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So if you feel too inadequate to minister effectively without miraculous intervention, I envy you. When you feel useless, picture a child, paintbrush in hand, gleaming with excitement. No matter how you feel, you are the focus of God’s attention; doted on as though you are the only friend

I drank in a desperate attempt to feel a bit normal. My friendships changed. alcoholism, even though I desperately wanted to be normal, and by now my chemical dependencies kept me feeling I walked out feeling great. I had such joy I couldn’t understand it. As I finished praying a feeling of peace and comfort came over me and the obsession and desire to drink

I sometimes feel unforgivable, but that’s not the issue. Even though it might have been misplaced, however, that feeling of guilt is appropriate for every one It is usual for one’s feelings not to line up with spiritual reality. Since even thinking about God made him feel condemned, he avoided God. Eventually he came to his senses a little and began fighting the feelings of hopelessness and reaching

God-sized love fuels God-sized wrath. Their god helps them feel superior by frowning on unfashionable sins, while turning a blind eye to their In addition to not feeling superior to others, an aspect of dying to self is neither envying nor resenting At the very mention of it, you are likely to feel like lynching me. We cannot deny that it is in the Bible, and we want to retain some respectability by not openly rejecting

letting Christ live in you and express himself through you – and you will end up like Christ – despised, rejected It could well mean letting people walk all over us, or choosing a path that exposes us to rejection, Since they are only foretastes I will still have times when life feels awful, but in faith I plow through

Your writing has really helped lift my faith levels, and I intend to look back at it whenever I feel

Correctly interpreting Scripture is as intimate as feeling a loved one’s breath on your cheek as he shares We tend to feel as spiritually superior to them as they felt superior to those who murdered the prophets once but twice in the one Gospel: Luke 9:22   saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected

Now, instead of feeling alone, I have God and my insiders.

‘You’re too old,’ the mission board told a rejected candidate.

He had diseased feet and trusted his doctors instead of the Lord (2 Chronicles 16:1-12). repeatedly told that psychologists are of the devil, I ended up with an almost suicidal stubbornness about rejecting And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

Because it is spiritual, not mental or emotional or physical, you may not feel it, but something of profound

When that arm tires, he swaps hands and keeps going, feeling refreshed even though he is still carrying I say this, not because I feel that I personally have a superior brain, because I’ve always felt quite clearly far more intelligent than she had been indicating – so much so that, like me, you will probably feel