and to love the stranger. The Bible understands that there will always be individuals who, for whatever reason, do not love a parent. Therefore, it does not demand what may be psychologically or emotionally impossible, but it does demand that we show honor to our parents which should automatically translate to love.

A Few Reasons to Honor Your Father and Mother

So then, why is honoring parents so important? Why do the commandments believe that society could not survive if this commandment was widely violated?

One reason is that we, as children, need it. Parents may want to be honored and they should want to be, but children need to honor parents. A father and a mother who was not honored are essentially adult peers of their children. They are not parents. No generation knows better than ours the terrible consequences of growing up without a father. Fatherless boys are far more likely to grow up and commit violent crimes, mistreat women, and act out against society in every other way. Girls who do not have a father to honor, and hopefully to love as well, are more likely to seek the wrong men and to be promiscuous at an early age.

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there was a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable, and without this, we cannot create or maintain a moral society. Of course, for the Ten Commandments, the ultimate moral authority is God, who is higher than even our parents. But, it is exceedingly difficult to come to honor God without having had a parent, especially a father, to honor. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist theorized that “one’s attitude towards one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.”

There’s one more reason why honoring parents is fundamental to a good society. Honoring parents is the best antidote to totalitarianism. One of the first things totalitarian movements seek to do is to break the child/Parent bond. The child’s allegiance has shifted from parents to the state. Even in democratic societies, the larger the state becomes, the more it usurps the parental role.

How Can We Honor Our Parents?

Finally, there are many ways to honor parents. The general rule is this. They get special treatment.

Parents are unique, so they must be treated in a unique way. You don’t talk to them in quite the same way you do anyone else. For example, you might use harsh language when speaking to a friend, but you don’t with a parent. You don’t call them by their first name, and when you leave their home and make your own, you maintain contact with them. Having no contact with parents is the opposite of honoring them.

And yes, we all recognize that some parents have behaved so cruelly and I mean, cruelly, not annoyingly, that one finds it almost impossible to honor them. There are such cases, but they are rare, when we simply have to honor bad parents as unto the Lord.

Remember this, if your children see you honor your parents, no matter how difficult it may sometimes be, the chances are far greater that they will honor you. Think about it.

So, What’s The Play Call?

Have there been times when you have not honored your parents?
In your opinion, what are the reasons that we should honor our parents?
Do you find this commandment difficult to follow? If so, why?

Don’t Wait Until the Morning Comes, Sing Now!

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Alecia M. White

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Jul 27, 2021

So, for the past few weeks, I’ve noticed birds chirping rather chipperly outside my bedroom window. Now, you may not think this is unusual, but let me help sway you otherwise. This hasn’t been bright 5 AM chirping, nope, it’s been nighttime tunes.

Around 10 PM is when I noticed them playing and singing outside as if it were morning, and I don’t understand why. Maybe if it wasn’t so new then I wouldn’t give it a second thought, but as I mentioned, it’s only been a few weeks.

Perhaps these little birdies are suffering from jet lag or insomnia. Whatever the reason, it hasn’t been favorable for my sleep schedule. In fact, one evening, I was up watching television and I panicked because I thought I’d lost track of time and stayed up way too late, you know – because birds chirp at five and six in the morning.

Well, I grabbed my phone to see how many minutes of sleep I should try to sneak in before work and realized that it was just hitting bedtime, around 10. I had to take a moment to relax and register that the flock outside my window had just chosen to try lulling me to sleep instead of serenade awake. The funny thing is, in the morning, I don’t hear a peep from them. It’s as if they’ve gotten their days and nights mixed up.

Sing While You Wait for the Dawn

Now, I know you’re wondering where I’m going with this. Well, since you’re here… what if we decided to get our days and nights mixed up? You know, sing in our “nighttime” as we wait for the morning to come.

So many times, we hold back our praise and we hold our breath, just waiting for the sun to shine and for things to get better. Maybe we should decide to sing when the sun isn’t shining. You see, these birds begin their song when there’s no sign of daylight. Remember, it isn’t a 5 am selection, but a 10 pm tune that comes ringing through. It’s as if they know morning is coming so they sing anyway.

What I am saying to you is that your morning is coming, so go ahead and sing anyway.

So, What’s the Play Call?

I know it seems as if you’ve been in the dark for a long time, but live as if you can see the sun rising. Here are a few things to hold on to as you sing at bedtime:

God is faithful all day long. No matter the time, God is working on your behalf, thank Him for handling every situation. “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,” Psalms 92:1-2
Remember the songs of Paul and Silas. When these two servants of God decided to pray and praise, not only was it midnight (before sunlight), but they were in prison, probably without windows to see any hope of day. Sometimes the evening is the best time to start praising God for your morning. “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bands were loosed.” Acts 16: 25-26.
It may not make sense. “Singing” when it’s nighttime may not seem logical, but remember, God is outside of human logic. Most things you do in the daytime, you don’t think to do at night but sing anyway. Do what the darkness in your life cannot understand. “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” John 1:5

Stop acting according to your circumstance and cause your circumstance to act according to your actions. Like with those singing birds, daylight eventually breaks, they just don’t wait for it to break to sing their song.

Destiny Partner or Destination Ride: Where’s the Relationship Going?

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Cortne Smith

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Jul 23, 2021

Who’s Driving the Relationship?

In today’s society, we’ve set deadlines and timelines to every aspect of our lives, so we can stay in control of when we actually get to and from various destinations.

Sometimes, we apply this worldly clock to our relationships – especially when it comes to when and who we marry. Yes, God has given us free will, but we must allow the Holy Spirit to influence these decisions to either choose a Destiny Partner, or simply take a lot of destination rides.

A destination ride is when:

We want to be at a particular place, at a particular time.
We want to see specific scenery or live a certain lifestyle quickly.
We want to be free of accountability, and not responsible for the navigation.
We don’t want to be alone anymore.
We believe this is the perfect time to begin a family.

Have you ever taken a destination ride? Take a moment and think of some of the reasons why you entered or are currently in a relationship that God did not approve…

How Did I Choose a Destination Ride vs. a Destiny Partner?

As Christians, we can easily find ourselves on a destination ride when we:

Allow the Christian community to sign off on our spouse – instead of Christ.
Look for artificial credentials instead of authentic character to complement our life.
Are frightened that someone will challenge growth and transformation in our lives.
Look for someone compatible to our agenda, but not willing to be on the team of our assignment.

These are some of the reasons why so many divorces occur within the Christian community. Many choose destination rides, and when they reach a particular destination, that’s as far as that ride can go.

Think about this. If you’ve ever used a car service, you provide the pick-up location and the point(s) of destination. Upon arriving at the final destination, a price is paid for services rendered. However, if you need to go anywhere else, a new contract or itinerary must be created. But, there are no guarantees that the same vehicle/driver is equipped or available to take you to the next level – or that you can afford the cost to continue this journey to reach your destiny.

When the ride we thought was for a lifetime departs, we become stuck or stranded in one location of our lives. That’s why it’s important to know that we can call on Jesus to catch the appropriate ride towards our Destiny.

Now the question is: are you with a Destiny Partner or on a destination ride?

So, What’s the Play Call?

Use this article as a relationship self-assessment, not as an excuse to separate or get a divorce. Get a relationship overhaul. Use one of many marriage assessments, like the Focus on the Family Marriage Assessment or The Love Dare Marriage Evaluation. These tools will help identify your relationship strengths and growth areas.

Begin rebuilding a new relationship “vehicle”, one that is unified and equipped to take your relationship to its destiny as one union.

Have periodic check-ins with each other and other Godly couples that serve as accountability partners to verify if you’re still on course with the plan God has for your relationship.

If need be, seek counseling or a marriage mentor or coach – depending on the area of help like anger management, depression, financial expertise, or sexual/intimacy. Choose a specialist for your marriage’s specific needs in order to restore, rebuild and reconnect with God to be the best you in your relationship.

Pastors, Keep Your Cup Filled in a World That Empties It

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Christianity Today

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Jul 23, 2021

By now you’ve probably seen the articles that address the state of many pastors in America. Navigating through the crisis of the pandemic, not to mention the other crises the wave of the pandemic has caused, has taken its toll on many pastors. If you are one of those pastors, please know that you are not alone!

As pastors, we are constantly pouring our cup into others. Essentially, that is ministry—giving our lives in the service to others.

However, if pastors constantly pour their lives into others—into ministry—but never have anyone pouring their lives into them, eventually their lives will become empty. Be honest, if your life was like a gas gauge in a car, where would the needle be? Closer to F? Half a tank? Closer to E? Or on E?

What’s your plan on replenishing your cup… your life? Many pastors fill their lives through Bible intake, prayer, solitude and solace, reading books, listening to podcasts, exercising, and/or engaging in a hobby. These are all important—especially prayer and bible reading as they allow the Spirit and the Word to minister to us. Yet, I would argue something else is needed.

Young Timothy and a Tough Ministry

Imagine you were Timothy. You are a younger pastor serving in your first, but difficult, ministry assignment—one in which you were tasked to handle some problems in the church (like false teachers). Not only are you in a difficult ministry, but you’re living in a very secular city. Because of the infancy of the church, there are no books to read, podcasts to listen to, nor conferences to attend to tell you what to do. Yet, you need to bring order to the church, appoint elders and deacons, minister to widows, and effectively shepherd believers …

God Gives Us Grace for the Race

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Keiston France

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Jul 20, 2021

I was watching the highlights of the 1992 Summer Olympics when I could hardly believe my eyes. An amazing event had taken place during the 400-meter dash that afternoon. A runner from Great Britain by the name of Derek Redmon had suffered a leg injury during the race and had fallen on the track.

With no hope of placing, Derek refused to quit. He gathered himself to his feet and began to hobble to the finish line. Suddenly, a man raced out of the stands and ran to Derek. This man placed his arm around the injured runner and arm-in-arm the two of them made it across the finish line. The man was Derek’s father. What a vivid example of living out the Christian life.

Grace to Finish the Race

The verses above call for us to “work out” our salvation. This does not mean that we are saved by works. Eternal salvation is by faith (Ephesians 2:8–9). Instead, it’s a call to take seriously the command to live out all areas of our Christian life in obedience to Christ. Therefore, we are to avoid allowing challenges or other interests to stop us from doing all we can to finish the race.

Even though we are to strive at doing our part, finishing the race is only possible because of God. Our heavenly Father is working in us, giving us His divine power to “will and to act” in order to enable us to make it across heaven’s finish line.

No matter the challenges or temptations, Philippians 2:13 reveals that we have a Father who will crawl, walk, or run with us arm-in-arm so we, too, can finish the race He’s given us.

Always remember, Team, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” (1 Thessalonians 5:24). Think about it.

So, What’s The Play Call?

How does Galatians 2:20 relate to today’s topic?
How does Derek’s story relate to you as a believer?
According to verse 13, why do we desire to live a godly life?

Overtime: Read 2 Peter 1:3-11

“Father, thank You for the grace to run the Christian race. Teach me how to walk each day believing in this truth. Amen.”

10 Ways to Describe How Big God is to Your Problems

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Kim Brightness

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Jul 19, 2021

Our Problems Face a Big God

I get it, Teammates. Life comes at us fast – without warning or explanation. Just when we think things are going well, here comes an illness, a layoff, a wayward spouse or child, an accident, workplace sabotage, death of a loved one, a pandemic… this list can go on and on.

It makes it no better that we are living in the last days when perilous times become the norm. Hate and revenge are the expected responses to an offense or disagreement. Injustice, greed, and racism saturate the halls of “high places” in society’s power structures.

Nevertheless, but God!

We serve a God who is bigger than any problem, frustration, challenge, trial, attack, hardship, sickness, injustice… THIS list goes on!

Sometimes, life can hurt so bad that we forget how BIG God is. Well, here’s a gentle reminder for all of us. Once we stir up the BIGness of God in our hearts and minds – here’s what we can tell that ol’ ugly problem.

A Non-Exhaustive List of How Big God Is

1. In the beginning, God.

Hey, problem! Genesis 1:1, John 1:1! You will never be bigger than the Beginning. Before you were, God is! And, because God started it all when “all” and you didn’t exist, there’s nothing you can do to get a head start on our Big God. He will always be ahead of you, outmaneuvering you. That’s how BIG our God is!

2. The Earth is God’s footstool.

Hey, problem! Isaiah 66:1! Have you seen the size of the Earth? Can you measure its width and breadth? Well, this large planet is where God rests His feet. No, not His whole body, the Earth couldn’t handle that – just His feet. That’s how BIG our God is!

3. God sees everything.

Hey, problem! Proverbs 15:3! You can’t escape being noticed by the eyes of God. God’s eyes are everywhere; He saw your formation, your selected strategy, and tactics, and He sees your guaranteed end. That’s how BIG our God is!

4. God answers before we call.

Hey, problem! Isaiah 65:24! Before I opened my mouth to tell God about you, before I shed one tear about you, God already answered me. God even heard the words I couldn’t muster the strength or know-how to say. That’s huge. That’s how BIG our God is!

5. God has numbered the hairs on my head.

Hey, problem! Luke 12:7! Do you know how many individual hairs (or hair follicles) I have on my head? God does. See how much I’m worth? He can call the numbers out for every single one that has fallen since you appeared, and can grow new strands back with their own unique number. That’s how BIG our God is!

6. There is none like God.

Hey, problem! Jeremiah 10:6 and 2 Samuel 7:22! God alone is God (Psalm 86:10). Not you, me, nor my response to you. Besides God, there is no other greater. Comparison is futile. That’s how BIG our God is!

7. God can’t lie.

Hey, problem! Numbers 23:19! God is trustworthy and dependable. So every promise He makes, everything He said He will do shall come to pass without fail. That’s how BIG our God is!

8. God is not petty.

Hey, problem! Romans 5:8! God goes first! He doesn’t require perfection in order to love me, save me, redeem me. He’s that big of a God to give His all first before we even considered Him. If God puts it all on the line for enemies, imagine what He does for His children. That’s how BIG our God is!

9. The name of God is a safe tower.

Hey, problem! Proverbs 18:10! I may be on the run, but I can find safety in the very name of God – pick one! God is my healer, my provider, my strength, my life, my redeemer, my rock, my joy – I can rest confidently in His name. That’s how BIG our God is!

10. In the end, God.

Hey, problem! Revelation 1:8! The same God who is the Beginning is also the End. When it’s all said and done, at the end of the day, God will still be God – and you will be no more. That’s how BIG our God is!

Bonus: We’ve already won!

Hey, problem! 1 John 5:4 and 2 Corinthians 2:14! Between being born of God, which makes us overcomers by default, and Abba always causing us to triumph – do you really think you have a chance?

So, What’s the Play Call?

Meditate on the Word of God, His faithfulness, and His greatness. Never forget who’s in control and who’s in charge of everything that concerns you.

It’s not me, it’s not you, it’s not that problem – it’s our BIG God!

How do YOU tell your problems how big God is?

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Ways We Pick at Life’s Scabs

Set Your Healing Free.

1. It represents disorder.

2. It introduces infection.

3. It can increase the risk of disfiguring scars.

4. It delays healing, which delays freedom, which delays…

5. It disrupts God’s purpose: To move us from wound to scar

Honoring Your Father and Mother Matters

A Few Reasons to Honor Your Father and Mother

How Can We Honor Our Parents?

Sing While You Wait for the Dawn

Who’s Driving the Relationship?

How Did I Choose a Destination Ride vs. a Destiny Partner?

Young Timothy and a Tough Ministry

Grace to Finish the Race

Our Problems Face a Big God

A Non-Exhaustive List of How Big God Is

1. In the beginning, God.

2. The Earth is God’s footstool.

3. God sees everything.

4. God answers before we call.

5. God has numbered the hairs on my head.

6. There is none like God.

7. God can’t lie.

8. God is not petty.

9. The name of God is a safe tower.

10. In the end, God.

Bonus: We’ve already won!

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