Coach Herb Brooks is running the U.S. Olympic hockey team into the ground. These are elite athletes, but they’re exhausted — legs burning, tempers rising, frustration written all over their faces. After each sprint, Brooks stops a player and asks: “Who are you?”
Where might God be asking you to obey—even if it feels like losing?
Four elements of The Comfort Zone: No surprises, No awkwardness, No authority, and No responsibility - so why would we want to leave?
Every choice I make is an opportunity to walk out this exchanged life. Whether it's responding kindly when I'm wronged, giving generously, or simply choosing gratitude over complaint, it all comes back to this new reality: I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
Hold this truth close: God does not forget. Prayers you weep today will not be set aside tomorrow. He hears and remembers every word.
We have gotten to the point in our society in which we expect our needs to be met immediately. As Christians, we expect God to know our needs and meet them without our even having to ask, but God clearly tells us that we are to pray and ask for what we need.
Aren’t most things that are worth doing easier to say than to do? At least I know that I need not do what is right in my own strength. Words are easy… deeds are tough… sometimes incredibly so.
We often use Jeremiah 29:11 as verse to claim that God has great plans for us - and He does - but they may not be what we want - they are HIS plans; we are just a part of them. We need to stop worshiping the "God of my plans" and start bowing down to the God of the universe who knows all. He truly sees the forest and the trees. He is the ultimate planner.