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How to Trust God You know I used to think that trusting God was simply saying, God I trust you. While I kept doing the same things I had been doing. So, the reality was that I was trusting in myself more than I was trusting God. Then, my wife Tammie told me: Kenny, if you want to trust God you need to figure out what He has to say about the circumstances and the situation you are in and trust what He says more than trust your fears and your feelings. Now, that’s trusting God. If y …

What Gives You the Strength to Persevere? The world is going to tell you that if you love what you do, you will persevere and if you don’t love what you do, you are going to burn out. But, that’s not the truth. There are people all over the place who don’t even like what they do, but they are persevering. Other people actually love what they do, but they burn out or they quit. The strength to persevere is not in what you do but in why you do what you do. If you do it for yourself …

What Did Jesus Write in the Sand? In this Bible story, some men bring a woman to Jesus. They tell Jesus they caught her in adultery. They are trying to trap Jesus and they tell Him that the law says they should stone her to death and they ask Jesus what He thought they should do. Jesus says, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Then Jesus kneels down and begins writing in the sand. When He looked up, the men were gone and He asks the woman where the men were. S …

The Difference Between Liking and Loving Someone WATCH VIDEO Liking someone says very little to nothing about us, but normally says something about them. Loving someone says very little to nothing about them, but says a lot about us. We normally don’t control who we like. We either like them or we don’t, based on who they are and what they do. It’s a feeling we have very little control over. Loving someone is the exact opposite. We have total control over that. If we only love th …

Why Love Is Always Your Best Defense Because if I love you, I am more concerned about what your selfishness is doing to you than I am concerned about what it is doing to me. In other words, I take a stand for you because I don’t want your selfishness hurting you and wrecking your life--because that’s what it does--long before I take a stand for me because I don’t want your selfishness hurting me. I am more concerned about you being wrecked than about me being hurt. I just get protect …

What Sets You Free From Suffering WATCH VIDEO It’s the truth! The truth is what sets you free. Sometimes it’s the truth that what someone did or said to hurt you says nothing about you. Sometimes it’s the truth is that what I said or did to someone that hurt them—if I could find the courage to apologize and repent, maybe I could actually help them in their journey to heal and to love. Sometimes it’s the truth, all the time, energy and effort I am pouring into myself loving myself …

The One Thing You Must Understand About Love WATCH VIDEO It’s not a yes. We think: If you love me, you will; but sometimes love is no. So, love is yes and love is no; and I would suggest that saying no is probably more often love than yes is. Because yes is easier. Love is not doing what is easy and convenient. Sometimes it is hard to say no and sometimes it is hard to say yes. But love does what it believes is truly best for you. We think, well, if you love me, you will encoura …

The Harshest Thing You Can Ever Do to Anyone WATCH VIDEO For some of you, if I said this, you would not want to listen. But if you listen, this can change your life forever. It’s so counterintuitive because we have been sold a lie for so long. The harshest thing you can ever do to someone else is to teach them to love themselves or to encourage them to embrace themselves, to be centered on self…to pursue self-esteem. You see, self is the problem, it is not the solution. Jesus never taught …

What Did Jesus Mean, “The First Will Be Last”? First of all, He is talking to John and to James. And they had just asked Him, “What must we do to be first?” They wanted to be over everyone else and sit at His right and His left. Jesus said, “You’ve got it all backwards. In the world, those who want to be first so that they can lord over people put themselves first. But in the Kingdom of God, whoever wants to be first must be the servant of all and put themselves last.” He even said …