The decision to wholeheartedly seek God’s will and obey is the best decision we can ever make.
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How to Make a Difficult Decision (Part 4): Four Practical Things to Do When You Can’t Decide
Here are four practical things to do when you can’t decide.
How to Make a Difficult Decision (Part 3)
We don’t really want to know God’s will in all we do. We want to know God’s will for our lives. It’s a subtle difference between discerning God’s will in every situation and trying to discern God’s will for me in every situation, but the resulting consequences are monumental.
How to Make a Difficult Decision (Part 2)
If I’m waiting until I fully understand what, why, where, and how before I make a decision, I will drive myself crazy with endless “what-ifs” and never translate a single conceptual idea into a concrete reality.
How to Make a Difficult Decision (Part 1)
Our family has been praying about and wrestling with a big decision for the past year and a half. Our prayers almost always focus on clarity. We want to know for sure what we should do, which way we should go. Yet, after nearly 18 months of praying, it seems the waters are more muddied than ever before.
Four Ways to Overcome Fear of the Unknown
Fear is trusting that our knowledge of the past is better than God’s knowledge of the future.
Do You Fear the Unkown? You’re Not Alone
They knew who God is. They knew what He had done for them. Yet, they said, “We’re going to fear this one thing that we don’t know: the unknown.”
Worried About Finances? That’s Not Your Concern
My kids aren’t worried. They don’t have bills to pay. They don’t have a job to lose. They don’t pay the mortgage. I take care of those things. For the most part, they don’t even think about such things. But I do.
Five Things to do More/Less of During Shelter-in-Place
Imagine yourself at the end of this pandemic. What do you want to know? How do you want to grow? What memories will you have created? What bad habits will you have broken? What good habits will you have started? What will be different as result? How will you have changed?
6 Things to do When You’re Burned Out
I thought I could just power through it. It will pass. I just have to get through this stretch, then things will get better. But it didn’t get better. Each new day I felt like I was sinking deeper and deeper into a dark pit that I couldn’t pull myself out of. I knew I needed to make some significant changes, but I didn’t know how. I felt trapped.
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