Tag: Bible Verses

How to Find Wisdom For Life

Published by Leslie Newman Widsom 2 comments
Would you like more Godly wisdom in your life for making tough decisions and navigating sticky situations? You’ll find it inside the book of Proverbs. Click through to take a peek at God’s roadmap! #wisdom #guideforlife

What if you had a travel plan – one that would allow you to move forward in life? And what if the places you were going would lead you to wisdom? Would you want to travel those roads? I imagine a lot of us would like to take a trip like that!

Fortunately, we have a Heavenly Father who saw fit to provide us a guidebook for traveling down such roads. He gives us direction for life inside the book of Proverbs. Proverbs is a guide that can help us navigate every area of life – relationships, family, work, government, community and more.

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Three Verses to Pray When You Want to Trust God More

Published by Leslie Newman Trust 17 comments
Do you ever struggle with trusting God? Join us to discuss a key element that is the beginning of trust. Find three verses to pray that will help you develop a trusting God mindset. [Free Printable!]

Do you ever struggle with trusting God? Most all of us have at one time or another, maybe more often than not. Trust can be hard.

Perhaps you’ve been hurt in the past, and this makes it hard to trust anyone, including God. Maybe it’s hard to trust in someone you can’t see. Maybe your situation makes no sense, and neither does the time that goes by as you wonder what God is doing.

Join us today by clicking below to learn more about a key element in trusting God. Find three Bible verses you can focus on and pray that will help you build your trust. [FREE PRAYER CHALLENGE PRINTABLE!]

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Are You Looking for the Joy of the Lord?

Published by Leslie Newman Equipping the Believer 11 comments
Do you want to find joy again? There's a joy of the Lord that is possible even in spite of our trials, and it just may not look exactly like what we think!

The joy of the Lord is my strength. Have you ever wondered about this verse? I’ve often thought about it and felt a little bit like I wasn’t doing something right. I’m sorry to say, but when life is hard, I don’t feel happy.

Have you ever been there? Have you ever asked yourself the question, “I wonder what I’m doing wrong?” Me, too.

It’s taken a long time, but in all my wrestling around with trying to find the joy of the Lord, I’ve realized there are quite a few things that hold me back. They are concepts about joy and happiness that I’ve struggled to make sense of.  Understanding them (or not) makes a big difference. Take a look at my list of these concepts and see what you think. 

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This One Simple Verse Will Help You Fight Your Fear!

Published by Leslie Newman Blog Posts 12 comments
Are you emotionally stalled by a fear of failure, lack of confidence, or feelings of inadequacy? Fight your fear with this one simple verse!

Are you lacking confidence or feeling insecure? Are you stalled in taking that next step to go forward in something the Lord is leading you to do? Is fear getting the best of you?

You and me both. We’ve all been there – probably in many different situations throughout our lives. The fear is real, friends, and it takes many forms in our lives. Becuase of this, we’ve talked recently on the blog about finding confidence and overcoming insecurities.

Overcoming fear and being bold is hard, but it is something within our grasp because of the truth of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit within us.

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7 Verses to Pray When You Lack Confidence

Published by Leslie Newman Equipping the Believer 8 comments
7 Bible Verses for Confidence

Have you ever felt inadequate or suffer from a lack of confidence? Me too, more times that I’d like to admit. There are so many reasons behind it, and they are different for each one of us. And I believe I’m not alone. We all suffer from a lack of confidence at one time or another.

One particular situation where a lack of confidence may especially be an issue is when you feel God calling you to do something. These are going to be the times when Satan will attack the hardest, filling your mind with lies to try to convince you that you are not the right person for the job.

Friends, we’ve got to fight hard to overcome those kinds of attacks. They’ll bring us down if we don’t call on the Holy Spirit in us to do the fighting for us.

Do you need some encouragement in this area? Click through to find 7 verses that will remind you that you are not in this fight alone. Find truths from God’s word that will help you conquer your doubts and give you God given confidence.

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How to Trust God When Life is Painful

Published by Leslie Newman Suffering 24 comments
When life is hard and we don't understand our circumstances, we may feel that we can't put our confidence in God. Nothing could be further from the truth. Click through for encouragement and help from God's word.

When life is difficult, it can be hard to trust God with our circumstances. Pain, no matter what form it is can last a lot longer than we’d like. Waiting for a resolution, trying to understand our situation – all this can take its toll and start to wear us thin spiritually speaking. We wonder if we should place our confidence in God when we can’t seem to find the answers.

If you find yourself in that place, here are some thoughts and verses that may help.

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How to Find Hope That Will Not Disappoint You

Published by Leslie Newman Hope 18 comments
Hope can be hard to find in difficult times, but there is one kind of hope that will not disappoint. Find out more here!

What do you think of when you think of the word hope? A dream, A wish? Me too, until recently.  My definition of hope has changed. Yesterday, hope used to mean that something good would happen and my current difficult situation would go away or get resolved. Yesterday, hope was something that I “hoped” would happen and just kept waiting for. It was a wish for better times. This kind of hoping led to disappointment. But today hope means something different. It’s trust – trust in a God who never changes and who does what He says He will do.

Click below to find five things that will help you discover hope that does not disappoint.

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Praying the Bible to Renew Your Hope

Published by Leslie Newman Prayer, Praying Scriptures 20 comments
Free Prayer Kit! Pray 6 Bible verses to renew your hope. Study key words in each verse. Learn to write your own powerful prayers using the verses you are studying as a framework.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.  ~Oswald Chambers

Friends, prayer matters. Oswald Chambers says it so well in this quote.

“We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.” -Oswald Chambers

When life is hard, we tend to turn to prayer – or turn away from it. It can go either way, can’t it? It’s easy to lose hope. The Bible tells us we will experience trials and tribulations in this world (John 16:33, Romans 5:3-4, 1 Peter 5:10) and we surely know it from walking these paths, don’t we? So what’s a girl to do when she feels as if she’s loosing hope?

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7 Verses for When You Need Hope

Published by Leslie Newman Hope 22 comments
When life is difficult, hold on to these seven verses full of hope for you!

Times are hard, and life can be beyond difficult. Sometimes it can leave us feeling overwhelmed, perhaps even feeling hopeless. But no matter what circumstances you woke up to this morning, there is a promise of hope. Click below to read more and find seven Bible verses you can hold on to when hope seems far away!

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How to Encourage a Friend During Difficult Times

Published by Leslie Newman Relationships 16 comments
Are you looking for ways to encourage a friend? Click through for some creative ideas!

Have you ever felt at the end of your rope? Me too, and when I’ve been open enough to tell a friend, there is almost always is encouragement there to keep me hanging on. I’ve been the receiver of so many thoughtful little things over the years.

Below is a little list of the some of the things others have done for me and a few that I have done for others. Some are things that you’d instantly think of when you know you have a friend in need, and perhaps a few in the list below will give you new ideas.

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