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This may be the most unusual Thanksgiving season you’ve experienced. After a year of difficult changes that have affected everyone around the globe, it may be harder than ever to truly be grateful. But with God’s help, we can choose gratitude during Thanksgiving 2020.
anxiety
If you focus on the headlines, your anxiety is sure to rise. Negativity runs rampant in the news. But the headlines don’t have to dictate your thoughts.
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Have you ever experienced sin popping up unwanted in your life? I think all of us have found ourselves in that spot, just like the apostle Paul describes in our focus verses.
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We often lose sight of how valuable we are to God. Many of us see beautiful things in God's creation and in other people. Yet we refuse to love ourselves in light of how God loves us. Some of us get stuck in feelings of low self-worth.
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You are more beautiful to God than the loveliest flower or sunset. You are dearer to him than the Grand Canyon or a South American waterfall. You are richer and more interesting to him than the rainforests and the snow-covered mountains. You are his masterpiece!
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Jesus wants us to embrace humility. To stoop, bend, take the low-totem-pole position. The place we wouldn't choose, if it were up to us.
Approaching the Throne of Grace
Do small prayers seem silly to you? Maybe you feel okay approaching God with the big things, like health scares, accidents, job losses, or marriage crises. But what about the everyday small things? Do they really matter to God?
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Do you struggle with feeling timid in your faith? Spiritual disciplines can help you have more powerful faith. I have realized this by practicing spiritual disciplines myself for the past 16 years.
anxiety
Does anxiety creep up on you this time of year? Like a sneaky Halloween spider, anxiety has a habit of silently creeping into my schedule come November. Every season presents temptations for new anxieties. This season it's true again for me. Now I hand over my anxieties to God in prayer and Christia
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Have you ever considered which people God wants you to reach? God sends each of us to particular groups of people for specific purposes. It's helpful to consider exactly which "fields" are best for you, so you can focus your efforts of ministry and evangelism.
compassion
I learned an important lesson from placing a piece of bread in a bag of brown sugar. It teaches us about being kind and compassionate toward others.
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How much do you struggle with self-worth? It's been a huge struggle of mine for most of my life. Yet these verses in God's Word bring me loads of comfort, and I hope they will for you as well.