Life

Overcoming disobedience: How our will needs to be restored in Christ just as much as our hearts and minds
We hear a lot about the heart and mind and how God restores them but rarely do we talk about the will and how God moulds it. What is the will and how does God restore it when it is broken?

4 reasons you should make time for daily devotions if you aren't already
Here are just four of the many practical benefits that daily devotions can bring to anyone who wholeheartedly commits to them.

When God's response to your prayers is 'wait'
When God tells us to "wait," it's not like when a telephone operator puts you on hold indefinitely. He's actually trying to communicate something important to us. Here are three things that God is actually saying when He tells us to wait.

What we can learn from Hannah, the mother of Samuel, on dealing with depression
So many people have this wrong notion that depression shuts us out from God's presence - that only "happy" people can pray, worship and experience God.

Here's how 'taking every thought captive into the obedience of Christ' looks like
Whatever Jesus has said and done passes through the filter and is allowed into our minds. But all that is not founded in Him is left in the filter after sifting, and then thrown away as trash.

How bad experiences can be used as springboards to success
All of us go through bad experiences every now and then. Losses, failures, injustice and defeat â these bad experiences can either be the reason for us to stay down and stuck in the mud, or the reason for us to rise up and be enabled to pull others out of the clay as well.

Quiet time: Learning the art of being still and knowing that He is God
Remember, it's called a 'quiet time' because we quiet ourselves so that we could listen to God.

Finding focus: Four ideas for the desperately distracted
The digital world can leave many of us overwhelmed by distraction, and it's not good for us. What do we do about that?

In good times and bad, why Psalm 23 will see us through
The reason Psalm 23 has remained so popular and profound for believers around the world throughout the ages is that it doesn't just work in one given situation. It works in any given situation.

The problem behind bringing people to church
Somewhere along the line we have forgotten that the service, the place, the preaching is not the church. The people are the church and we don't necessarily have to bring people to the church. We can bring the church to them.

Faith in the hard times: What it means to be 'struck down, but not destroyed'
Have you ever felt like such a failure that any direction you'd turn you'd still feel trapped? Guess what? It's not as bad as it looks.

A lesson on Lazarus and why we need to let God 'kill' some things in our life today
We all have a dream or ambition that has died a natural death maybe due to neglect or old age. From one story in the ministry of Christ, we can learn a thing or two about dead dreams and what Jesus intends to do with them.

How big do you see God and how big do you see your problems?
If we are not careful with our perspectives, they could distort the truth of how big our God is and how small our problems really are compared to Him.

Feel stuck in a meaningless 9-5? Here's why our work is always first and foremost God's work
God is the author of your work and your profession. This brings about three revelations on work for all of us that will change our perspective of work.

Positive confession: The power of speaking God's Word unto ourselves
It is wrong to believe in the power of positivity if it is not based on the truth of God's Word.

3 biblically righteous ways ministers can earn money without depending on the ministry
Are you a minister who wants to earn enough to meet your family's needs without depending on your ministry? Here are a few ways to get provision, according to the Bible.