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DISCOVER HOW TO RAISE YOUR CHILDREN WITH PEACE, JOY, AND CONFIDENCE. By SANDRA MCCOLLOM I’m convinced that parenting is the toughest job on the planet, but also the most rewarding. Over the years I have discovered that there are basically two ways to parent: in our own strength or by God’s grace. I’ve tried both and found the difference between the two to be simply amazing! I spent the first nine years of my twin girls’ lives pilling on the rules to produce good girls. Somehow, I felt safe with rules, but I went so overboard with them that they ended up first frustrating all of us! Despite everything I was doing, I was a very insecure parent. I had a lot of fear that I wasn’t going to cover all the parenting bases and my kids would grow up and turn out bad. Instead of putting my trust in God and leaning on His grace to raise them the right way, I was putting my trust in my methods of parenting. I didn’t trust truly understand grace until about two years ago, and b...

HOW TO EXPERIENCE GOD’S INCREDIBLE PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE BY JOYCE MEYER God has great plans for our lives. It’s exciting when He puts dreams and desires in our hearts, but it can also be challenging. Because fear always comes against us when we try new things. That’s how the enemy tries to keep us from moving forward—through fear. But instead of giving in to our fears, we can choose to be bold, confident and courageous through Christ. It’s important to understand that courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’d moving forward when you feel afraid. And if we will do that, God will lead us straight through our fears into His perfect will for our lives. God doesn’t want us to live timid, shy, weak, wimpy, fearful, boring lives. He wants us to be bold, confident and courageous, unafraid to try new things. And it never ceases to amaze me what God will do through a person who simply steps out in faith. In the Bible, Joshua is great example of someone who took a step of faith ...

HOW TO GROW THROUGH YOUR TOUGH TIMES AND NEVER GIVE UP BY Joyce Meyer At one time or another, all of us have experienced a setback or endured a significant loss. Maybe that’s where you are today; perhaps you’ve lost a job, a relationship, or even someone or something you love. If so, I want to encourage you with Matthew 5:4. Jesus says, Blessed and enviably happy… are those who mourn, for they shall be comfort! I used to think this was odd. I wondered, How can we be blessed if we are mourning? Then God helped me understand that our times of pain are actually perfect opportunities to receive and experience His supernatural comfort. In fact, having a problem is one of the best places to begin again. Why? Because God’s comfort goes far beyond any ordinary kind of comfort. He is the only One who can carry you through the pain and help you to become a better, more powerful person than you were before. With God’s help, we can look at our pain as an opportunity. I beli...

& TAKE HOLD OF YOUR NEW BEGINNING! BY JOYCE MEYER …T herefore, have I hope and expectation: It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His [tender] compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23). We serve such a loving, compassionate God. And when we mess up, He is quick to forgive when we confess and repent for the wrongs we do. In fact, He wipes the slate completely clean- erasing from His mind all memory of whatever we have done. Hebrews 8:12 put it this way: “I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.” Yet too often we are not so kind to ourselves. Though God has forgotten and moved on, we’re still rolling past mistakes over and over in our minds, unable to accept the grace that would free us to move forward with the life of joy and peace He wants us to have. We think we’re supposed to pay and pay and pay ...