Dealing with depression

1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light t
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Dealing with rejection

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. Luke 4:28-29 This is as early as Luke Chapte
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Dealing with dissapointment

Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Gal 1:10 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human
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Dealing with guilt and shame

We all have things in our past, when there recent or distant, that always try and come back to cause us to live with regret. When this happens we live with guilt – feeling bad about what we did and shame – feeling bad about ourselves. God calls us to live free from these and makes
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Dealing with habitual sin

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Romans 7:15 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. Romans 7:19 You need to read this whole sect
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Dealing with fear

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 2 Tim 1:7 I've heard my wife say, “The thing about the truth is that it always remains true whether we believe it or not”. And that there is true. Fact: God ha
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Dealing with anxiety

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:7 I r
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Apostolic Ambition

It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Romans 15:20 Imagine writing down personal ambitions and comparing yours with the Apostle Paul's. How would it compa
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Dead man walking

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel
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Be prepared

13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.’ 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyon
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